Don Moynihan
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
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- An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.
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- Overhead an older lady telling her friend that she has "no faith in St. Martin" and I think more saints should be subject to user reviews
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- I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.
- i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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- I got in SO MUCH trouble for this hugely viral tweet back in 2018 (from MAGA types mostly) but I stand by it (and in fact at the time the Auschwitz Museum defended me when people yelled at me that Auschwitz was a “death camp” not a concentration camp). My DENTIST congratulated me for this one
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- As I report in this piece, a trend is developing: Some warehouse owners have decided against selling to ICE, plainly because the backlash has persuaded them that it would make them pariahs
- “Social signaling is generating opposition to Trump’s worst policies, as more and more ordinary people see them as shameful and heinous in the most basic moral and human terms.” - @gregsargent.bsky.social Yes! Persuasion doesn’t only work the way message testers assume.
- These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet, and the U.S. had effectively eliminated it for decades. That was nice while it lasted. @citizencohn.bsky.social on the completely avoidable and unnecessary measles comeback in The Breakdown: lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt
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- I’ll say this for crypto: it had a lot of genuine, organic enthusiasts, no matter how much I disagreed with them. Every AI ad is just a C-suite begging me to spend $200/month before J.P. Morgan wises up.
- My all-time favorite is the Salesforce one where Matthew McConaughey says AI could’ve stopped a restaurant from seating him outdoors during a rainstorm. The fakest, least likely problem to solve in the history of human commerce.
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- i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script
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- This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
- Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
- my my, that’s a real chaser to my thread on Rowan and the compact that starts “always follow the money" thttps://bsky.app/profile/louiseseamster.bsky.social/post/3m2w3klqyxs2d
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