CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

Minneapolis stands (in the cold) with our Somali neighbors

We spent 100% more time being told Democrats shouldn't say "oligarchy" than having anyone in the National Conversation tell these people not to call human beings "vermin" or "illegals"

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

As I posted earlier, this campaign is similar to panic about "boys in girls' sports" and, as commenters pointed out, "welfare queens"—and refugees! And DEI! Conservatives try to use outlier scenarios to stoke resentment and suspicion about any system that extends benefits to marginalized people.

to reiterate a point from the column trump’s pardons of fraudsters and corrupt politicians should be understood as an expression of his belief that corruption should not be a crime

So it turns out Radiohead is going to be in Copenhagen when I’m there. Ticket already bought.

Hell yeah Jack White

Last year it took me until early December to get into the 2024 @liquidmikeband.bsky.social album. This year it took me until late November to get into the 2025 Liquid Mike album. Progress! This music is so well-suited to Upper Midwest winter and the associated dive bars and beer blankets.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Hey Senate Republicans, what if you had a little bit of empathy for people who don't live in your home state who are affected by the gross overreach of DHS?

Does anyone have a synthetic DiD paper they particularly like (either a methods paper or an applied paper)? Asking both for my teaching and my research 😅

A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Trump only to be charged with new crimes.

The timing of this paper is perfect.

This is pretty corny, but #appam2025 made me feel hopeful for the first time in a while

Good evening to be in Seattle!

Folks going to APPAM, I'll be presenting/discussing 3 times! Would love to get feedback and talk shop with folks. Here's where you'll be able to find me: -Thursday 1:45-3:15pm, presenting The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Racial Wage and Employment Gaps (V preliminary, would love a couauthor)

Paperwork burden, stigma and stress are common for SNAP and increase food insecurity. Many (most) recipients are children, disabled or older, while many already work, if they can. Not letting people go hungry should be a fundamental function of government.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

So proud of Alan for this work — I often bring this up to non-academics as clear proof of the existence of gender-based discrimination and need for DEI

It's great to root for a functional baseball franchise like the White Sox

Anyone have any papers they like on how capital constraints contribute to racial educational attainment gaps?

Reminding myself to avoid doing double threshold workouts on lecture days. Legs were sore and brain lacked the oxygen to coherently answer hyper-specific model specification questions about 2xT diff-in-diff.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pop off Minnesota distance running: Joel Reichow top American male, Annie Frisbie 2nd American female at NYC

GF and I finally finished Twin Peaks, so I officially cancelled our Paramount+ subscription and left a cathartic cancellation note for Bari Weiss and David Ellison

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Fox really should have played Neverender during last night's game

Go Blue Jays, but also hell yeah Will Klein

I stayed up until 1:53am watching a baseball game between two teams I don't care about only for Freddie Freeman to hit a home run as soon as I took my dog out to pee

Fox playing Lil Boo Thang to end the inning is giving me throwbacks to Companion

RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds

Twin Cities folks, Kristi Noem is coming to town. Come join us in telling her and ICE that they are not welcome.

Takeaways from the @startribune.com CEO Steve Grove interview at the Westminster Town Hall Forum tonight.

Reading this as I sit in on a meeting about SNAP running out on Nov 1

Welp, spent a month trying to develop my own bespoke DiD estimator only to give up and use Callaway-Sant’Anna a week and a half before this working paper is due

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

What a series. Heartbroken for Seattle, but elated for Canada.

Of course he's not following the rules, but it's dangerous to get to resigned to and cynical about it

"How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom" New from @ilyasomin.bsky.social of @georgemasonu.bsky.social, who continues to be an absolutely indispensable legal scholar of this historic moment dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

This is why we need to teach 20th century Latin American history: so American politicians recognize that attempts to extort South American countries aren’t going to go over well

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

RIP D'Angelo. Black Messiah truly blew my mind when I was in high school

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas