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...

This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data www.economist.com/finance-and-...

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero. While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country. I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below). www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer. www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

MOAR www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Lol thank you R/Bitcoin. Here is a crypto investor walking towards the light. Next he will discover the fundamental price of Bitcoin is $0 (or at least whatever the demand for organised crime use can sustain)

Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years. Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In"). aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

My talk on "Inference for group interaction experiments" from the Foundations of Causal Inference workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute is available via their Youtube channel: youtu.be/3hh-bM8YNSc?...

The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures now has a Slack channel up and running, to share research ideas and opporutunities we see in the policy/practice space, with academic scholars. All researchers are welcome! Email me for the link. [email protected]

Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis. I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

New post: What is the impact of AI on productivity? I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis. A disagreement emerges: micro studies find positive benefits but these benefits are yet to show up in the macro data. aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th... 🧵

Another source of vendor capture in safety net systems is the building of the digital infrastructure. Here, Deloitte dominates. Its a lot of money. Georgia's work requirements reforms spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and admin costs as on healthcare for people.

One act of resistance: Cancel your reservation and share why.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!

Insightful point from @gregsargent.bsky.social

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky

Evidently Austin PD plays a deeply villainous role in this terrible story

New measurement opportunity for the value of a statiscal life.

📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Haven’t seen logistics this amazing since we brought snacks and drinks to my kid’s baseball game 🤯

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...

Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

Just called Slotkin and Peters. Wrote them yesterday as well. Here’s the Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121. Try your senators’ local offices though, as the DC office mailboxes tend to get full. I had no problem getting through to the Lansing offices of both.

Walz press conference - "We're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible."

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you couldn’t whip opposition to funding this? Repugnant.

Where’s some Claude code to contact a whole lot of my reps…

BREAKING: Federal officers have shot another person in Minneapolis amid the immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz says.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

> @startribune.com www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Time is zero-sum. When Texas adds Bible content to its curriculum, it is going to supplant, not supplement, other content. The most remarkable example I've identified is their 5th grade teaching of MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Class materials⬇️ #EduSky🍎 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail (Reposting with better link) www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

David Brooks: This is a war on blue states Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes