I never had the chance to meet Dr. Pacheco-Vega in person but he was always so kind and thoughtful. His blogs on productivity and scholarship were required reading for me at a time when I was trying to figure out my next steps. Condolences to his family and friends and may his memory be a blessing.

I had such a fun time chatting with @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social ! If you have mentees going on the academic job market (or are going on the job market yourself) I tell it all (including my strategy for Q and A that will help finalists stand out from the crowd).

The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.

My spare time is definitely..nearly nonexistent. Nevertheless, I feel the itch to do some mythbusting around reproductive health (equity). Any suggestions for mediums outside of Substack (can't get past their platforming of n*****).

people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think

Most (but not all) Black economists come to economics with a worldview that is outside of the mainstream of the profession. This typically includes insights from sociology since inequality, identity, and networks are areas with a longer history there. For an introduction to this, see the 🧵 below 👇

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky. “It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.

Mother Teresa was a terrible human who was fine with Indian folks suffering in poverty while she got the finest of healthcare and took charitable donations from the Duvaliers.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

The Green Book Project website archives the Green Book locations, documenting the history of Black travel during Jim Crow. Do you have memories of Green Book locations? We’d love to hear your story! greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Four years of smug white Canadians telling me about how much better they were than the US while I heard anti-Black racial slurs on the street that even Americans don’t use anymore It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return

lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

Where are the thoughts and prayers for our HBCU students who are *currently* being terrorized by threats?

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...

to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.

I'm old enough to remember when VP called school closures the biggest structural racism of the year. The way people use Black folks (including our babies) to ramp up their profiles and careers is always a tell. (Also: Black people told y'all.)

I think not trying every single confederate for treason was a huge mistake. Grant’s decision to parole all of the insurgents at Appomattox—setting the stage of minimizing insurgency, insurrection, and treason—has done us no favors.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

M*n hitting a physicist and cosmologist with YouTube cites will never *not* send me to the upper room. Please be serious.

There's an abuse of power directed at institutions. But there's also individual abuse. She was subject to abuse during her confirmation process, and now is facing it again. I'm seeing a lot of folks defending the fed, but not many defending Cook. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

This is obscene. Fellow economists: y'all have so much to say about everything else. Don't be silent now.

And the white world lost its mind, never for it to be found again. Still, worth it. Liberté ou la Mort!!

People are flooding the state capital in Austin to support the Congresswoman. Thankful for social media and it’s mobilizing capacity www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6QTGFvw/

I'm utterly fed up at this point. Anyone who talks about increases in pregnancy-related mortality post-2019 and doesn't talk about COVID is committing research and policy malpractice. It's frustrating to work in this space and see people focused on their pet interventions vs. saving lives.

Welp.

This. Just stop.

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god it's funny how so many right-wing dorks hold up Sparta as the ultimate martial society. oh you mean the guys who are most famous for a battle they lost?

Its finally here! Feels SO good to finally see it in print. Many thanks to the editors who handled this book with such care, and the other contributors who challenged me to think about my own ethical commitments throughout this process. It was a dream to work with yall! 1/5

Running back this class due to tech issues. 😭 If you're a director of graduate studies or a department chair: let me guess how you're feeling right about now. 1️⃣ You’re trying to support your job market candidates despite the uncertainty and chaos that academia is experiencing in this moment. 1/

Talking about abortion without apology

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My mission is to empower researchers to talk about hard things without apology. I can't do that if I don't practice what I preach. Abortion is one example. @depechealamode.bsky.social and I wrote this because we refuse to let Melissa and Mark Hortman's murders 1/ msmagazine.com/2025/07/09/m...

New piece in @msmagazine.com with @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social. The MN shooting is tragic evidence that anti-abortion violence is an escalating and expanding threat nationwide. Thanks to @scholars.org for helping our research reach those who can take action. msmagazine.com/2025/07/09/m...

After the shooting that killed former MN House Speaker Melissa Hortman and injured State Sen. John Hoffman, @depechealamode.bsky.social & @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social argue this act should be viewed as an attack on abortion providers and pro-choice lawmakers. Read their @msmagazine.com op-ed.👇

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Moo Deng is 'that girl'. 💅🏿

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.