Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

pretty funny that Trump's aides are all too scared to tell him that $18 trillion is batshit crazy

a delusional Trump claims "we're taking in more than $18 trillion into the United States because of tariffs. The companies, the only way they can avoid them is to build here. They avoid paying the tariffs. Now they've been doing that."

#EconSky #DataEditorTips Your results should replicate each time you submit your paper, not only *after* it was accepted. Having your package replicable all the times is going to buy you a lot of time and-more importantly-peace of mind. What if you cannot replicate a result in the accepted version?

ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

They are so much braver than our leaders and elites.

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

The man was clearly already either dead or incapacitated, and the federal agent just kept firing into him, about half a dozen times www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Heckuva a logic your got there Scott. “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the national emergency that justified the announcement of new tariffs on eight European nations is that there would be a national emergency if tariffs were not implemented.“ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

US accuses EU of seeking cheese ‘monopoly’ in Mercosur deal ft.trib.al/5Wgz9Ts

Emergency meeting of EU Member States representatives 5pm today, to discuss relations with the US

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Um, medical tourism is kind of a big thing.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

When cops kill, police agencies often mislead, exonerate too quickly, smear the deceased, use the exonerative tense, etc. But there's at least usually some solemnity -- acknowledgement that the loss of life is regrettable. It's the absolute glee in these responses that I can't shake.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

To observe that 11% of the vehicles that once entered Manhattan’s core have “disappeared” is not to deny that those trips had value. They did. But we know how little value they were to those making them: less than $9. A low price for improving air quality, safety, efficiency & transit all at once.

Join us Monday at 8:00am in 310 for an #ASSA2026 session on Spatial Sorting and Economic Transformations Papers on poverty (non-)traps, income sorting, urban exploration & WFH by Bryan Stuart, Yuhei Miyauchi, Gabriel Kreindler, Yichen Su. Discussants: @chrisseveren.bsky.social, Couture, Rappaport

I look forward to catching up with folks at the Columbia Economics #ASSA2026 reception on Saturday evening in Marriott Downtown, Room 407. www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

Join us Saturday at 10:15am for an #ASSA2026 session on Development of American Cities featuring papers on mortgage markets, slavery, migration & ghost towns by L D'Amico, S Naidu, T Jaworski, M Hoelzlein Discussants: @econhist-allday.bsky.social, S Heblich, @allie-green.com, @jeffrlin.bsky.social

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Peter Navarro’s aggressive sycophancy in Donald Trump’s first term foretold how everyone around the President would behave in the second, Ian Parker writes. Navarro is the template for the Administration’s obsequious officials. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"The tariffs are so complicated that even the government agency tasked with enforcing them can't accurately describe what they are." 🤣😢 reason.com/2025/12/23/t...

The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers

Looking ahead to the ASSA meeting in Philly, join me at - ES "Development of American Cities" Jan 3 10:15a - AREUEA "Urban Economics" Jan 3 2:30p - ES "Climate, Policy, and the Global Economy" Jan 4 2:30p - ES "Spatial Sorting and Economic Transformations" Jan 5 8:00a www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

Steve Davis and Nick Bloom podcast summarizing their recent WFH conference: www.hoover.org/research/coo...

I browsed a preview of Jesse Shapiro's forthcoming Introduction to Quantitative Economics book earlier this year, and it is fantastic. I pre-ordered it just now and will incorporate it into my PhD teaching in the fall. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205105...

Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK’s agreements with Donald Trump are “built on sand” after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs has no underlying text beyond limited headline terms. #R4Today

Confirmation now of a €3 customs duty to be applied to e-commerce parcels from outside the EU that are worth under €150 from July 2026 No mention of China in the press release, but this is all about Temu, Shein, AliExpress. Postal services are overwhelmed by volume of packages

The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze. 1/3 #EconSky #EconJobMarket

It's annoying that OUP produces invalid BibTeX data. People cite @qjeharvard.bsky.social & @reveconstudies.bsky.social articles with wrong years because the BibTeX files are bad. I often see Caliendo Parro (2015), Dingel (2017), Fajgelbaum Goldberg Kennedy Khandelwal (2020) cited as '14, '16, '19.

Literally zero replies on BlueSky to my request for trade JMPs and spatial JMPs. Dozens on Twitter. The candidates aren't on this platform.

Trade JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/t...

Spatial economics JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/s...

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

Duties for thee, not me: “Winland, the complainant, is owned by private-equity company Investindustrial, which… owns two Italy-based pasta producers, La Doria and gourmet food chain Eataly, and has a partnership with a further Italian pasta maker, Pastificio Di Martino.” Almost makes one cynical…