Saving this article to talk about opportunity cost with my econ 101 students. www.pcworld.com/article/2998...

If this were true, then the Fed should be raising interest rates to combat inflation and prevent the economy from overheating (AD>AS). Any genuine economist would know this... Instead the administration is pushing for lower rates. I leave figuring out the discrepancy as an exercise for the reader.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

I am ashamed at how my alma mater is caving in the face of authoritarian pressure.

ICE agents are so much more lawless than the people they target.

I'm so glad that Trump restored the meritocracy.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up... www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...

This is the real defunding of police.

A lo-fi bit of horse trading to bring back Obamacare subsidies for six months only to see them cut again is a bad strategy for Dems on every front. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...

Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please

The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear. 1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law. 2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US. 3. They are bragging about it.

This is why they fired the lawyers.

Which, of course, is why he’s test-running military deployments in American cities. Eventually everybody realizes the rules no longer mean anything, and it comes down to main force.

I signed it, and so should you!

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

When African Americans applied to segregated southern universities, white officials would routinely dig into their personal lives to find any semblance of dirt that they could play up to pretend they were criminals and therefore unfit to attend the school.

Not even remotely true. According to the Fed, the median and average sales prices for a home peaked in mid-2022 and have been slowly falling — despite several million migrants arriving. But due to high interest rates, the Home Price Index is still slowly rising.

So if this "anti crime" military presence is not for the benefit of DC residents, who is it for? This is not a government for the people. This is not a government by the people.

Endlessly credulous about the pretextual actions of an authoritarian. It's not about mortgages. It's not about antisemitism. It's not about crime.

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

6 months later, with armored humvees and (as of tomorrow) military personnel carrying weapons of war through the capitol, with a concentration camp built in the florida everglades, with SCOTUS and circuit courts enabling this every step of the way, i think this framing has been entirely vindicated

If politics corrupts economic data, it stops being useful. Businesses won’t trust it. Voters can’t hold leaders accountable. The value of data lies in the truths it reveals — lose that, and you lose everything.

A monthly employment report isn't a privilege. It's the law. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?e... h/t @claudia-sahm.bsky.social

david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.

Your regular reminder that your calls to your member of Congress matter—especially the ones we don't make.

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

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Hey fellow alumni, it only takes a minute: [email protected] (607) 255-5201

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

If there were evidence the BLS commissioner faked job numbers, it would be a massive scandal condemned by both Dems & Republicans. But Trump making this up and acting on it? Just Trump being Trump—and that’s a big problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm. No longer. Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

BREAKING Hours after the recent jobs report came out, the President fires the Bureau of Labor Staistics Commissioner. This is outrageous and unacceptable. It is their job to report the statistics accurately. from NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

I have adopted the public radio station in Muskegon, Michigan, which is slated to lose over half of its funding

This is a case where writing a public comment would have real value. A simple observation is that fraud reduction efforts often find little fraud but instead increase burdens on eligible applicants

SCOTUS when Biden administration seeks to reduce student loan debt: Major question where they have to jump in and block before any action takes place. SCOTUS when Trump eliminates the entire Department of Education: Lets see how this plays out, no need to intervene right now.

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

It's been an onslaught of heinous 💩over the past few months. Record keeping is imperative when corruption is the norm. My partner @dludwinski.com has been compiling records, articles, etc documenting the rise of authoritarianism - peruse at your leisure: whatssobadabouttrump.com

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

I am glad someone had the ability to summarize this bill. It makes me sad. Appreciate your work @citizencohn.bsky.social. An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body share.google/6UG2r940UJtk...

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Big crowds showed up to #NoKings in Atlanta. The square held 5k and was filled up very early.

The beauty of ranked choice voting in one ad

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

The Republican party - as usual - firm believers in states' rights. If their support for states' rights is a lie, why are they so sympathetic to the southern rebellion? 🤔