So here's where we are, Sunday morning: Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases. So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care. Dystopian.

Super exciting opportunity to gain first-hand field experience in Uganda and work with @seema.bsky.social, as well as @rdizonross.bsky.social, Isabelle Cohen and Fiker Negash! Apply now or share with someone you think is a good fit! #hiring #econRA #devecon #fieldresearch #healthcare

Princeton Research Program in Development Economics@princetondevo.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 FIELD JOB OPENING ALERT 🚨: @JohriTejal61310 is hiring a Senior Field Research Associate for a 3-month contract based in Uganda. See LinkedIn post linked below for more details and to apply!

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

Personalized policies made exercise incentives 80% more effective for people with lifestyle-related health conditions, without added costs. Research by @rdizonross.bsky.social (@chicagobooth.bsky.social) and Ariel D. Zucker shows tailoring programs can greatly boost results: ow.ly/Npga50W8rtu

Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise | Becker Friedman Institute

Making policy entails setting rules, regulations, and other guidelines with a desired outcome in mind. However, people respond differently to such efforts, and these heterogeneous responses necessaril...

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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Erik Uebelacker@uebey.bsky.social · last yr.

Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari: “Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

Good morning. A reminder that historically when the US has wanted to punish other countries, it imposed sanctions on them, cutting their people off from global trade, hoping to create enough economic havoc that they rein in their leaders. Trump has imposed economic sanctions on the American people.

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

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This is extremely good by Chris Murphy.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Donald Trump is a fascist. Americans of conscience must stand bravely against these attempts to silence speech and political dissent. Shame on Columbia’s administrators for their cowardice in a moment that demands institutional bravery.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Which universities will get a backbone and realize this is about white supremacy?!?! They don't actually care about Jewish students, about plagiarism, IT WAS ALL A RUSE. If you don't prioritize rich white men, they will punish you until you do.

This, plus a complete ban on federal contracts to Musk’s companies.

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · last yr.

The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations: 1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law 2) Elon Musk out of government 3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week. I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Demographic and Health Surveys, a major effort supported by USAID and widely used across the world, are also not currently available.

This is an absolute scandal. Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States. As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · last yr.

Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Yay very exciting indeed!

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited for my first AER:I pub (w/ @rdizonross.bsky.social). We use WTP for children's goods as a high-powered way to test how mothers vs. fathers spend on kids. Dads spend more on boys than girls. Moms don't. It's not an investment story--also holds for fun stuff. 📉📈 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...