typos are an interesting signal that one did not use AI on an assessment

Service!

This is NOT a fucking mystery folks

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

I'm sure @edzitron.com would have a field day with this!

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...

“Trump is not a hypothetical. . . He is a uniquely authoritarian, vindictive, racist, corrupt and lawless demagogue — of which there isn’t remotely an analog on the other side of the aisle.” www.ms.now/opinion/libe...

Selection bias in action! I have a feeling there's a great econometrics hw problem in here.

Hard to see how any biopharma CEO sleeps well tonight. As @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social notes there could be some legit concerns with the study but ... I would not give the FDA the benefit of the doubt.

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

excellent letter from president of U of Michigan faculty senate: "In March last year the U-M administration bowed to legal and political pressure from federal authorities and shuttered the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion." 1/2

#TeachEcon #EconSky

Whenever I prepare for class I end up longing for the good old days of 17 page JPE papers instead of the massive tomes we get now

Det går hurtigt med at ændre vores opfattelse af normalt vejr. Den dyne af drivhusgasser, vi har lagt over planeten, får os til at glemme vintrene, fra før forandrede klimaet. Til denne uges nyhedsbrev har jeg kastet et blik på DMI's statistikker. #dkgreen #dkpol politiken.dk/nyhedsbreve/...

I feel lik3 politicians should take a page from Cato and end their speeches with "Furthermore, I think that ICE must be destroyed" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...

This is the same fucking playbook that worked so well against vaccines...and we saw where that took us. Do not believe him! Bessent Says Fed Lacks Accountability and Has Lost Public Trust www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

I feel like everyone with a pending federal grant deadline is secretly hoping for a brief government shutdown. Who wouldn’t another week to polish the proposal?

whatever Microsoft did in their latest windows update, it has certainly made things feel a lot snappier

The amount of craziness here is a lot.... Like the basic premise of Big Orange's complaint is false. Trump Threatens Canada Over Business Jet Dispute www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Key point for many

🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”

I’d love to know where and when data centers got built to look at the impacts on the local economy. But if everyone is being this secretive that might not be possible. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

My pet peeve: I can't stand the red blue color scheme. Colors rotated every cycle until the cluster fuck that was 2000. We should go back to rotating colors. Or do stripes and polka dots. Keeping red vs blue is a recipe for tribalism.

There is an irony that Trump is trying to steal Greenland from Denmark while copying their vaccine system.

Denmark has been a steadfast ally of the United States for years. On a per Capita basis more Danish soldiers died in Afghanistan than any other member of the coalition including the United States. Trump and the GOP are turning their back on a great friend.

Scenes from Denmark today as thousands flood the streets in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Aarhus, and Odense to stand with Greenland against Trump’s threats. This is the destruction of American global leadership: our closest allies marching to push back against Trump’s coercion.

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Wow. Huge vote of confidence in my teaching of sports economics. My in-laws cracked up when I told them I was teaching it this spring.

Old legos never die. I've played with my grandfather's Lego from the 1940s and they work just fine and they would work with a smart brick too. @edzitron.com

This guy is brilliant, hits so many crucial points in a disarming (if only lolsob) way & btw how much does it cost to have like 15 armed assholes on the federal payroll sauntering around harassing uber drivers & finally: he's very brave

Here’s one explanation for why we haven’t seen tariff driven price hikes yet!

All one needs to know about ili incidence is that tests are in short supy

It annoying that outward shifts in demand raise both price and quantity in the short run. And we're busy cancelling power projects that would reduce price in the long-run 🤦‍♂️

Oh no. This is bagel violence breadflavors.com/types-of-bag...

Honestly is anyone surprised that Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files. I mean we have known for over twenty years that he is a predator. www.rawstory.com/bill-clinton...

A recommendation from ACIP is hugely significant for the half of American children who get their vaccines from the Vaccines for Children program since they only cover RECOMMENDED vaccines.

listening to a podcast about RFK and I'm reminded of a story from one of the first criminal trials using DNA evidence. the scientists had their own meeting to resolve the science without the lawyers. Scientists start from evidence and draw conclusions. Advocates have a position and seek evidence.

Am I the only one who thinks "deathstar" when I see the moon in daylight?

Apparently he truly does have a very special set of skills. SAdly just like Taken those skills are awful

Given all of the Denmark is the greatest for vaccines coming from people like TBH it's worth noting that my cousins in Denmark were fucking pissed at the slow rollout of the COVID vaccine

Omfg. Learn to deal with stuff. Not everything that bothers people needs a legal intervention. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267...

The basic failure to understand research ethics among the acip goon squad is disheartening. At least try to write an IRB protocol you fucking nitwits.

Ugh. Realized I've been trying to regenerate results that used 2010 census bpock groups with data at the 2020 census block group level 🤦‍♂️

Full List of Degrees Not Classed As ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...

I’m finally leaving Chicago and following Bovino to Charlotte on Thursday. If you’re in the area and have any leads on finding CBP/ICE/DHS, dm me for my number.