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Trevon Logan
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Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of the National Economic Association. In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, he was named the inaugural director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy. His research mainly focuses on economic history, including studies of African American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics of marriage transfers, and measures of historical living standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States. .. more

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JPAnalyst @jaydpauley.bsky.social · 4h
I’m jealous of Morgan Freeman. Not knowing who Pat McAfee is sounds like bliss.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
Now it’s “assimilation/culture” or whatever argument it takes to get to it the bottom line is always “we need this to be overwhelmingly White or else something is terribly, horribly wrong” and now that it’s been exposed for the 8,000,000th time let’s just put this to bed, ok?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 6h
Just like the racism that showed up again regarding the University of Texas- Austin this last week it’s an unfriendly reminder that folks have never needed grades, test scores, percentiles, or class rank to say any of their racist garbage. It has absolutely never been about “merit” so stop it.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 6h
I am too old to remember standardized test scores and percentiles. Yet it never fails that there is a large group of people, academics included, who need this information. Then I remember that (despite my advanced age) I was admitted to graduate school after affirmative action’s end, so now what?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone.

Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks?

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
www.nytimes.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h
MS NOW and CNN journalists were turned away from the White House this morning following Trump's announcement that he was banning several media outlets.
arlier this morning MS NOW journalists were denied access to the White House grounds. The White House belongs to the American people and the decisions made inside are funded by our tax dollars. MS NOW intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights and the essential role of independent journalism in our democracy. We stand firmly behind our anchors, our reporters, and our newsroom. We will continue to report on the President, the administration, and the issues that impact the American people. Early today, CNN journalists were denied access to the White House grounds. CNN's mission to report on the U.S. government will continue regardless of any attempts to restrict physical access to the White House and other government buildings, or any other attempts to impede our journalism. We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do our reporting without hindrance or interference from the government and this ban is an illegal assault on this fundamental right. We will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to account, and we will continue to report on the actions and processes of this administration without fear or favor. CNN stands fully behind our White House team.

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 7h
University of California, Berkeley (UCB) (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Scholar in Microeconomic Theory

#postdoc #econsky #microeconomictheory

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 20h
1. Congrats on the NYT coverage!
2. Anyone who wants to know more about class-origin pay gaps in top jobs (higher professional and managerial occupations)!in the US can see me & Sam Friedman's paper in Social Forces - overview & links at daniellaurison.com/the-class-ce...
The Class Ceiling in the United States - now out in Social Forces - DANIEL LAURISON
Sam Friedman & I just published an article on The Class Ceiling in the United States in Social Forces. You can access the article at Social Forces here and the preprint if you need it is here. The key...
daniellaurison.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23h
Come again?!!? This is 7 v 8

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23h
What are tickets going for?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d
We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us.

The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
www.nytimes.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
What I find most interesting is that in nearly every general education curriculum you’re offered a wide range of courses from a number of disciplines to fulfill requirements. These centers have little depth, so they are significantly and intellectually more restrictive than anything else on campus

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
You sure you’re not in South Bend? 🤣😂

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
Case in point…

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
This strategy has a pretty good track record, to be honest….

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d
“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.”

Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
www.texastribune.org

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
ESPN has become unwatchable. As a serious college football fan this pains me deeply. I do not know any sports fan who enjoys seeing McAfee or values his commentary, and he’s on everything at this point. ABC/ESPN does not know their audience, and they are turning people off.
esslater.bsky.social Eric Slater @esslater.bsky.social · 2d
ESPN is trash and unwatchable. That baseball broadcast last night was disgraceful. The anti-Mets bias was off the charts. I am not wrong about this. Shitty baseball coverage and the clown McAfee on virtually every show has ruined ESPN. It has officially jumped the shark. Shut it down.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
This may be more related to international student visa policy. Many MA economics programs have enrollment that is disproportionately non-US students.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
What Republicans are betting on at this point is that voters will be very, very angry about inflation and rather than blame GOP policy they’ll…well…blame transgender people, immigrants, and DEI. It’s a long shot for sure, but we can’t underestimate the effect of marginalized scapegoats on voters…

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TheArtisReport(GrandaddySpeaks) @grandaddyspeaks.bsky.social · 2d
FROM ESPN: Kyrie Irving has offered to pay Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair's $11,941 fine for having the name of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza in January. The child’s name was written on his eye black during Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills. Nice gesture.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
You either root out the White Nationalists from your party or you are rooting for them. Bo French has been endorsed by the Texas GOP establishment, and they’re not cutting ties. They are rooting for him.

Do with that what you will…
timothypmurphy.bsky.social Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
forget the fake-shocked statements over the weekend from people pretending not to know exactly who French is—this is the crux of it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
That French could be vulnerable in a race Republicans have long taken for granted speaks to both his party’s weak standing and his own. But the fact that he’s made it this far tells a troubling story. The state’s Republican leaders have mostly not renounced French. Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed him. Paxton has campaigned with him. The defeated incumbent—who once slammed French for his “ignorant bigotry” and “hateful attacks on the Jewish people”—has offered his congratulations. Because while French might say some things that others in his party won’t, or use language and imagery that many of them might avoid, the forces that increasingly power their movement are ones he embodies—Christian nationalism, internet-addled white supremacy, and a slow-building and then frighteningly sudden frenzy of state-sponsored Islamophobia. For a long time, much of the Texas GOP seemed to exist to serve oil and gas. Now the industry is a means to a culture-war end.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
This is bad. Like, very bad.
ljkawa.bsky.social Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 2d
JPMorgan’s commodities team:

“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
it's actually insane how terrible AI executives like Alex Karp here are marketing their products. he sounds like a complete lunatic on CNBC right now.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
Eventually people will need to wrestle with the fact that White Supremacy is not a losing political strategy. It’s not even exceptional, according to the media. Therefore we’re fixated on “too far left” Democrats because White Nationalism is inherently normalized in American politics.
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
forget the fake-shocked statements over the weekend from people pretending not to know exactly who French is—this is the crux of it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
That French could be vulnerable in a race Republicans have long taken for granted speaks to both his party’s weak standing and his own. But the fact that he’s made it this far tells a troubling story. The state’s Republican leaders have mostly not renounced French. Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed him. Paxton has campaigned with him. The defeated incumbent—who once slammed French for his “ignorant bigotry” and “hateful attacks on the Jewish people”—has offered his congratulations. Because while French might say some things that others in his party won’t, or use language and imagery that many of them might avoid, the forces that increasingly power their movement are ones he embodies—Christian nationalism, internet-addled white supremacy, and a slow-building and then frighteningly sudden frenzy of state-sponsored Islamophobia. For a long time, much of the Texas GOP seemed to exist to serve oil and gas. Now the industry is a means to a culture-war end.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
Florida GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to Trump: "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far ... The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
Anyway, to my colleagues in politically maligned but in-demand disciplines, I know it is hard to be this hot. All the weird dudes hate us and the other girlies want to be us.

Stay hot, anyway. Stay hot, my friends.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.

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Peter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 2d
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Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @ezrakarger.bsky.social :

We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data

2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here:

opencensus.us

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 2d
JPMorgan’s commodities team:

“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”