Mike Zickar

Really appreciate you digging into it. Thank you!

On campus this afternoon

Our country is weaker for turning away international students.

Good luck!!! I voted for you!

Thank you so much!

Love Widmark is anything noir!

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A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk

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The planet burns and hardly any of our US leaders are speaking about it. Thank you Governor Inslee

He's now earned a Cabinet position with all of these accusations.

Lovely! Would love to know where this one is, if in a public collection

Thank you Dr. Vin for keeping pushing the conversation on this important issue that seems to be ignored by so many.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Wish I could still call my parents. Thanks for sharing Daniel!

Great hire!!

Glad to see my former professor for labor economics (Lawrence Katz) standing up as President of AERA for accurate, unbiased statistics.

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As if the recent obsession with “Alligator Alcatraz”—and the images and memes popping up all over social media in celebration of it—isn’t grotesque enough as it is.

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Just look at the images our own government is putting out:

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Maybe even write a book about it...

Can I fire reviewer #2? Their answers are nearly always wrong.

It’s a very basic point. Good, more or less unquestioned economic data is like the instrument flight panel for the economy. For policy makers, markets, biz decision makers. Acts like these inject systemic and fundamental uncertainty at all those decision points.

Three for me...an audio book, a hard copy, and an e-reader. Beyond that, I go crazy

Wow, 21 books!! 📚

Less reading this month due to travel and getting lost in Dickens's Chuzzlewit (ongoing). I finished a book started a year ago though (Pedagogy of Care) and that felt good!

#StoryGraph #Booksky

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Wow

Completely not occupying reality. Solar and wind are still economical without the subsidies and you basically cannot scale our grid without them. Just completely delusional.

No one wakes up in the morning happy to breathe in more ozone and carbon dioxide during their morning coffee or workout

A clear majority repeatedly poll wanting stricter controls on greenhouse gases, not a let it rip strategy

This new EPA rule is in proposal stage. Please speak up and make noise!

The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story

I just contributed to the TPM Journalism Fund. talkingpointsmemo.com

They do crucial work in today's crazy journalism landscape.

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks so much for your awesome contribution!