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Lobbyist who spent past 5 years advocating against regulations on pesticides has been chosen to head the EPA pesticides office. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

We literally had a war over this. #NoKings!

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump's birthright citizenship order is effectively a reverse baby bonus: parents could have to spend thousands to prove their newborn is indeed a US citizen. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

“we keep raising wages and not building housing and house prices keep going up, someone who is good at economy please help, our state is dying”

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

President Donald Trump is using false claims to promote his massive domestic policy bill. | Fact check cnn.it/4enGnwx

submitted 15 hours ago • 172 comments

A welcome exception to the rule here, even in the gentle language of fact checking. MSM has almost entirely missed the story that Trump’s lying about the reconciliation bill just as he lied about Project 2025. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-lies...

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Another thing I should say about this is most elected Dems aren’t exactly pouncing on the lie. A huge opening, missed so far.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

Will be chatting with @nbagley.bsky.social tomorrow morning, we’ll stress test the argument that liberals should make peace with yesterday’s momentous Supreme Court decision. Hope you’ll tune in. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

If only he had a way to vote in accordance with his stated beliefs!

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments

The Brown New Deal

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Republicans seem keen to push this bill through before CBO (or anyone else) has ability to assess its politically unpopular effects, but that won’t stop those unpopular effects from happening www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Fascism doesn’t happen overnight, it happens as checks and balances collapse around it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

To me the Brooklyn Dem political machine (and the remnants of other NYC political machines) are fascinating because they still do pretty much all the machine politics stuff the old machines did except basically anything that actually gets actual voters to vote for their candidates.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

mike johnson doesn't give a shit

submitted 4 hours ago • 418 comments

I think what's throwing people off here is that, if you think about it, real minimum wage should rise slowly, if it all. And what this chart shows is that $30 is a VERY high real minimum wage. What makes it confusing is that the chart also shows nominal increases, which you should basically ignore.

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

This is correct! Increasing minimum wage to keep up with inflation shouldn’t have serious effects on the job market (provided you do it consistently). But increasing minimum wage to a much larger share of average incomes should absolutely have an effect on job markets. It would be weird not to.

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Since @whstancil.bsky.social brought some min wage discussion to the Discourse, I want to highlight some research from @arindube.bsky.social www.workrisenetwork.org/working-know... The key detail is this: no negative effects up to at LEAST ~55% of median wage for an area. Maybe more!

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

The reason so many people don't see this as obvious is that, if you ask them what they believe the profit margins are for businesses, they'll give you estimates often an order of magnitude greater than the truth.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Random wars, presidential corruption on an unprecedented scale, massive tax cuts for the rich being jammed through while Medicaid is cut, people being kidnapped & deported to torture prisons ... and what freaks out the chattering class? Grocery stores & higher wages for the working class.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

This is the portion of the reconciliation bill that frightens me the most, far more than Medicaid cuts and so forth.

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

The key thing missing from this analysis is the bad faith of Trump. If an injunction only applies to a subset of affected parties, an administration acting in good faith would consider pausing the policy for ALL parties. But Trump will not. He will continue the policy knowing it is illegal

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

No, see, I disagree: the judicial system regularly deals with bad-faith parties, and the Constitution is very explicitly designed to cabin tyrannical men who attempt to subvert democracy in bad faith. The problem isn’t the institutions, it’s the cultural refusal to acknowledge what Trump is.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

This is not only a Republican problem. The vast majority of Democrats do not behave like they are dealing with an autocrat or a political emergency. They continue to robotically execute the motions of normal politics.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson: "The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Republicans are getting what they paid for: a court willing to cede its power to an executive but only if a Republican is in power. But Democrats will retake power, and John Roberts is all but guaranteeing that Trump’s Supreme Court will barely outlast the Trump administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

Ron Wyden out here threatening me with a good time doing some constitutional hardball back to these dudes -- will believe it when I see it

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Thinking again about how the media turned Bill Clinton talking to AG Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes into a major scandal for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

submitted 22 hours ago • 97 comments

particularly uhhh poignant bio slug here

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is an early (and I fear ultimately mild) example of what I was getting at here. www.offmessage.net/p/22-thought...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

seen a lot of discourse about this overlooking this point. obviously you have to fund free buses somehow, and it can be a problem getting the appropriation, but it's not crazy and it isn't that expensive

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments