According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

#KavanughStop bsky.app/profile/anja...

How about that.

The Israeli government has told so many lies since Oct. 7. In this video — and in under three minutes — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the top 10 Israeli lies about the genocide in Gaza. Subscribe to Zeteo to support our journalism. Tap the link in bio.

Great news! IZA (the German labor economics institute that had lost its main source of financial support) has found a new home and will continue as a convener and disseminator of knowledge. Hurrah!

Erika McEntarfer, fired as BLS head by Trump …got her PhD in 2002 …has 47 publications …which have 1327 citations

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

It's official: we live in the stupidest timeline "Nature has (...) found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, (...) usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer."

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Growth can go hand in hand with degrowth in material use as economies shift toward quality and services, rising living standards and clean growth are possible, from Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33634

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

This is both ridiculous and very funny

A new milestone for this "don't believe your lying eyes" era

This is a great article in the latest issue of the JEP for anyone teaching panel methods (any level). Love this history of economic terms and ideas feature. #Econsky pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

“Generators at Gaza’s main desalination plant are producing potable water at only 10 percent of its usual capacity, she said, after Israel also cut off electricity.. The estimation is that 90 percent of the fuel that is in storage in Gaza today is inaccessible due to evacuation orders”

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We need more data janitors in the world. 🧹 People whose focus is organizing, documenting, and wrangling data for other people. I would welcome the company. It’s not a glamorous job but it’s really important and it’s very needed.

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

No food, fuel, aid or commercial goods have entered Gaza since March 2. Residents say they are surviving on one meal a day or less. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The Trump Playbook:   Take credit for the strong economy he inherited.
Crash that economy with needless tariffs.
Blame others for the mess he made.
Repeat.

¿Por qué (NO) penalizar las respuestas incorrectas en los exámenes tipo test? nadaesgratis.es/pedro-rey-bi... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Once again, I don't know what anyone has seen since January to make them so confident that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, and competitive: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is an incredibly dangerous step: The President is going to personally direct the Attorney General to investigate (presumably criminally) the principal fundraising website for Democratic Party-affiliated candidates and organizations. Fundamentally antidemocratic. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves." From Haaretz. archive.ph/4vam4

What strikes me as the strange idea is the notion that all fights for justice are preemptively responsible for any backlash they may engender, and should (naturally) pre-surrender. History would look very different under this view. Choose justice. The only way out is through. We fight on.

Yes, this. The pundits & commentators who got it so wildly wrong cannot be the folks who get to dominate the National Conversation™️ now going forward. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this: The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.

Plato on Love by @armanddangour.bsky.social @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/meet-...

Look to those with the courage to tell the truth in clear, simple terms, even if the truth is horrifying. @edwardluce.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social are standouts lately

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

weird, what could explain this

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData