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I started a Substack. My first post is on why 2026 is 1974 all over again, and how the same forces, fifty years apart, delivered Democrats their most decisive victory in half a century. ebwinter.substack.com/p/our-1974-mom…
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Folks, here it is, my round up of every book I read in 2025. This year, it was more than ever with 59 books read across a wide array of genres.
Hope you find something interesting here:
miloandthecalf.substack.com/p/2025-my-year…
Hope you find something interesting here:
miloandthecalf.substack.com/p/2025-my-year…
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Alvin Christian researched this for his JMP and the patterns of accommodation usage in higher ed look very different from the patterns of accommodation usage in K-12. And the increase he finds is almost all driven by mental health diagnoses.
I study academic accommodation in my JMP and show at the university I study accommodations usage more than doubled between 2011 and 2024 (4% -> 10%) and is driven by students getting accommodations for mental health conditions. This is an important and growing area of research!
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For fans of basketball minutiae and great team defense
See if you can spot everything that happens on this defensive possession (then I'll walk you through it):
See if you can spot everything that happens on this defensive possession (then I'll walk you through it):
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Today at @acitythatworks: why the mayor's proposal to bring back the corporate head tax is a bad idea for the city of Chicago.
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It’s witness slip time! 🚨
Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately!
The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip.
mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ
Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately!
The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip.
mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ
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I never enjoy book clubs (no one ever reads the books, you end up beholden to someone else’s taste, etc.), but some of the best reading experiences of my life have been in paired study, or what is called in the Jewish world, Chavruta. More below.
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My short reaction for @WorksInProgMag on why Joel Mokyr’s economics Nobel win today is such a fantastic, fantastic day for history. worksinprogress.news/p/what-makes-j…
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With the resurgence of Tampa 2 variations in the NFL, your quarterback better be able to get to the back side Dig.
Detroit doing a lot of good stuff through three weeks.
Detroit doing a lot of good stuff through three weeks.
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Over at @acitythatworks, @ConDurkin has a great look at long term challenges sitting behind CPS's immediate budget woes.
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Not opposing development was one of the few things that Johnson was doing well, and he decides to push that out the window to give a job to a nutjob.
New: Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to elevate former Ald. Helen Shiller to chair the Zoning Board of Appeals. A role traditionally reserved for an attorney, the move is drawing push back from some, including Ald Timmy Knudsen, who previously served as ZBA chair.
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CPS finances got into this mess in the first place borrowing to fill budget gaps.
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The Mayor has framed the borrowing as a “bridge” to get to an era when Springfield sends more state $$$… but there’s no guarantee that’s coming, and so much of potential new dollars would be paying off old debt. I asked the mayor yesterday about the threat this poses to kids’ future education but he sidestepped in his answer.
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One of the least known, most important facts about life in Latin America: most people can turn to police for order & security, but 1 in 6 are also governed by gangs and criminal groups—that’s 77–101 million Latin Americans under some kind of gang rule.
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
#Criminal #Governance in #Latin #America: Prevalence and Correlates
By Andres Uribe, @BigBigBLessing, @noahschouela & @ElayneStecher
doi.org/10.1017/S15375…
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If you live in the 36th Ward, please write to Ald. Villegas and express your support for the proposed homes.
36thward.org/contact
36thward.org/contact
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If only there were a framework for the Fed that made it easier to deal with rising prices and falling economic activity. Oh, wait, there is such a framework: tinyurl.com/3pdz6rwu
US economic data increasingly has the whiff of stagflation. Today's ISM services report showed little growth, but businesses reported that prices paid rose at the fastest pace since October 2022 (chart below.) Meanwhile, employment fell into contraction.
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