Amanda Weinstein
Economist studying rural economies. Air Force Veteran. Ohioan. Mom of 3 kids. Wife of the 1 and only @senatorweinstein.bsky.social
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinBut in the United States, he'll have ICE put a bullet in it
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinPritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."
- It was never about government spending and efficiency.
- “Quantity to quality.” @michael-macher.bsky.social on the gradual and then sudden explosion of far-right power centers in the lavishly resourced and unaccountable immigration agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. (Charts by @yusufimaadkhan.com)
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinIt doesn't matter if you are the daughter of Bill & Melinda Gates, as a young woman, you will still get asked, "what happens when you have kids?" when pitching to venture capitalists. Unlike in hiring, there is no law that prevents such questions in VC pitches. fortune.com/article/meli...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinICE is just 'proud boys' in uniform‼️ Regardless if you're a citizen, if you're a different shade or your surname sounds ethnic, you're in their crosshairs‼️
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinOf course ICE is going after Native Americans, the only people in the country who are NOT immigrants. Because it was never about safety or legality or citizenship. It was always about whiteness.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein“Quantity to quality.” @michael-macher.bsky.social on the gradual and then sudden explosion of far-right power centers in the lavishly resourced and unaccountable immigration agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. (Charts by @yusufimaadkhan.com)
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinThe Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinBREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinNaaaaaaailed it
- “When the American people recognize us and all others whom they have denied, as God’s children endowed by our Creator with the same rights as all people who inhabit the earth, then and then only will she prove herself capable of leading the people of the world to eternal peace and security”
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinWhat if he invades Minnesota
- Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) says he anticipates that Trump will be impeached if he invades Greenland. omaha.com/news/local/g...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinNon-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinTina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable."
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinA career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinQ: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinForthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Climate change is an affordability issue
- Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
- The economic theory has been pretty clear that climate change is an affordability issue for quite some time - we just call it negative externalities.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinMost discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
- This Substack article is a great read. It shows how massive outside-PAC spending often fails to move the needle in elections — and that really rang true for my city council race.
- Despite a flood of mailers, PAC money, and even a temporary “news” site created during the campaign, what truly made the difference in Hudson was our own residents showing up because they knew how much was at stake.
- What did move the needle? Grassroots energy. Small donations from across the community. Neighborhood events. Real conversations. Yard signs, letters written from neighbor to neighbor, and people opening their homes and hearts to this campaign.
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View full threadAnd one more thing that isn’t lost on me: we need to make public service more accessible so people from all backgrounds can step forward, contribute their perspectives, and help shape our community’s future. All politics is local
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- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinI will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," Edmund Burke.
- …and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...
- The experiences and background of a generation of economists affects economic research and economic policies across the country.
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- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinThis is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinIncredible paper that shows what I have long believed at my core: that research & teaching can complement each other, and that having research-active faculty teach undergrads is a very good thing!
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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- Local elections matter. When we rebuild, we rebuild from the ground up. It’s time to rebuild, folks. In my town, we start now - with a government that works for the people not over them! 🇺🇸
- Local elections matter and the three people leading our city council race are all Democrats. #1 is @profweinstein.bsky.social ✊
- Yep. We have a dark money PAC from DC spending money on attack ads against me for a city council race for our town of about 23K. 🤪
- This local city council election flyer for @profweinstein.bsky.social makes me want to vote for her even more.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinA majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinIf we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinThe most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinI miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinBREAKING: Trump asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed's board.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinElizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinLot of people yelling at me for saying celebrating assassination is no way to struggle against fascism. I’m not asking you to mourn Kirk, a fascist. I’m asking you to respect yourself. There is no righteous form of murder. Takes more courage to fight for democracy than to embrace fascism’s methods.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein“More than half of the people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested through July in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have no criminal conviction nor pending criminal charges, according to ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the News4 I-Team.”
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinTrump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinCost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinMaking them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinDems flip Iowa’s first state senate district, break GOP supermajority in Des Moines www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-lo...
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- We are looking for a passionate researcher with economics or related quantitative training, strong analytical skills, and a deep connection to rural America to conduct high-impact research that helps build thriving rural economies. apply.workable.com/center-on-ru...
- Reposted by Amanda Weinsteincan't have bad numbers if there are no numbers
- Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinDataviz should be a mandatory short course for PhD students. So many bad figures floating around these days.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein“.. Small businesses especially are grappling with the ability to stay in business.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein🚨 His first term attempt at this was defeated by broad pushback.
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinHello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinMe three months ago:
- Reposted by Amanda Weinstein“The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) strongly condemns the removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and the unfounded accusations leveled against the work of the agency… A totally apolitical group. files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinThe President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
- Reposted by Amanda Weinsteinvery good article from @claudia-sahm.bsky.social on immigration restriction and deportations. Short term effect is reduced GDP and employment and wages of US persons. Long term effects are even more treacherous. Private sector data show the struggle already, I add. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by Amanda WeinsteinAs US population growth slows, we need to reset expectations for economic data. Payrolls, GDP, expenditures, and income will all grow more slowly now that the immigration surge has ended. That changes how we interpret ... everything. My first piece for @piie.com www.piie.com/publications...
