Shorter Jason Furman: it used to be that the tech industry was dominated by only five companies. But AI has changed all that: now there's open competition from five whole companies!

This is AI-as-management

Part of the problem here is a long-standing issue of mine: The public gets a huge benefit from beat journalism—but the journalism industry does not, by and large, recognize beat journalism for its value or when it comes to awards and prizes. Those go to investigations and "one big thing" features.

I’m not going to get into this again but the defund the police critique remains complete bullshit yes we can was nonspecific lock her up doesn’t lay out why or for what make america great again couldn’t be less specific this critique is pure reactionary nonsense filtered through pundits

Ryszard Kapuscinski's recollections of being a 7 y/o in Poland 1939 as the Red Army was taking over and deporting people to prison camps (from his book "Imperium"). Scary flash backs to today: "In school, during breaks, or when we are returning home in a group, the talk is of deportations."

I don't really like the arguments that Zohran should be careful about opposing the NYPD because of what the NYPD did to BDB's daughter. This is all stuff that any mayoral candidate had to be aware of before taking the job. Anyone to the left of Bloomberg was going to have to take this fight

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Researcher finds that middle managers, fearful of losing their jobs to automation, pretend to use AI in order to keep their jobs. HA HA HA www.techpolicy.press/in-weak-job-...

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

For Business Insider, I took a look an emergent literary form: the AI company resignation letter. www.businessinsider.com/resignation-...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

I read Gavin Newsom‘s memoir so that you don’t have to. Suffice it to say the book does not achieve what it sets out to do and I’m looking forward to everyone on bluesky being extremely normal on this subject.

A lot of people were probably hoping for the Trump administration v 1.0 in which they spent three years just trying to fill basic appointment and only passed a tax cut. I think people prefer a president who does nothing.

I would love to see the pro-natalist Silicon Valley types respond to the fact that a family with two kids needs to make over $400k to comfortably afford childcare (under 7% of income). www.lendingtree.com/debt-consoli...

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

"amazon prime for human beings"

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

"The Trump administration has used crime as a pretext to conduct its immigration operations, even in cities where crime is lower than it’s been in decades. In Memphis, it was at a 25-year low before the task force began." fantastic report @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Today, New York City’s rental market is defined by two colliding forces: tenants’ need for affordable rents, and landlords’ need to repay their creditors. Only public ownership offers an escape from the mounting pressure." Fantastic! @jwmason.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

Police funding is out of control in America, and that's the problem with ICE and the insane number of cops in American cities. We need to stop trying to reform police and just slash their budgets so there are not like 3,000 cops in Minneapolis for no reason. "Defund the police" is common sense

287g agreements with highway patrols are, I think, particularly egregious because of their ability to make a lot of traffic stops for no real reason (does highway patrol do anything other than traffic stops?) www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Great piece: @brendanballou.bsky.social describes revolting rampant impunity for pardoned Trump donors who've stolen from workers & investors. But as he notes, Trump can only pardon federal crimes. State & local prosecutors are critical for accountability & justice. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

I'm not going to die on a hill defending the Fed but as a journalist covering economics for many years, I have never ever heard a government official say this about Fed research before.

When you have a Burger King franchisee violating child labor laws 1,600 times in regards to 600 kids, there's definitely a larger systemic problem. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

“Oregon’s results confirm what we saw in New York: When you cover the real cost of shared housing directly for two years — and pair it with support — young people stay housed” www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Generally, I agree that liberals don't know how to talk about parenting in a positive sense and often they rely on econometric or overly rational reasons, but what is the reason to have kids?? Piece doesn't say www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

"The Trump administration has used crime as a pretext to conduct its immigration operations, even in cities where crime is lower than it’s been in decades. In Memphis, it was at a 25-year low before the task force began." fantastic report @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"David Frum was right: if Democrats acted more like Republicans, they would win 100% of elections!"

feels a lot like the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner behind George Bush in 2003

The fact this guy has to assert ICE is legitimate at all shows how incredibly unpopular and foolish ICE and CBP enforcement is. What a fuckin disaster

now that's the power of a union

Best part of this, by the great @dankaufman70.bsky.social, transcends its specific, and also crucial, subject matter: how timorous institutionalist in the anti-Trump coalition get challenged by young people (here, a caucus called "FUN"!) itching for a fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...

what a stat

From reporting on ICE, I found too much attention is being paid to the bonus' that agent receive for signing up and agents incompetence. The problems with ICE is the problem with policing in general: arrest first, question later; racial targeting; horrible incentives; violence; impunity.

The presence of federal police in Minnesota should make it clear to everyone that policing, especially as practiced in America, has no place in a democratic society. No one should ever be able to act with impunity and behind a veil of secrecy.

After Trump elevated a video with unfounded claims of fraud in Somali-American run childcares and used it as context for the ICE occupation of Minnesota, childcare providers around the country have been subject to vigilante harassment and surveillance www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Reporting from the Twin Cities, Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein (@robinks.com) “kept hearing about the lengths to which ICE is going to ensnare people who criticize the agency or obstruct its terror campaign.”

I went back home to Minneapolis and St. Paul and reported on the quickly expanding devastation of Operation Metro Surge. I hope you'll give it a read.

“The size of Operation Metro Surge is delirious, outlandish,” writes @robinks.com. “Neighbors juggling jobs, kids, and their own fears are up against three thousand federal agents.”

"It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Thanks to the @economichardship.bsky.social for support

This is phenomenal from my friend @robinks.com.

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein (@robinks.com) on the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities https://go.nybooks.com/3M3LKY0

Good and angrifying essay from @robinks.com.

I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Thanks to the @economichardship.bsky.social for support