Sarah Jacobson
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Environmental economist at Williams College. she/her
https://econ.williams.edu/profile/saj2/
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ACLU
about 1 month ago
The Trump administration has completely ended all pathways to seek asylum, a legal right for more than half a century. We took the government to court and won, and they're now appealing. We won't abandon our commitment to people fleeing danger.
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Why Did DHS Send a Russian Exile to Costa Rica?
The Trump administration has sent thousands of people to places other than their countries of origin — also known as third countries. Months after being deported, one such Russian family has been forced to rebuild its life in Monteverde.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/third-countries-russian-exile-deported-to-costa-rica.html
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 1 month ago
Trump is defunding the police where he can so he can fill the void with his masked Gestapo. He did it in DC, and he tried it in New York but balked. Additionally, Pam Bondi is investigating the Portland police bureau because they arrested a right wing agitator. Pay attention.
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The Associated Press
about 1 month ago
A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador.
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Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering protest near Atlanta deported to El Salvador
A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador. Mario Guevara was detained in June while covering a protest near Atlanta.
https://bit.ly/48wZofp
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ACLU
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
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Charlie Warzel
about 1 month ago
all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
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Joshua Lenon
about 1 month ago
Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.
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It's Mountain Day at Williams College. A good reminder to get out, breathe fresh air, and recharge.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
about 2 months ago
"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext
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Anna Gifty
2 months ago
TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!
#TheDoubleTax
is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW. Get your copy TODAY:
annagifty.com
#booksky
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D.
2 months ago
Making history for a great cause‼️ I am swimming the Chicago River on Sept 21 - FIRST TIME IN 100 YEARS - for ALS research & swim lessons for Chicago kids. 🙏🏼 Help me reach my goal 💪🏼 Donte & repost 🔂
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#ChicagoRiverSwim
#ALS
#ChicagoKids
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Chicago River Swim
The Chicago River Swim is the signature event of [1]A Long Swim, a 501(c)3 charitable organization that raises funds for ALS collaborative research through Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of...
https://runsignup.com/EJQ-CRS-ALS
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Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D.
3 months ago
Nearly 600 economists, Nobel Laureates sign open letter supporting due process for Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve independence for the good of our economy and democracy. Great work from
@tderyugina.bsky.social
organizing such a quick response.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Over 450 Economists Back Cook, Fed Independence in Open Letter
Prominent economists are rallying behind Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after President Donald Trump moved to fire her based on allegations that she committed mortgage fraud.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/over-450-economists-back-cook-fed-independence-in-open-letter
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Elizabeth Warren
3 months ago
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
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Anna Gifty
3 months ago
It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹 In 15 days,
#TheDoubleTax
is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16:
annagifty.com
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#booksky
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Leah McElrath
3 months ago
⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders “The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/middleeast/us-palestinian-visa-suspensions.html?smid=url-share
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Dr. Manuel Pastor
3 months ago
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Gov. Lisa Cook and Fed Independence. Add your name by Monday:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence
By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVeehbo9jnF6JP8aRBbZ2BFaAF5eA1tG_m0HkDZeDVUA4lmw/viewform
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Catherine Rampell
3 months ago
A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/pediatric-brain-cancer-trial-group.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawMgRwVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtaTqUqMlcwjDAgMElbM-W9j5NuZSWRCisdSrgFjUcIPKSCnkW8rYkeDt1_Z_aem_6DhSxYcp46YaWAA2knswAQ
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Garrett M. Graff
3 months ago
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
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Senator Ron Wyden
3 months ago
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
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Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says
The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-29/trump-administration-plans-to-remove-nearly-700-unaccompanied-migrant-children-senator-says
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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ACLU
3 months ago
The Trump administration just opened up its first military base for ICE detention — and plans to expand others throughout the country. Detaining thousands of people in these camps is inhumane, ineffective, and unnecessary.
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Fort Bliss Immigration Camp Sparks Backlash Over Militarized Detention
As the Trump administration expands immigration enforcement, a new detention site at Fort Bliss raises alarm over secrecy, scale, and the use of military resources.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/new-detention-camp-at-fort-bliss-marks-dangerous-expansion-of-militarized-immigration-enforcement?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=awr-feed-bsky-social-nat-blog-immigration-immigration-immigration&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=immigration&utm_content=awr-feed-bsky-social-nat-blog-immigration-immigration-immigration&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=awr-feed-bsky-social-nat-blog-immigration-immigration-immigration
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Tatyana Deryugina
3 months ago
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
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Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?usp=sharing
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
Heroes in our public service are putting themselves on the line to speak out.
