lol the way #econtwitter #econsky raised me? I hope I'm making you proud! 😭
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lol the way #econtwitter #econsky raised me? I hope I'm making you proud! 😭
I just became full professor at my alma mater #fullcircle #Blackmedsky
I want to talk to more Black women journalists about #TheDoubleTax. If you know any, please tag them below!
What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!
Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
everything about this is iconic, from the hair to the shoulder pads to the reveal that she addresses herself as “bitch” to the absolute murder in her eyes in that first shot. that is a woman who homophobes would cross the street to avoid for fear of their life. absolute ally goals
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
This is a really serious situation for people holding a H-1B visa.
the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents
Universities rely heavily on H1-B visas to hire highly qualified graduates of our domestic PhD programs as faculty. Another Trump admin attack on academia.
“First they came for” is a strategy.
The way I think of it: The people who insist on "presenteeism" are not pitching in if I get sick or face hospitalization. AND my precautions are pro-social. I care about my health because I am a whole person & the greatest joys in life require me to be fully present (cognitively and physically).
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
ben smith, boy, i dunno
EVERYONE involved -- parents, providers -- knows how hard it is to hospitalize a child and they only do it when it's necessary
Long Covid is real.
as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
“Character Limit” was an incredible book. I read it it February 2025 and it gave me so much insight into the DOGE modus operandi.
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
Suffer the little children
Mon-Weds off is a long weekend not a vacation. Dr. Denton you’ve earned more time off!
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
Whew. Much needed in these quarters.
Agreed! Mid-career peer mentoring can be an an excellent antidote to this.
Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
This is good questioning but we would not be in this position if Cassidy had simply held the line at Kennedy's confirmation. It's unclear how much of this antagonism is real and how much is for show, and for that, Cassidy has no one to blame but himself.
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Just now at The Atlantic Festival in New York, David Letterman to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”
OH MY GOD
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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One of many reasons I've been quiet on here recently. Plenty of work to be done to make the world better off of social media.
Every academic right now except it’s two things or maybe half a thing.
I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.
Why is the hepatitis B vaccine important to deliver at birth? The chance of developing chronic hep B differs based on the age at which a person is infected Chance of chronic hep B: Infants <1: 90% Kids 1-5: 30% Adults: 5% Chronic hep B can cause liver damage, cancer, & even death
I saw Anna and Chelsea speak last night and it was phenomenal. Can’t wait to crack open my new book #TheDoubleTax
The complete abdication of responsibility by Schumer and Jeffries is a big part of the story. They are lounging on the deck chairs, not even bothering to rearrange them as the ship goes down.
I think the whole “wait for the midterms” strategy has worked about as well as I thought it would.
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
Hey look, a dead canary.
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social I look forward to your piece defending ABC silencing Jimmy Kimmel.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
It’s long past time for BlueSky to implement private accounts. It’s a failsafe for if you get hit by a troll attack.
This number one tip on this advisory is to set public online profiles to private when facing harassment, which bsky does not allow, and which really should’ve been a feature implemented on day 1.
But by acting this way they are hastening the move in that direction. It’s short sighted for them to do this.
*looks directly at bsky devs*
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Our leading intellectuals managed to avoid the bullies their whole lives and have no idea how raw power works.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
good fucking night and good fucking luck
I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.
genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people
What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.
Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.
This is a bad sign.
It’s wild when the Economist is pulling their card. Shows you how far gone we really are.
It’s called demeaning.
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.
There will always be funding for telling rich people what they want to hear.
its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project
goodnight to all the dorks who make democracy possible
dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts
I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button
Props to Vanity Fair for having the balls to publish a piece like this in the current climate
The lack of quotes—the unwillingness to let Kirk speak for himself—is particularly revealing. I can think of no greater indictment of Charlie Kirk’s character than the fact that all his friends and colleagues seem to desperately want us to mourn him, but do not want us to remember him.
glad he fucking soaked Klein with this piece. what a dunk
If I were Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this about one of my pieces I would probably cry
coates is genuinely a generational writer
Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.
I just find everything feels a bit better when I watch this.
This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.
Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"
At the highest stakes moment since 1860, Schumer and Jeffries are completely failing the country.
College prez: we need more challenging ideas Goose: what ideas Goose: what ideas, motherfucker
New book haul (including the double tax by oomf @itsafronomics.bsky.social, which I am so overjoyed to finally have in my hands!!)
I became a first-time author today. 🥹 #blacksky #booksky
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I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book “The Double Tax” this afternoon. It’s engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that I’ve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. 😍 she gave Janelle James her flowers!
ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING ECONOMIC HISTORIANS CALLED #TheDoubleTax "exceptional" and "one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public". Can somebody PLEASE frame this entire review by @trevondlogan.bsky.social and hang it on my wall forever? This review has made my entire week.
Finding a Black woman therapist changed my life and the platform that helped me do that was Therapy for Black Girls. Which is why I am SO excited to share my interview with the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast about #TheDoubleTax and what it takes from Black women mentally and emotionally. #blacksky
lol "let's platform opinions steeped in dehumanization" uh... nah.
lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️
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