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Reluctant economist, statistician by trade. Cheese-eating surrender monkey. Géologue de la politique. Tweets in 🇫🇷/🇬🇧. Currently resides in Washington D.C. 🌸

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Heritage = patrimoine culturel
Inheritance = patrimoine génétique

16.02.2026 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bus from St Stephen’s Green to Glendalough to hike (easy) the Wicklow Mountains, also highly recommended.

16.02.2026 06:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bike Phoenix Park to meet deer. James Joyce Tower in Dun Laoghaire. Swin at Forty Foot. DART to Howth for seals, cliff walks & seafood chowder.

16.02.2026 06:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Visit Guinness Brewery. Grafton Street for street musicians. Book of Kells at Trinity College Library. Beers at The Temple Bar (daytime best). Evening spots: Aungier/Camden/Harcourt Streets. Gaelic singers at O’Donoghue’s.

16.02.2026 06:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Typical European in NYC

15.02.2026 05:04 — 👍 119    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 1

Le ministre de la JUSTICE d’E. Macron a publiquement affirmé que la France n’a aucune responsabilité dans la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver (13.000 Juifves dont plus de 4.000 enfants enlevé.es par la police française, une centaine de survivant·es à peine parmi les déporté·es dont 0 (zéro) enfant).

15.02.2026 09:14 — 👍 418    🔁 208    💬 10    📌 1

Great movie, probably the best Villeneuve with Arrival

15.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs? A wonkish guide for the confused

New post about tariffs. Last week two reports found that foreigners have borne very little of the cost. But the CPI came in somewhat soft. Is there a contradiction? As I explain, no.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/who-is-pay...

15.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 483    🔁 132    💬 9    📌 7
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Julian Bailey, 43, is the man who was killed by U.S. Marshals in DC earlier this week.

This is a message from his family.

#JusticeForJulian

14.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 454    🔁 254    💬 2    📌 4

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

15.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 938    🔁 230    💬 9    📌 3

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

15.02.2026 03:17 — 👍 3223    🔁 696    💬 15    📌 19

Passer de “il y a de l’antisémitisme à l’EG“ à “antisémite donc d’EG“ c’est ouf.

15.02.2026 13:10 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A French revolutionary being all rational and reasoned with no sentiment nor moral intuition:

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revolution.chnm.org/d/413

14.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I think a lot of people listening to this live downstream of people like this. All you may know on a day-to-day basis is that your pay doesn’t feel like it’s enough or the adjustable-rate mortgage you got feels like it’s screwing you over or your union doesn’t have the leverage it used to have or your kid’s school keeps having these funding cuts, and you’re really scared for whether your kid is going to be able to make it in this new economy, or A.I. is going to — and you’re just swimming in the muck.

These are the people deciding upstream how you live, what your pay is like, what kind of companies, the quality and timber of the companies you end up working for, what kind of pension you have or don’t have, what kind of prices you pay or not, whether you get foreclosed on or not because their bank bets against itself in the run-up to a financial crisis and imperils the whole system.

I think a lot of people listening to this live downstream of people like this. All you may know on a day-to-day basis is that your pay doesn’t feel like it’s enough or the adjustable-rate mortgage you got feels like it’s screwing you over or your union doesn’t have the leverage it used to have or your kid’s school keeps having these funding cuts, and you’re really scared for whether your kid is going to be able to make it in this new economy, or A.I. is going to — and you’re just swimming in the muck. These are the people deciding upstream how you live, what your pay is like, what kind of companies, the quality and timber of the companies you end up working for, what kind of pension you have or don’t have, what kind of prices you pay or not, whether you get foreclosed on or not because their bank bets against itself in the run-up to a financial crisis and imperils the whole system.

You are just trying to swim through. And you don’t normally get a glimpse of how these people talk among themselves. This is a glimpse, and it turns out to not be particularly brilliant, not be particularly insightful. They don’t know a bunch of stuff that you don’t know.

They’re literally gliding from jokes about how one of them used to be a pedophile to advice about taking an attorney general job to her requesting an Hermès Apple Watch band as a gift from Epstein.

This is what they’re doing as you struggle to just eke out your life.

You are just trying to swim through. And you don’t normally get a glimpse of how these people talk among themselves. This is a glimpse, and it turns out to not be particularly brilliant, not be particularly insightful. They don’t know a bunch of stuff that you don’t know. They’re literally gliding from jokes about how one of them used to be a pedophile to advice about taking an attorney general job to her requesting an Hermès Apple Watch band as a gift from Epstein. This is what they’re doing as you struggle to just eke out your life.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

13.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.

13.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 1011    🔁 361    💬 128    📌 164

Last night I could not sleep so I created a taxonomy of people who work on inequality/redistribution. For each of these groups I have names of economists but it could be too controversial. So I decided to stay with the taxonomy only. (You can fill in the names.)

12.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 4
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L’histoire éloquente de l’acétamipride Ce pesticide était au cœur des débats sur la loi Duplomb qui ont agité tout l’été. Nous remontons le fil de son histoire tourmentée par des enjeux financiers, écologiques et sanitaires. Pour compre...

Loi Duplomb le retour. Le sénateur vient de déposer une nouvelle proposition de loi visant la réintroduction de l'acétamipride, insecticide interdit depuis 2018. Et un débat non contraignant s'ouvre à l'Assemblée. Nous avons retracé en septembre l'histoire de cette molécule. Enquête en accès libre.

11.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 53    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 1

Vous êtes plus de 9 000 à nous suivre un an après la création de notre compte Bluesky. C'est deux fois plus que le nombre d'hommes centenaires en France.
Merci de votre intérêt pour la statistique publique et pour l'Insee ! Un grand merci pour vos remarques et questions qui font vivre ce compte. 🫶

11.02.2026 10:17 — 👍 973    🔁 121    💬 39    📌 9

Also nobody has to show their ID when boarding a train (based on my experience on the Acela and Amtrak out of DC).

11.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Indice de perception 2025 : une ultime alerte pour un sursaut de salubrité publique - Transparency France International Suite à la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy dans l'affaire Bygmalion, Transparency France appelle, de toute urgence, à une ambitieuse réforme du financement de la vie politique en France en amont des p...

La France recule encore dans l’Indice de perception de la corruption. Elle dégringole à la 27e place, rang le plus bas jamais atteint depuis la création de l'indice.
#AnticorVeille

10.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 181    🔁 137    💬 4    📌 14

Fallait dire “État” c’est tout 🤷‍♂️😅

11.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration

Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration

11.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 31032    🔁 13714    💬 965    📌 1694

To be fair we kinda are

10.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yep. We need more resources and distributed among more scholars.

10.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Par ailleurs je ne dis pas qu’une primaire (et encore moins cette primaire) est le meilleur ni l’unique moyen de sélectionner un candidat. En revanche, je dis que si les socialistes insistent pour que ce soit l’un des leurs ou RG, on va dans le mur.

08.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Je ne comprends pas ton raisonnement. D’un côté (les dirigeants) des partis sont assez stratégiques pour se réunir dans une pièce pour choisir un candidat unique. D’un autre c’est impossible d’être stratégique et s’aligner derrière le vainqueur d’une primaire en excluant toute tierce candidature.

08.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ben justement y’a pas eu de primaires en 2024

08.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

J’entends bien qu’on ne contrôle pas qui est le gagnant, mais on peut organiser des primaires longues, avec des débats et plusieurs tours pour permettre une vraie sélection à la fois sur le profil idéologique et le talent. Un des avantages des primaires US est justement qu’elles durent 6 mois.

07.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

L’autre manière d’éviter ce fiasco serait de participer à la primaire, non?

07.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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