Rafe Meager (they/them)

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Actually Ben olken always used to tell us mit students that you are never allowed to raise the issue of an exogeneity violation without a specific story in mind ! So I personally have always lived by this to the best of my ability (imperfectly etc, sometimes dislike on vibes gets the better of me)

Perfection ✨✨✨✨

Could some shit be so made up we could not even make it up

Strategic ambivalence is now the concept of all time to me

Not every Iranian I know is celebrating at all so there might be some herding going on here

What a fucking world

dont :(

somehow this feels Southern in the sense of US Southern culture and also in the sense of Global South

remember back in the twitter days when certain people were freaking the fuck out about will smith slapping chris rock and me and jason choe were like "it's now really obvious who doesnt have a lot of uncles" ? feels like that also

Not surprisingly, so long as "the devil is in the details" (or "God is in every leaf," depending whose side you want to be on), expert-level statistical analysis is still going to require a lot of human oversight.

it's political economy's world and econometrics is just living in it

and that, lads, is why the king of all fields is political economy

Imagine being so correct, so beautiful and so eloquent

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
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OMG thank you for tagging me because everything else i have seen from this SNL appearance was not it for me personally but THIS really is

NO

a man standing in front of a candle holder Alt: a man standing in front of a candle holder

i am too scared to look his age up now in case i join u in this

i can understand the decision (I probably would not want to work with kelsey grammar either) but agree, my heart yearns for niles

oh boy oh boy

ok u are so right also did u watch the frasier reboot? i thought it was really good

i havent asked them, let me see if i remember to ask later

they have not heard of alfred kinsey or the kinsey report or the kinsey scale

my humanities students have heard of johannes kepler but not cass sunstein. nature is healing.

sooo cool!!!

sigh. terrible.

why andrea. dont do this. dont speak this into being

love to see the streets on here. so underrated.