Dan Ludwinski
@dludwinski.com
Assistant Professor of Economics at Emory University's Oxford College.
I love teaching, and research healthcare.
I love teaching, and research healthcare.
I am ashamed at how my alma mater is caving in the face of authoritarian pressure.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am ashamed at how my alma mater is caving in the face of authoritarian pressure.
ICE agents are so much more lawless than the people they target.
Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ICE agents are so much more lawless than the people they target.
I'm so glad that Trump restored the meritocracy.
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm so glad that Trump restored the meritocracy.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
The US economy grew at a 3.8% rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than previously reported | CNN Business
The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest...
www.cnn.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Waiting with bated breath to see if Trump fires someone after the GDP numbers were revised up...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
This is the real defunding of police.
New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
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ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is the real defunding of police.
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A lo-fi bit of horse trading to bring back Obamacare subsidies for six months only to see them cut again is a bad strategy for Dems on every front.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
What’s Unmentioned in the Intra-Dem Shutdown Debate
As we’ve been discussing for a week there’s a big argument among...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A lo-fi bit of horse trading to bring back Obamacare subsidies for six months only to see them cut again is a bad strategy for Dems on every front.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
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Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
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The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
Shot:
"In his first term, [Trump] praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an 'unbelievable job on the drug problem' in the nation where Mr. Duterte’s government had sanctioned gunning down suspected drug dealers in the streets."
"In his first term, [Trump] praised then-President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an 'unbelievable job on the drug problem' in the nation where Mr. Duterte’s government had sanctioned gunning down suspected drug dealers in the streets."
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law.
2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US.
3. They are bragging about it.
This is why they fired the lawyers.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is why they fired the lawyers.
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Which, of course, is why he’s test-running military deployments in American cities. Eventually everybody realizes the rules no longer mean anything, and it comes down to main force.
September 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Which, of course, is why he’s test-running military deployments in American cities. Eventually everybody realizes the rules no longer mean anything, and it comes down to main force.
I signed it, and so should you!
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
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There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
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Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I signed it, and so should you!
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
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When African Americans applied to segregated southern universities, white officials would routinely dig into their personal lives to find any semblance of dirt that they could play up to pretend they were criminals and therefore unfit to attend the school.
President Trump’s attack on yet another Black woman in public office gives away the game – if you were still harboring any doubt – about his corrupt use of mortgage fraud allegations to target Democrats.
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How the New Attack on Lisa Cook Gives Away Trump’s Abuse of Power Game
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When African Americans applied to segregated southern universities, white officials would routinely dig into their personal lives to find any semblance of dirt that they could play up to pretend they were criminals and therefore unfit to attend the school.
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Not even remotely true. According to the Fed, the median and average sales prices for a home peaked in mid-2022 and have been slowly falling — despite several million migrants arriving. But due to high interest rates, the Home Price Index is still slowly rising.
August 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Not even remotely true. According to the Fed, the median and average sales prices for a home peaked in mid-2022 and have been slowly falling — despite several million migrants arriving. But due to high interest rates, the Home Price Index is still slowly rising.
So if this "anti crime" military presence is not for the benefit of DC residents, who is it for?
This is not a government for the people.
This is not a government by the people.
This is not a government for the people.
This is not a government by the people.
“79 percent of residents either somewhat or strongly oppose the efforts, compared to just 17 percent who backed” Trump’s takeover of DC police
Supermajority of Washington residents oppose Trump’s police takeover, poll finds
Just 17 percent of residents backed the effort to federalize the city‘s police department and deploy federal law enforcement officers.
www.politico.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
So if this "anti crime" military presence is not for the benefit of DC residents, who is it for?
This is not a government for the people.
This is not a government by the people.
This is not a government for the people.
This is not a government by the people.
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Endlessly credulous about the pretextual actions of an authoritarian.
It's not about mortgages.
It's not about antisemitism.
It's not about crime.
It's not about mortgages.
It's not about antisemitism.
It's not about crime.
You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Endlessly credulous about the pretextual actions of an authoritarian.
It's not about mortgages.
It's not about antisemitism.
It's not about crime.
It's not about mortgages.
It's not about antisemitism.
It's not about crime.
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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6 months later, with armored humvees and (as of tomorrow) military personnel carrying weapons of war through the capitol, with a concentration camp built in the florida everglades, with SCOTUS and circuit courts enabling this every step of the way, i think this framing has been entirely vindicated
the constitutional crisis is actually 25 years going, but most people shrugged their shoulders and kept moving because it was happening very slowly. we are now in the final constitutional collapse phase, which is moving orders of magnitude faster.
August 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
6 months later, with armored humvees and (as of tomorrow) military personnel carrying weapons of war through the capitol, with a concentration camp built in the florida everglades, with SCOTUS and circuit courts enabling this every step of the way, i think this framing has been entirely vindicated
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If politics corrupts economic data, it stops being useful. Businesses won’t trust it. Voters can’t hold leaders accountable. The value of data lies in the truths it reveals — lose that, and you lose everything.
August 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If politics corrupts economic data, it stops being useful. Businesses won’t trust it. Voters can’t hold leaders accountable. The value of data lies in the truths it reveals — lose that, and you lose everything.
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A monthly employment report isn't a privilege. It's the law.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A monthly employment report isn't a privilege. It's the law.
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h/t @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
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h/t @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
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david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.
August 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
david rose grew up in our community. his mom was an icu nurse at emory. his wife is pregnant and he had two kids. please share this & help if you can.
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Your regular reminder that your calls to your member of Congress matter—especially the ones we don't make.
August 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Your regular reminder that your calls to your member of Congress matter—especially the ones we don't make.
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What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...