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
Updated this piece to reflect that Trump said he has fired Lisa Cook, something the Supreme Court said he does not have authority to do.
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Abby Sewell
3 months ago
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the
@apnews.com
. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-journalists-killed-5c33e999ee88effd89566a993b31d9cc
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Will Saletan
3 months ago
Your occasional reminder that the current U.S. government — headed by a felon, his personal attorneys, and other criminal sympathizers — has used federal power 1) to protect convicted thugs who assaulted police in his behalf and 2) to punish the law enforcement officials who prosecuted those thugs.
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Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/nyregion/january-6-capitol-riot-prosecutors.html
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
The US President’s declaration that he alone can dictate how Americans’ votes are counted is a direct and obvious violation of our Constitution. He has zero power to restrict our votes. It is past time for this lawless rampage to end.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Brendan Nyhan
3 months ago
Not a time for subtlety - what I told the AP about the Bolton prosecution and the DC occupation
www.kgw.com/article/news...
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John Cawley
3 months ago
If you'll be on the
#EconJobMarket
this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by
@aereorg.bsky.social
, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong &
@adrienneohler.bsky.social
. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.
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I've been traveling a lot this summer, so I'm grateful to be back on my favorite trails and to see that The Clark Art Institute has cool new installations as part of its Ground/Work project.
3 months ago
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Scott Imberman
3 months ago
A US immigration agent said this.
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Ben Casselman
3 months ago
Long before she joined the Fed, Lisa Cook stood out in a field dominated by white men. She talked about how her experience with racism informed her approach to economics. Now, she is Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
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Lisa Cook, Who Broke Ground at the Fed, Faces Attack by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/lisa-cook-fed-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.QhIm.MiQE0sCeruec&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
The US Administration is now brazenly threatening arbitrary military deployments in cities across the Homeland. Conservative and Liberal Americans deserve vastly better than this outrageous and sickening perversion of our troops’ mission.
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Bolton’s house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.
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A timeline of what led to Trump’s classified documents indictment
Key moments in Donald Trump's classified documents indictment and investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/30/mar-a-lago-timeline-trump-documents/
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Morning at Eph Pond.
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John Ganz
3 months ago
In November 2024, I made a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen.
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Aubrey Gilleran
3 months ago
Just in the past few weeks, the Trump administration has gone after a senator, a state attorney general, a congresswoman, and a central banker on spurious charges. In any other country, the mainstream press would be incredibly clear about what's going on.
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
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Kai Ryssdal
3 months ago
You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.
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Lush, cool late summer morning.
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ACLU
3 months ago
Denying immigrants the ability to be here, to work, or to travel because they hold what the government deems to be "anti-American" views is about as un-American as it gets. This is a violation of the First Amendment.
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Trump admin to flag "anti-American" ideologies in agency's benefit reviews
USCIS updated its policy to flag anti-American activity, expanding vetting and tightening discretion on immigration benefits.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-uscis-immigrant-benefit-requests-immigration-americanism-2115890
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Aaron Sojourner
3 months ago
POTUS and the AG abusing their public powers to try to gain more public power. The Fed has 7 governors. Trump appointed 2 last term. One is vacant. One more vacant seat will yield a majority. Dr. Cook fills the seat with the longest term (to 2038) & is the only Black woman on the board.
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WIRED
3 months ago
As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.
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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody
Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...
https://www.wired.com/story/senate-probe-uncovers-widespread-abuse-in-ice-custody/
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ACLU
3 months ago
Forcing lawmakers you disagree with to comply with 24/7 police surveillance is a gross civil liberties violation. President Trump and his allies in Texas will stop at nothing to silence voters of color, including targeting the elected officials who represent them.
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Democratic Texas lawmaker passes 24-hour mark on state House floor after refusing GOP demand for law enforcement escort | CNN Politics
Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/nicole-collier-confined-texas-state-capitol-house-redistricting
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
The person who went and destroyed the agency himself one weekend, the richest man alive, said that he “gave zero f***s” about reports that he was causing death of some of earth’s most destitute children.
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 months ago
Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
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Justin Wolfers
3 months ago
Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.
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Binyamin Appelbaum
3 months ago
As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.
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Mark Chadbourn
3 months ago
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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ACLU
3 months ago
The government can’t deny you the right to vote based on your race or zip code.
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