Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Jeremy Springman
@jrspringman.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Meta studying AI. I run surveys, produce data, conduct experiments, and model stuff. Former Research Prof at UPenn. Duke postdoc, UPenn PhD, Pitt alum. jrspringman.github.io
Jeremy Powell should be given caretaker power after the fall of the regime my lord
crazy that Jerome Powell has more respect for his office and institutional independence than basically every university board in the country
#Firstview: Lucy Right, Jeremy Springman & Erik Wibbels on what happens when foreign governments restrict NGO activity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... They find that donors most committed to democracy promotion back down in the face of restrictive NGO laws.
Pushing Back or Backing Down? Evidence on Donor Responses to Restrictive NGO Legislation | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Pushing Back or Backing Down? Evidence on Donor Responses to Restrictive NGO Legislation
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Wonderful to see this excellent piece out! Congrats @jrspringman.bsky.social!
International Organization@iojournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago#Firstview: Lucy Right, Jeremy Springman & Erik Wibbels on what happens when foreign governments restrict NGO activity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... They find that donors most committed to democracy promotion back down in the face of restrictive NGO laws.
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10mo agoOff their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11mo agoDemocrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
Shorter JVL: The courts realize that regular order has broken down. The media and private enterprise ought to realize it, too. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel
What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?
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The governors are really making the Democrats in Congress look even more feckless than usual.
The rejection of national unity post-Trump is right on the mark. I study conflict in Africa, and the failure to hold perpetrators of violence accountable is a major factor in renewed conflict. We ourselves are still suffering from our failure to hold the South accountable after the Civil War.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you are doing right now www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
This emergency food aid, enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, will be incinerated tomorrow rather than distributed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Another in a long list of Trump's crimes against humanity.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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it gets more complicated than this, but the really short version is that the price of money is how much money you have to commit to paying in the future to get money today--which is to say, the interest rate bsky.app/profile/nerv...
uncle of the second class@nerves.bsky.social · last yr.Internalizing the time value of money kinda unlocked a lot of stuff for me.
Personalist autocracies underperform, whereas institutionalised autocracies perform similar to democracies (in terms of economic growth)
Scott Gehlbach@sgehlbach.bsky.social · last yr.New paper alert! 📣 @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth. TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies. Details👇 1/X
I would like Trump's letter to Brazil to live on as one of the important primary source documents of the Trump era, linking trade restrictions in historical memory to impunity for criminal behavior, right-wing nationalist authoritarian politics, coups, domestic illegality, and simple illiteracy.
We must all do our patriotic duty of clicking every link and watching every clip CNN uploads to YouTube about Trump's Epstein cover-up. 🫡 Go login to Facebook for the first time in 7 years and share it with your weirdest family members and most credulous long-forgotten high school acquaintances.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. 🧵
I'm doing my patriotic duty by watching every single YouTube clip CNN posts about the Epstein coverup.
Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · last yr.This is the kind of insinuation it is your patriotic duty to spread. The Republican Party has poisoned our water forever, and we can’t undo it but we can return the favor. Keep going until we create woke Pizzagate, except this time, it’ll be true.
Today's stage of the Tour de France took place in Normandy, and TV coverage featured footage from Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. After all their sacrifice, I can't believe Nazis are back.
Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.
Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack of Evidence From Epstein Documents
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This is the kind of insinuation it is your patriotic duty to spread. The Republican Party has poisoned our water forever, and we can’t undo it but we can return the favor. Keep going until we create woke Pizzagate, except this time, it’ll be true.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · last yr.Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.
It's become pretty clear over the past 3 weeks and/or 3 years that the "Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court right now" enthusiasts were correct in 2021, and that if and when Democrats regain power, they cannot get caught flat-footed again slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Past Four Years at the Supreme Court Did Not Need to Be This Way
Part of the reason court reform failed in 2021 is that Democrats were unprepared for Ginsburg’s spectacularly ill-timed death.
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