Better go see coral reefs soon. Take photos for your children Oceans are failing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please Pope Leo: speak to this foolish meanness. Sometimes it's embarrassing (and maddening) to be even a "fallen-away" Catholic: www.cgdev.org/blog/catholi...

Bill McKibben on Trump at the UN manages to be funny, sort of:https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-stupidest-speech-in-un-history?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=174385635&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=jub32&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I like this representation of headwinds!

Can developing countries expect inequality to fall post-structural transformation, as predicted by the Kuznets Curve? @nbirdsall.bsky.social highlights unforeseen headwinds—populism, climate damage, and more—that pose new challenges ⬇️ https://bit.ly/45DsCr4

This Admin fears experts. I have think of colleagues/friends, now US citizens with US-born children, who are here thanks to those H1B visas.

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

Thank you to Bill Burns for his letter to US public servants in The Atlantic. Compelling on US best interests and full of the understanding and empathy the victims of Trump Admin/DOGE deserve. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

below, so well said: the government's "pitiful response to its own mistakes, which vary from simple ineptitude to willful noncompliance". Thank you to the "handful of federal judges"

Yes you wouldn't know Kirk's extremist views. . . .

America’s competitiveness and innovation capacity is being systematically eviscerated by the US Administration. This will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans equally.

Statement from the American Economics Association. Signed by AEA President & former USDOL Chief Economist @lkatz42.bsky.social Former BLS Commissioner Abraham Former Treasury DAS & Chief Economist Dynan, & Chair of AEA Govt Relations Committee Ken Troske bsky.app/profile/mart...

Lesotho was one of the biggest successes of AGOA -- which meant 'liberation day' hit particularly hard. Little early to see this in the trade data, but doesn't look great. NYT reporting factories shuttered. People going from $7/day factory jobs to $1/day hawking on the street.

Kick off your morning with two powerful minutes from Samuel Garcia — an everyday American who drove three hours just to confront the Texas legislature with the truth. Let’s all be Samuel Garcia. Speak up. Be bold. Make them hear us. This man is the definition of a great American.

"...escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence & integrity of the federal statistical system. "The president seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. "...firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit & undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics..."

And now the Bur Labor Stats down the Trump data drain: open.substack.com/pub/robertre... @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy

Paul Krugman on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, NY: a quandary for ICE (!) open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Yes! Brazil has invented the future of money....read about Pix: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Why isn't George W. Bush issuing a statement regretting what his Republican colleague Trump is doing to Pepfar? What has he got to lose? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

Impressive reporting from Pro Publica. I'm glad @mclem.org is paying attention to the cruelty not just the economic stupidity of the deportations.

This is so good (effective tariff rates of US). In some ways seems random -- makes one wonder if anyone in the White House has a clue about what they are doing to friends vs foes. www.cgdev.org/media/us-tar...

real effective tariffs country by country. (Why is Trump torturing poor Cambodia?!? ) www.cgdev.org/media/us-tar...

"Immigrants are the lifeboat of the (US) economy" (we are losing 1 m workers per year.... mostly due to aging). Listen to @mclem.org on this panel. . .Sigh...what's happening is perverse, and cruel too.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

It is an impossible perversion of federal power to deploy US Marines against American citizens on US soil in peacetime. No civil war exists.

Really good, and really alarming....on what's happening in West Africa....

Newsom's retort to Ala. Senator Tuberville (re the non-riots in LA) : “Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California. Its murder rate is ranked third in the entire country. Stick to football, bro.”

On trade: Bad news from Krugman: No off-ramp TACO just more temper tantrums. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

Researchers, policymakers, and more are back at @cgdev.org today for Day 2 of the Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure. Stay tuned for crucial presentations on established sources of lead exposure, the role of funders, and more. www.cgdev.org/event/first-...

Why Trump is undermining his own trade goal www.cgdev.org/blog/trumpon.... Good from Danny Bahar @cgdev.org

Some Americans are Conservative, and some Americans are Liberal, but Americans are not stupid.

Excellent summary (on African Dev Bank looks bleak)

The Economist does not exaggerate...its approach is brilliantly and carefully centrist..

Big news: on a bipartisan basis the Senate just voted to reject Trump's tariffs on Canada. The House has to vote on it next, where it's less likely to pass, but the cracks are starting to form. Trump is losing support from Republicans on his costly trade war.

Climate protest is good for your anxiety (and mine) -- and it works: "...climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage..." newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?ac...

Reviewing a list of canceled USAID contracts, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social & @justsand.bsky.social examine which sectors will be hit hardest. They find that despite Secretary Rubio’s pledge to preserve life-saving aid, essential health programs haven’t been spared ⬇️ bit.ly/41OWdKL

To maintain social security benefits past 2035 would cost 1.5% of GDP--0.1% more than proposed tax cut of House Republicans. Thanks @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...

from @hcrichardson.bsky.social What seems a deliberate attempt to crash what was. . a booming U.S. economy, is a feature not a bug. It creates “curated failure” that enables oligarchs to buy up the assets of the state and of desperate individuals for “rock-bottom prices.

This is a great act of care and solidarity. Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland has pledge to step up and hire federal employees and contractors purged by the Musk/Trump regime. marylandmatters.org/2025/02/28/s...

If you live in DC: 1) Resist incursions on home rule and join the fight for statehood; 2) Call a Va. or Md. representative.

Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social ·Montag, 3. März 2025 "In a small town in ruby red West Virginia, 250 people turned out to form a pro-democracy organization to fight fascism in America."

"Sir Keir Starmer is to take UK overseas aid to its lowest level as a percentage of national income since records began" Great to see the @theguardian.com lead with our @cgdev.org analysis. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

. . . .and the immediate future of Taiwan I fear....

Solar & wind rising twice as fast in developing world (so far freer from fossil fuel lobbying): from @billmckibben.bsky.social

Look at hard right rise since 2010. We in the US are counting on Europe, but.....

What just happened in the Oval Office is the death knell of the pax americana. Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan need to step up to save what's salvageable of the liberal order. Canada shares a 9,000 km border with the fastest-radicalizing bully in town. We either smarten up fast or we disappear.

Cash transfer programmes are designed to improve well-being, but do they harm those who don’t receive them? CGD's @eeshani.bsky.social joins the @voxdev.bsky.social Talks podcast to discuss the impacts of cash transfer programmes. Tune in ⬇ voxdev.org/topic/social...

Turks have an unforgettable saying ▸ Öküz tahta çıkarsa öküz padişah olmaz, saray ahır olur “When an ox ascends to the throne, he doesn’t become king; the palace becomes a barn”

THIS is WASTE: US Gen''Services Admin told to take EV power stations out of service: insideclimatenews.org/news/2102202...