👇🎯

Tl;dr: Support the liberal arts & fund the damn public universities like we used to

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1
#DV1
🗣US House NY21
Primary June 23
ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s...
@blakegendebien.bsky.social: a dairy farmer & founder of a non-profit for pediatric cancer patients.

He vows to work for farms & small businesses. blakegendebienforcongress.com

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

Iran, Oil, OPEC flash talk @uwmadison.bsky.social #EconSky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

My brother just published a book about his experience blowing the whistle at USAID. I am biased, but the book is gripping and important. Please read it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-t...

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

See where inflation went from decreasing to rising rapidly?

That’s when Trump and Senate Republicans took office.

In total, Lancet researchers found USAID prevented more than 91 million deaths over those two decades—including 30 million children under five.

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state.

This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

This is a death blow to US universities, which export billions of dollars of educational services through students from abroad who *pay full price* for college tuition, something only the very richest Americans do.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

UW must respond to state law defining speech | Samer Alatout The IHRA definition, accompanied by examples, frequently blurs the line separating antisemitism and criticism of Israel or Zionism as a political ideology. This unstable distinction can cast certain p...

madison.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

We’re demanding the immediate release of Rihan, a Cheshire High School student detained by ICE.
Rihan and his family entered the
US legally on humanitarian parole. His father helped US troops by working as an interpreter in Afghanistan. They were doing everything by the book to build a life here.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County.

Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

Right-wing plot to set up ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida are part of the effort to push conservative ideology on college students in the guise of civics education

Right-wing plot to set up ‘intellectual freedom’ centers at public universities

I think this could be a really important research study as we economists figure out how to do our craft in this new AI era. I'm excited by what Seth is doing, and wanna encourage folks to get involved.

Polls open in Wisconsin’s April 7 election • Wisconsin Examiner Polls open Tuesday at 7 a.m. for the Wisconsin 2026 spring election. Voters will decide a Supreme Court race and hundreds of local races.

Polls open in Wisconsin’s April 7 election. @henry-redman.bsky.social has the rundown.

buff.ly/ALuuOcw

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

This & the cancellation of Title VI/FLAS funding for foreign language & area studies pose existential threats to the social sciences at every R1 university in the country. And it's been ~total 🦗🦗 from our university presidents/chancellors & a total lack of public collective action.

Try extending that graph to the left. There's a reason it was truncated there.

This is a perfectly normal usage profile. Whenever a user joins a given site, there's a standard falloff curve where a fraction leaves. Since Bluesky's users have mainly come in spikes, that's just the normal curve.

As a result of Trump & Hegseth's re-segregation, all five service chiefs, the JCS chairman and vice chairman, and nine of ten combatant commanders are white men.

Also, the U.S. military is back to zero female four-star officers for the first time since 2008; there were four in 2024.

QUIZ QUESTION: What other ethno-fascist regime was asking folks whose country they illegally occupied to not hide compatriots from a religious community they had scapegoated, and ended up sending troops to search for people in hiding in homes? 🤔

Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development (April 2026) - We study how international migrant income prospects affect long-run development in origin areas. We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis exchange rate shocks in a shift-share identi...

"Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development"
American Economic Review, April 2026

With @econgaurav.bsky.social (Gaurav Khanna), Emir Murathanoglu, and Caroline Theoharides

doi.org/10.1257/aer....

yeah they're gonna demand an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon to reopen the Strait, which your local TACO-obsessed equities trader appears completely oblivious to