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ddayen.bsky.social
Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
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Man this candidate needs to read some @mattbruenig.bsky.social. (the interviewer as well!) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

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Wow so the Senate is apparently not planning on doing committee markups for the Big Beautiful Bill. They'll just add their tweaks ad hoc. This closes off the process really to everyone but leadership.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

I haven't and likely won't read Original Sin, but Stan Greenberg did, and finds it absolutely absurd to elevate Biden's decline as the fundamental reason for Democratic failure in 2024, when every indicator shows it was high prices: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

Next up in our series on the scams sure to proliferate in the absence of regulatory enforcement: solar sales. Solar bros go door-to-door trapping consumers in loans that they can’t afford. Again CFPB was on the cusp of fixing this before Trump. prospect.org/environment/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

WaPo, 5/28, left: No tax on tips is bad for workers, actually @prospect.org, 5/23, right: No tax on tips is bad for workers, actually (some of the same sources were re-interviewed for this one) Read the Prospect, get the news first.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

I wrote up the tariff ruling. There are well-established ways in which Congress has delegated the ability to impose tariffs to presidents. Trump got impatient, took an untested path, and got nothing. Thank the flying spaghetti monster for incompetency. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Just saying, I wrote this around 100 days ago: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

The ongoing failure of the Trump administration to implement its desires is one of the more fortunate outcomes in American history

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

This would never have gone to court if the tariff announcements weren't so haphazard and destructive that libertarian groups decided they had enough and would challenge it

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

At crypto conf - the VP and a Senator featured prominently with Ulbricht who was convicted of aiding money laundering for fentanyl traffickers 16 Democrats supporting Trump crypto bill are undermining their party's ability to call this out! @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

"What was the problem with neoliberal globalization? It transformed a country w/entrepreneurial spirit, engineering competence, & a decently progressive working class into an over-militarized financial & technological oligarchy dependent on the work of others" www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/jame...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

I saw so many Republicans use Clinton and welfare to defend Medicaid work requirements, I literally pitched us to write something on it until I saw @delaneyrules.bsky.social beat us to it www.huffpost.com/entry/work-r...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Great review from Zephyr Teachout of David Enrich's fabulous book on assaults on freedom of the press. Critical study into what journalists face in the Trump era. prospect.org/culture/book...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republicans changed the rules, & now practically any action the executive branch takes can be challenged in Congress. Any 30 Senators can bring up a vote, & get a guaranteed 10 hours of floor time. Meaning that Democrats could hold the floor indefinitely, if they wanted. prospect.org/politics/202...

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I now have to choose whether opening ordinary retirement accounts to crypto is better or worse than opening them to private equity.

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Medical credit cards are growing rapidly, a way for healthcare providers to get paid upfront without going through insurance. But the terms are horrendous and most consumers don't even know what they're being signed up for. Some are signed up while under anesthesia. prospect.org/health/2025-...

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"If you found something like 1,000 current or former agency actions—a reasonable number considering all the work executive branch agencies do—you would probably have enough to keep the Senate debating and voting on CRA resolutions through the duration of this Congress." prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Today in the Golden Age of Scams: medical credit cards. Health providers push patients to sign up for branded credit cards with deceptive terms like deferred interest. Some patients report being enrolled *while under anesthesia.* CFPB was investigating them before Trump. prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Guy who has now blown up three rockets in a row concerned about fiscal responsibility

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Somewhere in Secaucus, NBC and Amazon execs have cornered Adam Silver in a room, shouting "We paid billions of dollars to you to buy into Oklahoma City and Indiana?!?!?"

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"We are explicitly doing an implicit guarantee!"

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Read all of our stories about the next wave of ripoff artists in the Golden Age of Scams here: prospect.org/topics/golde...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Rahm Emanuel being portrayed as an anti-corruption crusader is as utterly absurd as Donald Trump being depicted as draining the swamp.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Our former publisher @ellenjm.bsky.social now runs the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, which should be supported at a far higher level than it is now! altnewsfoundation.org

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Did we just quasi-nationalize US Steel? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Student borrowers are in trouble: -Collections have restarted & now wages can be garnished -Proposed GOP payment plans are more expensive, with a lifetime cap below the average course of study -Every government worker whose job was protecting borrowers has been sidelined prospect.org/education/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment