Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb.

(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)

www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

There are a lot of USAID post-mortems out there. I read 18 of them and wrote about what they get wrong.

In short, the problem is that the development sector’s reckoning with the destruction of USAID has been largely unmoored from what actually happened
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

What Danielle said.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%

Let me put that another way.

President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...

Kim’s mother:

“I immigrated here to the States - I thought I understood it was a country of equal rights where the Constitution applies equally.”

My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

@rglenner.bsky.social advocates for radically simplifying how we do aid (and how we communicate it).

www.youtube.com/live/uvyFva0... (starts at 10m30s) #ABCDE2025

The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds.

Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care.

Can a small pilot project still be effective when scaled up to reach millions? New evidence shows digital advisory can help farmers who experience weather shocks to obtain higher yields.

Read today's article to learn more:

Developing a rapid diagnostic could save thousands of newborn lives and slow AMR.

Read the full series to learn more: www.cgdev.org/blog/case-pr...
@siddhharia.bsky.social @cgdev.org @rrolapp.bsky.social

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

The Paper Skygest feed is nice for getting (most) research related posts in one place bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hang on what ranks ahead of this in the neighborhood??

Every year South Asia’s brick kilns spew as much CO₂ as the entire U.S. car fleet. Kilns poison the air that 2 billion people breathe—and kill over 50,000 annually

A new study in Science shows how simple fixes can clean air, cut emissions & improve public health🧵⬇️

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.

WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?

TRUMP: I don't know

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Happy to share this new @voxdev.bsky.social post summarizing findings from our recent JDE paper on the effects of relaxing multiple agricultural productivity constraints in a program operating at scale

Blog post: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Paper (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...