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.

San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness' 'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...' By Effie Seiberg www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

This was excellent. Lots of insights from political science, political theory, and history. And incorporates events at home and abroad.

Serious credit to Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and a bunch of people in and around Chicago who stood up to illegal, unjust, un-American, rights-violating anti-immigrant (or sometimes just anti-brown-people) federal operations. If they weakly acquiesce like some others did, courts don’t take it up.

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Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Sean Casten: -Won his first primary by 2000 votes -Won the general by 53-46 -Demolished progressive Marie Newman in a primary after redistricting He should be Yglesias' core supporter, instead he just called Matt a toddler when it comes to politics.

“All workers have the right to take collective action to improve their working conditions without retaliation from their employers,” said Katie Miles, a senior trainer at the UC Berkeley Labor Center with over 15 years of union organizing experience. “ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📢 HUGE TEXAS WORKER WIN: Workers at San Antonio’s Grand Hyatt & Hyatt Regency hotels just ratified new contracts with a $20 minimum wage! “I’ll be able to actually save and not have to worry so much every month about all my expenses,” said @unitehere.org Local 23 member Mary Saucedo.

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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach

“UC Berkeley administrators have violated Kao’s academic freedom and the First Amendment in their shameful punishment of him for his free speech … and they deserve condemnation also for the much larger chilling effect this repression will cause across the UC.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

HOW 🤯

Kent Wong's "audacious premise: the finest public university system should tackle the thorny social challenges of econ inequality & worker justice w/the same urgency & talent as other marquee goals, like treatments for cancer & climate change solutions." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Turn it up. This might get AI out the paint.

Not shocking to learn, but incredible range of prices discovered. Great research by all.

They’re calling it “a politician’s ideal headline.” www.westword.com/news/colorad...

By murdering **alleged** Venezuelan drug smugglers, Trump is really just eliminating the competition.

How does human capital theory survive the existence of this paper?

A recent study in case you or others want to learn more. “Adults in the highest quartile of cumulative social disadvantage exhibited an increased odds of experiencing long COVID compared to those in the lowest quartile”—more than 250% higher, in fact. Long Covid is a class issue.

I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.

You have to read between the lines here to imagine what President Trump is proposing. But, it sounds like it may be a plan for health accounts that could be used for insurance that doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions, which could create a death spiral in ACA plans that do.

People, respect the picket line. Even if there aren’t Starbucks barista unions in your area, DON’T GO INTO STARBUCKS DURING THE STRIKE. Solicit your local coffee shops. You can get a $7 pumpkin spice latte anywhere.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism. I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists. I know where my allegiance lies.

This is it. It ain't easy but it's how we win. The only way out is through. ❤️

THE PROPHESY HAS BEEN FULFILLED DAYENU

Being antifascist is still a badge of honor in some places

I spoke with Richard Hooker Jr., who leads Teamsters Local 623 in Philly, about his run against Sean O'Brien for President of the Teamsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

congrats to Israel, Benjamin Netanuahu, and the ADL for playing a nontrivial role in this

the broad taboo on antisemitism is just dead www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-viper-in...

The main thing I want to hit on is the entirely incorrect linkage between the 1924 Immigration Act and the labor upsurge of the 1930s. This is a story a LOT of people like to tell, and not just on the Right, sadly. But it's not true. Let me explain a bit. 1/

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

I actually think this is worth dwelling on in the context of college "indoctrination" Obviously there's some broad objection to Zohran (essentially) asserting that the Haitian Revolution was good. But the the anger is more fundamentally caused by the fact that he knows about it at all

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.