What I think: @lpeproject.bsky.social needs to have a conference with @urpe1968.bsky.social. Because I think they could inform each other on theories and data.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Something my students have picked up on: Post-Keynesian price theory makes much of its empirical fidelity, rooted in observations of actual pricing behavior rather than optimization assumptions. But workhorse PK markup models are based on obs from manufacturing firms decades ago

The US military as a "ferrari without a steering wheel"--all tactics, no strategy--is about as perfect as a metaphor can be.

I hand-coded a data set of 530 obs, 30 vars from the partially unstructured text of contracts for my dissertation. It required a *lot* of judgment calls, which I had to justify in the codebook. As a result, I understood my data *very* well. Had I used Claude, could I say the same?

Please don't take this as a dunk on this important research, but this is something every trade unionist has understood forever.

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

This is why we need a much bigger labor movement: so we can rebuild the one pipeline we have for working class people to move into positions of political leadership and power

He's Iggy Pop's Wario istfg

Over the last 10 federal elections this would steer you wrong 80-90% of the time (2012 edge case) Ceding politics to a mediocre Event Study Mafia is as dumb as ceding to ideological purity tests

If Team Abundance is looking for rules and regulations that get in the way of all kinds of useful and life-improving work, they could start with patents and copyrights.

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Fighting the last war

(I show this map/diagram to my stats class every year. Tufte called it "the best statistical graph ever written.")

There is not a single causal estimate I’m aware of that has saved us from this authoritarian collapse. Not a single one. The study of history, institutions, and context combined with judicious scholarship showed us the way.

Abundance Agenda in a nutshell: the largest corporations successfully push democratic backsliding, but still try to preserve "state capacity"

Not helping bud

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

Five armed masked federal agents to guard a Target restroom while Greg Bovino uses the facilities. A scene equally at home in authoritarian regimes and comedies about authoritarian regimes

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

If you are waiting for a sense of conscience to kick in, you are fooling yourself. This will stop when we make it stop.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Seems like this quote might make some court cases over tribal land in the US.

The dates are now January 6 and January 7. The contrast between the pardoning of all the January 6 insurrectionists (~1500 people), was met with acceptance. The death of a woman at the hands of an ICE agent is debated as justified. What is the rationale behind this difference in treatment? 🤔🧐

People who work with input-output tables: I'm looking at an industry with declining employment but rising output. I'm wondering if this is truly productivity growth, or if subcontracting means the jobs have moved to new NAICS industries while the value is being captured at the top.

“Everyone knows what they saw in that video with their own two eyes. What this NYTimes/Atlantic/Free Press/Persuasion article supposes is … what if they didn’t?”

The “hard truths” that NYT is endlessly demanding we big city liberals learn are always right-wing lies: sure the 4 videos show one thing, but did you hear President Trump’s statement that contradicts those 4 videos?!?

And this is an accurate statement, not an exaggeration. All of the parts of that tweet are not only technically accurate at every level, it is a meaningfully accurate description. Straightforwardly true. And so many would laugh in your face for saying it

A huge chunk of mid-market hotels like this one are owned by immigrant franchisees, primarily from India, who routinely face pretty awful racism

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

What do we learn about American liberals from the fact that Krugman, a retired prof with pension pots from 500k/year American academia, is charging for Substack? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/chinas-tra...

I join the international labor community in condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional actions in Venezuela.

Check out that beautiful cover on Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy (April 20, 2026)!

The @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com knew our government was going to go on an illegal murder & kidnapping adventure but decided to stay quiet in order to protect the murdering kidnappers

You knew this, but Hegseth’s public persona is a greater degradation of traditional masculinity than any drag show, jfc

Trump/Hegseth/Rubio killed 40 Venezuelan civilians two days ago. They've been murdering random fishermen for weeks. Think about that. Really think about that. Think about shaking the hand of someone responsible for that. Think about writing a news article about them and not mentioning that.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.

Thought of Cesaire too, this act feels different in that it shows how the US itself is coming into its own as an unapologetically authoritarian regime itself

[Jeffries voice] invading venezuela will not help reduce the cost of living for hardworking american families

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.

Finally got around to the late Peter Temin's 2017 book applying the Lewis dual economy model to the current US. Excellent, and surprisingly fiery indictment (for an academic title by an eminent economist) of America's racist oligarchy. The era of "woke" was quite good, actually.

In the past decade we had long overdue conversations about wealth/income inequality and violent white supremacy without *doing* anything about either. And the palpable relief from centrist elites under Trump II that we moved on don't even have to *talk* about them anymore is palpable.

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless