The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

The theme of public excellence is something Mamdani emphasized in his inauguration address. One big potential he mentions here is inhousing tech talent rather than spending too much on contracts that don't deliver.

In your 40s you rate your morning runs by the ibuprofen dose you need to be able to work after.. “how your morning michel?” “Not to bad! About 400mg”

Very excited for this Friday's Chamberlain Online Seminar, where we'll muse about "The Future of Econometrics." Check out this panelist lineup! Friday 3/27 at Noon ET. Come see! t.co/pE1gZCMI7a

The perversion of the US government into a grift machine for political buddies harms every American. Every Conservative and Liberal American.

Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

Hi all, I’m hiring a post doc for next year! Heavy focus on building and designing AI for economic mobility in various domains. Please share widely if you don’t mind! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

Headed to @aefpweb.bsky.social? Find me to chat about @peerresearch.bsky.social! We help fund and support #highered scholars to translate timely & relevant higher-ed and workforce research to policymakers. Learn more about our priorities at peer-center.org. We'd love to hear what you're working on!

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Who knew Gulf Wars could be so complicated? bsky.app/profile/aaro...

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

Imagine you are a Lego fanatic. In ~3 years (Aug22-Nov25), how much could you spend on Legos alone? AZ's winner-this is one ESA account-spent $15,944.59 of AZ taxpayer money on Legos* (*May be more: WalMart Target Michael's etc purchases aren't disaggregated. Waiting for those data.)

At my desk, it's machine learning vs. items like Brazilian waxing kit, Victoria's Secret thongs, & vaginal probiotics in the Arizona ESA data. There's only one GoodMan who can name this paper @joshua-goodman.com

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Over on X, Sam Altman is doing an AMA and acknowledging a backlash to OpenAI’s partnering w/DOD. Meanwhile Anthropic’s Claude has vaulted to the top of Apple’s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT.

Did this yesterday

More Anthropic recruiting material.

Amazing Anthropic recruiting material right here.

Or: here’s my report, did the authors actually address any of these points and I missed it?

We’ve run multiple RCTs w/ survey incentives for our studies (none as thoughtful as this one). We’ve had mixed results. Best version offered unconditional $ up front and $ for completion (max $50). It’s hard to offer $ because people can think it’s a scam even w/ official approvals, letterheads, etc

Incredibly disturbing.

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand? With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Dream Team: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social @davidautor.bsky.social & Simon Johnson on Pro-Worker AI Going to the top on my reading list #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w34854

Can states do anything about grade inflation? I've got a few ideas, but none of them are slam dunks. Do you have thoughts? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/can-states...

I am particularly excited about the Acquatella and Marone paper being presented. It formalizes intuition about the value of health insurance and problems with the traditional understanding of moral hazard…

Interesting example of importance of choice of incentives in survey data

Watch the censored Talarico interview here: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Incredible.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

This is much more praise than we (or at least I) deserve, but we'll take it ;)

While Stanford ends programs for first generation and underrepresented students, they maintain their legacy preferences in admissions…

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Important & timely working paper from East, Cox, and my colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Very nice review of "The means of prediction" by @B_Eichengreen: smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki...

Watch in the coming years for the drumbeat to turn SNAP into a block grant, and remember what happened to TANF. Same pattern: add so many administrative burdens that states say it would be easier to just take cash, and then fail to deliver that cash to the poor.

Y'all, @sandydarity.bsky.social is on #bluesky! Dr. Sandy Darity is one the top experts on the racial wealth gap for Black Americans. Alongside Dr. Kristen Mullen, they find that giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 would help close the racial wealth gap. #blacksky

Q: What time is kickoff? A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”

Will other states follow Oklahoma's lead?? We'll be watching...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...