Sad news. He was also former Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
We are saddened to share that Professor Alan Krueger passed away over the weekend. A true scholar and public servant, Alan will be deeply missed by the University community: https://t.co/SXYhCXgD9Y pic.twitter.com/2vOtGUOsMn
— Princeton University (@Princeton) March 18, 2025
Wow! Very sad news indeed! Thank you very much Prof. Krueger for your service to the nation & world. May comfort come to his family and friends during this very difficult time. May Prof. Krueger rest in peace
It was such an honor to serve with Alan in the @BarackObama administration. A brilliant, dedicated, good and decent man who made an extraordinary contribution to the health of our economy. https://t.co/D9YgRceWuU
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 18, 2025
awful news. i didn't know Alan well. But in every interaction i had with him during Obama administration and since, he radiated decency, intelligence and concern for improving the lives of Americans left behind https://t.co/GE2eI4EJHf
Deeply saddened to hear of passing of Alan Krueger - a brilliant economist who did so much with his "Great Gatsby curve" to help us understand the consequences of rising inequality, declining income mobility and the threat to the American Dream: https://t.co/WV6Xz7xfzp
Alan Krueger taught me about economic policy for more than two decades. His convincing empirical research on the most important questions is a lasting legacy. A devastating loss. https://t.co/t42wJwGFNF
It’s hard to believe that Alan Krueger is dead. He was a hero to me: A great economist, an extraordinary public servant and policymaker, and a helluva mentor and teacher. And he took extraordinary delight in everything he did and everyone he touched. https://t.co/TIEts4nHhw
There aren't enough words to say how great this loss is. An amazing economist, a generous friend, and steadfastly committed to helping the lives of millions through good policy. https://t.co/VDC6psCopO
— Betsey Stevenson (@BetseyStevenson) March 18, 2025
Good morning everyone! I hope that your day is going very well. Today is one more day towards the beginning of a clean up of the political mess & a rebuilding of a better future
Well…….good morning TODers from Phoenix area. It’s 7:30 here. Good day to all, wherever you are.🙂😘🌼. We go to our last spring training game today—-Go Tribe!⚾️⚾️ We’ve seen them win two games. 😍. After that, it will be laundry and pack…….leaving tomorrow morning.
‘Everybody can have dignity as they work.’ — 2020 hopeful Julian Castro wants to make sure this working family’s tragedy doesn’t befall anyone else pic.twitter.com/iC8Bj83snO
Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand told Politico that they would not rule out expanding the Supreme Court if elected president. https://t.co/JsXtC4aRf2
Trump has appointed at least eight members of his private clubs to senior roles in his administration. He's the first modern president to award government jobs to the customers of his private business. https://t.co/aKFKbnC6m9
So sad to hear about the death of Alan Krueger (at right in first photo), Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and one of President Obama’s key economic advisors. Alan was always so patient about explaining economics in simple terms so even I could understand. Just in the past few months, I helped him out with some music photos to include in his forthcoming book, Rockonomics. It hurts to lose a member of the Obama work family especially when they leave us way too soon.
Elliott Broidy — top @GOP fundraiser & convicted felon — is under CRIMINAL investigation for allegedly trying sell his influence w/the Trump administration to *foreign* officials for TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars‼️1/#Corruption#FARAhttps://t.co/jatnmWFH8z
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) August 17, 2025
This is excellent news. I think if HRC switched party affiliation to GOP… just to irk the Repubs… that would be so sweet. Just imagine how many Deplorables will be losing it … LOL LOL
My thoughts exactly. I think just having Democrats on there should send some of their viewers back into hiding under whichever rock they crawled out from.
I watch the View today and when they talk about the tweets from Trump talking about John McCain, all I could think about is Lindsey Graham who claim to have been such a friend of McCain. You would think that Lindsey Graham would have spoke up loud and clear against any one who would criticize a decent man like McCain, someone he claim was his friend.. I think the tweet Meghan McCain sent out was great. Trump knows he will never be loved or respect like McCain.
imo - Meghan McCain is a white KOCH Trojan horse.
No idea what the show is like now, but i remember when she’d suddenly Lie and disinform about PBO = whenever the topic shifted
to a guilty GOP story.
I’m no fan of Meghan, I just like the tweet she sent to Trump. Another thing that has me piss is were Chuck Todd on Meet the Press blame President Obama for not uniting the country.
