Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanCenter for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@rokhanna.bsky.social believes in overturning Citizens United and banning Super PACs and explains why you should too #mostlyeconomics 121
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Listen to this re who Jeffries is meeting!! youtu.be/U-xT3ilk51c?...youtu.beChris Christie Unloads on the Kushners in Interview with The Fifth ColumnYouTube video by The Fifth Column - A Podcast 000
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities. 430108555456
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025prospect.org/2025/12/03/f... “Why was an economist who made mistake after mistake treated like a seer by these institutions? The answer, I think, is that if you are the American oligarchy, Larry Summers is exactly who you want making economic policy for Democrats.”prospect.orgFormer Economist Larry Summers - The American ProspectThe American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckon... 040
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 14/12/2025theconversation.com/larry-summer...theconversation.comLarry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for womenIn 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women. 010
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...independent.co.ukTop economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequalityHundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit... 021
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win 473711847
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanKatherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025The gov't doesn't have the exclusive power to (mis)interpret the law, the people can give it meaning too under the principle of popular sovereignty. The law doesn't treat protests ag immigration raids as a "rebellion" & I explain why (and provide signs!). youtu.be/bIEhD2hw2oMyoutu.beProtest is Not RebellionYouTube video by Katherine Franke 0105
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanBusiness and Human Rights Centre @business-humanrights.org · 01/09/2025🚨Under 2 weeks to go! Don't forget to register for our flagship panel discussion: the Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2025. It’s online and free to attend. This year we'll be tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time: accountability of Big Tech. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 011
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 29/08/2025www.propublica.org/article/trum...propublica.org“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism PreventionOne year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v... 010
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It's small comfort or help to have predicted all this so accurately, but here we were naming "autocratic capture" several years ago and now the WH is assigning companies "loyalty ratings." (that story in the reply) protectdemocracy.org/work/desanti...protectdemocracy.orgWhat is autocratic capture? DeSantis's war on Disney, explainedDeSantis’s attacks on Disney in Florida use a process called autocratic capture and mimic democratic erosion around the world. 616680
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 15/08/2025www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTulsi Gabbard once blasted Trump for being a warmonger and protecting al-QaedaThat was when she was a founding fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute. 020
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanLaura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Tulsi #Gabbard - revisionist? Ask Susan Sarandon. In 2019 Gabbard sounded off against #government #corruption and #lies, at #BernieSanders’ Institute with lefties, Susan #Sarandon, Ben Jealous, Radhika Balakrishnan, Jim Zogby. She’s revised her entire persona since. Her credibility is ZERO.youtu.beTulsi Gabbard, in 2019, on Government Corruption and Lies YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends 085
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Maria Farmer is a strong inspiring survivor of Maxwell and Epstein’s abuses. She’s right when she says pedophilia is not a partisan issue but rather a societal problem. We need to give a voice to the victims who want to testify and trust them. We should not rely on an abuser to know what happened. 4660802328
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message. 789192687096
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanINET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · 27/06/2025What counts as work & what doesn't? 🤔 Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=I6xNW6K_RG0youtube.comWhat is Work? [Nancy Folbre]YouTube video by New Economic Thinking 056
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before. 922143845504
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025live.ilo.org/event/specia...live.ilo.orgILO Live - Special Session: Normative Frameworks for Social JusticeHeld under the auspices of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, this high-level session will explore how normative frameworks—anchored in international labour standards and rights-based economic p... 010
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025America's superrich emerged in two phases: predatory finance followed by quasi-monoplies based on network effects paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...paulkrugman.substack.comInequality, Part IV: OligarchsThe rise of mega-fortunes 31983313
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud": 1033860924
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanInstitute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 20/05/2025Our capital gains tax system seems complex, but it boils down to this: The more profitable an investment proves to be, the lower the effective tax on the gains that investment generates. "You could not design a more regressive tax system," writes @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:inequality.orgAmerica's Most Regressive Tax Levy: Our Tax on Capital Gains - Inequality.orgOur capital gains effective tax rate shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge that’s driving America’s wealth concentration. 013
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Just open, brazen, persistent, shameless grift and corruption and conflict of interests:nytimes.comDonald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President TrumpThe president’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father. 911897503
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is a thousand times more of a threat than the economic devastation we’re all reasonably enough distraught about out. The constitutional order as we’ve known it is hanging by a fraying thread that trump is holding a straight razor to with no one even reaching to withdraw his hand. 17449171
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE. Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands. #FightOligarchy (🎥: Bastian Brauns) 426165513673
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652769415654
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanDina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025International migrants are the largest source of international aid. This is an often underappreciated benefit of migration for global poverty reduction. 25617
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through.Four trends are converging to make life much scarier. 117213
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 11/01/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comGaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study findsAnalysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65 04625
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Via Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com China is cracking down on economists who say negative things about the economy. Can I say that it's *extremely* easy to imagine the Trump administration following a similar path? 421030179
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work.... 121775244
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024May he rest in power! Let’s keep his legacy alive by working for the issues he cared about! 001
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 11/12/2024www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJe...youtube.comGeopolitics and Globalization: A Feminist Reading and Critique from Southeast AsiaYouTube video by Focus on the Global South 000
Reposted by Radhika BalakrishnanThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 14565938311146
Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024sph.cuny.edu/research/srj...sph.cuny.eduA Global Feminist Partnership: From 16 to 365 Days of Activism to End GBV - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy 020