🧵 What caused the 1837–38 rebellions in Canada? Was it nationalism? Poverty? Institutions? We (@vincentgeloso.bsky.social and I) argue: it was the newspapers. And the result flips how we think about rebellions [cross-post from his Twitter/X]

We must break the supreme court

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685

This is a really fascinating article. Mississippi's "basic" reading comprehension for Black 4th-graders is 52%. In California, it's 28%. In fact, Mississippi has gone from having one of the nation's worst school systems to one of the best. Despite being one of the poorest states. t.co/g4zk759SKE

Can I finish this draft soon or will I just rerun R for the thousandth time?

i think fundamentally the story of 2024 and the reaction to this admin is a bunch of people's whose entire lives are predicated on stability necessary for liberal democratic capitalism to function standing in a circle holding hands chanting "worse things aren't possible"

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Don't let MAGA gaslight you into thinking any of this is popular.

#BLM OTD 1863, Harriet Tubman planned & guided an armed raid (becoming the 1st woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots & plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. The raid freed nearly 800 people. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

And this is why Pride month *must* exist. I wish peace and justice for his family.

"Maybe it's time for us to be a little bit meaner. Maybe it's time for us to be a little more fierce."

Sounds worrisome

And can we eat those dollars?

This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

I'd be disturbed if a court barred a politician from standing for 'offensive speech', or 'bullying', or other such subjective matters. Barring them for embezzlement though feels pretty legit.

What should have been…

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101 gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...

these are segregationists.

A medicine so effective that we give it out for no cost… the death of PEPFAR shows how utterly different this GOP is to the party of 20 years ago

a good bit of evidence that trump represents bona fide confederate government is that he keeps tripping every wire placed by the 14th amendment talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Last time Trump levied similar steel tariffs, it led to an increase of~ 1,000 jobs in steel production -- but 75,000 *fewer* manufacturing jobs in downstream firms where steel or aluminum are an input into production. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

vance is lying and knows he’s lying but even if he weren’t, “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” may be true in some other political system but it has never been true in the american political system

The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

In case you're wondering whether Trump just adopts the position of whoever he last spoke to

How do you cite a VoxEU CEPR post? Like a blog? Or a website? I don’t mean working papers that have PDFs but columns like this: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

We would end fascism and solve all global conflicts if people would just read this book

Decided to switch to Zotero and oh my god why haven’t I been doing this the whole time

Werner Herzog: Something as organic as a cheesecake is too feeble for the American mind, to even enjoy it as a concept they must remove its reality, let you know it was conceived in industrial horrors Waitress:...Okay WH: The cheeseburger spring rolls sound like a delightful abomination. Thank you

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth,” by Marta Prato: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

lol apropos nothing... TLDR: Doubling the number of H-1B visas in the US would boost both US and EU productivity by 4% over time. Having innovative people in your country is good for innovation. Who knew?

Ah yes the inspirational story of Whiplash

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

I like most articles but especially this one www.liberalcurrents.com/neutralizing...

You didn’t define “in” clearly enough! The AI was obviously looking for R programming users

1/ Does finance benefit society? 📈📉 In a forthcoming Review of Financial Studies paper, @mjha91.bsky.social , Hongyi Liu, and yours truly tackle this question by leveraging large language models to measure sentiments in books spanning centuries and continents. 🧵

This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Excited to be presenting at SEA this weekend!

I have some reservations about the methodology But it’s nevertheless indisputable that at the very least, Bluesky has closed some of its gap with Threads Meta had a full year to build a platform people wanted to use Instead, it built whatever Threads has become #SocialWeb

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