Timothy Weaver
@timweaver.bsky.social
Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City tprweaver.com
Book conferences are a great benefit if you're in a book field and if you're negotiating an offer, ask for one. Even in person, they are an impressive bang for the buck.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3w agoIs there some guide to how fancy schools setup those book review things? You know, someone writes a book, their university pays to fly out big wigs who will read the book and offer feedback. I have no concept of timeline for these types of things.
Please, let’s not antagonize the aliens as well.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoUS confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space
Once you throw in the massive cost of the forever wars, the debt to gpd ratio would be even lower and completely manageable. All the talk about the cost of welfare state as being a driver of unsustainable debt is nonsense.
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
Can’t wait to get stuck into this from @masonbwilliams.bsky.social. It looks Iike essential reading and, in short, an absolute banger of a book.
Congrats to the geniuses who managed to concoct the perfect policy mix to transform a recovering economy into a stagflationary one, timed perfectly for the midterms. 👏👏👏
Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 2mo agoEmployers cut jobs in July, and job growth was revised down for May and June. Net result is that the pop in hiring that we saw earlier this year now seems to have largely evaporated. We've now averaged just +20,000 jobs/month over the past three months. #NumbersDay
If you exclude the mountains, Switzerland is basically flat.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃
His bid for world’s worst Catholic is going strong, I see.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoJD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”
Crucial to remember that major change is possible and that, because of political struggle, things are much better now than they were before the New Deal.
Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis Day in Labor History: June 25, 1938. FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation set the standards of labor that defined post-war America, including minimum wages, overtime pay, and the banning of most child labor. Like everything, it was also incremental.
It seems quite clear that Starmer was not a very good PM. However, it seems likely that Burnham will soon fall out of favor since he is unlikely to resolve the deep structural problems that people are very reasonably unhappy about. And round and round we go.
Urban Affairs Review@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 4mo ago🥁🥁🥁NEW on the UAR Forum! Check out our online symposium on Community Wealth Building from guest editors Nairuti Shastry and @neilmcinroy.bsky.social, feat. contributions on the theoretical background of CWB, case studies from Chicago, Scotland, and the Twin Cities, and future directions. Link 👇
🥁🥁🥁NEW on the UAR Forum! Check out our online symposium on Community Wealth Building from guest editors Nairuti Shastry and @neilmcinroy.bsky.social, feat. contributions on the theoretical background of CWB, case studies from Chicago, Scotland, and the Twin Cities, and future directions. Link 👇
The World Cup teams are warming up, and so are our affordability initiatives. We worked with @governor.ny.gov & others to secure a $25 price tag on 2,500 tickets for this weekend’s pre-World Cup ‘friendly’ matches at roadto26.com/nynj — and Sunday’s match is already sold out!
I wonder how many annual dental and medical evaluations he will have this year.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhite House says Trump will go to Walter Reed for his “annual dental and medical evaluations” on May 26
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2025, despite making $5.7 billion. This Tax Day, remember that you have paid more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar company—all thanks to corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Great video. All mayors want to show that the city is able to “do something.” Often this means performative policing, which means a lot of stop-and-frisk but no change in crime. Mamadani is taking a different path, placing emphasis on the public goods the city can should deliver.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo agoI was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
My Spring to do list by JD Vance 1. Prevent Iran war 2. Negotiate end to Iran war 3. Reelect Viktor Orbán
Delighted to be part of this symposium on Cedric’s wonderful book.
Urban Affairs Review@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW on the UAR Forum! A book review symposium on Cedric Johnson's "After Black Lives Matter," feat. commentaries by Touissant Losier, @bmcquade.bsky.social, Joseph Ramsey, @timweaver.bsky.social, and a response by Cedric Johnson. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/after-black-...
Regrettably that “miraculous protection” did not extend to the 13 dead, over 300 wounded, and estimated $2.1-$3.6 billion in damage to equipment. If god deserves all the glory, does he also deserve all the blame? Or does that lie with his faithful adherents on earth, I wonder?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoHegseth: "God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes, carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection."
There. Were. No. Books. You know what, you [signal drops]
404 Media@404media.co · 7mo agoThis is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Winners of the war so far: - Putin - The arms industry* I think that’s about it. *The arms industry generally wins.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoGen. Grynkewich: "The price of oil and has has gone up. We know that Putin depends on that. I think how much he benefits from it depends on how long those prices remain elevated. I know the president is watching this very closely."
A depressing but interesting conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social @newrepublic.com on the miscalculation (noncalculcation?) the Trump administration made over the Strait of Hormuz. There’s gonna be a Trump premium on oil for a while.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7mo agoTrump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him: newrepublic.com/article/2076...
