Eric Nelson, Ph.D.

Bipartisan Call to Strengthen America's Economic Statistical System In a new letter to Congress penned by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan group of more than 80 economists have called for proper funding and modernization of the U.S. statistical agencies.

Well-timed letter just ahead of Trump lashing out at the BLS.

eig.org/bipartisan-c...

These scholars have written that the drive by strongmen to centralize power through purges, propaganda, and persecution is not a strength.
Now, Trump is ruining the US's wonderful strengths and institutions through their deeply flawed governing model.

Headlines can be deceiving.

Apparently the same is true of executive orders.

@alanrozenshtein.com & @noupside.bsky.social talk w/
@kevintfrazier.bsky.social about the operative provisions of the EO on "Woke AI."

Their summary may surprise you. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Mike Benz@ @MikeBenzCyber •18h9... HOLY FUCKING SHIT ***THIS*** IN THE GODDAMN CLASSIFIED INDEX THAT HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED FOR 9 GODDAMN YEARS **THIS** IS WHERE THEY COOKED UP THE 'CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE' HOAX THAT CREATED THE LEGAL PREDICATE COVER FOR THE ENTIRE CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX !!!! !!

Here’s Mike Benz, creator of the “”censorship industrial complex”” hoax, trying to use the bullshit to bolster his own bullshit.

He went on John Solomon yesterday to claim that there was no proof of Russian interference —that it could’ve been me, personally, with a VPN, running fake Russian bots.

Continuing on this: the reason this material was in the annex that Kash Patel found in the “secret room” with the “burn bags” appears to be that Durham was unhappy about it. There are multiple versions of the supposed smoking gun email. The language is odd English.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

The Zeteo Zoom In just 15 months, Mehdi Hasan has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.

In just 15 months, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mehdi-hasa...

The Zeteo Zoom In just 15 months, Mehdi Hasan has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.

Some news: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's Zeteo now has more than 50,000 paid subscribers, translating to millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mehdi-hasa...

Columbia’s Deal With Trump Stokes Fears of Federal Admissions Audits The university will hand over new details about the prospective students it admits and rejects. Is it laying the groundwork for more-aggressive government intervention?

Everyone wants to see the numbers — how selective colleges choose their classes.

How they make sense of those numbers (especially now that the Trump administration is among those parties) could have major implications for higher ed.

The antitrust war inside MAGA

Corporate America absolutely mastered how to not just blunt the Right's populist energies but to turn them against actual populist reformers.

unherd.com/2025/07/the-...

I’m so happy to hear that he is home. I followed this saga with such anger and sadness.

170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the DC Circuit should promptly toss out this ludicrous complaint filed by Trump’s toady @agpambondi.govpeeps.com against DC District Court Chief Judge Boasberg for his supposed “misconduct”

www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...

1/ Important:

"Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida."

So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000.

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Cooper is running a campaign on affordability www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-can-z...

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After a nail-biting weekend of high diplomacy on the sidelines of Trump’s golfing trip to Scotland, the EU and the US finally managed to agree on a landmark trade deal.

But the bloc has a busy week ahead as it scrambles to lock in the agreement.

Brussels Playbook explains 👇

3 wins Keir Starmer needs from Donald Trump in Scotland Trump is in Scotland to visit his golf resorts — but the British prime minister expects to put in some serious face time.

With Donald Trump visiting his golf resorts in Scotland, No. 10 Downing Street is spying a chance for some real relationship-building.

And British leader Keir Starmer will be under pressure to raise plenty of hot-button topics when the two sit down today.

Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation

European stocks are up, showing that the deal was a bit better than expected.

It is still bad, but with a global trade war coming from America, the relative tariff matters, too. And the zero-tariff list provides Trump with an off-ramp.

My piece this morning.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

New, from me - I wrote a piece on the alarming lessons for other universities from the Columbia settlement

(Contains a lot of arguments I’ve floated about here before!)

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

Can Texas Democrats Stop the Redistricting By ‘Breaking Quorum’? Read more here.

NEW: Democrats don’t hold many cards in Texas, but one thing they can do to block the map is break quorum – in other words, walk off the job so there won’t be enough members present for Republicans to hold a vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Democrats Mobilize to Stop Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Read more here.

In an emergency strategy call Wednesday, top Democrats launched a counterattack against what they call an “egregious” mid-decade redistricting scheme unfolding in Texas — one they say threatens the future of democracy itself. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hochul on redistricting: "All's fair in love and war. We are following the rules. We do redistricting every 10 years, but if there are other states that are violating the rules and trying to give themselves an advantage, all I say is I'll look at it closely with Hakeem Jeffries."

As Texas Republicans prepare for mid-decade redistricting, cautionary tales loom from the past Spurred by President Donald Trump’s political team, Texas lawmakers will try to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost Republicans — but some GOP incumbents are uneasy.

As Texas Republicans prepare for mid-decade redistricting, cautionary tales loom from the past www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t... via @texastribune.org

Tulsi Gabbard has been on the outs with Trump since she undermined him on Iran intelligence.

So it’s no surprise she’s doing everything she can to help him distract from Epstein files.

But America isn’t looking away. Trump must release the Epstein List.

Should Gabbbard's title be changed to DDPUM? Director of Domestic Performative Useless Misinformation?

For folks outside of #ncpol (& maybe the newbies to the state), a lesson on how to pronounce, via Eastern NC, the last name of the former NC governor & (likely) front runner for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate:

"Kuə-per."

Get it straight from the candidate: www.wral.com/video/roy-co...

EU-China summit is underway in Beijing.

In this thread I will collate interesting points from remarks and readouts through the day.

First, Xi Jinping's opening remarks, as run by CCTV this morning

news.cctv.cn/2025/07/24/A...

Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli has aggressively pushed for indictments in the high-profile prosecutions of people arrested during demonstrations against federal immigration actions in Southern California, le...

(Gift link to article)
www.latimes.com/california/s...

It’s been widely understood since the 1970s (see: Eisenhower commission) that using militarized force against protesters leads the public to empathize with their cause.

As a reminder, Roy Cooper won state-wide elections in:

2000: Elected NC Attorney General

2004: Re-elected as NC Attorney General

2008: Re-elected as NC Attorney General

2012: Re-elected as NC Attorney General (unopposed)

2016: Elected Governor

2020: Re-elected Governor

#ncpol

Tinker Tailor Soldier MAGA Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are turning their agencies against their own staff.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...