WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.” @justinwolfers.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The people responsible will die and bust Hell wide open.

Grocery price inflation is tearing him up and he has no plan to fix it. You can’t lie your way around what people see every week at the store. You can’t bully prices. The administration owns the continued inflation in grocery prices. They fully own it now, whether they like it or not.

Anderson Cooper just called Minnesota's big airport "St. Paul International Airport" Hell yeah

Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Friends and colleagues, Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

The optics could not be more straightforward.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

Here's how bad it is: Americans have to go to court to try to stop the president from taking food away from poor people.

How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history. greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

“Indeed”

At 15 of the 20 academies benefiting from the tax credit program, student bodies were at least 85% white…And among the 20, enrollments at five were more than 60 percentage points whiter than their communities.” www.propublica.org/article/miss...

Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.

As @itsafronomics.bsky.social would say, that math's not mathing.

Update: USDA revised their #SNAP contingency fund plan to provide households with a larger share of their November benefits. This is an important but inadequate step. Families need their full benefits to afford groceries & the Administration has the authority to provide them.

BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!

The whole Walmart Thanksgiving thing is actually a cool moment to teach people about inflation. The 2024 version has both more and higher quality items than the 2025 version, it's not a fixed basket of goods! You need to adjust for the substitution effects to accurate compare prices!

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

The Trump Administration using the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act to lower the prices of semiglutides is shrewd. It will also be very popular since private insurance has balked at the price, limiting use. If the media were responsible they’d note that is a Biden policy which allows this.

I know that in the grand scheme of things there are far more important issues and pain this administration has caused, but as a scholar this is the kind of stuff that makes my blood boil. Someone trying to understand what happened a long time from now will still be furious about it too.

President Milliken of the University of California has decided to eliminate the Postdoctoral Presidential Fellows Program, despite assurances from his predecessor that this would not change. Clearly aligning UC with Trump’s demands. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The math doesn't add up on this. Walmart claims the turkey price is lowest since 2019 but the price per pound is higher than last year. Shrinkflation. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Can’t wait to dive into this piece by Daniel Keuhn “W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory.” Great to see Journal of Economic Perspectives feature work on DuBois, further integrating his insights into economics. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

“Job market can’t be bad if we can’t measure unemployment!!”

They are running scared. The “Error” here was thinking that starving 42 million people and giving 1/2 the benefit wouldn’t face blowback. Now everyone knows the full extent of SNAP benefits and how critical they are Trump to Raise Food Benefit Payments After Calculation ‘Error’ via @bloomberg.com

Whether the media reports it or not, everyone is experiencing the continuing high inflation of grocery and utility prices. The problem has not gone away.

Fox News: A new poll finds about 70% of Americans say groceries are more expensive now than they were a year ago. About 60% of them are blaming Trump.

I think an unwritten story of the 2025 election results is @blkprofcct.bsky.social point that turnout among Black voters—especially engaging low propensity ones— is critical to Dem electoral success.

Duffy: "There's going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations."

Trump: "When I took over it was a mess. I have inflation way down. I have it down to a normal number right now. Lower than a normal number in my opinion, I think."

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

We are living in a simulation. Exhibit 3,219,764:

The US Government shutdown Has now cost $7 billion in GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

A lot of people need reminding. I’m going to make a t shirt…

it appears some need reminding: 1) indigenous peoples (native americans) are not immigrants 2) black americans are not immigrants

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Have now purchased backup train tix for my weekend flights to/from NYC because America is great again

We are living in a simulation. Exhibit 2,443,878:

Depriving people of food & family for the holidays to [checks notes] DOUBLE insurance premiums seems like a smart political tactic.

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

www.cmfdata.org Great data drop! @rickhornbeck.bsky.social

"off year elections are not indicative of what's to come, that's what history teaches us" no it's not! there is a strong relationship between the swing in the VA Gov race and subsequent swing in the midterms www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Judging from what’s brewing on social media, the Republican options are either: a) Embrace Nazis and go all in on violent antisemitism b) Double down on Trump It’s not clear that these are mutually exclusive options.

Congratulations to Kaohly Her, who was elected last night as the first woman and first Hmong American mayor of St. Paul, MN!! (This is a HUGE upset victory!)

1) Unprecedented high turnout —> you can’t say voters “stayed home” 2) Mamdani > 50% —> you can’t say Silwa was a spoiler who split the vote It will be difficult to construct the “he’s illegitimate/has no mandate” narrative the media is desperate to build in NYC. They’ll try anyway, though…

This is a big deal. A very big deal.