The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

As someone who really wishes that Stephen Miller had less power, I'm really hoping that Time chooses him as its Person of the Year

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

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All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Having a new insight that is ex post obvious is the best feeling.

Curious to hear opinions on this: Some papers I am editor for obfuscate the similarity of prior work or defects in the analysis/data. More than downplaying -- shrouding info. If, once fixed, the paper is above the bar, should one proceed? Or reject to disincentivize obfuscation?

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

Check out this summary of research by Princeton faculty Pascaline Dupas and @seema.bsky.social and coauthors on encouraging verbal engagement with infants in Ghana. Showing new moms a 3-minute video was a cost-effective approach to boost engagement.

Interventions aimed at persuading the global poor to care about climate change and reduce their carbon footprint are unethical.

Best sign so far. #NoKingsDay

Watergate every day

Trump gutted USAID, stopping critical lifesaving assistance around the world, in order to save money, and is now putting more than that much money into interfering in Argentina's domestic politics by bailing out the ruling party.

I so appreciate the colleges that report the median grade for the course on transcripts. I wish that practice was universal.

Daughter preference in Malawi! (I mean, at least if you're matrilineal.) seemajayachandran.com/life_satisfa...

Could not be more on-brand for a democratic backsliding story ending in competitive authoritarianism: courts controlled by the ruling party tilt elections against the opposition. The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

Congratulations, you're department chair.

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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This is niche content for those who know that everything at the World Bank now has the word "jobs" sprinkled on top of it.

Got an announcement about an IPA/Northwestern workshop on, “Better Data for Better Jobs and Lives: Innovations in Survey Measurement in the Age of AI" and thought "confusing, why is jobs in the title. Ah, must be funded by the World Bank." Sure enough...

An algorithm. Benevolent algorithms are underrated. My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m... "Levitt was a University of Chicago professor, he has (by academic standards) nearly infinite resources, he could study whatever he wants, and he’s going for . . . clicks?"

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Are OPT visas the next target? Ugh.

"Every serious foreign policy discussion today misses the fundamental reality—Trump's strategic corruption has become America's primary vulnerability. China doesn't need to steal our technology when they can simply buy Trump."

I really hope someone has been building a fundraising platform that will be ready to sub in for ActBlue when needed.

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

The US taxpayers paid $167,000 to destroy contraceptives rather than sell them to a funder or NGO www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

#econra #econsky

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Me to my bank: Can I pls just get a plastic credit card? Bank: No. But just add it to your mobile wallet and don't carry it around! Me: Why did you switch to metal cards? Bank: They handle wear and tear better. Me: While kept in a drawer?

A metal credit card doesn't make me feel special. It annoys me because it makes my wallet heavier.

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?

We have a lot of bases in this exact layout too.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

A while back someone was asking me if my university was telling me to keep quiet amidst the threats to higher education. Far from it!

whaaaat!? that's so cool! literally just: weird_trick = D * X iv_robust(weird_trick ~ D | Z) to get the mean of X among compliers!

Are there systematic diagnostics to decompose how much of the variance of a coeff is due to (unmodeled) heterogeneous effects vs sampling error? Intuitively, seems like there are ways to get at it, e.g., compare variance of outcomes in treat vs control group to gauge heterogeneous effects.

somewhere in iowa, an erstwhile senate challenger is sadly folding up their "IMPORTANCE OF BEATING ERNST" campaign shirts

They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.

A 4-year limit on student visa length would upend PhD programs.

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DALL-E has figured out gender dynamics

If one day we remember this time as a brush with American Fascism instead of a full-blown descent into it, it will be thanks to people like Lisa Cook. One could take the “pragmatic” self-preserving approach that we have seen from so many who have bent the knee. Saying “absolutely not” is heroic.