“The classified data backs up the findings of several studies suggesting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has killed civilians at a rate with few parallels in modern warfare." www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

Another eg of the cost of short-termism in markets, this time on the internet. How an dominant ISP refused to modernise. A long-term focus might reduce the share price. As "execs were mostly paid in stock, they decided not to risk a drop in their personal net worth" pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/w...

Great that Trump uses the rhetoric of anti-Semitism to justify all sorts of interference in universities and impingements on free speech, and yet...

Soros gets a run from Trump at 51’: "Because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by — whether it’s Soros or other people, but they’re paid by the radical left." www.sofx.com/president-tr... Hooboy.

Read this transcript of a presidential address to the senior leadership of the largest armed force in the world. Then tell me what you think of the sanity of the speaker. www.sofx.com/president-tr...

Ten years??

Six weeks later and STILL the OECD “Data Explorer” gives me this rubbish. @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @oecdstatistics.bsky.social

One for the “who could have seen this coming “ crowd

What a quarter

In 1938, an assassination was the pretext for Kristallnacht "marking the first time the regime conducted mass arrests and put people in concentration camps because of who they were and not what they had ostensibly done." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

One of Matt’s best. See how RFK Snr’s speech from the back of a flatbed truck, after the assassination of MLK, contrasts with the violent rhetoric we’ve seen from MAGA since the shooting of Charlie Kirk. And see what all the president’s men have in mind.

He’s still in this job? Why? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

When the newscasts are against me, that’s illegal.

Didn't Antifa invade Normandy on June 6th, 1944? :) If those guys were still around they would take care of Trump and his bully boys.

Some great quotes, found by Reich, from the guy who got Kimmel sacked for saying something not nice about MAGA.

Carr, a Trump appointment, threatened action against the network. He said, in language that perfectly reflects the Trump administration, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way”. Naturally, the network caved in. Pathetic, but only a matter of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

In the last paragraph: "But the message is clear ...If you’re going to mistreat a customer and still walk proudly in the capital markets, make sure that customer is the government."

A real Mafia boss.

How mobsters talk. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-...

Clergy not intimidated by the pro-Israel lobby in NZ www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/15/p...

"Charlie Kirk in His Own Words 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah." zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

One in 10 homes could be effectively uninsurable by 2050, while lost labour productivity to extreme weather could wipe $211 billion in household wealth, the Climate Risk Assessment warns, with tourism, trade, and property values forecasted to take a dive.

The draft dodger who renamed the Department of Defence the Department of War, reminds me of a line in Pink Floyd’s sublime song Us and Them. “Forward! he cried from the rear. And the front rank died.” John Rawson, Mernda The Age, letters

"A former Israeli army commander, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Important intervention

On why individual choices don’t make a zot of difference for social change, but collective action does. pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...

DESIGN FAULT. So these arseholes would rather short women get strangled. 🤯 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“It seems that we would have had permission to talk about children in war, anywhere else, except Palestine"

Hugh White: “Colby’s AUKUS review...will set 3 conditions for..AUKUS: a doubling of US sub production [maybe with] even more Australian cash; a promise to sharply increase Australian defence spending;..and a clear commitment to allow Australian forces to be built into US plans for war with China."

@therealjohnbarron.bsky.social Probably just as well you moved on.

“Don’t ask me impertinent questions about whether the far right, known for their history of anti-semitism, are rallying in Australia. I’m far too busy doing important things, like explaining to this conference why watermelons are a covert anti-semitic symbol. I kid you not! Look at my slide!"

Excellent from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

Melbourne wasn’t the only place where there were fascists in last weekend's rally.

The fact that she was unable to do, herself, what she has demanded that others do is the final proof that her recommendations should be promptly discarded.

My heart goes out to all those in and out of Lisbon affected by this tragedy. Shocked to hear there were no emergency brakes on the funicular.

Mr Roberts-Smith's lawyers admitted the 'findings brand him as a war criminal — "a criminal condemnation of the most ruinous kind”'. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Inexplicable only if you think her role is to suppress anti-Semitism. But totally explicable if her role is to recommend ways of suppressing criticism of Israel.

It’s real!

Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.

Seriously folks. Why are we accepting this behaviour from a politician? www.smh.com.au/national/how...

You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.

Krugman, Acemoglu and others in a CUNY hybrid webinar on AI and the future of work. 9.30am (Sydney time) Wednesday 8 October 2025. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...

Can anybody point me to an article that explains the major differences between the “abundance” agenda and the “third way” agenda that was championed by, amongst others, Tony Blair and Mark Latham?

Walked into a room to see head of Universities Australia talking about what good governance Aust unis have. But will any in audience ask her about two-week sessional contracts at her university?

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

One of the most irritating things about management edicts re: uni teaching is how often they come from people who actively avoid teaching, who've forgotten what the inside of a classroom looks like, and whose views seem derived from decades-old memories of a bad lecturer or their own bad lecturing

Trucks do NOT pay their way to use Aotearoa Roads Light Vehicles subsidise them by $500m and this does not include taxpayer top ups Report 👇 Submission on Draft Infrastructure Commission Te Waihanga Infrastructure Plan thefutureisrail.org/reports