Stephen Nuñez

Dunkin donuts is currently advertising protein donuts. This is a very silly trend.

My report with @jacklandry.bsky.social estimating the impacts of the SSI Restoration Act of 2024 is out today! If you enjoyed the earlier blog preview you really ought to check it out! And it turns out this is timely: Rep. Grijalva is introducing the SSI Restoration Act of 2026 this week.

I get why so much of the Trump admin messaging is done through extremely online memes - when they open their mouths and try to speak in complete sentences they usually make things worse.

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Yes. He went on a rant about it earlier in a presser

He was ranting about Spain refusing to let the US use its military bases.

Great paper here from @socio-steve.bsky.social and @jacklandry.bsky.social! The SSI Restoration Act is a great first step towards supporting Americans with disabilities and understanding its potential impact is critically important.

Did you do the effective altruism shrimp suffering discourse?

Oliver Williamson: Am I a joke to you?

they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades

Haaretz report: "Trump says Netanyahu didn't drag U.S. to strike Iran, if anything, 'I might have forced their hand'

It's going great!

Israel simply does not have the power to force the US government to do something it does not want to do. What Rubio is doing here, by claiming Israel forced the US hand, is making Israel the scapegoat for a US policy he knows is unpopular. This framing is going to be so bad for Diaspora Jews.

Awesome stuff

Now would be the time of monsters if all macrofauna wasn't about to go extinct.

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What if we used illegally obtained revenue from sales of Venezuelan oil to fund armed groups in Iran? We could even refer to the latter as contras. Get a little rhyming going.

Every poll is just, 'do you approve of Trump." And 35-40% of people somehow do.

Now would be the time of monsters if all macrofauna wasn't about to go extinct.

Sir, we are going to need you to stop huffing the vespene gas

Many people are saying that America has the strongest pylons. Sometimes you hear the lying press say we must construct additional pylons. But just recently a big guy, one of those tough zealots came to me with tears in his eyes. And he said, "Sir, I want to tell you that you built the best pylons."

We have already ensured that the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties did not obtain nuclear weapons. We are already winning!

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Love those French-Japanese collaborations.

The proposed SSI Restoration Act would:

• Raise benefits to the poverty line
• Update asset & income limits
• End marriage penalties

Using microsimulation, we estimate the result: SSI household poverty falls by nearly 60%.

Today, SSI’s max benefit is just under $1,000/month for an individual—below the poverty line.

Asset limits are stuck at $2,000 ($3,000 for couples). Income rules haven’t been meaningfully updated in decades. The system keeps people financially fragile by design.

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My report with @jacklandry.bsky.social estimating the impacts of the SSI Restoration Act of 2024 is out today! If you enjoyed the earlier blog preview you really ought to check it out! And it turns out this is timely: Rep. Grijalva is introducing the SSI Restoration Act of 2026 this week.

You still seek to separate yourself as distinct from the outside world. To create a clear boundary between the external and the self. But the Buddhist rock is selfless and rejects the arbitrary boundaries and distinctions that breed selfish desire and thus suffering.

Updated: 50 cents/gallon since Friday. Note retail prices are starting to ramp up faster than the typical two-week lag would imply - probably due to stockpiling by consumers which pulls forward retail prices towards wholesale prices.