My band Minaxi just put out a cool version of our song The Deep Blue Sea Knows Your Love which we recorded in philly. check it out! youtu.be/iXNU210XNlg?...

Tune into WPRB this Sunday at 9 am to hear a live set from my band Minaxi! Here’s a clip from practice - we got some mega vibes cooking up 👊👊👊

all i can say is that we are going to win

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”

One of the most pathetic examples of corporate capture I've ever seen. CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance. Here's the pledge.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Come hang this sunday if you're in the East Ridgewood/Bushwick area! Got a lot of cool bands on the bill 👊👊👊 @weisenthal.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social @mattlindauer.bsky.social

I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.

On the collapse of COP30 and general climate inaction. I think this is correct and important: there are plenty of profits available in a full-scale green transition. But it won't happen without public orchestration and *that* is what threatens holders of capital.

@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki. (i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)

guys it's happening www.newsweek.com/groyper-char...

Fascist on Fascist violence

Bonus points for being one of the best Warhammer posts ever

Fanone gets it: Opposition to political assassinations includes people whose views have no redeeming qualities, like Charlie Kirk. Sugarcoating his views not only is dishonest in itself, it conveys that maybe you wouldn't oppose assassination of people whose views you don't sugarcoat.

1) going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities 2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

New ICE deportation data just dropped: on average ICE deported 1100 people every day last month, a huge escalation Although less than half the pace needed for Trump's goal of one million annual deportations, Congress gave them their funding, and we should expect this rate to rise

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

Absolutely. One often missed aspect of bi/multi racial identity is we usually don’t fit into the categories that make us up. I’m 1/2 chinese, 1/2 white, checked both boxes on my apps, but have never been considered chinese or white by those communities, and don’t consider myself that either.

Yeah I help kids fill out their demographic information for, like, PSAT tests and when Latino is not a race because that’s separate question and kids are like what do I put I just gotta say I don’t know man, vibe it out I guess.

Reporters are responsible for doing their own fact checking. This is true for most non magazine newsrooms. They killed the copy desk in 2017. The only part that gets external fact checking is NYT magazine. Also, interestingly books.

Something beautiful about Miami-Dade is “what are you/where are you from” is the usual first order of business. Alongside vast Latino diversity are Black, African, and/or West Indian heritages, too, ranging from Black Americans “from here” to Bahamians, Haitians, Dominicans, Jamaicans and Cubans.

"how is it that someone could fail to realize that 'African-American' here does not necessarily refer to an American person from Africa, and that 'African' also does not necessarily refer to a person from Africa?" no idea man, the world's a strange place

maybe more obvious to me as a child of immigrants socialized around other such people but categories here are not even used consistently by people who were socialized here - possibly because they don't actually make sense. it's quite possible that people from elsewhere just actually don't understand

I would guess that 17 year olds in Uganda and South Africa could probably tell you about as much about the nuances of US demographic categorizations as 17 year olds in the US could tell you about social categories in Uganda or South Africa and it's weird that people apparently think otherwise

just saying: if you didn't grow up crafting a default answer to "what are you/where are you from?" with some version of "what do you mean?" you may want to consult people who did about what's going on here

bring back shame

I generally correct people when they call me an economist but I also sign stuff like this when people insist I "count". So what do people think, have I done enough econ writing to accept the label economist even though I have no such credential? www.thenation.com/article/econ...

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

Let them buy into an enlisted rank and immediately get berated by an NCO with several TBIs then assigned to dig latrines until their shovels get tired

america is for old people

Anyone have any ideas where I should submit this paper? I tried Journal of Applied Econometrics, no dice. arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20604

About to join @jenpsaki.msnbc.com live on @msnbc.com

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

My band Minaxi just released a new video today titled My Eyes Will Find You (link below)! I really like how the bass came out on this one - especially in the melodic interlude, and the fuzzy outro, where I get to play kinda a lead melody. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3g...

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

here's the clip

the fact that the democrats are feeding republicans tacos that democrats paid for is such a clear picture of the dynamics in this stupid country

Tiresome that libs continually insist we leftists are irrelevant so they can ignore us *and also* blame us for their electoral losses. More generally: the fact that libs won internal power struggles means they own the consequences. America, the world, is as it is after you governed, not us. Own it.

Why tf are ICE dressed like this, is it a terror tactic? Is it that their primary basis of social support / recruitment is grown men with excessive CoD nostalgia?

Hey look, @thomasherndon.bsky.social has finally made it over from the other place! Everybody should follow him.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

he doesnt quite say this but i have always felt on some level that the phrase "anti-competitive behavior" is the phrase "cooperative behavior" with a flashlight under its chin