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David Stein

@davidstein.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every obituary for neoliberalism remains premature
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Notable: Paul Volcker’s father—his hero—was the city manager of Teaneck, NJ.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
Please share my post, share my outrage and sign, and share this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López
The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“Garcetti will advise the company on public-private partnerships, government policy and urban infrastructure strategy, according to Metropolis.” 😐 mynewsla.com/business/202...
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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
stay creative. after Baby Beluga (1980) 🐳, I didn’t worry about how I would top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later came Bananaphone! 🍌 and 32 years after that, Penny Penguin. 🐧
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: This is my Alan Greenspan obituary... but really I'm honoring the late congressman Henry B. Gonzalez. Like reading FOMC transcripts? You have him to thank. I also have a question for Warsh in his Humphrey Hawkins hearing today www.crisesnotes.com/alan-greensp...
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Alan Greenspan’s Death is a Chance to Remember the Heroism of his Most Powerful Critic
This is a free piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe to support our work. Subscribe Today! When I first learned of Alan Greenspan’s death at the age of 100 a few weeks ago, my first th...
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Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Working on finishing up a law review article for the upcoming submission cycle? ICYMI, the final version of @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & my essay "The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship" is now online at the Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
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THE PART IV PROBLEM IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP - Columbia Law Review
Introduction As legal scholars, we have tremendous freedom to choose what we study and how we study it, to engage with the relationship between how law is and what legal arrangements might help move u...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I’ve been thinking for a while that Slaughter and the preceding decisions are really attacks on the idea of law itself. So I’m very glad to see @nathantankus.bsky.social taking up this argument. www.crisesnotes.com/agency-indep...
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: It finally happened, Unitary Executive Theory minus the Federal Reserve is the law of the land. In today's piece I explain what it all means. www.crisesnotes.com/agency-indep...
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Agency Independence in One Agency: Humphrey’s Executor is Cowering in the Basement of the Eccles Building
Today is the 6th anniversary of Bloomberg Businessweek's profile on me, which forever changed my life. Its so long ago now that many readers may not actually be familiar with it, so I'm linking to it ...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What do you suppose would be left of the American socialist tradition, if historically we'd limited immigration to what "our political culture can absorb"?
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This piece is phenomenal. Someone contact Nathan and publish it soon.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Having trouble placing my Greenspan obit because I got going pitching places too late in the cycle- most places have one in the works & so many outlets have gigantic editing backlogs rn. Contact me on signal at username Nathantankus.01 or email me at crisesnotes[at]gmail[dot]com to express interest.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out? It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom. www.pennpress.org/978151282990... If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Must read piece on this wild stat: More than 400 day cares in Oklahoma have gone out of business since November. Don't miss the parents sending their kid to live in a different state b/c they don't have care. It's past time for universal childcare! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
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The Last Day at Kids of Faith: Parents Navigating a Child Care Crisis
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 02/04/2026
Our democracy is at a crossroads, and the old policy playbook—tax credits, privatization, vouchers—is failing us. It’s like using a hammer to drive a screw. To build a #GoodLife for all Americans, we need more than market-focused fixes. We need public goods and services. 🧵
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
New @suzmkahn.bsky.social 🚨
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thrilled to have this paper out in the world. We can't restore democracy without restoring faith in its ability to deliver for people. Public options are part of the toolkit we need to do that.
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Trevor Griffey @trevorgriffey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social is developing new ways to pit #highereducation workers against each other: 1) put faculty on management bargaining teams; 2) require teachers to pick up the work of striking TAs and graders; 3) make faculty collect TA/RA timesheets; and 4) offer $ for adjuncts to scab.
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
RIP, Jesse Jackson “Mr. Reagan curbed inflation by cutting consumer demand. He cut consumer demand with conscious and callous fiscal and monetary policies…Mr. Reagan brought inflation down by destabilizing our economy and disrupting family life.” (1984 DNC Speech)
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Congratulations @davidstein.bsky.social! Read "Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Money: Racial Capitalism, Stagflation, and Unemployment as Economic Policy" from the Dec 2024 issue of American Quarterly on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE - Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Money: Racial Capitalism, Stagflation, and Unemployment as Economic Policy
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff. Required reading for UC workers! jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
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Statement from the American Economic Association
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excited to share that this article received honorable mention for the Constance M. Rourke prize for best article in American Quarterly. Congrats to Sam Ikehara and all the other winners! www.theasa.net/about/news-e...
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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 02/11/2025
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025
This article presents the end of the PPFP as a done deal, but it’s not—until the chancellors’ meeting this afternoon.
