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My latest "Professor Is In" explainer with @anacabrera.bsky.social was designed almost too perfectly for the present moment: Who uses economic data? Why does the government collect it, why must it be imperfect, and how does political interference undermine it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbn...
YouTube video by Justin Wolfers
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off of the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.
I listened for somewhat longer. @kyledcheney.bsky.social's coverage is predictably good.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The trial over the legality of the Guard in Los Angeles as Donald Trump forged ahead with a new deployment in Washington.
Heat extremes attributable to climate change have led to a 25–38% average reduction in tropical bird populations since 1950. The findings suggest climate change is already threatening bird populations in tropical regions even in absence of direct human pressure:
@natecoevo.nature.com #ecology 🌏
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution framework to identify a key role of heat extremes in causing changes in bird populations globally.
This is why jurisprudence is important www.huffpost.com/entry/multip...
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.
since Trump is instructing federal law enforcement to besiege D.C. bc of purported crime reasons, let's review this piece I wrote in June about how he keeps trying to legally justify his fascist bullshit by pointing to nonexistent 'emergencies'
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The White House’s response to protests of ICE raids in Los Angeles is stretching statutory language to the breaking point.
“This little report is basically designed to suppress science, not to enhance it or encourage it”
Researchers say that the report misrepresents decades of climate science go.nature.com/3J4TOWD
Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.
Cool then NIH stuff just wont get done at all
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
Why dont you guys mention that it's explicitly unconstitutional?
