Gerald Friedman
LightNews LightNews
banner
gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman
@gfriedma.bsky.social
1.3K followers 510 following 7.3K posts

Professor Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Graduate of Columbia (BA) and Harvard (PhD). Author of numerous works in labor history, heterodox economic theory, and Medicare for All. Most recent book is The Case for Medicare for All .. more

Videos

Gerald Carl Friedman is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He became nationally prominent during the 2016 U.S. presidential election after writing an analysis of Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders campaign's policies in which Friedman concluded that these policies would produce significant economic growth in the United States if they were enacted. Friedman also received strong backlash for these remarks, from editorial pundits and fellow academics. .. more

Political science 35%
Sociology 19%
Posts Replies Media Videos

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 29m
Don't encourage him!
lisalisa42.bsky.social LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 21h
Hey Trump -- Putin has been killing Christians in Ukraine for 4 years, why aren’t you bombing Russia?

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

marcelias.bsky.social
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 34m
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was ending his National Guard deployment in Los Angeles and his attempted military takeovers in Chicago and Portland. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Pulls National Guard from Los Angeles, Ends Attempted Deployments in Portland and Chicago
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

sbagen.bsky.social
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 42m
While I'm watching the Michigan game, I decided to upload this paper to SSRN. Happy New Year!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Rethinking the Fund Termination Sanction
<p>Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its cognate statutes authorize the federal government to withhold funds from grantees found to have violated the
papers.ssrn.com

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Ann Bartow

acyn.bsky.social
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h
Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct?

Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 1h
www.dollarsandsense.org/forsake-some...
Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest
How U.S. Home Insurers Are Responding to Climate Change
www.dollarsandsense.org

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 1h
They are running out of ways to protect Trump
brienneofsnark.bsky.social Brienne of Snark @brienneofsnark.bsky.social · 7h
So, they just aren’t releasing any more Epstein files and hope we don’t notice?

Is that the game?

Dumb.

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 1h
Remember Putin steals Ukrainian children
sterlingc69.bsky.social SterlingC69 @sterlingc69.bsky.social · 1d
Trump says, Putin said he wants Ukraine to succeed. ALL WHILE HE MURDERS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN UKRAINE.
That is the one of the most RIDICULOUS statements I've ever heard. Trump is a BUFFOON.

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Timothy D. McBride

acyn.bsky.social
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h
Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 1h
Wow
Trump Shared Clip Calling to Remove Kennedy Name From Kennedy Center - MeidasTouch News share.google/fsfAk0NVZDSo...
Trump Shared Clip Calling to Remove Kennedy Name From Kennedy Center
The segment Trump posted claimed Kennedy had been “elevated to obscene levels”
share.google

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

jetjocko.bsky.social
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2h
My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 2h
U.S. Vaccination Rates Are Plunging
DISASTER
politicalwire.com/2025/12/31/u...
U.S. Vaccination Rates Are Plunging
"Vaccination rates among kindergarten students have plunged across broad swaths of the United States since before the pandemic, exposing children and families to increasing health risks as many school...
politicalwire.com

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 2h
Conscience of a Nation
Great book about a great American
politicalwire.com/2025/12/31/c...
Conscience of a Nation
A good read: Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) recommends the book saying it "tells the story I never knew, of how passionate abolitionist Charles Sumne...
politicalwire.com

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 2h
Corduroy loves winter snow

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 2h
Because of RFK and Trump and MAHA, more will die

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 2h
#Epsteinfiles

youtube.com/shorts/DLO7Y...
BREAKING: Attorney for survivors estimates only 1% or Epstein Files have been released
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
youtube.com

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

santiagomayer.com
Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h
2025 sucked.

In hopes of a better 2026, I am pleased to present the 5th annual batshittery bingo card.

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards , and 7 more

kyledcheney.bsky.social
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

rbreich.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5h
We need #medicareforall

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5h
Health Care Costs Spike for 22 Million Americans politicalwire.com/2025/12/31/h...
Health Care Costs Spike for 22 Million Americans
"It’s a near certainty that enhanced subsidies for health insurance purchased on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will expire at year’s end amid political gridlock — and some consumers are poised t...
politicalwire.com

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5h
Trump punishes Colorado
thehill.com/policy/energ...

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5h
For me it was Pride and Prejudice
mkat90.bsky.social runawaymaryk @mkat90.bsky.social · 19h
Aaaand my favorite book I read this year was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë!

I feel a bit behind reading through a lot of classics for the first time at 35, but this one really surprised me. I thought it would feel outdated and slow but that wasn’t the case for me at all. Wish I had read it sooner!

gfriedma.bsky.social
Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5h
He beat RFK Jr and Noem and everyone at DOJ? Tough field!
sher12.bsky.social sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 8h
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year - The New Republic

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

falsegoderos.swifties.social
Zy. 🪐 ⁴⁴⁵⁵ @falsegoderos.swifties.social · 5h
HAPPY NEW YEAR BLOOMFIES!!!!!!! thank you for being part of my 2025, can't wait to take on 2026 with you all 🤍
Snoopy with a polkadotted party hat and 3 Woodstocks (birds) with "Happy", "New", and "Year!" placards

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 5h
‘Heartbreaking’: Florida wildlife groups decry state-sanctioned bear hunt
www.theguardian.com
‘Heartbreaking’: Florida wildlife groups decry state-sanctioned bear hunt
twp.ai

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Steve Peers, Samuel L. Perry , and 5 more

atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

joncooper-us.bsky.social
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social
Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 6h
Trump has harsher words for the Governor of Colorado than he does Vladimir Putin. That is because Donald and his idiotic family have been owned by the Russian mob for decades and YES they know ALL about his sordid history with Jeffrey Epstein. Stop him in 2026, USA.

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Olivier Mannoni

nashishereforit.bsky.social
Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 6h
She’s exactly where she deserves to be, but how wild is it that the President of the United States is wishing citizens the worst and wants them to rot in hell?

Wild times, folks…

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

aaronsojourner.org
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7h
New claims for unemployment insurance fall 7% to low 199K in week ending (WE) 12/27.

Continuing claims up 6% to 1.977 million.

The low-fire, low-hire labor market keeps on.
#NumbersDay