SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

Killer chart from Gregor Semeiniuk and co-authors showing where in the income distribution pandemic windfall oil profits ended up.

Immigration polling is almost entirely a function of Republicans who will never vote for Democrats responding to the party in power and should be disregarded completely.

@robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social let me post the working paper

Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $)

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The facts of this point on capitalism and slavery from Phil Magness are true but I've always found this way of arguing about "capitalism" bizarre. It confuses capitalism with anti-statism. Positive law and government support *any* version of capitalism.

cafehayek.com/2025/06/some...

Fascinated by how much worse British columnists seem to be than ours. "In his heart, I just know and trust this billionaire means what he says and wants what's best for all of us...also...the Empire...say what you will, but..."

Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds.

Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation

Good to see the NYT still has some columnists objecting to their own paper’s attempt to help Musk launder his image.

But: If a somewhat functioning democratic system is to ever again emerge from this mess, reputational damage won’t do. Musk needs to be held accountable in a court of law.

As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...)

That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse.

His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

Exactly

What DOGE actually revealed, with its utter failure to find any significant instances of waste, fraud, or inefficiency is that--notwithstanding Musk and Trump's lies to the contrary-- the Social Security system and other programs they attacked are remarkably efficient in allocating public goods.

A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington

This piece takes Musk's putative pov at face value, assuming that his disillusionment" and inability to "upend bureaucracy" (whatever the that means)was a worthy mission that failed because of "obstacles" rather than recognizing DOGE was a disaster from the outset.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think.
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In the last ten years, the top 20 percent of the US income distribution have seen gains of $20 trillion in their stock portfolios. The top ten percent of incomes are responsible for half of US household expenditures.

Very psyched to read "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979" by historian David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social with my seminar this coming week

The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

The Trump White House’s attack on official data is also an attack on democracy Targets include the census and gross domestic product.

New from column from me: How to save official statistics from Trump’s attacks? Learn from the last data war.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal.

Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.

Now they will be rewarded with deportation.

It's simply untrue that, compared to 2017 mass resistance, we are seeing mass quiescence. February '25 saw 2x as many protests as Feb '17. This data doesn't include Bernie 'fighting oligarchy' huge rallies, or the disruptions at GOP & Dem town halls. But there are differences 1/3

Lula at UN: “African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
I presented at G20 Rio
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6Z...

This is what I don't understand. Bernie apparently drew in thousands, but where is Obama, Michelle, even Hillary?

I need everyone to contemplate the enormity of what #TeslaTakedown has accomplished: average people have successfully wiped out 800 billion dollars of TSLA’s “worth” - not kings, or politicians or armies. Just regular people sticking it to the world’s richest man.

Class. Fucking. Warfare.

Well Bucs or Bears, we all hate Elon

Chicago? Are you a Bears fan?

As someone who deleted twitter because of the fascism but is also an NFL junkie, I hope this moves a critical mass of NFL twitter to move here 🙏

Imposing and withdrawing and imposing blanket tariffs in fits of pique while planning savage cuts to the safety net to fund permanent tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations is not "family and community focused populism."

I feel this is obvious but apparently needs to be said.

This is all lies. Reporting has made clear that
- Food and health spending is still paused, or contracts have been cancelled entirely (e.g. Ready-to-use therapeutic food for starving children)
- Money owed for work done during Biden still hasn't gone out
- Musk's people are the blockers

Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...