I either missed or had forgotten that Public Integrity was doing the Broidy probe. Think that means Mueller has spun pieces off or produced evidence/cooperators for five offices that we know of: SDNY, DC, EDVA, NSD, Crim. Tentacles everywhere. https://t.co/p9zgmPsH9z
This small group of kids started an impromptu haka in tribute to two of their peers slain in the Christchurch shooting. Soon they were joined by scores of fellow students to form a deafening chorus. pic.twitter.com/Zmh7I5LQxG
🤣 @SteveKingIA shares a meme imagining red states bringing 8 trillion bullets to a new civil war but somehow misses the fact that his own state, Iowa is BLUE 😂 https://t.co/MQ7XvyGXGN # via @HuffPost
If any of us regular people made these types of threatening comments … don’t think we’d still be walking the streets. What’s it gonna take to do something about this, and I’d include trump in that question.
Ahmad’s expertise is counterterrorism, her subspecialty “extraterritorial” cases. She’s an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, Criminal Division and the Deputy Chief of the National Security & Cybercrime Section.
Carr: Ahmad has concluded her detail w/the SC Office but will continue to rep the office on specific pending matters assigned to her https://t.co/hUuicQow8u
If I am reading this right, these grades are unbelievable. Even after Mitch McConnel held Judge Gardener’s seat open, they oblige him with their votes. We love to shoot ourselves in the foot.
My mom died today. Joining my dad who passed away 40 days ago. She was a pretty remarkable lady. An immigrant from Cuba, she lived with the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore during college. Here (on the left) she is in Cuba in the 1930s. pic.twitter.com/oZNzEqa7ig
We are all packed except for last minute things. Leaving our apt. early to get to the airport through Phoenix traffic. 🚙🚘🚔🚚. It’s been a fabulous trip, highlighted by getting to meet and spend time with desert flower. 😍💕. Need to figure out a way to meet more TODers.
Even worse than Trump’s tweet tirades & white supremacist leanings are all of his enablers in Congress who say nothing as long as he supports their extreme agenda.
So Trump suppose to be holding a press conference today at 1:45 pm. I won’t be watching. I guess he may read a speech written for him to say that he is against white nationalists. Rev. Barber is speaking the truth, because those who look the other way, remain silent when wrong is being done is just as bad as the person doing the wrong.
The evangelicals who is supporting Trump refuse to stand up and speak out against hated like what happen in New Zealand.And the hate that is here in America.
Link to the Cohen search warrant application. On quick read, looks like everything related to the campaign finance probe is redacted. Good sign that investigation is very much ongoing. https://t.co/qAY9lCi6nB
Patrick and I first heard about this in Nov but had a hard time getting information. I know that's what happens when something's secret, but we had to be *very* creative to get the story down. Some of what we found? This is happening in at least 5 states, but likely in many more.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) March 19, 2025
Why are these secret…and what plans does the Trump Adminstration have for these children…cannot rule out…Child Trafficking
SCOOP: The federal government is relying on secret shelters to hold unaccompanied minors, in possible violation of the long-standing rules for the care of immigrant children. https://t.co/XOmjEFDreu
Ethel Payne was known as “The First Lady of the Black Press.” Her coverage of the Korean War in 1950, exposed the inhumane treatment of African American soldiers within the army, and also caught the attention of the editor-in-chief at the Chicago Defender. #HiddenHerstory #WHM pic.twitter.com/ehS7f8CNoK
Makes me wonder if they ever really had principles at all
Trump makes Republicans choose him or their principles. Makes Lindsay Graham choose him over his dear friend John McCain. Makes Kellyanne Conway choose him or her husband. The loyalty tests never, ever end. And the choice shouldn’t even be hard.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) March 19, 2025
Makes me wonder if they ever really had principles at all
Trump makes Republicans choose him or their principles. Makes Lindsay Graham choose him over his dear friend John McCain. Makes Kellyanne Conway choose him or her husband. The loyalty tests never, ever end. And the choice shouldn’t even be hard.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) March 19, 2025
Because, dear df, what you have to say to us is so important that it deserves being said twice. Once to have us read it and go “What did I just read? Really?” and the second time we read it we go “OMG! WTF! You’ve got to be kidding me!” So I have no problem with your items posting twice. Have a good Tuesday. 🙂
🚨news in Florida: a House committee has moved forward a bill to strip Floridians of right to vote if they haven't been able to fully pay court fines & fees. Hundreds of thousands could be disenfranchised.
