@nick-reynolds.bsky.social
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Tim Walz: “This federal occupation of Minnesota long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. It's a campaign of organised brutality against the people of our state…today, that campaign claimed another life ... It's sickening."
January 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Tim Walz: “This federal occupation of Minnesota long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. It's a campaign of organised brutality against the people of our state…today, that campaign claimed another life ... It's sickening."
There is a beautiful mural on the side of the building where my son's birth was registered, commemorating the "Battle of Cable Street."
Find myself thinking about it recently much more than I would like.
Find myself thinking about it recently much more than I would like.
January 22, 2026 at 2:45 PM
There is a beautiful mural on the side of the building where my son's birth was registered, commemorating the "Battle of Cable Street."
Find myself thinking about it recently much more than I would like.
Find myself thinking about it recently much more than I would like.
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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never underestimate Dean's ability to throw a haymaker
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
uwapress.uw.edu
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
never underestimate Dean's ability to throw a haymaker
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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“This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate”
December 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate”
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is where the shameless weaponisation of antisemitism in defence of Israel's war on Gaza has led us
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Allegations of extreme forms of antisemitism can be discarded by stressing support for genocidal policies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This article is well worth reading.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This article is well worth reading.
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CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
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I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
I wrote a little thing about my research for the LSE Business Review.
(I did not pick the title or image 🙃)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
(I did not pick the title or image 🙃)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
What caused the American decline of the past 60 years? - LSE Business Review
A generational perspective provides a unifying view of many aspects of American decline (in education, labour and health) over the last 60 years.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I wrote a little thing about my research for the LSE Business Review.
(I did not pick the title or image 🙃)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
(I did not pick the title or image 🙃)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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I'm posting this as a pre-committment device to complete this by the end of the year.
15 years in the making (with the second R&R 5 years in the making - we have no expectations).
15 years in the making (with the second R&R 5 years in the making - we have no expectations).
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I'm posting this as a pre-committment device to complete this by the end of the year.
15 years in the making (with the second R&R 5 years in the making - we have no expectations).
15 years in the making (with the second R&R 5 years in the making - we have no expectations).
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Happening in America. Right now. To us.
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Happening in America. Right now. To us.
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It is an unspeakable perversion of our military to deploy it on US soil, against Americans.
Military rule will bring catastrophe for our Constitutional system and poison to all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.
We reject this lawless rampage. We will not normalize it.
Military rule will bring catastrophe for our Constitutional system and poison to all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.
We reject this lawless rampage. We will not normalize it.
September 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It is an unspeakable perversion of our military to deploy it on US soil, against Americans.
Military rule will bring catastrophe for our Constitutional system and poison to all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.
We reject this lawless rampage. We will not normalize it.
Military rule will bring catastrophe for our Constitutional system and poison to all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.
We reject this lawless rampage. We will not normalize it.
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Troops. In an American city. Using full force.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Troops. In an American city. Using full force.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
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Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
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Lurching, spasmic, incompetent chaos.
An alternative—which would be better for all Americans—is careful consideration, public debate, and transparency before extreme policy change. That is why we have procedures for legislation and rule-making, and we don't just sledgehammer with proclamations.
An alternative—which would be better for all Americans—is careful consideration, public debate, and transparency before extreme policy change. That is why we have procedures for legislation and rule-making, and we don't just sledgehammer with proclamations.
Good summary of the H-1B situation by @sampeak.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lurching, spasmic, incompetent chaos.
An alternative—which would be better for all Americans—is careful consideration, public debate, and transparency before extreme policy change. That is why we have procedures for legislation and rule-making, and we don't just sledgehammer with proclamations.
An alternative—which would be better for all Americans—is careful consideration, public debate, and transparency before extreme policy change. That is why we have procedures for legislation and rule-making, and we don't just sledgehammer with proclamations.
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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This makes a lot of sense.
Some of the UK’s most distinguished economists have written to the Chancellor warning that fiscal sustainability will not be achieved “without a significant further increase in public investment” to drive economic growth: www.thetimes.com/article/5acc...
Policymakers urge Rachel Reeves to tax ‘better-off older people’
Economists and academics tell the chancellor to stabilise the public finances by boosting investment with levies on wealth and stamp duty reform
www.thetimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This makes a lot of sense.