Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

My Dearest,
I take pen in hand to report on our latest labors. This day we were ordered to spread mulch across the grounds, a campaign of no small exertion. The sun beat upon us as though to test our mettle, yet we pressed on, each man laying down his portion as if fortifying the earth itself.

Let me make sure I have this right: the FBI is going to track down the locations of people who have committed no federal crime because they are not showing up to their job and are preventing the implementation of the president’s will?

The Trump admin is a circus filled w/ clowns & Trump as ringleader always trying to divert attention from a failing part of the show to the next. We can’t let him distract us from the admin’s failures in TX https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?smid=url-share

A 4-day stay in the cardiac unit of a hospital (I'm fine) left me with 2 observations. The ability of cardiac nurses to explain things, calm worries, & manage large caseloads is just amazing. It is inexcusable that hospitals don't blare "Shock the Monkey" prior to any electrical cardioversion.

Just when I thought that I had started to wrap my head around just how stupid, self-defeating, and malicious the Trump tariffs are this excellent piece from @cullenhendrix.bsky.social underscores just how much worse they really are www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic.

Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

1 week in & the president has (1) seized budget authority from Congress, (2) pardoned violent insurrectionists, and (3) made territorial demands on an ally where the U.S. already has a military base, resulting in another ally offering troops in defense. Not great www.politico.eu/article/fran...

My two Great Pyrenees at daycamp with their pal, Jeanie. I guess you can say that they’re engaged in “Pyr review”.

As folks think about the stories about the Trumpification of the US military, here's my piece on the consequences www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

After the last two weeks, definitely needed that Gator win today.

Having just reviewed a 30-page paper with a 70-page appendix of supplementary analyses, I feel like we really need to talk about how broken our political science peer-review process is for authors.