Coups easier to pull off when universal suffrage devalued to start with.
key detail: since January, people have been able to register to vote without this obstacle. Bill would restrict current registration process, and kick people off the rolls who've registered (and who may have already voted in this month's local elections) https://t.co/tnuJy7bXFK
…they have no rights that this country must abide by…When they came for the Immigrants…the press…the arbiter of Truth…stood by calling balls and strikes..instead of calling it what it is..a debasing of HUMAN Rights https://t.co/QmoRIaEEN4
Criminal justice reform hinges on state legislatures. @TheAppeal's interactive tool to track reforms nationwide was updated to reflect some major developments on asset forfeiture, death penalty, or sentencing reform from AR, AZ, CO, IA, NH & NY. https://t.co/APjK9bg8W2
Thanks for this map. It is a site to return to from time to time as they will keep posting new legislation, etc. And helpful to know about this site as we work to GOTV for 2020, and even before, as in which state’s legislatures are passing the most horrible bills. If we know that, then we know where to focus our energies to flip state legislative seats to Dems
Also, I found this on that same website. It is a page that looks like it will be devoted to criminal justice reform for each of the presidential candidates. Again, the page is new, so we will need to check back from time to time to see what has been posted there.
https://www.appealpolitics.org/the-contenders-2020-criminal-justice-in-the-race-for-president/
Recently I sat down with some of @Youtube’s #BookTubers and creators to talk all things #IAmBecoming. We covered everything from marriage advice, to what it means to swerve, to my favorite books. Watch the full discussion at https://t.co/k2FBZ5LUmO. pic.twitter.com/t6851uqyG0
While reading around and thinking about the Mac truck we’ve bumped into:
Erich Fromm believed the human mind has a need to submit to authoritarian figures in times of economic and social stress. When the pride of the country has been shattered, when parents and the older generation cannot financially support the future of their children. Such conditions can propel an authoritarian figure to the top. Chaos/uncertainty are key strategies. Fromm saw no logic in Nazi ideology: “Nazism never had any genuine political or economic principles. It is essential to understand that the very principle of Nazism is its radical opportunity.”
The Audience is “told again and again: the individual is nothing and does not count. The individual should accept the personal insignificance, dissolve himself in a higher power, and then feel proud in participating int he strength and glory of this higher power.”
Also “a feeling of superiority over the rest of mankind” that compensates for the feeling of loss and impoverishment.
“Did the Russian government, through business figures close to the Kremlin seek to court Donald Trump…and did candidate Trump’s financial exposure via Deutsche Bank or other private loans constitute a point of leverage?” https://t.co/bIrZhx1BK8
Around 200 protesters marched to the Italian village of Collepardo this weekend to protest Steve Bannon's takeover of a monastery where he plans to train the next generation of nationalist leaders. https://t.co/f3LlahiXBN
imo
Trump is concerned with how things look, his hand gestures, what he is wearing, the angle of the camera. Ideology and factual reality - no.
But he likes Mein Kamf (true), the friendship of dictators, and the way Putin steals from his country and protects his underworld mob when they
get caught. Putin’s russia is described as a “mafia state ruling over a totalitarian society”. Some would say a hybrid regime.
Balint Magyar: ”To understand what a mafia state is, we need to imagine a state run by, and resembling, organized crime.
At its center is a family, and at the center of the family is a patriarch. He doesn’t govern. He disposes — of positions, wealth, statuses, persons.
In Putin’s Russia..the patriarch and his family have only two goals: accumulating wealth and concentrating power….Where the state used to own the entire economy, now it seeks simply to control the most lucrative businesses and skim off the top of the rest—and eliminate those who refuse to pay…Mafia states murder people, just like the Mafia does—but they murder only the people who are immune to coercion and blackmail: journalists, for example…”
-little russian president in deep water-
Sad news. He was also former Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Very sad news.
Thanks for sharing.
Good Morning TODVille!
Wow! Very sad news indeed! Thank you very much Prof. Krueger for your service to the nation & world. May comfort come to his family and friends during this very difficult time. May Prof. Krueger rest in peace
YIKES
Good morning everyone! I hope that your day is going very well. Today is one more day towards the beginning of a clean up of the political mess & a rebuilding of a better future
Well…….good morning TODers from Phoenix area. It’s 7:30 here. Good day to all, wherever you are.🙂😘🌼. We go to our last spring training game today—-Go Tribe!⚾️⚾️ We’ve seen them win two games. 😍. After that, it will be laundry and pack…….leaving tomorrow morning.
