This cult-like behavior among people being considered for important positions should be disqualifying. Mullin got confirmed in spite of giving a similar non answer.

Simon Johnson and I have a new article out at
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, explaining why Section 122 does not authorize the administration's latest round of worldwide tariffs.

thedispatch.com/article/trum...

Simon Johnson and I have a new article out at
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, explaining why Section 122 does not authorize the administration's latest round of worldwide tariffs.

thedispatch.com/article/trum...

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president's $10 billion lawsuit Lawyers for Donald Trump ​and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against the tax ‌collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media i...

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

Bizarre stuff from the tankies over at Breitbart, who believe TPS is bad because it (also) benefits the capitalist roaders

I really don't like this 25A medicalization talk. "Fail a mental fitness test"? That frames this as if it's some unproven possibility of a particular mental illness, which is totally irrelevant. I don't care what boxes he checks in the DSM-5. That he's unfit for office is not a medical diagnosis.

EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT CBS: EMPEROR FULLY DRESSED

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.

That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

Roberts wrote the memo in 1983 for the Reagan White House amid questions over whether to renominate Volcker.

“The President cannot appoint ‘acting’ officers in the face of statutes requiring Senate confirmation, in the absence of an emergency situation.”

www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/digit...

Proud to be a signatory on and have my research on the negative economic impacts of immigration enforcement used in this amicus brief arguing the harms of proposed termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.

​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

Signatories include @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @chloeneast.bsky.social, @deliafurtado.bsky.social, @profzeke.bsky.social, @cjheinrich.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, and @pmoser.bsky.social.

The brief provides an overview of the overwhelmingly negative economic consequences of terminating TPS for most or even all beneficiaries.

I was pleased to join a distinguished group of economists in signing on to an amicus brief organized by @mclem.org in Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cases currently before the Supreme Court.

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

TL;DR: We explain that the evidentiary framework underlying the investigation is fundamentally flawed.

Emily Blanchard, Kyle Handley, and I just submitted comments on the Section 301 investigations of acts, policies, and practices of certain economies relating to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors: www.aei.org/articles/com...

nos.nl/artikel/2610...

Burlap and Barrel is good spices

You can turn off all notifications and live just fine. It's not a cool-guy luddite thing, I check my phone constantly, I really don't need a reminder to do it. The only notice I get from my phone is a buzz if it's ringing.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/b...

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Another possibility is this person is trying to secure extra time on the LSAT by creating a public record of severe brain damage

The Campus Protest Culture That Targeted Biden Goes Silent for Trump Figuring out why anti-war activism seems so subdued.

Not a knock on the article, which definitely touches on this aspect. But, having interviewed students who had to flee the country with only the things they could carry, a drop in on-campus activism, particularly around Israel and the ME, is not surprising.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-campus...

The one time Trump does something right!

posting pictures of myself with particularly expensive sheep (that i have hired for the day before I return to my cottage I share with four other influencers)

The Trump administration has appointed a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist as an immigration judge in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/r...

I had the privilege of organizing economist amicus briefs in support of the parties challenging the administration’s most recent round of worldwide tariffs. The cases are Burlap and Barrel, Inc. v. Trump. and Oregon et al. v. Trump, both before the U.S. Court of International Trade.