A tribute to Charlie Kirk has gone up in the Capitol

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

Jake Lahut, a Wired reporter who from the Nancy Mace airport story last week, was among those fired. During the incident, CN's HR chief asked staff not to congregate outside his office. Lahut asked "what's your definition of congregating?" and was let go later on Wednesday.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).

I know that in the grand scheme of things there are far more important issues and pain this administration has caused, but as a scholar this is the kind of stuff that makes my blood boil. Someone trying to understand what happened a long time from now will still be furious about it too.

As someone who knows a child sex abuse whistleblower whose career was derailed by telling the truth, this is bravery. She could not be sure her truth telling would end this way

It’s ok. Nothing bad ever happens to the economy in October.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025. On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data. This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data. Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport www.bls.gov/schedule/202...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

NEW REPORT: Modelling and reforming school choice By Ellen Greaves, @estellecantillon.bsky.social, @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social and me. Blog economics.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/11/06/a... Policy briefing www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar... #EconSky #EduSky 1/9

lol

Look who's talking about AFFORDABILITY all of a sudden! The election got him shooketh

Rep. Mike Quigley is having a press conference about this, and it is PACKED.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

SCOTUS is hearing case against Trump's tariffs. Listen along! I'll offer some thoughts as we go along. bsky.app/profile/todd... www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

This is substantively important for Americans to know about, because it includes a sworn deposition from the CBP point person about how the Trump administration directed him to use his powers, including against protestors. The Trump administration says the court should not release his testimony.

Amazing how upfront and unfiltered he is about his ongoing authoritarian project. The goal is to make sure the opposition can never win, and he flat-out says it.

Exactly

There are a bunch of people responding to this sentiment with things like “How can other people not know what we were getting with Trump if I knew what we were getting with Trump?”

Postdoc at UMN Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation #FundSocSci #econ_ra #EconSky hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

When Kim Foxx won her second term in Chicago amidst a flurry of opposition, not a single national paper ran a story on it, at all. Had she lost, there’d have been coverage for sure. But the press seems incapable in general of reporting on crim legal reform wins that make reform seem established.

JOLTS job openings data did not come out yesterday due to the govt shutdown. However, data from Indeed shows labor demand continues to cool and job openings are trending lower #EconSky

This is from @mcopelov.bsky.social is important. The “very serious people” have dressed up their own political preferences as wisdom and savvy for too long. They aren’t helpful. Not at all.

"... the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." @gelliottmorris.com

Overshadowed by many other important races today: voters in Des Moines, Iowa approved a $265 million school bond issue. (A month ago many thought bond had no chance of getting 60% because of the scandal surrounding the former DSM superintendent who's now facing federal charges.)

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

Utah Senate Democrats are calling on the Legislature’s GOP supermajority to use rainy-day funds to make up for the unfunded portion of Utahns' SNAP benefits.

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

A big thank you to our poll workers and election judges for your commitment to democracy. Minnesota’s elections are safe, free, and fair because of you.

This is an at-large county council typically reserved for a Republican candidate. Rose launched a third party Labor candidacy to compete in it. Smart play for progressives on Allegheny County Council. The county is the largest employer in Western PA

UPSET ALERT: Labor Party candidate leading in Pittsburgh-based Allegheny County Council election

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Join the thousands of for-profit small businesses that take the annual Small Business Credit Survey and help the #FederalReserve obtain vital info on the current business climate: https://bit.ly/3IBovTz

Change in Billions $ per year spent on SNAP Biden Administration: + $3 Billion Trump1 Administration: +$29 Billion

By today, nearly 11 million SNAP participants should have received *full* benefits for November. They haven't. By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million. (estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS) 🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky

This doesn't seem to have quite broken through into the shutdown discourse yet (unlike say SNAP). But as temperatures drop it's going to become a serious issue apnews.com/article/gove...

GOP lawmakers don’t mind that the full list of White House ballroom donors and amounts given is under wraps. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

The real economy/labor market is absolutely not picking up in Q4, if anyone has dreams of reacceleration you're waiting/hoping for 2026.

Trump’s focus on fossil fuel is setting America up to lose the industries of the future—even jeopardizing our national security. CAP's Leo Banks & Kalina Gibson explain: https://dcjournal.com/trump-hands-china-clean-manufacturing-dominance-on-a-silver-platter/

Yes to all of these! And don‘t crowd tables with meaningless extra digits just because they are software defaults!

This Outlook feature is messing up my scheduling abilities this week

This is your periodic reminder that Russia continues to terrorize Ukraine. A few days ago, Russia destroyed this passenger train station in Sumy. I used to take these trains to visit my grandma in the summer and remember this station well. www.youtube.com/shorts/63ial...