Don Moynihan

Reminiscent of the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall, except the reporter had already asked the question.

Trading halt in Korea. Dayum.

I genuinely do not understand who the audience for this is

There’s a big public management literature on third-party governance and contracting out.

At this point when you’re dealing with 99% of private students paid via voucher subsides, Iowa private schools are contractors for public service provision.

They should be treated as such @donmoyn.bsky.social

Ian Miles Cheong (second from left) and other paid influencers in Dubai.

oh my god this photo of ian miles tails cheong hanging out with his fellow paid to live in dubai social influencers i am DYING. smeagol glow up era.

Trump likes to close the curtains so the Declaration can’t witness the especially unconstitutional stuff

We've gone from Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn Rule that he articulated to Bush - “If you break it, you’ve bought it” - to the Trump rule: “you break it, they own it.”

the sad thing is that he would absolutely do it.

YOUR JOB IS TO PICK THE MOST AWFUL ACTOR POSSIBLE TO PLAY JAMES BOND. GO! Ricky Gervais.

Man you want to participate in something and then someone gives an answer so objectively correct that there’s no point adding onto it

Senior Trump official said Iran in nuclear talks was trying "to get us into a long, drawn-out process with meetings and experts and something that would have taken time in order to do the third meeting." Iran then gave US a longer, five-page proposal. "We joked that even though we were in Switzerland, the proposal was like Swiss cheese, because there were, you know, a lot of holes that they were able to go through."

The Iranians dared to go to the negotiations with a position paper

Again, Rubio said the opposite yesterday bsky.app/profile/bill...

Thom Tillis … who is not running for reelection. And don’t think that is immaterial when it comes to periodically showing flashes of a spine.

I just can't tell what's a throwaway line, what's a joke, and what's a policy announcement these days.

Is the President serious about an embargo on Spain?

will be interesting to see if Tillis is gone before Noem

Kansas invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people, made it a crime to drive to the DMV to "correct" them, & started keeping a list of everyone who did so. @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social & I on trans people in the state's surveillance architecture for @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack.

Smart play from Colby would be to lay out the multiverse theory

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)

The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution

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Economists: we award Nobel Prizes for work on efficient institutions and minimizing transaction costs.
Also Economists: the review process at the American Economic Review.

Good strong move that definitely makes sense sir. Thank you sir.

This shit is why I have to keep updating the piece: every day they are coming up with newer and even more obviously insane justifications to see what sticks.
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they understood enough to try to do it in secret!

Agree that many people make the point, but the general claim isn't super strong, riven with contradictions (hello billionaire populism!), and also feels like an excuse to trot out pet theories (everything I disagree with is driving populism except the populists). Reduced the audience for your claims

Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases, and Payday Borrowing in the United States | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Researchers provided payday borrowers in the United States information about the true costs of payday loans in order to find out whether they would respond by changing their demand for the product. Be...

A randomized evaluation demonstrated that when consumers are fully informed about the high fees associated with payday loans💸, there is significantly less demand for them, indicating that financial literacy is 🔑 to preventing these predatory practices: www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...

The trust trap: hire someone in an effort to rebuild trust, but the person's primary goal is to act in a way to undermine trust.

I enjoyed this article, but connecting criticism of AI to authoritarianism is just lazy. "This smug attitude is exactly why populists are winning, and it applies to AI denial just as much as to politics."

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

New post!
Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

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ty, corrected

However, not everyone can just pick up and move to another state. For those who remain, document mismatches open their holders to accusations of fraud: if the gender marker on the ID conflicts with their appearance, the assumption is that they are using identification that doesn’t belong to them. Florida has taken this a step further. The state doesn’t just prohibit changing gender on state IDs. An official from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced in a rescission memo that anyone with a different sex marker than the one assigned at birth is “misrepresenting” their gender, which constitutes fraud. A Texas law introduced last year and reintroduced this January goes further still, creating the criminal offense of “gender identity fraud.”

Some states are categorizing having an ID that does not match gender assigned at birth as a form of fraud - “gender identity fraud” - that is a criminal offense.
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The Great Replacement of Conservative Ideology The Great Replacement unites the factions of conservatism like "fusionism" never could.

It’s an article of faith for never-Trump conservatives that Trump is not a conservative. But history & tradition are against them. Conservatism has always had a hardline camp. Trump's embrace of The Great Replacement Theory has brought them to power. 1/x
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The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

"When I last updated this data, more than 50% of UK universities were still posting on X. However, a tipping point has now been reached with more institutions now off X than on it."