"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

BREAKING: Trump asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed's board.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Lot of people yelling at me for saying celebrating assassination is no way to struggle against fascism. I’m not asking you to mourn Kirk, a fascist. I’m asking you to respect yourself. There is no righteous form of murder. Takes more courage to fight for democracy than to embrace fascism’s methods.

“More than half of the people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested through July in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have no criminal conviction nor pending criminal charges, according to ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the News4 I-Team.”

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Dems flip Iowa’s first state senate district, break GOP supermajority in Des Moines www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-lo...

📌BREAKING: Democrats flip seat in Iowa special election, and smash Republicans' supermajority in the state. Congratulations, Catelin Drey!

We are looking for a passionate researcher with economics or related quantitative training, strong analytical skills, and a deep connection to rural America to conduct high-impact research that helps build thriving rural economies. apply.workable.com/center-on-ru...

can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers

Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

Dataviz should be a mandatory short course for PhD students. So many bad figures floating around these days.

“.. Small businesses especially are grappling with the ability to stay in business.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨 His first term attempt at this was defeated by broad pushback.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ope

Me three months ago:

“The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) strongly condemns the removal of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and the unfounded accusations leveled against the work of the agency… A totally apolitical group. files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/...

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

very good article from @claudia-sahm.bsky.social on immigration restriction and deportations. Short term effect is reduced GDP and employment and wages of US persons. Long term effects are even more treacherous. Private sector data show the struggle already, I add. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

As US population growth slows, we need to reset expectations for economic data. Payrolls, GDP, expenditures, and income will all grow more slowly now that the immigration surge has ended. That changes how we interpret ... everything. My first piece for @piie.com www.piie.com/publications...

Firing the BLS Commissioner because you don't like the data is a dark day.

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm. No longer. Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

The unemployment rate in June 2022: 3.6% June 2023: 3.6% June 2024: 4.1% June 2025: 4.1% In fact, excluding 2020, US job growth over the first six months of this year is the worst in 15 years: tinyurl.com/yhku26ku Sure, senator, tell us another one.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance. Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger. Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.

I really can't get over how shocked the world is that Trump knew and partied with Jeffrey Epstein. This has been common, public knowledge with written, photographic, and audio evidence for years and years.

Unions are a big part of why Minnesota just ranked in the top 5 states for quality of life. That's why I’ll always stand up for their collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions, apprenticeship programs, fair wages, and affordable health care.

Obama: “I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build.... I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...

White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell

“To be honest, I wanted to come up with some kind of crazy AI video to respond to his, but I’m no good with all of that tech stuff,” Obama said.

Do you think the Trump team has a running list of things they came up with titled “Horrible Things to Say or Do When the News Is Bad” that they just dip into any time headlines get too close to stuff like, say… Trump being listed in the Epstein files? Or do they use AI to generate ideas?

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps. "AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse. Jfc.

They’re chasing quotas, not criminals! The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas.

Text analysis of Congressional hearings shows that legislators interrupted Yellen (as Fed Chair) more and interacted with her using more aggressive language than they did with male Fed Chairs. But having a daughter reduces “hostility toward Yellen.” So depressing, completely unsurprising.

Q: In the last jobs report, the manufacturing jobs actually went down by 7,000. When will the investments you've been talking about have an effect? TRUMP: Well, they're building the plants now

HORRIBLE JOBS REPORT: The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 jobs increase, ADP says. Can anyone spell RECESSION? 😡

FORBES: “The latest jobs report warns policymakers that immigration and labor force declines threaten to harm the U.S. economy. The latest data show changes in immigration policy are reducing the labor supply.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure) C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

If we can increase dramatically the tax on university endowments why not tax mega churches?

Eviscerating the separation of Church and State

No matter how long this continues, it does not stop being illegal and insane. The US military does not exist for the purpose of deployment on US soil, against US citizens, to cow them into compliance with the federal government. Unspeakable perversion of its mission.

I saved this local Kansas City post from May when weather forecasters began to be concerned about the cuts to the National Weather Service. It’s not like the experts haven’t called the alarm.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

"We need more trades" Yes we need more people who can work certain trade jobs but this is also a common phrase from peeps with college degrees to ensure that they and their kids maintain their social and financial advantages by keeping a higher % of working class kids out of college.

Love to see good people stepping up. Leading the way.