I’m really, really wishing the best for the Castro brothers.
Morning everyone. Sweet!!!
Very sweet!
This is not ok
I do believe he is correct. Profound words
The ‘best’ people
Lol
This is excellent news. I think if HRC switched party affiliation to GOP… just to irk the Repubs… that would be so sweet. Just imagine how many Deplorables will be losing it … LOL LOL
Wot? Am not sure how to take this. Donna on Fox, that is. What’s Up? Really. Fox Doods & iQ45 freakout is worth it today! 😏😎😂
My thoughts exactly. I think just having Democrats on there should send some of their viewers back into hiding under whichever rock they crawled out from.
I watch the View today and when they talk about the tweets from Trump talking about John McCain, all I could think about is Lindsey Graham who claim to have been such a friend of McCain. You would think that Lindsey Graham would have spoke up loud and clear against any one who would criticize a decent man like McCain, someone he claim was his friend.. I think the tweet Meghan McCain sent out was great. Trump knows he will never be loved or respect like McCain.
imo - Meghan McCain is a white KOCH Trojan horse.
No idea what the show is like now, but i remember when she’d suddenly Lie and disinform about PBO = whenever the topic shifted
to a guilty GOP story.
I’m no fan of Meghan, I just like the tweet she sent to Trump. Another thing that has me piss is were Chuck Todd on Meet the Press blame President Obama for not uniting the country.
Good.
Have a good Monday, TODville!
Love that reply Booms! Happy Monday to you as well, but I think it is already Tuesday for you. So happy Tuesday to you.
Thanks - and, yes, it does appear to be Tuesday! Enjoy yours, too!
Wonderful interview:
I listen to the interview and it was wonderful. Michelle Obama is the best.
YES! It was sweet, smart and funny.
Spring bloom on its way in Cali.
How beautiful. Think I’ll go take my “goddess nap” with that image in mind! See y’all later. 🙂
Brought tears to my eyes
Heartbreaking, for all who had to endure this senseless tragedy.
My heart breaks for his family and friends.
OMG, NO. He was so brilliant, supporting PBO through the recession. My heart breaks for his family.
Oh no! That’s incredibly sad. Peace to his family, & RIP.
Oh my! Beyond devastating. Always the “Why?” Bless and strengthen his family. 😥😥
So very, very sorry to hear that.
Made me smile
That’s the LOL of my Monday! 😂😂😎
LOL! Mother was noticeably absent…
Unfit
If any of us regular people made these types of threatening comments … don’t think we’d still be walking the streets. What’s it gonna take to do something about this, and I’d include trump in that question.
Ahmad’s expertise is counterterrorism, her subspecialty “extraterritorial” cases. She’s an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, Criminal Division and the Deputy Chief of the National Security & Cybercrime Section.
Closing out some of the wings, looks like …
Good Evening TODville Community
Thank You beloved TOD for being here, always.
X 2
and good evening, nena!
Yet another young soul on that fateful EA flight from Addis:
https://www-dailymaverick-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-03-12-sa-german-citizen-max-thabiso-edkins-dies-in-flight-et302-ethiopian-crash/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymaverick.co.za%2Farticle%2F2019-03-12-sa-german-citizen-max-thabiso-edkins-dies-in-flight-et302-ethiopian-crash%2F
Love that so much!
yesss…it makes me weepy
When he was in the White House, we could all feel he was figuratively hugging us, too. Miss him so much.
Just FYI
If I am reading this right, these grades are unbelievable. Even after Mitch McConnel held Judge Gardener’s seat open, they oblige him with their votes. We love to shoot ourselves in the foot.
DITTO!
Uplifting and heartbreaking… a thread:
We are all packed except for last minute things. Leaving our apt. early to get to the airport through Phoenix traffic. 🚙🚘🚔🚚. It’s been a fabulous trip, highlighted by getting to meet and spend time with desert flower. 😍💕. Need to figure out a way to meet more TODers.
Will lurk tomorrow as I can.
Put August/September on your calendar; Camp TOD at my house! Chef Nancie is going to prepare a feast!
Count me in!!
Have zero tolerance for this person ….
I so very much agree with your reply to her, Bob. Plus, there’s hardly ANY depth to her - and what’s there, I don’t trust.
I side eyed 2 mins of her town hall w/ Hayes. 😏
Exactly, Jacqueline.
