we’re effectively dismantling public education and not raising wealth taxes, I…

What if I told you that you aren’t burnt out, you’re exploited and ChatGPT is just a beer back to the shot??!

and i imagine that this is better for cast and crew who get something closer to a regular paycheck and more chances to grow creatively

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...

There's a rot -- a eugenicist, transhumanist, techno-optimist, new-atheist rot -- in elite institutions that connects Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Silicon Valley, CBS, Palantir, and ICE. It sweeps in Epstein, Bannon, Thiel, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Joe Rogan, and all these other IDW / NeoRX creeps.

lol "white people felt economically insecure so that's why they voted this way" makes no sense because of facts: - Black people are worse off on nearly EVERY economic metric - 45 NEVER had a plan to address the affordability crisis

The Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which helped motivate many federal policy changes in the last year. Here is their follow-up document, which will definitely get traction at the Department of Education and in red states.

noting that @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is collecting donations for on the ground mutual aid orgs here: www.sudansolidarity.com

I KNEW IT

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

“The name on the on the door of DHS doesn’t really matter. This is an operation being run by the president and Stephen Miller.” while i think we might actually have the political capital now to remove multiples, we need to prioritize the most damaging/less legally protected. that's stephen miller

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

I feel like this should be undertaken by all of us in the EU

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets

I mean what are you gonna do, treat us like Roma

Europeans are Bulgarians migrating to Western Europe and realizing we are not THAT (type of) white, as someone else said skin folk =/= kinfolk.

#econsky I‘m wrapping my project on undocumented/irregular migrants in NL, please feel free to suggest yourself or anyone else w/ expertise from the #econ, #sociology, #migration fields or studying #homelessness. If you’ve ever written/researched on any of these topics - pls feel free to contact me!

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

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The very serious goal is to segregate the sector. It's challenging to me that people who pushed for these kinds of things didn't see that this is where the administration was going. Guess I should've held a special session at ASSA.

(NYT) - President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

How do people in the #Netherlands network? I don’t get what I am doing wrong or is just networking not something done here?

The same is true with the BLS. It has no policymaking power, it's only power is collecting data and publishing credible statistics. If it's not independent, it does not have credibility. It becomes pointless.

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

This NYT interview with Trump from last Thursday is so bad, I really question everyday why am I giving my money to them, but this purposeful framing of his “softening position on immigration” and bringing immigrants who are “qualified“ is so Dutch policy circa 2000s, which is now reversing.

Splitting the bill doesn’t work when one person is unemployed and the other is working, sorry! Disappointing because I thought people know better.

91,000 women age 20 and older left the labor force in December, while 10,000 men joined it, per @nwlc.org

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Retailers want to know if you’ll pay more than the next person for the same goods and services. And they’ll use data on everything from your eye movements to your walk to find out.

I noted awhile ago that the Econ profession depends on a liberal technocratic form of government that this current regime simply does not need.

That me! Ten years of experience, I have never witnessed such a bad job market. It’s either no job or going for a lower temp job, things are BAD. It’s challenging to stay positive.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

still thinking about that Nation piece how we’re being ruled by the biggest losers

I’m not sure what was accomplished with this decision but I do sure hope the ones responsible get what they deserve Not even American, but PBS’ American Revolution was so incredibly well researched, full of nuances, that I can only feel deep rage and sadness at once.