Sean Kevin Campbell

Want to know more about how gun stores fuel cartel violence in Mexico, fentanyl addiction in the US, and migrations to the border but don't have the time for a 12,000+ word investigation? Here's the TL;DR version w/ @ConversationUS theconversation.com/guns-bought-in…

Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature

A fascinating, crazy, and very 2026 story: The Texas plastic surgeon who is patient zero for the Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theories semafor.com/article/03/31/…

otherwise good report but donie, i'm very dissapointed you did not do more due diligence on any claims she made about net profits and let it air like it's fact. it's been proven the faked dashboard screen recordings showing that showed her making 100m annually. no doubt she's a millionaire but she's incentivized to use media to further her lies about her income because she's connected to OF agencies who try to recruit women into becoming OF creators. having an insane lie like pretending to have 9 figures in net profits air on cnn lets the agency she's associated use her fake revenue numbers reported on by cnn as social proof to try to recruit girls who'd hope to make as much money as her.

What stage of feudalism is this?

Right before this, a voiceover says “What you’re about to see is good” and then this happens. Terrible.

The Lever has been working for weeks on this big story. We published it this morning. Hours later, Vanity Fair published a story with not even a passing reference to our reporting.

God the liar's dividend has really arrived

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

McDonald's CEO is still clearing. I've now even come around on the OG viral video of his. We simply didn't understand his game... HE IS A CEO - it's a product to him. Apparently someone in the test kitchen asked what his favorite food was and he just said, "Fish, I eat a lot of fish." Didn't even think to answer with an item that the company he's the CEO of produces. This is a raw input:output organism we're dealing with Burger King CEO went for the obvious transparent burgermogging attempt by taking a bigger bite. So obviously a mog attempt that it actually puts him below McDonald's CEO because he "tried." Wendy's CEO attempt is a nothingburger. It lacks the autistic CEO authenticity of McDonald's and even the obvious marketing move of Burger King There's also the first mover advantage here. McDonald's CEO is gaining status with every subsequent CEO validating his format by recreating it We seriously underestimated this man

It also drives up borrowing costs. When no one is watching the public ledger, investors treat cities as higher risk and demand higher yields. Municipal borrowing costs increase by 5 to 11 basis points—roughly $650,000 in added cost per bond issue. Taxpayers absorb this.

@billybinion Fewer than 1000 people in America account for over $7 trillion in net worth. Using your numbers, that’s more than 70 years of SNAP benefits. Of course taxing the rich to end poverty is a serious proposition to anyone who does math.

The U.S. government spent over $7 trillion last year. More than $100 billion of that went to SNAP alone. Many billions more went to homelessness (before you even count state and local spending). “Just tax the rich to end poverty” isn’t a serious theory of how poverty works.

Deeply fascinated by this distinctively British genre of photography

Wow.

Holy hell what is going on over at The Atlantic?

Imagine being a bright-eyed J-School grad eager to launch your reporting career, and the editor of Cleveland's metro daily puts you on blast for wanting to be a journalist instead of an AI content farmer. cleveland.com/news/2026/02/j…

Crazy, crazy story. I can’t tell you how influential this econ paper was to politicians in 2010, it justified austerity policies that caused so much unnecessary human misery. As was pointed out by 2013, its conclusions are completely reversed once you include a missing Excel row.

Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram:   "Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it" "It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there." " What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request.  To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "

TLDR: Lazy journalism gives outsized influence to groups that don't actually represent the communities on whose behalf they purport to act.

@AlecStapp Umm, 50% is 50x greater than 1% but the spending differential here is just above 1-to1.

Narrative violation: The world is becoming less unequal.

@DKThomp @AlecMacGillis Skimmed the paper, two things that might be obscured by these graphs: 1) the US offers more ways to effectively lower your “income”; 2) US has many more billionaires somewhat reducing outlier effects seen in the reference countries here.