Delighted to announce that after months of work, @abigailseldin and I, in partnership with @NatlHeadStart, are launching the Civic Mapping Initiative's Head Start Transit Map! https://t.co/l0vKTHWjOx Also thrilled that thanks to @RideMATA, we already have our first new bus stop!

Mangroves are also way better than your average tree at carbon sequestration. Let's give all mangroves some kind of protected status.

Magnapinna is an Eldritch DELIGHT, and these ethereal phantoms from the deep have my vote. Fun fact: Magnapinna squids are sometimes called Bigfin squids, and Magnapinna is Latin for "Bigfin."

Now, there are a lot of assumptions behind the Econ 101 models, and looking at where and how real situations diverge from those assumptions can often point to market failures and suggest policy remedies. But this stuff isn't always straightforward (and then there's politics...).

This means for stuff like transportation, healthcare, food, clothing, and housing, people tend to get hit hard. But it's also why luxury taxes are hard to implement. Taxes on stuff rich people buy can hurt the employees at the shiny toy factory more than the shiny toy buyers.

This was a bad Econ 101 class. In a competitive market, who gets the brunt of the taxes depends on the elasticities of supply and demand. This means for stuff people need the most, consumers get hit hardest. For frivolous stuff, producers usually get hit harder by a tax.

This whole interaction is hilarious but I can't think of a more surefire way to lose an argument than coming at @theoctopuslady over an animal she spent two months making an educational video about.

Civic Mapping Initiative @leagueofcities Program Director, @mattcrespi's freedom dream involves no longer being dependent on the ability to afford or drive a personal vehicle. #BestOfEquityChat @DrPamLuster @DrTammeil @Iamkeithcurry @CollegeFutures (1/2) https://t.co/XVBV1sy5PG

“America is too sparsely populated and spread out to support the kind of intercity rail they have in other countries”

This is true, and part of the problem is that impressing the inner circle is the only thing that gets you hired, retained, and promoted.

COVID data quietly disappears while cases rise

As a 1500 blitz player, I can assure you that making tactical mistakes is most of what I do.

NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote. All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president. https://t.co/1NlzNXPAGG

@schwartzbCNBC So instead of donating $45M a month to Trump, Elon is now using his PAC to deceive voters into giving up all their info and a recent FEC opinion allows America PAC to coordinate its canvassing activities with the Trump campaign — meaning, among other things, that the Trump

This is a very big deal⤵️ A Musk election interference effort that tricks people in swing states into thinking they've registered to vote. Read/ share.

Is this legal? Musk’s “America PAC” is running ads telling people it will help them register to vote. But if they live in a swing state, it collects their address, cell phone number, and age, and then tells them thank you. It never registers them; only harvests their data.

This paper had everyone at NBER talking this week. Amazing natural experiment, important results! "The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children" by @juliana_londono & Estefanía Saravia https://t.co/R6IxPc1ZuA

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