ashish arora
LightNews LightNews
ashish arora
@ashisharora.bsky.social
1.4K followers 920 following 590 posts

economics, innovation, and random stuff

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora

Videos
Economics 46%
Business 41%
Posts Replies Media Videos

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Mariana Mazzucato, Stephen M. Walt , and 170 more

brucespringsteen.net
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 1d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be

Reposted by Ashish Arora

bretdevereaux.bsky.social
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d
Any halfway sane administration (or regime) would want to move heaven and earth to make the bad videos out of Minneapolis stop - confirming a narrative (ICE out of control!) is more potent and easier than creating one.

But this is the Trump administration and they just aren't that competent.
patrickwyman.bsky.social Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d
They've given the literal dumbest guys in America a military arsenal, a blank check, and immunity to do whatever they want. How fucking stupid do you have to be to break into a consulate?
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant

Reposted by Ashish Arora

fintwitter.bsky.social
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10d
FRANCE INTENDS TO DECLINE INVITATION TO JOIN TRUMP’S BOARD OF PEACE AT THIS STAGE - SOURCE CLOSE TO MACRON
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
Or, perhaps, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" ?

Reposted by Ashish Arora

robertstavins.bsky.social
Robert N. Stavins @robertstavins.bsky.social · 10d
A must-read essay! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump
He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately
open.substack.com

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
cool. So not monopsony and not competition. Oligoposony?
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
yup.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 10d
who were the committee members? What have they to say for themselves?

Reposted by Ashish Arora

theguardian.com
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d
Did God fix a football match? Welcome to the great divine intervention debate | Ravi Holy
Did God fix a football match? Welcome to the great divine intervention debate | Ravi Holy
Vicars and others devout – and some who are desperate – do a lot of praying for things but it's complicated. There are definitely dos and don'ts, says vicar Ravi Holy
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Mark Rice

robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d
Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Susan Strasser , and 1 more

maddow.bsky.social
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10d
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

Reposted by Kevin O’Rourke, Ashish Arora, Tim Bale

jdnalton.bsky.social
James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 10d
"If you don't want it, I know a guy in America who'll take it."
Brahim Diaz receives the Golden Boot from FIFA President Gianni Infantino during presentation at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) final between Senegal and Morocco at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat (2026)

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · 14d
Two different points. (a) For a lot of reasons, global migration is likely to become more difficult in the years to come. Decline in native born (don't know of a more politically correct term) creates lots of callenges. (b) Where are the "we are a country of laws" folks in the Republican party
mclem.org Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14d
That 1965 law overturned African exclusion, which had been enacted in 1924, alongside the completion of pan-Asian exclusion (by adding Japan) and the exclusion of Jews+Catholics by proxy (severe restrictions on Southern and Eastern Europe).

'Laws' that presidents can suspend at will are not law.

Reposted by Ashish Arora

mayuzane.bsky.social
Mayu Zane. comics,paintings,games. Commissions open @mayuzane.bsky.social · 14d
Just sharing source in case anyone's looking for it www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-... The guy was very meticulous, documented the entire method of training crows
Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats as there's 'no longer a moral option'
A man has gone viral after training a murder of crows to swoop down and snatch MAGA hats from unsuspecting Trump supporters, documenting his months-long experiment
www.dailystar.co.uk

Reposted by Ashish Arora

imbernomics.bsky.social
Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 14d
Blast this guy everywhere.
statuscoupnews.bsky.social Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 14d
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Reposted by Ashish Arora

mclem.org
Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14d
That 1965 law overturned African exclusion, which had been enacted in 1924, alongside the completion of pan-Asian exclusion (by adding Japan) and the exclusion of Jews+Catholics by proxy (severe restrictions on Southern and Eastern Europe).

'Laws' that presidents can suspend at will are not law.

Reposted by Ashish Arora

wgrumblepants.bsky.social
WG RumblePants @wgrumblepants.bsky.social · 14d
#VillageCricket

Reposted by Ashish Arora

mclem.org
Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14d
Americans reject lawless military rule.

It will come to harm all of us. Citizen and not, Conservative and Liberal.
statuscoupnews.bsky.social Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 14d
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · Dec 27
A key point of difference is the possibility of a draw -

Reposted by Ashish Arora

bretdevereaux.bsky.social
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Dec 27
In actual fact, one remarkable thing about Roman citizenship is that,.like American citizen, it was generally 'all or nothing' - a newly enfranchised veteran was instantly every bit a citizen as the bluest blooded senator.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 7 more

paolosandro.bsky.social
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Dec 26
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well. Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

Reposted by Ashish Arora

craignewmark.bsky.social
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · Dec 26
Merry Christmas from Hatbird!

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Brian Keegan

manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · Dec 26
In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.

I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Brendan Nyhan, Michael A. Clemens , and 1 more

tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · Dec 21
Elon Musk is spreading nonsense conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election again. This “report” comes from The Federalist, a propaganda rag for the Trump regime.

Long story short: there was a statewide hand recount in GA. Biden’s victory confirmed. No law broken. This is nonsense.

Reposted by Ashish Arora

donmoyn.bsky.social
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Dec 7
I do think one think that Trump and the broader right wing political movement have been successful about is convincing lots of people that the only real accountability are elections (at least when they win). They are lots of forms of govt accountability!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
"Unelected Bureaucrats" Are More Accountable Than You Think
Democratic accountability takes many forms other than elections
donmoynihan.substack.com

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Jonathan A. Eisen, Joe R. Feagin , and 13 more

murray.senate.gov
Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Dec 6
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Dorothy Bishop, Graeme S. Cumming , and 9 more

jeffyoungblood.bsky.social
Jeff Youngblood @jeffyoungblood.bsky.social · Dec 5
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · Dec 4
MMT - between the tautological and the tendentious
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Dec 3
Agree with @jomichell.bsky.social here.

My earlier piece: "The claim that that MMT means that a future government can dodge hard choices about how to pay for decent public services is just plain nonsense."

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

ashish arora @ashisharora.bsky.social · Dec 4
Tangent: are we completely giving up on the distinction between less and few?
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Dec 4
Republican women in the house accusing trumps handpicked speaker of …. Sexism

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Reposted by Ashish Arora

mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Dec 4
Republican women in the house accusing trumps handpicked speaker of …. Sexism

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...