This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

This corresponds to my basic, two-part take (1) the essay isn't my cup of tea, but 0/25 seems harsh based on the rubric (2) there are way saner grade dispute mechanisms that don't involve administrative leave and a national conversation

My wife went through this process. It’s horrific that it’s being turned into a game of Russian roulette by ICE.

This is really sad news -- and I'd hoped so hard this would never happen

This is very bad wjla.com/news/local/s...

🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Thanks, BLS Staff! #EconSky #NumbersDay www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Astonishing. Purging the United States of the best and brightest researchers from around the world will cripple our capacity to innovate and compete. Particularly with China. Numb, reckless nativist extremism will harm generations of Conservative and Liberal Americans.

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress. It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him. Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

I don't feel any safer with ICE taking a 13 year old 500+ miles from his mother (and per article, they had a pending immigration case anyway)

Why? How does this help anyone?

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States" by Cory Smith. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Peacemaker Season 2, out now

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

It's frustrating to see data quality undermined by this administration. This week's annual revision to the national accounts hit, too. www.bea.gov/information-.... That data have been important in the past.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

How does the new H1B executive order affect universities, which had a non-capped limit on H1Bs under the prior system (vs a lottery for for-profit corporations)?

I am not a lawyer, but it should not be legal to suddenly upend someone’s visa status with 48 hours of warning

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

As someone who has not followed this closely, is there any conclusion except that student outlets (The Crimson) were far more accurate than national news leaders (NYT, WSJ) which predicted imminent $500m settlements?

This @beijingpalmer.bsky.social post reminded me I have been meaning to update @pewresearch.org's estimate of total newspaper newsroom jobs - which was 30,820 as of 2020 Using BLS OEWS data (w/ same methodology as Pew) the 2024 number is 29,260 - down another 5% www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-...

I signed and you should, too. This is about dictatorial control of the Fed, nothing more and nothing less

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There's really no need for any consistent policy direction at all, I guess

I am very glad Lisa Cook was prepped and ready for Trump's purported "firing." This is a pretty fast action and turnaround www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate. The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.

Starting with the graduate students?

Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes. Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT. Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft. This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.

Stand with Dr Cook

Taken literally, this would suggest at least 10,000 murders in DC (of 700k people) vs the actual ~100 Or perhaps 100,000 for 3 orders of magnitude

Data revisions are a normal, necessary part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy in real time. They can also be jarring, especially for people who don't obsessively scrutinize every jobs report. So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways: #EconSky

This is just wack. We’re not a first-class airport lounge or whatever

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Every word of this article is atrocious. “At one point, the detainees used sharp iron pipes to cut themselves and write messages in their blood on white sheets as an act of protest, Suárez said. “We are not terrorists,” the messages read. “We are migrants.”

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Among other things, if genes were largely responsible for wealth (I don't believe this), it would still make sense to do taxes/transfers on income/wealth quite heavily. People can't change their genes!

Seemed inevitable but shouldn't obscure the near-term damage this will do to US national security and the diplomatic function, and the long-term damage it will do to recruitment and retention of high-quality folks. People were already taking effective pay cuts to serve and this is their thanks.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Here is NYC % Foreign-Born, by Year Sources 1870-2000: www2.census.gov/library/work... 2020: This is ACS for 2019-2023 www.census.gov/quickfacts/f... [can't quickly find 2010 online, point me to it]

Sen. Padilla calles out Noem on the Senate floor for saying that the Trump administration plans to "liberate" California from their elected officials

Just want to post a bit of a bland corrective on polling commentary that I'm seeing on my timeline. Since Trump ordered the National Guard to CA, his numbers have declined -- but not by as much as the most viral polls suggest (= most extreme)

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing