Great example of how state policy can impact employment in our discipline

I just cleared a 100GB of data from my inbox deleting unread emails that came up under a search for “Cory Booker”

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Is it in USD?

A diptyque

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles Wikipedia is done with AI slop.

I'm all for clear standards emerging on the AI generated knowledge front www.theverge.com/tech/901461/...

Why can't the U.S. just take over the Strait of Hormuz? | About That YouTube video by CBC News

I didn't know anything about the Straight of Hormuz, but it turns out, it could effectively be closed if insurance premiums become too expensive for tankers to go through it because of the war Trump started. youtu.be/z6QlFpPMPKQ?...

Republicans have 1.838 million votes in the primary with 78% of votes in

Isn't the bigger story in TX-Sen that the Dems got about the same amount of votes as the Republicans and the Dems have more votes left to count?

Somehow, in despite 10 years of increasingly deranged behavior from Trump and co, they find creative new ways to surprise me with their depravity.

There has been similar coverage on Axel Dumas, the head of Hermès, who ignored Epstein’s attempts to gain favor with him. It seems very easy to navigate away from Epstein if one had the desire to do so.

Given the size of the California education system, that’s pretty remarkable.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Someone keeps “winning” money on PolyMarkets placing six figure bets on us bombing Iran within hours of it happening.

It’s wild how Nextdoor disrupts the idea that people are mean and racist online because the internet is anonymous.

When I was living in France there was a massive scandal because a politician didn’t fly coach while on the public’s dime.

The descendants of slaves owned by Andrew Tarbutton are now fighting against a railroad company owned by his family to keep a farm that has been in their family for 100 years.

Tarbutton Hall is also the home of Emory’s political science and sociology departments.

I have subscribed and unsubscribed from the economist more than any publication because of this pattern. It’s a pain in the ass too. You have to call a 1800 number.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to reporters as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Chris Murphy on Trump’s State of the Union address: “These aren’t normal times and showing up for this speech puts a veneer of legitimacy on the corruption and lawlessness that has defined his second term”

Opinion | Has Trump Thrown the Democrats a Lifesaver?

Honored to have my job market paper quoted here on whether Trump can hold the Black and Latino voters he gained in 2024. The generational shifts I write about feel especially significant as we mourn the loss of Jesse Jackson. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE

On Sunday, the city of Social Circle said Homeland Security informed it of its purchase of a facility to detain immigrants. The large warehouse on E. Hightower Trail is expected to house up to 10,000 people and could open in April.

Social Circle has a population of about 5,000…

Only a spoon in her pocket b TikTok video by dolldilettante

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The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today.

"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."

Law Dork:

I read this in the NYT yesterday and your reporting is much better. Le’s politics weren’t even clear in their telling.

Somehow I feel like this fits with the observation that the liberal elite is harder to break into/more centralized than conservative elite

Graph showing a steep decline in the number of people employed by newspapers since 1992

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids

New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...