it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

One of my favorite, underutilized network datasets.

When I need a relaxing and distracting read before bed I reach for The Onion

New data drop from IRS useful for studying labor markets & migration www.irs.gov/statistics/s...

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I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Ah I didn’t know you don’t need taxes to fund war Learn something every day from the economists in this administration

Did you know that Arnold Ventures has a standing RFP for causal research proposals related to crime and the criminal justice system? Send us your ideas! We aim to get you an answer fast (within 3 months).

Dear maga: no bitching now when people celebrate your God Emperor’s demise. Thems the rules.

This is an awful thing to suggest to your workers www.wsj.com/business/air...

Just another Friday Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Interesting article about research into the effect of the minimum wage on employment By www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Kinda guessed this was the case having heard nothing since Jan 2025 but closure is nice?

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

96 years old and still standing up for others Dolores Huerta is an amazing woman She has sacrificed so much more than we knew medium.com/@dolores_hue...

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Venezuela deserves a win Rooting for them in this game

Big sale! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An Irish classic youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU?...

why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted them for a year?

My starter took some serious coaxing to wake up so particularly happy to see these turn out well

What a lovely St Patrick’s Day gift (I am 1/2 ☘️) www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Boston as the snow melts www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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Either a dis on Dunkins or a very poor attempt at poetry From Reddit www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/b...

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

If any science journalists are looking for a relevant story and want to chat, the loss of early career scientists from biology and other STEM fields right now is really concerning. I have talked to so many young biologists trying to get into PhDs programs, get postdocs (me), or get a faculty postion

Only my children are allowed to send me voice memos Anyone else it’s going straight in the garbage

This is very fun

Shoulder season in Cambridge No coat and snow

Illustrative article about the intersection of science, policy, causality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

To give you a sense of how big a deal it is to me: Summers was my PhD advisor’s PhD advisor

This is a major development. The American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are the most powerful groups of economists in the world.

And I was a math-loving high school student hearing my usually feminist dad speculate that maybe Summers had a point because he was the president of Harvard... Still got an econ phd, though. Better late than never, NBER.

I was a junior science professor at a Southern institution with a lot of dinosaurs and a few puffed-up junior (male) colleagues who ate up the Summers viewpoint. Damage was widespread.

25 years ago, I was a very anxious junior female economics professor at Harvard while our President Larry Summers was telling the world how women weren’t very smart Wish the arc bent a bit more sharply

According to MS Now, the new Epstein dump revealed the names of 21 victims. I'm happy to report that they also failed to redact phone numbers for Larry Summers, Kathy Ruemmler, and a bunch of other bad actors.

Happy international women’s day!

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations. First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today

Larry Summers is no longer part of the NBER www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Got a new paper coming out soon with a lot of co-authors but this one has us beat