can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
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can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
Does FIFA do a prize for economics
In Europe, we do not make international women's day 23 hours
The naming of Ayatollah Khamemei today ensures that the majority of GOP senators will continue to think the exact same guy has been running Iran since 1979
Anyhoo, in honor of o Dia das Mulheres, here is an all woman samba group.
Feliz dia das mulheres! I think of IWD as a Soviet-bloc holiday. For example, even these days it's a much bigger tradition in Eastern than in Western Germany. I was in Russia on IWD in 2012 and it was definitely a big deal.
Putin's protegΓ©
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
Contreras π§π· x πΊπΈ Judge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_nL...
He said "Winter Olympics"! π€―π
The 17-year-old high school pitcher getting MVP Aaron Judge to hit into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded was a great moment. (Son of an MLB player and a Brazilian mom, of course!)
Add 1 to the approximation (which admittedly still leaves it at zero). My son-in-law was watching in Salvador, with narração em portuguΓͺs (!).
Not jealous at all. Nope.
I wrote it up here, with a picture of a mockingbird, and links to data and code.
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This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime.
Itβs hackneyed now but it should never be: donβt normalize this.
Now is the time for Pres. Obama to step up. He is a powerful voice for American values and has a big bullhorn, yet he has been mostly deferential to the office that Trump is destroying. Let's hope he starts making more noise and more trouble! πΊπΈ
No Means No!
If you donβt want Casey Means to be Surgeon General, you can write to your Senators in 2 minutes or less with @defendpublichealth.bsky.socialβs handy form.
A fun Friday night activity for the whole family!
The Crook-In-Chief robs the US of $1.6 BILLION with his (paid for) pardons alone. That's only so far and he's only getting started.
Daines exΓ©cutes one of the key maneuvers of dynastic electoral politics. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
"They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20% of all cases in the US at the time. This was just one month after the rally occurred & it was still spreading."
Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
Lawless authoritarianism:
-"How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times"
-"Officials Violated More Than 50 Court Orders in NJ"
-"ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January"
-"The judge then provided an additional count of 113 more court orders violated in 77 more cases"
He's so good at this that Noem's lips deflated.
Questioning your assumptions is usually worthwhile.
www.thefarside.com/2026/03/04/1
This workshop is really good and I strongly recommend it to early-career demographers (and hopeful future demographers)
π€ So happy to finally see this paper with Arkadiusz WiΕniowski, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Afua Durowaa-Boateng published π₯³
β‘οΈWe combine patchy DHS data and UN TFR to create harmonized datasets of education-specific TFRs π£@socialstats.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @oeaw.bsky.social
Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?"
Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely."
"Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers β¦ That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."
