Jacob Herbstman

It’s striking how effectively republicans tied mainstream dems with random internet communists, despite the two groups hating each other, while the vice president and shadow president are clearly in a million group chats with literal nazis and people hardly notice

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.

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The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.

Absolutely. The degree to which congressional Dems should break the norms they've respected in the past ought to be proportional to the threat posed by what the administration is now doing, and that threat is unlike anything we've ever seen.

Yes. For every post you put in front of me, you better have a record of me explicitly opting in to seeing posts from that person if you don’t want to accept liability for it as a publisher. Changing the law to reflect this has gotta be a day one priority in the event we get through this intact.

White House going nuclear on...the WSJ ed board.

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.

But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

hmm somehow i dont think the guy who explicitly compared the city of god to a city of migrants said that the good samaritan was actually about the person in front of you and that alone

they just fired the law and policy section at ENRD

from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:

Had a rly good research idea and it was someone’s job market paper 4 years ago 😭

Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ?

I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser

Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.

Has Vivek's tweet about Boy Meets World and Whiplash made it over here? It's very long but one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.

wemby is like the climate change of the NBA. you know it’s coming to get us all but there’s really nothing you can do about it so you just sit back, smile and say “wow what a beautiful 70 degrees day in november”

Other countries like Finland are vaccinating farm workers, who are the vast majority of humans getting bird flu right now. The U.S. is not vaccinating farm workers for bird flu.

The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.

rental market shortage by county

1) you're benchmarking against a historical norm, so if the historical norm was a shortage, your estimate will say that the shortage today isn't so bad. you see this in their estimate of the rental housing shortage by county:

No shortage in the Bay Area!

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Honestly? It rocks that we just live in a world where a non-trivial number of people who vote are now just completely detached from reality.

Actually just living in fantasy worlds with alien drones and AI dogs and shit. Amazing.

i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger

Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild

Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Welcome to the United States of Latin America baby

There’s nobody I trust to help the Democratic Party win more than Ben Wikler. If he doesn’t win this we are screwed

YouTube video by Ben Wikler Unite. Fight. Win.

If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵

Should Chicago fire Matt Eberflus right now?

@adamjahns.bsky.social on why it’s time for the Bears brass to have that tough conversation ⤵️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.

They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.

Lead article in the latest AER issue:
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