AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.* The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I miss @adybarkan.bsky.social every day. This last week especially, his call on all of us to do what we each can to @beaheroaction.bsky.social has been ringing louder than ever in my ears. Grateful to spend a bit of e-day with @rscar.bsky.social & @ Sarah Johnson.

Ady would have LOVED it.

Last NYC mayoral post (pretending I still live in NYC is my favorite hobby). Zohran’s win is huge but part of the reason it feels so transformative is this partnership. The love for Brad at Zohran’s party last night was palpable. Can’t wait to see them building a better New York together.

Today, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social examines the reactionary vision of governance emerging under the Trump administration—and offers a progressive alternative focused on dismantling systems of domination.

🚨TOMORROW: You still have time to join @davidstein.bsky.social,‬ @iraregmi.bsky.social‬, @bilalb.bsky.social‬ and Clara Mattei for this important conversation.

Clara Mattei and @davidstein.bsky.social are precisely the people we need to hear from in this moment. Join us tomorrow so that we can make some sense of what history tells us about austerity and how we understand the current moment!

Decades of austerity have gutted public programs. We need bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people. On June 24 we're unpacking the chaos unleashed by Musk & Trump’s "Dept of Government Efficiency" 👇​​ rooseveltinstitute.org/event/...

I’ll be speaking at this exciting @rooseveltinstitute.org event on Tuesday with Clara Mattei, @bilalb.bsky.social, and Ira Regmi. And I’ll be bringing one of the best charts of New Deal economic analysis you’ll ever see.

Trump and Musk’s “efficiency” agenda isn’t about fixing the government—it’s about breaking it. Join us June 24 as experts unpack the harms of austerity politics and chart a path toward a government that serves the people. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...

DOGE promised “efficiency.” It delivered chaos. 📅 Join us on June 24 for a conversation on how DOGE used the austerity politics playbook to undermine democracy and strip down essential public services. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...

Jacobin seems to have decided to be the official journal of the anti-tolerance, anti-personal autonomy left. If you are a socialist who thinks that kids these days have it too easy, and that all those druggies should be back in jail, then they're the journal for you. jacobin.com/2025/06/futu...

Summer is here, and nothing says 'beach read' quite like these scorching hot analyses of rent control, eviction processes, and profit-push inflation. 🏖️

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our most illuminating posts on the legal underpinnings of the housing crisis. Featuring Angela Harris, Duncan Kennedy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!

Excited to share that my new paper, The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate, was just published in Harvard Law Review! 🚨It argues that we are misinterpreting the Fed’s statutory mandate. 1/22

Urgent piece by @trevorgriffey.bsky.social on Gavin Newsom’s massive cuts to higher ed, and the refusal of Democratic electeds to resist. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/04/will...

Happy birthday Coretta Scott King. Study her organizing work on inflation, Black unemployment, and the idea of a peacetime economy—among the many underappreciated aspects of her legacy. @davidstein.bsky.social @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/dav...

As some of you have seen, Paul Krugman has interviewed me again for his newsletter. This time about the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis. It is surreal to have done two of these in seven weeks, & it may yet become a regular thing. Thanks again @pkrugman.bsky.social! www.crisesnotes.com/liquidity-vo...

Very psyched to read "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979" by historian David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social with my seminar this coming week

Our fight, Veena reminds us (citing @davidstein.bsky.social), "is not just for workplace power, but for sustained working-class economic power." <3

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I really loved this Luke Herrine piece. lpeproject.org/blog/on-writ...

New @charlotteerosen.bsky.social banger ‼️🚨‼️ proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

As Biden is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte E. Rosen wonders: what was the Resistance “Twitterstorian”? Well-paid liberal “attack dogs” of democracy like Heather Cox Richardson proved to be all too willing to turn to Democratic Party apologia—especially on Gaza. proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

I keep thinking about @keeanga.bsky.social’s point to @danieldenvir.bsky.social that part of Biden’s loss was a recognition of the governance failure of Democratic mayors. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/demo...

Very resonant piece from @awalkerinla.bsky.social on the fires. www.torched.la/zero-percent...

“History is screaming to the present. The AHA has been overwhelmingly silent.”

Historians of the US should oppose US-backed genocide.

Calling all at #AHA25: Join Historians 4 Palestine on Sunday Jan 5 12 pm at 1345 6th Avenue. We demand an end US stop military aid to Israel, divestment from Israeli institutions, that AHA historians condemn Israeli scholasticide of Palestinians in Gaza, & Palestine be free 🧵

I'm not someone who thinks anyone is obligated to post anything to social media, that silence= violence, etc. But speaking out against police brutality in the US while remaining silent on the military crimes of the US and its allies abroad reflects a very troubling and sadly common double standard.

Agree with first paragraph. And have also felt the same for quite some time re: other issues (less life/death than either of these) that many who are silent now not only spoke out about themselves, but faulted others for not speaking about. It has just been really tough and disappointing.

It is not an exaggeration to say that reading Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance in high school utterly changed my life. This book stoked my interest in how the war on drugs served deeply political aims, something that has formed an undercurrent of my research.

Read @davidstein.bsky.social (and remember, money is credit and a creature of law).

Obsessing over the deficit has curtailed progressive priorities for decades. @davidstein.bsky.social explores the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future: rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

An obituary for Jimmy Carter. His example put to shame our current ruling class, which he helped to create: ourtime.substack.com/p/jimmy-cart...

“His private virtues proved to be public vices: The same thrift and moral seriousness that make Carter stand out also fed into his austerity policies —which proved to be political suicide in 1980….” - @timbarker.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ourtime/...

To close out the year, in this 🧵 we'll be counting down our 14 most read posts of 2024. Clocking in at #14 (but #1 in our ❤️), it’s “After Chevron: Political Economy and the Future of the Administrative State” by Sabeel Rahman.

To help us all stay up to date on #EconSky and #MMT research putting some Contemporary analysis in our feeds.

One way to know that Zionism is a racial project is in the amount of anti-Palestinian racism that exists! That did not exist 100 years ago, Zionism made that, through a logic of race

My new piece, "To Protect and to Serve: Police, Power, and the Production of Inequality in the United States," is out now with Crime and Justice. This piece surveys the state of police scholarship in the US since 2000. Available open access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

“Biden was surrounded by a bodyguard of liars, a pretorian guard of deceivers who fooled both the president and the American public. This was a massive betrayal of democracy.” - @jeetheer.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

every time I revisit Hall's essay on Marx's method and the intro to the Grundrisse it is an enriching experience

I love this so much

Today would be a great day for the AFL-CIO and the SOC to kick out all police unions.

“If stable money in general, and the dollar in particular, is the invisible infrastructure that undergirds global capitalist social relations, how was it made? […] What types of violence have been embedded in money itself?” — @davidstein.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Because money is a credit form (an IOU) and a creature of the state, its *design* is consequential. Or as one colleague put it, tongue in cheek: "Money is no object." @davidstein.bsky.social lays it out.

1/5 🧵Really happy to have a long-gestating piece in this issue. It connects several threads that I’ve been circling around for the past decade: (1) the racial, gendered and social politics of the NAIRU; (2)alternative modes of inflation management; and... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Chenjerai is an officer of the American Association of University Professors, and honestly all members and all academics should take this as a threat to us collectively

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