Jonathan Banks reprises him Mike Ehrmantraut character from Breaking Bad for a message for America’s 250th "There is right vs. left. And there is right vs. wrong"

To give you a sense of just how long 250 years is…if you had started working on three economics papers on July 4, 1776, you would probably already have two published.

Connecticut celebrates the most Connecticut-y way

I think he deserved more than a dark corner in the Guinness museum

Back on my bullsh

City of half a million under siege

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Difficult to play the offside trap under these conditions

Siri, what's the best way to cause a hypertensive crisis to a lot of economists at once

Wait till Quicken Loans thinks of this www.wsj.com/business/wor...

They picked someone with top 5 econ training because they knew even if he couldn’t advance (on) the field he’d be good at rejecting other people’s submissions

New post! Most people didn’t think it was possible to develop Covid vaccines fast enough to be useful. In the summer of 2020, I came to a different conclusion. Now I wanted to look back on how it happened, and suggest boldly that we should ask whether that speed should've been the norm all along.

And nice to see that they integrated countering misinformation into their strategy

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

if you missed the thread as it happened picture this in your head then click thru

Parks and Reich

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We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

On the other site:

When are they going to release the Alan Greenspan action flick?

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This Father's Day, I'm thinking about how my dad immigrated to the US after escaping the bloody Vietnam War, only to see his bloodline die out because his son stumbled into a menswear forum, where he spent the bulk of his adult life arguing about pants with teens named Pablo Thriftscobar.

if you need me, i'll be on the floor turning over the phrase "we almost invaded greenland for red lobster" in my head for a while

I love this so much. These Brits are basically pink clouding over our nation’s beauty. This is Yosemite. “Stop booking your trips to Ibiza, stop booking your trips to Dubai. Get over to America and see some REAL beauty!” 🙌🏽🇺🇸

Choosing to take this personally.

Used to be a lie

Happy🎂to Siméon Poisson b #OTD 1781 (d 25 Apr 1840) His name is most associated with the Poisson distribution, developed to model jury decision-making. It gained traction in 1898 with Bortkiewicz’s analysis of Prussian horse kick data. But it is another example of Stigler’s Law of Eponomy 1/3

Join SNAP and @protectdemocracy.org to learn about how to write a public comment for the proposed OMB rule! Wednesday, June 17th at 5:30 p.m. ET Registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciPol #ECRs #science

A friend in DC is headed to the G7 this week (just for a side meeting) I told her to pick some of these up to sell as keepsakes there

It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy

Lots of people are noting that Trump signed the MOU at Versailles (or so he says). I haven’t seen anyone point out that the $300 billion rebuilding fund matches, if you squint, the reparations Germany agreed to in 1919. claude.ai/share/4944b8... Of course, Germany didnt wind up paying them either

Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)

Me, slowly becoming the world's biggest armchair algae nerd: of course!! Why didn't i think of eutrophication!?!

Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

ngl our new pet sitter raised the bar for pic updates

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table" me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries chotiner: does your meal always come with fries me: ...yes chotiner: is there anyone else at the table me: chotiner: we can revisit this later

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game. You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵 #WorldCup #Football #Soccer #RG3 #Love #sports #RGIII #RobertGriffinIII #Japan #Discipline

I gave in and spent $20 for a month of Fox One to watch the world cup, and there's no apparent way to keep the app from suggesting awful right-wing programming when I just want to watch sports. I'm not looking forward to this extending to my Roku TV as well. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/f...

Icymi #econtwitter #econsky: a new RCT showed that mentoring ⬆️ successful applications from students in SSA to masters' + PhD programs in economics: the percentage of successful ⬆️ from 16 to 32. From Adhar @OdhiamboFrank_O Poensgen

"Just say The Volk Jack, this is taking forever."

Btw this isn’t a joke

writing the lyric “concrete jungle where dreams are made of” and it becoming the single biggest new york anthem has gotta feel like the worst version of when you have a post with a typo go viral

Literal old man yelling at clouds

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

Literally the best post in bluesky history. This is the Kenneth Arrow of posts