I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard

Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social FYI www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

No one can deny the reality of climate change. Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels. bsky.app/profile/carl...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!

Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing? It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.

Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.

BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.

the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

lol jokes aside as a researcher and #phd student, all I'm gonna say is that public scholarship matters more now than ever. And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot. bsky.app/profile/ifls...

In the other place, newly appointed DOJ Chief Economist Julia Pollack throws shade on @hamiltonproject.org, claiming that their graph misleadingly hides spending increase trends under Biden that the administration has fixed.

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

There are only two plausible reasons for Susan Collins *not* to supoena Musk and haul him before her committee to answer questions under oath: --She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt --She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics

@nytimes.com, I don't think Hitler was invited to the Yalta Conference. Was the historical echo you were thinking of perhaps the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.

This is terrifying. She has an H-1B visa.

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Why skeets and not bleets?

The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.

So, did Trump buy a Tesla this morning? I see a lot of news outlets reporting his promise to do so, I'm legitimately curious whether he went through with it.

Deporting a permanent resident for what would be protected speech if they were a citizen (maybe also for the resident) is dangerous for free speech. Now any permanent resident has to fear what they say. And if you reply about how bad the speech was, you don't understand free speech.

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

This is going to be a difficult nut to crack… what’s being suggested is catering to their lowest impulses… that’s what Rogan Peterson and Tate do

A Presidential Executive Order, entirely focused on using the full power of the US government to punish a law firm for engaging in entirely legal actions that the President dislikes

We call it... the Department of Government Efficiency (rimshot): "‘Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work" apnews.com/article/cdc-...

John Bolton on BBC just now: "I think we are in danger not just of losing the NATO alliance [...] but practically every alliance around the world as our friends and allies look at this performance and wonder if there's anybody in this administration who understands what's at stake here."

More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

These actions are identical to those of someone actively trying to ignite a military coup.

So, the main barrier to the President ordering the military to assassinate people was that the military doesn't have to obey illegal orders. Then this new EO that the President gets to issue binding interpretations of the law on behalf of everyone in the Executive Branch is pretty scary. Right?

Guys, I get that the instinct is to save face, but don’t downplay this as mere rhetoric. This is the U.S. abandoning all its international integrity and dismantling the post-war, rules-based order. You need to do something about it now!

From the experience of the successful grassroots fight against Netanyahu's attempt at judicial overhaul, I cannot stress enough three points: 1. Civil society should not assume that opposition politicians will take the lead. In Israel, politicians were not the ones leading the fight. CS was.

In Argentina 2007, there were signs of autocratic populism when the government began to intervene economic agencies to manipulate inflation figures, as cover up. Similar type of autocratic creeping in the US now www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

In the other place, Elon Musk is openly stating that a constitutional coup is occurring. Call your Reps and Senators. Call the Reps and Senators from where you grew up. It's time to fight for our democracy.

I think a lot has been said of the college-aged software engineers in the team for Elon Musk's lawless raid on the federal goverment, and not enough about the fact that it includes the CEO of the company who makes Citrix.

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

Oh look, it seems like the administration took down the FTP site for the American Community Survey: www2.census.gov/programs-sur... -- WTF

So it looks like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has banned birthday parties, I'm sure that will help.