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Eliot Weinstein

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Grad student at the University of Chicago. Causal inference/stats/methods/computing. Co-creator of Cards Against Humanity. Vice president of The Storytelling Trust. Married to artist @ClareRosean. Dog parent.

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A graph of year-on-year change in US manufacturing employment

A graph of year-on-year change in US manufacturing employment

The US continues to lose manufacturing jobsβ€”payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November

Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well

16.12.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 894 πŸ” 292 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 46

This is the same person who said, in September (also in a letter to ticket holders), that the Bears' new stadium was definitely going to be Arlington Heights, and that was the only site they would move forward on for the construction project. And they'd break ground by the end of December 2025.

18.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kevin Warren was supposedly hired because of his experience helping the Vikings build U.S. Bank Stadium. He's modernized the Bears front office and the team is playing its best since 2018, but he's is clearly out of his depth on the stadium negotiations.

18.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Illinois taxpayers are STILL stuck with over $350 million in debt from the (poorly-received) 2003 renovations to Soldier Field, because our city and state leaders (one a Democrat, the other Republican) agreed to shell out public money to help the Bears "stay in Chicago". That's Trump behavior, too.

18.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The most charitable reading of this is a transparent attempt to gain negotiating leverage. No normal person needs to say "This is not about leverage" (direct quote from the letter) unless they are, in fact, desperately trying to gain negotiating leverage and failing. Again, he sounds like Trump.

18.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've read this letter. It's a Trump-level meltdown disguised as a press release. Governor Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov and the IL Democratic State Assembly leadership told off Bears CEO Kevin Warren, refusing to throw taxpayer money at them, and Warren is completely losing his shit about it.

18.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[Hank Hill voice]
God help me, I'm watching an NHL game on..."Disney Plus".

27.11.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly what we need now is...

"APT." but it samples (technically, interpolates, for the music nerds) the B*Witched version.

30.08.2025 02:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Toni Basil "Hey Mickey"  Music Video
Toni Basil "Hey Mickey" Music Video YouTube video by ToniBasilsHouse

Important Notice (because we could all use some cheering up):

If it has been more than one (1) year since you have watched the original music video for Toni Basil's "Mickey", you need to watch it right now.
youtu.be/0aqLwHP4y6Q?si…

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Happy Friday!

29.08.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I’d like to call out:

A 24% tariff on Japan is idiotic.

A 37% tariff on Bangladesh is _evil_. We are their largest trading partner. Their economy depends on textile exports. The consequences of this will be horrific. And for what? So in 20 years we’ll have more textile mills?

05.04.2025 00:13 πŸ‘ 590 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 7
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On the 31st of December, 2021, on what people are calling the old site (or the hellsite), I tweeted:

"John Harbaugh is an Order Muppet.

Jim Harbaugh is a Chaos Muppet.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk."
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More proud of this than anything else I've posted on social media.

12.01.2025 04:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And Michelle Bachman attacked him for it in the 2011-2012 presidential primary, and the base largely sided with her. The Perry HPV vaccination stuff collectively is probably my favorite moment in recent American political history, in that it explains (presages?) so much of what came after.

07.01.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Diamond Potato by Cards Against Humanity Real diamonds. Real potato. Diamond Potato.

Hello, Bluesky. This Black Friday, give the gift of a real potato covered in dozens of real diamonds. Available exclusively at DiamondPotato.com.

29.11.2024 17:48 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 20
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Nuclear attack unlikely despite Putin's warnings, US intelligence says The U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with U.S. intelligence told Reuters.

Putin has no real options for nuclear use, no matter how hard he thumps his chest. And the history of nuclear crises - and there aren't many - is not that they happen because one side has decided on war, but because of miscalculations that have to be walked back.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

28.11.2024 03:40 πŸ‘ 1925 πŸ” 333 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 14

They do that more often when the Bears are playing a home game, like last Sunday. Today the Bears are the visiting team against the conference-leading Detroit Lions, so they point the cameras at Lions fans and famous Detroiters at the game, like Eminem and Tim Allen.

28.11.2024 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A medium-sized golden brown dog, a Shepherd-Lab-Pitbull mix, resting on a couch giving a side-eye glance.

A medium-sized golden brown dog, a Shepherd-Lab-Pitbull mix, resting on a couch giving a side-eye glance.

Uma. Loves tummy rubs and yelling at rodents. Earthly Avatar of "No Take, Only Throw". Complete Chaos Muppet. Roots for the Joker (and whatever team Jim Harbaugh is coaching) to win. Even smarter than she looks, and she looks like she knows what's going on, but wants everyone to think she doesn't.

20.11.2024 08:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As the old saying goes, "Let the Lord of Chaos rule."

12.11.2024 05:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reddit - Dive into anything Natives are rarely represented in Exit Polls because there's no Exit Poll organization driving 500 miles to a remote Reservation to conduct a survey.

Reason, Noah Smith, etc. are citing an exit poll showing 65% of Native Americans voted Trump. It's nonsense. Reservations aren't included in exit polling. It's a tiny sample (about 200) of self-identified NAs at non-reservation sites.

www.reddit.com/r/IndianCoun...

www.reddit.com/r/IndianCoun...

11.11.2024 20:38 πŸ‘ 397 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 7
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Expecting Climate Change: A Nationwide Field Experiment in the Housing Market Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119

11.11.2024 13:56 πŸ‘ 423 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 23
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Days after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children, one facility pauses IVF treatment | CNN The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatmentΒ following an Alabama Supreme Court rulingΒ that found frozen embryos are children, the health sys...

Just days after the Alabama Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos were β€œunborn children” covered by Alabama’s Wrongful
Death Of A Minor Act, the University of Alabama health system shut down all IVF clinics.

2% of American babies born last year came as a result of IVF. So did my 21yo daughter

22.02.2024 02:34 πŸ‘ 661 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 21