The New York Times

nytimes.com

22 January 2025 04:16

Kash Patel, the Trump loyalist tapped to run the FBI, said he had participated in an American Bar Association program that promotes diversity while a student at Pace University’s law school in 2003.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

josephpolitano.bsky.social

04 December 2024 14:04

US GDP by metro & county data finally got released today, and 49 of America's 50-largest metro areas have now recovered from COVID! Fastest growers have been Austin (+30%), San Jose (23%), Tampa (21%), Jacksonville (+21%), & Nashville (21%)

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

josephpolitano.bsky.social

23 November 2024 14:10

Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

Tony Yates

t0nyyates.bsky.social

19 November 2024 11:59

I'm going to compile a starter pack for people with an unhealthy interest in high frequency data on activity on BlueSky. Let me know if you think you should be in it.

Paul Krugman

pkrugman.bsky.social

13 November 2024 03:46

It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots. For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject