Nimisha Barton (@nimishabarton.bsky.social) gives the historical context on DEI’s dismantling that so many need. academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

BERMAN: GDP growth was higher during the Biden administration than certainly it was last quarter and the average of year to year BYRON DONALDS: That's not true, but okay BERMAN: You can go check it

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

The racism section of this speech is stomach-churning. #SOTU

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

I wrote abt a Black war widow's attempts to gain recognition of the rights allegedly granted her by the postemancipation state. As she explained time & again, "I am poor & have not the money to pay for gitting any more certificates & things" required of her by pension officials.

So much of this would make sense if these allegedly smart people bothered to read scholarship about the social function of Blackness.

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At some point we have to face the sad truth that this array of Administration miscreants are living their HS fantasies. Under what other circumstances would a group of athletes welcome this guy into a locker room celebration?

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

He did it for us. Because he loves America.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

I'm not claiming the first Trump administration was a model of ethical behavior, but there is just a deep sense in the second term that the guardrails are gone, the boss doesn't care, and its grab-whatever-you-can time donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

This is totally deranged. Greenlanders are reporting that they have absolutely no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.

Real life and Lego life intersect.

10% yesterday. 15% today. As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Trump's Friday morning so far: -- extremely disappointing 4th quarter GDP number -- inflation report hotter than expected -- Supreme Court strikes down tariffs

“The fundamental challenge of our day is to end economic violence.” -Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1988 Democratic National Convention.

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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

On a recent visit to MOMA I was inspired by the Polaroid camera. Then @markgsheppard.com let me know there was a Lego version. I took it as a sign to get both, and they arrived today. I’ve decided 2026 will be the year I take as many pictures as possible!

So happy to have this piece with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social forthcoming in Review of Black Political Economy!

“Focusing on the cost of enslavement to the enslaved shows that slavery was a market failure in addition to a moral failure.” via @rickhornbeck.bsky.social & @trevondlogan.bsky.social in 2023 www.chicagobooth.edu/review/emanc... #econsky

This is a man who regularly makes a complete fool of himself at the local barbershop every Saturday morning. He is the community clown. So he’s perfect for national office these days…

“The hospital admitting room, where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed that’s empty waiting for someone with insurance to get sick. We are a better nation than that. We must do better.” Jesse Jackson’s message of what America could be still resonates.

I was only a child, but Jesse Jackson’s “Patchwork Quilt” speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention is still one of my all time favorites. It remains as a model of what a united coalition can be in American politics. It’s as timely as ever. www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/blog/2013/03...

Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.

Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...

📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

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A beautiful meal from a friend today. Mixing it up. Involtini di Manzo with collard greens. He used grits in place of polenta. A absolutely delicious combination!

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

Deep sigh…

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Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Is this that “economic anxiety” everyone is talking about?

Wait a minute!! Where o where is that Trump healthcare plan we were promised?!?

The Girl Scout Cookie doortags with QR codes are a sad sign of late stage, technology-enhanced digital capitalism. As soon as I’m done with my boxes of Thin Mints (3), Adventurefuls (1), Trefoils (2), and Do-si-dos (2) I will be leading a protest against it!

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

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holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

When you believe “the economy is everything” this is how you respond to an investigation of a large scale criminal syndicate of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse. Markets have no morals. But people should.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.