Beth Popp Berman

Tweet screengrab from Ben Rosen:" REPUBLICANS: We're having the military thrown protesters in unmarked vans DEMOCRATS: mark the vans (with hand clap emoji between words)

meanwhile, I'm teaching my PhD econ course on the Political Economy of Corporations this semester, so re-sharing the publicly-available "Political Economy of Corporations Curriculum"

lenorepalladino.notion.site/Political-Ec...

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

Not the best timing for a celebration, but I've defended my dissertation on origins of egalitarian education reforms. Deeply grateful to my committee: Angie, Aaron, Peter, and @epopppp.bsky.social. Thanks to other mentors including @mivich.bsky.social for her @asa-ipm.bsky.social mentorship.

Congratulations again, Jiwon -- always worth celebrating 🎉🍾

Pretty sure "the rights" is not what it was paying for.

It's hard to watch billionaires systematically dismantle what real news we have left.

NBPA @TheNBPA • 7m Statement from the NBPA and its Executive Committee on the Fatal Shooting in Minneapolis by ICE. X "There comes a time when silence is betrayal" -MLK FOLLOWING THE NEWS OF YET ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, A CITY THAT HAS BEEN ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICES, NBA PLAYERS CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE IN MINNESOTA PROTESTING AND RISKING THEIR LIVES TO DEMAND JUSTICE. THE FRATERNITY OF NBA PLAYERS, LIKE THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, IS A COMMUNITY ENRICHED BY ITS GLOBAL CITIZENS, AND WE REFUSE TO LET THE FLAMES OF DIVISION THREATEN THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THAT ARE MEANT TO PROTECT US ALL. THE NPA AND ITS MEMBERS EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALEX PRETTI AND RENEE GOOD, JUST AS OUR THOUGHTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. NBPA Jaylen Brown and 7 others

FOLLOWING THE NEWS OF YET ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, A CITY THAT HAS BEEN ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICES, NBA PLAYERS CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE IN MINNESOTA PROTESTING AND RISKING THEIR LIVES TO DEMAND JUSTICE. THE FRATERNITY OF NBA PLAYERS, LIKE THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, IS A COMMUNITY ENRICHED BY ITS GLOBAL CITIZENS, AND WE REFUSE TO LET THE FLAMES OF DIVISION THREATEN THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THAT ARE MEANT TO PROTECT US ALL. THE NBPA AND ITS MEMBERS EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALEX PRETTI AND RENEE GOOD, JUST AS OUR THOUGHTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. NBPA

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BREAKING: The National Basketball Players Association issues statement on ICE killings in Minnesota.

“[W]e refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”

8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Constant churn of craziness to cover

Have been thinking about you and your work in particular, hope you're holding up

There really is.

I don't understand how all of the news isn't about Minnesota right now.

Not even close.

He is very confounding

I'm a little confused about Will Stancil.

This is so good.

I don't know, I'm not surprised when the US does terrible things, but I'm still surprised our government is now run by people who think Nazis are cool.

Why do they have to simulate buying chicken?

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

In a recent symposium on M&A, I heard something really striking: firms contemplating deals have created go-teams of lawyers in the event that Trump becomes interested. They’re ready to negotiate directly with the White House.

My brain kept picking over exactly what was wrong with this.

"Republicans’ goal was never regulatory decisions that maximized net benefits; it was less regulation, consistent with their broader political vision."

A good day to revisit @epopppp.bsky.social's call to confront (and perhaps learn from) the conservative weaponization of Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine that wouldn’t die Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed

This is a good essay on the history of the Monroe Doctrine.

I bet he could get a big audience for the original lectures if he livestreamed them.

in acknowledgement of the fact that There Is A Lot Going On, the deadline for this CFP has been extended by one week! oddletters.com/tech-money/

I did read a bunch of AITAH just in case I was about to get too optimistic about humanity