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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 Londoño-Vélez & Estefanía Saravia conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

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. cnb.cx/3A9hEMv

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.

@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

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

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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.

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

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

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."

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