Zach Levin

can confirm

Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)

@avs.bsky.social better?

"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"

Deep dish communion wafers.

It's true but my posts are for the ill-informed masses.

A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!

Must be an Ohio State fan.

A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).

Ugh so sorry! I’ll let you know if I hear of anything!

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

“The kind of majority achieved only by Ozempic”

Twitch but for memes!

Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.

There are also provisions in the list of items to increase taxation of university endowments!

More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social)

punchbowl.news/reconciliati...

ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback

Senators in rural states would definitely get their phone lines lit up on this.

🚨new paper alert!!!🚨

My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!

I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!

You have reply with a … well it’s more a comment than a question.

I think very different than 2012 techno but obviously not as good as 2010.

Okay but does it?!

Has anyone (other than CBO) tried to estimate the long-term potential cost savings from GLP-1s? A bit of a fool's errand perhaps given the variables and time horizon, but an intriguing/important question!

I give him a lot of credit for pissing off basically every faction of Chicago city politics! Quite the accomplishment!

I don't but can I just say there is nothing more annoying than the fact I cannot install Zotero on my work computer so I can ONLY use the web interface?

He was at UMN today! Guess I graduated a few years too early.

Thank you 😊 I’m getting better at decorating!

Belated annual Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake post!

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.

Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.

She's an underrated icon. If Dolly is God, Reba is one of her angels.