There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Rolling Stone: Trump cops now coming for DNA and being a citizen might not help you.

“.. based on the data we have to date; it looks like manufacturing is experiencing more of a slump than is generally recognized ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

Stephen Miller read Kafka's The Trial and felt inspired, instead of horrified.

Come on folks, I disagree with Matt on lots of stuff. I know, and I trust Matt knows, that whacking him with a croquet mallet is a joke, but we live in a world where people do crazy shit like this. Disagree with his arguments and call him a jerk, but leave the threats of violence for Twitter.

Jeffries should hire a crew to go there and take it down. He has just as much right to change the name as the Board (Trump) does.

If we trade the American health care and early childhood systems for Denmark's too, you have a deal. Otherwise, that would be dumb.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

We must join power to decency. Results continue pouring in from the opposite arrangement. Not working out.

The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.

ICE whistles work.

exactly this

Admirably clear headline Stop thinking abt taxing wealthy Americans. Focus on hating the Other. Scapegoat. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

#econ_ra #EconSky

Hey, hey, RFK. How many kids did you kill today?

“All workers have the right to take collective action to improve their working conditions without retaliation from their employers,” said Katie Miles, a senior trainer at the UC Berkeley Labor Center with over 15 years of union organizing experience. “ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is really heartening. We can, in fact, make collective decisions about how or whether we will allow new technologies to be incorporated into the things that we care about. It's not just a fact that we have to deal with.

Fiscal and Monetary Policy Boot Camp for Econ PhD students #EconSky

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

We need to read this. People need to understand. Antisemitism IS actually an urgent threat, but the crisis point isn't campus protests.

Join the Policymakers & Practitioners Community Group on 1/28 at 1 PM ET for an engaging forum on evidence-based literacy instruction. Register today: aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

This is how a functioning government works: 1) Disaster happens 2) Policies are changed to prevent the same disaster to happen again

We got the Q2 2025 QCEW today, *as expected* the Q1 value (which is the primary input to the NFP benchmark revision) was revised up (by about 100K). So the final benchmark revision to March 2025 NFP will be very negative, but less than previously reported.

2024 ACS just dropped at IPUMS-USA usa.ipums.org/usa/index.sh...

#EconSky blog.popdata.org/multigenerat...

lol word. Solidarity!

Open call for papers, Investments in Early Career Scientists: The Role of Policy in Careers and Productivity. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on April 23, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on January 27, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/investments-...

Americans' economic sentiment breaking records!

I love this

"The Trump administration came in with four plans to reorganize the labor market. None of them came to pass." Brutally accurate @mtkonczal.bsky.social #NumbersDay #EconSky newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

I hope you’ll read this story about Melissa Hortman’s life, her parents and children, her love for gardening, her faith, and her approach to public service. It’s not about how she died, there is infinitely more to know about her than that. She is so missed. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Baristas & allies are in front of Starbucks HQ, demanding CEO Brian Niccol come out and sign our pledge. It's time for Starbucks to present us with reasonable contract proposals, and it's time to resolve the 100s of outstanding unfair labor practices. Let's finish this already! #NoContractNoCoffee

I won’t go back because Elon illegally destroyed USAID, killing all those kids

That's our Commerce Secretary!

Great analysis from Simon Mongey showing evidence of broad weakening of demand for workers in 2025. Evidence that developments are hurting Americans with the least earning power the most, opposite recent years.

😦 Extremely noisy US CPI #inflation 📉Average Oct & Nov m/m change: 📈#CPI +0.1% 🟠Core +0.1% 🍲Food +0% ⛽️Energy +0.5% (Gas +0.4%) ✅Core gds 0% 🚗New 0.2% 🚘Used 0.5% 👕Apparel -0.4% ✅Core svc 0.1% 🏘️Shelter 0.1% 🏨Hotel -0.8% 🏥Med 0.1% 🛫Air -3.3% 📜Car insur -0.2%

#FundSocSci #EconSky www.nber.org/programs-pro...

U.S. consumer prices were up 2.7 percent from a year earlier in November. "Core" prices, excluding volatile food and fuel, were up 2.6 percent. Be very cautious with these numbers, though. Shutdown distortions may have biased them down. Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... #NumbersDay

Some empty spaces in the #CPI table. The shutdown effect. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Great chart from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social on the hellsite: goods generating all of the "excess" inflation while services converge to zero:

New claims for unemployment insurance at 224K in week ending 12/13, back to recent, modest level after some Thanksgiving zig zags. #NumbersDay

An AEA Ombuds Team member, Nnena Odim, will be on-site during the #ASSA2026 meeting in Conference Suite II of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Feel free to visit during office hours or contact Nnena at 617-898-0938 or [email protected] to set up an appointment. #econsky

Pam Bondi's DOJ is saying they have the right to fire an immigration judge based on her sex and ethnicity if that's what they want to do. This is her boldest statement of official racism yet. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Wide vaccination keeps dangerous viruses away from babies too young to get vaccinated. But when many people try to free ride off the protection others provide, babies die. "Oregon.. record 1,475 cases for the year... surpassing the previous high seen in 1950... one baby died, first since 2012."