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📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢
"Monitoring and Enforcement and Environmental Compliance: Power Plant Emissions During the 2018–19 Federal Government Shutdown" by Ruohao Zhang, Huan Li, and Neha Khanna.
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda.

The country’s two biggest private prison companies are poised for a major profit windfall, with this summer’s budget bill providing an infusion of funding for immigration detention. Once the increased detention and deportation capacity ramps up, it will be difficult to unwind.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe New research documents the myriad ways pregnancy outcomes have been criminalized in the post-Roe legal environment.

In the two years following Dobbs, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social recorded more than 400 cases of pregnancy criminalization. How to do we hold people's fear of being criminally punished for abortion alongside the data? My story:

Question:

If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,

what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

71% of Americans have fallen for a scam.

That's something I focus on when I'm trying to have sympathy and remember that we need numbers and anything that signals we have massive numbers behind us.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Top Bankers May Have Saved $53 Million From Trump Tax Law - Americans For Tax Fairness Dozen Bank CEOs Would Have Benefitted from Lower Tax Rate on $2 Billion Pay Will Save Millions More Now That Rate Has Been Extended The top dozen American bank executives may have saved almost $53 mil...

americansfortaxfairness.org/top-bankers-...

Here’s what I see:

A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform.

B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors.

C) Those two encampments are miles apart.

From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks.

That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years.

Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees.

And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?

Got it.. thanks for sharing!!!!

Fyi.. tried to go website, but Science Direct said page not found.

Remember when getting caught doing something immoral or illegal would end a politician’s career?

That was awesome.

Says the man who uses his fame to make commercials for a credit card company that rips off its customers... I assume he gets paid well for it.

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

I suggested to my wife that it seemed pointless to continually fill the bird feeder, as the squirrels always empty it in hours. Behind me, my son said, “It’s in your interest for the squirrels to be on your side when the Great War begins,” and ate another spoonful of Froot Loops.

Many Chicagoans likely to wait decades for dangerous lead pipes to be replaced The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.

Chicago, the city with the most lead service lines in the country, doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.

Half a million blue sharks killed in Pacific Ocean in 2023 - Oceanographic Greenpeace Australia releases a shocking report exposing the number of blue sharks killed by longline fishing in the Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Half a million blue sharks killed as bycatch in Pacific Ocean in 2023. 🦈

New analysis of fisheries data by Greenpeace Australia reveals that almost half a million blue sharks were caught by industrial longliners as bycatch in the Pacific Ocean in 2023.

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/half-a-...

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

Appeals system raised property tax bills for Cook County homeowners, report says Cook County homeowners’ bills grew by a total of about 7% over the span of the report, and the increases fell more on lower-income Black and Latino taxpayers.

Cook County’s property tax appeal process shifted $1.91 billion in taxes from businesses onto homeowners over the last three years, exacerbating inequities in the city and suburbs, a new report found.

On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/
#WeFeedYou

Trump's EO calls for military and national security "assets" to be deployed on American streets to assist with law enforcement, and for the prosecution of local officials who talk about "DEI stuff" like the history of racist police violence. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Reflecting on how economists are bad at recognizing our humanity as scientists and the humanity of those we study

Went to a talk by non economists last week that put this in stark relief

Will make a point to ask people how it makes them feel to do the research they do, especially on hard subjects

This is what a rigged economy looks like:

In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.

In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.

This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.

That has got to change.

Staff Reports Technical working papers

www.newyorkfed.org/research/sta...

Two Arkansas coal-fired plants win exemptions for monitoring toxic air particles | Arkansas Advocate Two coal-fired power plants in Arkansas are exempt from revised air pollution rules under a rollback of 2023 environmental standards.

Two coal-fired power plants in Arkansas are exempt from revised air pollution rules under a Trump administration rollback of environmental standards adopted last year, leaving some former EPA officials and environment groups concerned about prolonged exposure to unhealthy emissions.

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours: