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Iconic image of man in brown jacket standing up at a town meeting.

Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare will unleash a 2nd renaissance beyond our wildest dreams.
#UniversalHealthcare
#UBI

I'm at the @nber.org Education meeting today, ready to learn from a fantastic lineup of papers (attached).

I'll try my best to live-post the discussion for those who'd like to follow along here.

The meeting is also being streamed on YouTube (link below).

www.nber.org/conferences/...

#EconSky

bruh you’re the one doing the cool things 🫡

this rules so hard

"elite capture of the fourth estate" feels like the grim answer to a lot of questions these days I gotta say

they're emboldened to say this shit because they know the entire media apparatus will just hand them the mic, applaud afterwards, and tell anyone who says WTF?? to shut up

Hey all,

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reposting so i remember to listen

One of my annual holiday traditions is hitting unsubscribe on every unwanted email list that I’ve stumbled onto over the course of the year.

Merry Unsubscribemas.

the hater's council just vetoed this actually.

"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.

"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

the wild thing is the tacit admission that 1. you got an extra $6bil lying around and 2. giving the money to govt to enable positive outcomes and redistribute is a decent idea(!) 🙃

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Home Rule for DC always, and statehood *immediately*.

America is Flying Blind on Immigration Nobody Knows How Many Immigrant Workers Have Left the US Amidst Trump's Mass Deportations. That's Incredibly Bad.

NEW from me:

Immigrants make up nearly 1/5 of the total US workforce and contribute throughout the entire economy

That makes it all the worse that, amidst Trump's mass deportations, we don't have good measures of how many immigrants have actually left the country
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

😹 or maybe pitchforks ⛏️

wild there’s no guillotine emoji

#EconSky (and place Congress members’ assets in passive investments and/or blind trusts)

Edwin M. Wheelock said that by executing Brown, Virginia “has parted with the bones of the dead Washington, and that has long since parted with the last shred of his principles, may now fittingly put the Living Washington to death.”

Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.

So many important organizations to support today on #GivingTuesday. Please consider supporting @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social 99% of donations go directly to fired/RIFed CDC workers and their families. www.cdcresourceportal.org/donate

Products Potters for Palestine

🏺🫶🇵🇸 Potters for Palestine is currently having an online auction to support funding for mutual aid groups, on the ground in Gaza. Such amazing work to chose from...and for a great cause!
pottersforpalestine.com/collections/...

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

#TeachEcon

Anyone know if JOLTS has a way of controlling for ghost jobs? That is, job listings posted to impress investors that a company has no intention of filling? @aaronsojourner.org

Still!

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

You can still find property level climate risk scores on Redfin

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Every socialist idea begins with the same simple truth: humans flourish when we care for each other. Everything else (the theory, the policies, the struggle) is just logistics.
#SocialistSunday

Unironically need $2450 to pay rent and get a new air fryer

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Value plus discounted