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As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

Zero benefit to giving them the benefit of the doubt. They did it on purpose to test what they can do to you

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When leaders reject universal policies they present us an impossible moral choice of voting in someone else's interests. Should we accept that a just world hinges on the inclination of affluent people to freely give away their political capital?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying. Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Seattle Prop 1A has expanded its lead in today's ballot drop by another 1.5 points. It's now up 58.2% to the vote. Social housing advocates have won the day, despite corporate spending against the Urbanist-endorsed grassroots initiative. www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Although the case for at least 20 years, it has been unbearably obvious through last two presidents. Key is that unemployment, or U-3, is already a heavily qualified indicator (over 50% of Americans do not have employment, but we do not consider them unemployed for reasons of various suitability).

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

submitted 27 days ago • 57 comments

"Resist" is very bad. Assumes permanent curled-into-ball posture, extremely vague, private, and promises nothing but to slow the inevitable. A very dem-friendly slogan that sneakily inverts reality, which is that the only way OUT is through a massive, economically populist counteroffensive.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments