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Trevon Logan

@trevondlogan.bsky.social

Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.

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Q: Do we know how the suspect acquired these guns?

AUSTIN PD: The guns were acquired legally

02.03.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1078    πŸ” 219    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 27

Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them

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Book recommendation of the day

01.03.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Lawrence has said that the Black Church is one of the world’s great conservatories of music. I’m afraid we’re losing this to passive participation and professional musicians. We no longer grow and encourage that talent, earning their chops singing week after week in front of a live audience.

02.03.2026 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

01.03.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1452    πŸ” 569    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Up is down is up

01.03.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 714    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 20

We are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY27 Funding Recommendation Letter and hope you will join us in asking for more robust funding for BLS. We are asking Congress to approve $754 million for BLS in FY27 which is a 5% increase over FY26. These funds will allow BLS to train new staff, implement delayed modernization efforts, and sustain response rates in multiple programs.
 

We are accepting sign-ons from both organizations and individuals no later than COB Wednesday March 4. Please select the appropriate link below to read the full letter and sign-on.

We are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY27 Funding Recommendation Letter and hope you will join us in asking for more robust funding for BLS. We are asking Congress to approve $754 million for BLS in FY27 which is a 5% increase over FY26. These funds will allow BLS to train new staff, implement delayed modernization efforts, and sustain response rates in multiple programs. We are accepting sign-ons from both organizations and individuals no later than COB Wednesday March 4. Please select the appropriate link below to read the full letter and sign-on.

Care about Americans, employment, earnings, consumer prices, your local or our national economy?

@usbls.bsky.social empowers us to better recognize these & make decisions.

Consider signing onto Friends of BLS's new letter to Congress re its budget.

And spread the word.

01.03.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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A great way to end February! My friend Gamal Brown and my Congresswoman Joyce Beatty were both honored at the Melanin Awards Gala!

01.03.2026 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a way to end Black History Month…

01.03.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran says death toll in strike on elementary school rises to 85

abcnews.com/Internationa...

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Skynet….that’s the name, right?

28.02.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

During the marathon campaign rally that Trump called his SOTU speech, he "unveiled" a proposal for the federal government to provide matching contributions of up to $1,000 per year to the retirement accounts of low-wage earners.

It's a great idea. It is also already a law signed by Biden in 2022.

26.02.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3124    πŸ” 1106    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 45
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What to know about Trump retirement accounts The basic idea is to enroll lower income Americans without 401(k)s into similar kinds of plans.

I love that the one Trump policy from #SOTU that people don't hate is actually a Biden policy.

What to know about Trump retirement accounts www.axios.com/2026/02/27/t... #axiosmarkets

27.02.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Black History Month, explore the rich and complex history of Black travel during segregation. The Green Book Project is an archive and oral history. We do not want to lose these stories of survival. Share your story today:
greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #BlackHistory

27.02.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

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Tayari Jones wrote a novel that is getting a lot of attention. I haven't read it. But I think more people should know about her mom, economics professor Barbara Ann Posey Jones: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara...

27.02.2026 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually it's a direct result of Medicaid cuts in the OBBBA. And it's going to get a lot worse.

26.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
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In rare honor, Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in state at South Carolina State House Jackson is just the second Black person to be honored in this way at the State House.

My department colleague Todd Shaw on how rare it is for a Black American to lie in state at the South Carolina State House, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson will be on Monday.

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Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."

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JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

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So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is β€œdon’t resist.”

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Faculty have essentially two choices: (1) learn in painstaking detail how resources flow through your institution and how budgets work or (2) complain as you are cut to the bone and then broken. You’d be shocked at how many administrators and faculty do not understand their budget model.

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Budget models are not neutral admin objects. I tell everyone that the flow of resources reflects your institutional priorities. Changes in budget models are changes in institutional priorities. For example, modeling majors at the college level versus department level is a (deliberate) choice.

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It’s fascinating to see demands for dignity as the only socially acceptable response Black people should have to dehumanization.

β€œHow come it’s always the colored folks got to do all the forgiving? How come the only cheek gets turned in this country is the Negro cheek?”

-Ozzie Davis, 1961

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The DEI Debacle BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous β€œDear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…

Nimisha Barton (@nimishabarton.bsky.social) gives the historical context on DEI’s dismantling that so many need.
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

25.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BERMAN: GDP growth was higher during the Biden administration than certainly it was last quarter and the average of year to year

BYRON DONALDS: That's not true, but okay

BERMAN: You can go check it

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Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

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The racism section of this speech is stomach-churning. #SOTU

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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s β€œmisplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

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