RIP, little guy! Farewell, Stumpy! 😢⁠ NPS confirmed that the famed cherry tree came down this morning a little after 11 AM.⁠ Read all about how Stumpy came to be here: bit.ly/3wG5c5I 📸: cbridner⁠ on IG #WashMagPhoto

Nice Ronald Brownstein piece out today. As I note within, "Trump is promising a no-holds-barred, all-out protectionist spree that will affect every single thing that people buy that is either an import or in competition with imports."

The most “definitely not Indian” I’ve been is right now taking notes from a Reddit thread about appropriate Indian wedding attire titled “Confused and Concerned White Person”

It's dangerous not to take these intentions seriously. For more on what happens if this happens, see piie.com/blogs/realtime… and piie.com/publications/p….

Sometimes I feel like I live in airports and occasionally venture out to talk about taxes

It's hard to communicate how much hope this clip has given rank-and-file Democrats across the nation this afternoon. My phone is blowing up.

A very fruitful first visit to UC Berkeley’s Stone Center. Thank you to Gabriel Zucman, Emmanuel Saez, and all the organizers/faculty for bringing together a great group of PhD students to study inequality in this picturesque setting

The tools I am armed with rolling up to the choice theory portion of prelims

I have a new paper exploring the role of college students’ beliefs about teaching in shaping their major and career decisions. In this paper, we survey students at a large selective public university (Go Blue). I want to highlight 5 findings. nber.org/papers/w32641

A powerful and timely paper on the effects of being transgender on labor market effects. So innovative to exploit name changes/gender switches on tax forms to do what survey data often can't: sharply estimate the earnings effects of coming out as trans.

I know some Dems are in knots over what to say right now, but I do think it's pretty straightforward: We should oppose political violence in all its forms, whoever it comes from, whoever it targets. We should oppose leaders who condone political violence. We should oppose

Was reminded today that my wifi, which I named before starting the first year, is all too relevant as we make the final prelim study push (If I haven’t responded to you, I will mid August!)

On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country. I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.

My HEART <3

I’ve seen the popular image of Tim Walz being hugged by the kids when signing the bill for free breakfast and lunch at schools, but this is my first time seeing the video and it’s very sweet.

CNN: VP Harris has selected MN gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate.

When your two worlds, South Asian woman and Minnesotan, collide on the ticket 🥹

As someone who filed HOH (head of household) many years, can attest that: (a) children are expensive (b) raising them as HOH is more economically difficult than raising them married, and yet (c) not all marriages should be preserved. thehill.com/opinion/financ…

For those who want more background on my well-considered trade views (distinguish those of my named chair, Eric Zolt) I recommend my book Open. Or my recent writing on tariffs from Peterson Institute, which backs up these claims in far more detail. (A longer piece linked in next tweet.)