1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Endogeneity everywhere

New paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵 What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption? Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

“No a la guerra”, Perro 🇪🇸 Sánchez Castejón. Fin de la cita.

Bullies are gonna bully english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-...

Perder contentos

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Przeworski assesses some strategies that could help the GOP keep Congress without a majority (spoiler: looks bad for them) adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/midterms?p...

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

Getting older is realizing email was probably a bad idea

The Dove™️

Trump is slashing funds across all of science. But the flattest of flat curves is Econ & Social Sciences. ~5 grants in 5 months (vs ~50 in previous years). If this trend continues -- and, really, any indication it won't? -- this is an apocalypse for US economics. America is sabotaging itself.

And here’s a live example of what I’m talking about 👇 See the amount of missiles attempting to stop the Iranian rocket, but it still manage to dodge them and hit the ground The Israelis recording the video are shocked

But Trump insisted he already destroyed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program! A sudden U.S.–Israeli decapitation campaign against Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei shatters nuclear diplomacy, destabilizes energy markets, and teaches every medium power the same... 1/

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

It’s far too easy to call this Orwellian but that is precisely what it is.

The world is a sad mess, so thank god at least there's Pedri

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

Dr. Catharine Young: We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.

In which a judge in Tarrant County (TX, Trump +5) cannot find a single potential juror without strong, negative feelings against ICE. In @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s words, “I don’t regret to tell you that we are going to win.” www.thisamericanlife.org/i-want-what-...

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Mejor lectura del mes

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

New ep just dropped about the brilliant Elinor Ostrom. First female Nobel laureate in Economics. Breaker of binaries. No panaceas. No blueprints. Just democracy in workshop mode. Polycentric summer? I think, yes! open.spotify.com/episode/7cxC...

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Breaking News: Four people died and six were wounded after Cuban troops exchanged gunfire with a Florida speedboat that had entered the country’s waters, the Cuban government said.

"Six children under the age of 5 are sick with the measles in Columbus, according to Columbus Public Health. Of the six children, five were unvaccinated. The sixth child had received one dose of the MMR." www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Breaking News: Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard as the university reviews his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

TIL Benfica shares motto with the US

Hay Palestra, hay esperanza

Claude's ability to make old weird printed tables into structured tabular data will save thousands of collective hours of some of the most frustrating and boring tasks in research.

ÚLTIMA HORA | Yolanda Díaz renuncia a ser la candidata de la izquierda confederal: “Estoy muy orgullosa de lo hecho, pero queda mucho por hacer” eldiario.es/politica/yol...

Beautiful statement (about a sad social fact) for your causality class

Alerte "Ça doit être bien !"

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

10 percent. No: make it 15 percent. You know what? It’s 10 percent again. Find someone as forgiving as markets are with this douchebag.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Puerto Vallarta es una especie de Marbella a orillas del Pacífico. Recibe a más de 6,2 millones de turistas al año. Y ahora mismo parece una ciudad en guerra.

Parece que el último libro de Ricardo García Cárcel y Juan Pablo Fusi publicador en Taurus lo ha escrito la IA.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Causal inference is my passion.

The most corrupt Eastern European oligarchs must be nodding with respect at the stuff Trump administration officials are coming up with. This is genius

“Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...