I'm heartbroken to say we lost my brother, Steven Attewell yesterday morning after a long struggle with cancer.

I'll put personal feelings and thoughts elsewhere, but given his and my community here, I want to talk about Steve's political and intellectual contributions.

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Another way of seeing the extent to which rent is skewing the CPI: Cleveland Fed's median CPI rose 4.6% over the last 12 months. Modifying it to ignore component weights in selecting the median item (which effectively de-emphasizes the heaviest-weighted rent items), it rose 2.9%

Was Looking at some CBO info related to inflation and interest rates and was very amused to realize that they forecast rising labor market participation for people 65 and older after a 'brief' dip over the next ten years.

Ismail Haniyeh wasn’t even targeted in the strike that killed his family. He’s in Qatar and Israel knows that. Israel can’t even use the argument that his children & grandchildren were “collateral damage.”

They were the sole target. Yet another undeniable war crime.

I 100% believe this should happen and i am sharing it even though my account's visibility is restricted because it's just that important.

TELL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: FIRE SHAI DAVIDAI - Sign the Petition! chng.it/GjdDWYFh via Change.org

The account limitation is a sign to take a break from tweeting (outside of posting quotes I find interesting that come up in research).

Lol.

NEW: Elon Musk was recently deposed in a lawsuit for falsely accusing a Jewish man of being part of a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk tried to keep his testimony from the public. Here it is. 🧵

huffpost.com/entry/elon-mus…

The funny thing about student debt relief is that non-college grads are the least likely to oppose it, and post-grads are most likely to oppose it

Yes, policymaking has tradeoffs and it’s very important to consider those when deciding on a course of action. So let’s think about what the actual tradeoffs are on pursuing targeted student debt relief via executive action. 1/

Things are going great here in Germany

The Israeli occupation forces destroyed PRCS vehicles in front of Al-Amal Hospital before withdrawing from the area. #NotATarget ❌ #IHL #لست_هدفا

Only 10 hospitals are partially operational to provide healthcare services for more than 2 million people in #Gaza . Humanitarians and aid agencies are also struggling to continue providing their lifesaving services amid the continuous attacks.
Nebal Farsakh, spokesperson for the…

Israeli airstrikes now on Nussairat in the central Gaza Strip