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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025
I am very concerned about anticipatory compliance at UC. Provost Katherine Newman has opted to defund a critical program called the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP). This incredibly selective postdoc has provided a route to UC faculty for many of my most valued colleagues. +
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The UC President axed a signature part of our Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). UCOP cites the budget, but PPFP is a key program the Trump admin is threatening us over. UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"[William McChesney Martin's] segregationist commitments thus define what the ideology of Federal Reserve independence has meant in practice." - @nathantankus.bsky.social Periodic reminder that nobody is doing it like Nathan.
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tremendous historical work from Nathan here. You should subscribe to Notes on the Crises.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-19...
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BOMBSHELL: 1951-1970 Federal Reserve Chair Bill Martin Was a Committed Segregationist
This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was born and raised in Milledgeville Georgia, about a 100 miles away from Atlanta. She also shares a birth year with...
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Quite an honor to be on the podcast / show that I’ve listened to for more than 15 years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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Bayard Rustin, Movement Tactician
Podcast Episode · KPFA - Against the Grain · 10/20/2025 · 15m
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Tune into the Against the Grain show on Berkeley's KPFA Radio this coming Monday at 12:05 PM PST for an in-depth chat with David Stein, a contributor to "Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics." Tune in worldwide at kpfa.org. @kpfa.org @davidstein.bsky.social
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.* The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Weeks earlier, when I’d messaged Alex, he had said that everyone he knew used ChatGPT in some fashion, but that he used it only for organizing his notes. In person, he admitted that this wasn’t remotely accurate. “Any type of writing in life, I use A.I.,” he said. He relied on Claude for research, DeepSeek for reasoning and explanation, and Gemini for image generation. ChatGPT served more general needs. “I need A.I. to text girls,” he joked, imagining an A.I.-enhanced version of Hinge. I asked if he had used A.I. when setting up our meeting. He laughed, and then replied, “Honestly, yeah. I’m not tryin’ to type all that. Could you tell?”
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I miss @adybarkan.bsky.social every day. This last week especially, his call on all of us to do what we each can to @beaheroaction.bsky.social has been ringing louder than ever in my ears. Grateful to spend a bit of e-day with @rscar.bsky.social & @ Sarah Johnson.
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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ady would have LOVED it.
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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Last NYC mayoral post (pretending I still live in NYC is my favorite hobby). Zohran’s win is huge but part of the reason it feels so transformative is this partnership. The love for Brad at Zohran’s party last night was palpable. Can’t wait to see them building a better New York together.
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander with their arms around each other during Zohran’s victory speech.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Today, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social examines the reactionary vision of governance emerging under the Trump administration—and offers a progressive alternative focused on dismantling systems of domination.
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Anti-Domination and the Future of Progressive Administration
The Trump administration is simultaneously dismantling, weaponizing, and centralizing state capacities in order to enact a reactionary vision of administration — one which seeks to roll back efforts…
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 23/06/2025
🚨TOMORROW: You still have time to join @davidstein.bsky.social,‬ @iraregmi.bsky.social‬, @bilalb.bsky.social‬ and Clara Mattei for this important conversation.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Clara Mattei and @davidstein.bsky.social are precisely the people we need to hear from in this moment. Join us tomorrow so that we can make some sense of what history tells us about austerity and how we understand the current moment!
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 20/06/2025
Decades of austerity have gutted public programs. We need bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people. On June 24 we're unpacking the chaos unleashed by Musk & Trump’s "Dept of Government Efficiency" 👇​​ rooseveltinstitute.org/event/...
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Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity’s Endgame - Roosevelt Institute
Join the Roosevelt Institute on June 24 for a critical conversation on the roots and repercussions of this moment.
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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I’ll be speaking at this exciting @rooseveltinstitute.org event on Tuesday with Clara Mattei, @bilalb.bsky.social, and Ira Regmi. And I’ll be bringing one of the best charts of New Deal economic analysis you’ll ever see.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 16/06/2025
Trump and Musk’s “efficiency” agenda isn’t about fixing the government—it’s about breaking it. Join us June 24 as experts unpack the harms of austerity politics and chart a path toward a government that serves the people. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 13/06/2025
DOGE promised “efficiency.” It delivered chaos. 📅 Join us on June 24 for a conversation on how DOGE used the austerity politics playbook to undermine democracy and strip down essential public services. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...
Event flyer for 'Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity's Endgame' webinar on June 24, 2025, featuring speakers from Roosevelt Institute and universities, with an image of the U.S. Capitol and dollar bills in the background.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Jacobin seems to have decided to be the official journal of the anti-tolerance, anti-personal autonomy left. If you are a socialist who thinks that kids these days have it too easy, and that all those druggies should be back in jail, then they're the journal for you. jacobin.com/2025/06/futu...
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Summer is here, and nothing says 'beach read' quite like these scorching hot analyses of rent control, eviction processes, and profit-push inflation. 🏖️
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