And, here’s a little something that hopefully will bring a smile to yours and everyone’s face ….
They are so ADORABLE!
But didn’t Kamala Harris sign onto this as well?
Right ON!
So Trump suppose to be holding a press conference today at 1:45 pm. I won’t be watching. I guess he may read a speech written for him to say that he is against white nationalists. Rev. Barber is speaking the truth, because those who look the other way, remain silent when wrong is being done is just as bad as the person doing the wrong.
The evangelicals who is supporting Trump refuse to stand up and speak out against hated like what happen in New Zealand.And the hate that is here in America.
Birds of a Feather flock together.
Morning everyone.
Huuummm
Hmmmmmm…
i wonder that these folks really feel about the criminality of Trump
Why are these secret…and what plans does the Trump Adminstration have for these children…cannot rule out…Child Trafficking
WTAF.
Imma just say 3 little words in regard to this bank fraud business with Individual 1…. Justice Kennedy’s son.
IS This a good thang
Makes me wonder if they ever really had principles at all
Makes me wonder if they ever really had principles at all
Why are my posts posting twice?
Because, dear df, what you have to say to us is so important that it deserves being said twice. Once to have us read it and go “What did I just read? Really?” and the second time we read it we go “OMG! WTF! You’ve got to be kidding me!” So I have no problem with your items posting twice. Have a good Tuesday. 🙂
😂… you are too kind:) I’m pretty sure that’s not it though:)
I must admit, though, that not a day goes by when I don’t say WTF!! about 100 times. I swear we’ll all have PTSD after this nightmare is over
For example…WTF!
The thread
LOL, cd4biden. You are so right!!!
LIVE NOW: Beto O’Rourke campaigns in State College, Pennsylvania - https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
LIVE SOON - DC, Maryland Attorneys General hold news conference on Trump emolument lawsuit - https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
Handy little interactive to look through.
Thanks for this map. It is a site to return to from time to time as they will keep posting new legislation, etc. And helpful to know about this site as we work to GOTV for 2020, and even before, as in which state’s legislatures are passing the most horrible bills. If we know that, then we know where to focus our energies to flip state legislative seats to Dems
Also, I found this on that same website. It is a page that looks like it will be devoted to criminal justice reform for each of the presidential candidates. Again, the page is new, so we will need to check back from time to time to see what has been posted there.
https://www.appealpolitics.org/the-contenders-2020-criminal-justice-in-the-race-for-president/
excellent thought:)
lil respite from the nastiness
While reading around and thinking about the Mac truck we’ve bumped into:
Erich Fromm believed the human mind has a need to submit to authoritarian figures in times of economic and social stress. When the pride of the country has been shattered, when parents and the older generation cannot financially support the future of their children. Such conditions can propel an authoritarian figure to the top. Chaos/uncertainty are key strategies. Fromm saw no logic in Nazi ideology: “Nazism never had any genuine political or economic principles. It is essential to understand that the very principle of Nazism is its radical opportunity.”
The Audience is “told again and again: the individual is nothing and does not count. The individual should accept the personal insignificance, dissolve himself in a higher power, and then feel proud in participating int he strength and glory of this higher power.”
Also “a feeling of superiority over the rest of mankind” that compensates for the feeling of loss and impoverishment.
WTF!
Hey, df, here is one of today’s WTF’s for you. Only 99 to go!! 😝
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/03/19/deeper-than-numbers/
imo
Trump is concerned with how things look, his hand gestures, what he is wearing, the angle of the camera. Ideology and factual reality - no.
But he likes Mein Kamf (true), the friendship of dictators, and the way Putin steals from his country and protects his underworld mob when they
get caught. Putin’s russia is described as a “mafia state ruling over a totalitarian society”. Some would say a hybrid regime.
Balint Magyar: ”To understand what a mafia state is, we need to imagine a state run by, and resembling, organized crime.
At its center is a family, and at the center of the family is a patriarch. He doesn’t govern. He disposes — of positions, wealth, statuses, persons.
In Putin’s Russia..the patriarch and his family have only two goals: accumulating wealth and concentrating power….Where the state used to own the entire economy, now it seeks simply to control the most lucrative businesses and skim off the top of the rest—and eliminate those who refuse to pay…Mafia states murder people, just like the Mafia does—but they murder only the people who are immune to coercion and blackmail: journalists, for example…”
-little russian president in deep water-