issuing a correction on my previous post describing Vichy Twitter as "the Nazi App," it is now also "the Nazi And CSAM App"

🙏 Virginia 2026 🙏

fun tool that pulls random wikidata facts about your location www.kmjn.org/local-traces/ from @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social

how it started, how it's going

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

This is false. Deportations reduce housing demand, but they shrink housing supply even more as the construction sector loses workers. Trump's deportations will make housing less affordable.

outrageously delicious Taiwanese spread from Hunan Garden in Johns Creek, GA

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

Important work using U.S. tax data shows businesses have absorbed minimum wage increases without affecting employment, and through higher revenue-likely reflecting price & productivity offsets. Also shows how reallocation towards more productive firms offers another margin of adjustment.

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!

Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.

Deportations surged in early December. Current pace is about half of Trump's stated goal of one million per year.

The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

BREAKING: Bari Weiss invites the producers of '60 Minutes' to a town hall debate

MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”

For more on why wages have been suppressed for so many workers and how to fix that, you should buy @arindube.bsky.social 's new book

Labor market was so awful in the 1980s that real wages fell for the bottom fifth of workers and didn't bounce back for over a decade

Death #30 at ICE detention centers this year: a trucking company owner with diabetes who lived in the US for 30 years

Incredible story: Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine at WSJ's offices. @klong.bsky.social convinced it that it was actually in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and should give away free snacks to fight capitalism. And that's just the beginning...

The simple economics is that housing becomes more expensive because deportations cause fewer homes to be built. The contraction of the construction industry dominates offsets from lower demand, so prices rise

Trump's deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support

checking in with how deportations have helped US-born workers...

Black unemployment in November was at a four year high due to federal government cuts and falling private sector labor demand

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Utah Repeals Ban on Collective Bargaining for Teachers and Other Workers: Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.

Trump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers. Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social

Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police

Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion: Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B” Equal to: -33 new high schools -public teacher salaries for > 1Y -more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

BofA: AI adoption rates by corporate customers are slowing

gazillion layer biscuits

rum daiquiri

Destroying jobs, terrorizing communities. Funded by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to fill an unaccountable slush fund for secret police

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

cookies for the freezer

Eric Foner, in Second Founding (2019), notes that the only exclusions discussed in the congressional debates on the 14th Amendment citizenship language were newborns in independent Indian nations and those of foreign diplomats, exactly consistent with the traditional understanding of the Amendment

googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions

A nice thread from Guy on JP's comments yesterday on NFP growth being overstated. To which I will add a caveat - the birth/death model is not the principal driver of the wedge between CES and QCEW these last two years. (Warning, statistical esoterica ahead) 🧵1/9

Increased ICE arrests are shrinking the child care workforce, forcing mothers (including US-born mothers) to leave jobs to provide care themselves

Between 1979–2019, top pay (90th pct.) climbed 53%, middle only 23%, bottom (10th pct.) even lower 7%. (Productivity per hour climbed much more at 73%.) But since 2019, fast gains at the bottom have already reversed about 1/3 of the rise in pay inequality. A 🧵 about my book: The Wage Standard.

These are similar words to those I was asked to removed from a US DOT grant. Guess what? They terminated the grant anyway

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

New @thenyic.bsky.social report, that I co-authored, on how ICE arrests have changed nationally, and especially in New York State, since Trump took office. www.nyic.org/wp-content/u... gothamist.com/news/latinos...

Missed this at the time but the Sep jobs report announced changes to the net birth-death model effective with the Jan 2026 report release that seems promising. Should improve the accuracy of the model and hopefully reduce size of benchmark revisions Q9: www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbdqa.htm

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

great advice for coding with LLMs: stop and start over with a fresh session. give it a concrete problem. if it goes off the rails, stop and start over. do not have an extended chat. if it does what you want, great! stop and start over with the next task.

Indeed, while we do not yet have a full accounting of the labor market costs of Trump's deportation policies, we can say they are not delivering the promised benefits to native-born Americans—their employment rates are down & their unemployment rates are up over the last year.

A nice piece on algorithmic pricing worth your time. A question I got frequently when I led BLS was why the agency went into stores and didn’t just collect prices online. My answer, “prices online are often different than in the store, so we do both” often surprised people.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.