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NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

It may affect fewer people INITIALLY, but it presages a fundamental shift in our system of government that will eventually worsen the lives of every man, woman, and child in the future United States, or whatever is left of it. It indicates a transition from democracy to tyranny.

Trump official says under Oz's 2-year tenure, ~40% of health insurance was fraudulent! Oz should be fired immediately!

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

"On avg, moving left or moderate doesn’t matter much" is a less informative way of summarizing this graph:

There's a corollary, any rigorous attempt to recreate a "true" BLS metric ends up recreating the initial metric from first principles. It's the bigmac price index, with crowdsourcing, and all other types of items, that is based on what people say they buy every week

Trying to change Will Stancil's perception that "social media can change people's perceptions" through a social media post is a bold approach.

In the Odyssey, the average Greek was a king and hero. We must retvrn

Man, if only someone aggregated up all the consumer prices so we could track cost of living. We could call it something like the index for consumer prices.

Internet discourse is: "This out of touch billionaire says Millennials are broke because they spend too much on avocado toast" followed by "Why avocado toast prices are irreconcilably bankrupting me"

"What if the data said something more ambiguous" Well then it would be more ambiguous, thats not what the data says though! This isn't even data analysis, its just "imagine the data better matched my priors"

Are you citing Federal Reserve Bank measurements of depreciation to show that economists don't measure depreciation?

I looked into a gonzo First Things essay that argues women are using the government "prop up" their employment. It's wrong, but it's wrong in an interesting way. Men actually increased thier employment *within* industry, but female industries grew faster. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/the-girlbo...

Why did that happen, what does it tell us, and what can we do next? That’s what my forthcoming book, The Wage Standard, is about: how rules, norms, and power in the labor market shape who shares in growth. Coming out March 31. Pre-order here: www.thewagestandard.com

Saying moderate things is evidence of moderation

Since the dow is now down ~10% from 50000 it stands to reason that Bondi will indict 10% of the epstein conspirators