we have got to put that into a causal inference lecture
Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 4w ago
Sam Levey
@slevey.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois College. Modern Monetary Theory and other heterodox approaches.
Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 4w ago
There's a persuasive argument that based on conventional liberal principles (central planning, market distortions, coercion, interference in hiring, trade, manufacturing, mergers & acquisitions, etc.) this is the least market-friendly administration since FDR. Possibly ever.
Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · last mo.The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
And @slevey.bsky.social is here, so I can say "your video series is great!" He also has a two-parter on projection that's quite pleasant. Go check it out.
Saw this linked about a year ago, skipped through some parts, and bookmarked it. youtu.be/VDlnuO96p58 When I returned to it this week, to my delight, there were 4 videos in a series (with more to come, I hope). It's really great! I love the intuition you can build w/ simple animated visuals +
Degrees of Freedom, Actually Explained - The Geometry of Statistics | Ch. 1 (#SoME4)
YouTube video by Sam Levey
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An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I still think about the WSJ scoop about the Epstein birthday book. The official Republican position, to this day and after unsuccessful Trump litigation, is that maybe someone faked his signature and put it in a book where everyone else's signature was real
Lawyers, Guns and Money@lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew frontiers in sanewashing
I'm sorry but I just don't believe this is correct. An endorsement is a statement about what you believe. A vote is an effort to pick between one of several possible futures.
Joe Kalicki@joekalicki.bsky.social · 3mo agoA vote is an endorsement. It says that being a Nazi and a domestic abuser is A-OK to you.
There's no other word for it but degeneracy. Trump's mind has degenerated, his party has degenerated, his government has degenerated, & his cultural movement has degenerated. These are the floor sweepings of politics, placed on the highest pedestal more or less by accident.
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe ballroom stories are getting weird to read about because they seem increasingly divorced from building a room to hold large formal parties. You skim the news and it's like "President Trump declares ballroom will have lava pit with magma sharks to kill He-Man."
Liberalism is the unrelentingly radical belief that humans stand equal as brothers and sisters in a shared and open society, governed by laws and leaders of their own choosing, free to live lives of their own choosing, finding their own truth and fortune, vested with rights universal and inalienable
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo agoUnironically we need to reclaim the historical sense of liberalism as a radical ideology, not the squishy sensibility that it denotes to most people today.
so i actually wrote this www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
The radicalisation of the American liberal
How US liberalism found the will to fight Trump—and what we can learn from it
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 5mo agoit's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?
We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."
The next president's Attorney General needs to act with urgency to investigate and prosecute the crimes being committed to effectuate the mass deportation agenda.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Imagine causing more uncertainty than a global pandemic that killed millions www.economist.com/united-state...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 5mo agoso cool that this administration was handed the basis for more or less an economic renaissance and instead they decided to shoot the global economy in the gut—and then the head—before killing the freedom of navigation for shits and giggles
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
I really feel like we are at the dawn of an age in which truth, the simple facts of the matter, will be more valuable than ever and also less accessible than ever.
The extent to which the last few years demonstrate that "good times make weak men" is true, but that it means the opposite of what the phrase's proponents mean by it, is wild.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6mo agoThere's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
Incredible @polphilpod.bsky.social banger today. Conclusively answers the question of whether conservatism is just fascism or not. Offers a hopeful vision for victory. Give it a read!
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6mo agoConservatism is "The belief that there are aspects of how society is ordered that are beyond our control, that we did not make and cannot change. Underlying rules that we may deviate from, but only to our detriment. We can, however, recognise them—they are permanent, predictable, and preservable."
Years ago I wrote about naive cynicism, which is the posture of being sophisticated, knowing, and worldweary often worn by those who don't actually have a firm grasp on what's going on but have surrendered to what they claim to oppose and are trying to convince others to do the same.