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A blurb that Andy Warhol submitted for a book published by Doubleday: "It's a lot better than my book." —Greg Lawrence, "Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The Continuing Resolution would require the District to immediately cut $1 billion from a local budget that is already balanced — forcing deep cuts to police, firefighters, trash collection, homelessness services, and schools. It hurts everyone's goal of a safer and stronger DC.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Crushing the labor market is one half of why Musk and Trump want to cause a recession. This is the other half. You and other working people will be wiped out but that creates "buying opportunities" for those with enough capital accumulated to weather the storm.

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

Recessions kill people. They cause foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness. They lower *lifetime* earnings trajectories. They make it harder for young, old, and disabled workers to find jobs, as well as people with criminal records. They reduce entrepreneurship. www.cbsnews.com/news/lutnick...

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

The CR's effect on DC is a five alarm fire. By treating the DC as a federal agency & compelling the city to return to 2024 spending, Congress is mandating that DC cut its budget--*its own tax dollars*--by almost 20%. None of this $ will be refunded to the fed gov; it was never theirs.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Effectively deleting the NCES by executive fiat is not only illegal (would require repeal of 2002 ESRA), it’s like gouging out the federal government’s eyes when it comes to education. /1

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Some points to know on the continuing resolution's effect on DC: --the CR will force DC to cut local tax dollars. This money will not return to the federal government; it was never federal government money. Reaching into our budget is only possible because DC lacks home rule.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Democratic Senators who vote for the House spending bill are voting for this, among much else

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The House just approved a federal spending bill that could force D.C. to slash more than $1 billion from its current budget. Mayor Bowser has called the cuts "potentially devastating," and warned they could result in layoffs and reduced city services. 51st.news/house-republ...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Important not to miss this. A bicameral letter from Democratic leadership rejecting the "invasion" conspiracy theory that is now the stated position of the WH.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

submitted 2 days ago • 390 comments

Something I hadn't realized until going through the trade data recently is that Mexico has surpassed China to become the #1 source of US computer imports. Imports of computers are close to passing cars to become the #1 Mexican import, which is insane if you know the size of the Mexican auto industry

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act. It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

A reminder of whom Republicans when they attack Medicaid www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Grateful this idea is now in print.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

West Virginia went 70% for Trump, but as they lose their jobs, voters there are now publicly regretting their choice. The state has the highest % of workers employed by the federal government of *any* state. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Really interesting in that the logical response is-- we don't cut things that people rely on with their lives & for their livelihood-- but Slotkin's response here seems calibrated to suburbanites with Republican friends/family who (think they) have little interest in politics or policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Crisis is opportunity. Sad to learn that Dems are emphasizing the politically expedient point of "you fired veterans" as opposed to "actually, the federal government performs essential work important to everyone"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

No person can claim to address fentanyl and cut Medicaid at the same time. It's not just the 40% of adults under age 65 who receive treatment coverage under Medicaid. States also use Medicaid waivers to perform outreach & provide services that reach and benefit *everyone*

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Up-scheduling fentanyl to a Schedule I, prohibited substance takes the supply chain from gray-market actors, some of whom can be influenced in desirable directions, & places it entirely in the hands of criminals, who do not respond positively to incentives.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 7 days ago • 211 comments

Struck by this last quote: “no democracy this old or this rich has ever broken down.” I'd be interested to learn Levitsky's starting date for U.S. democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

When you read that a life-long Democrat is more upset by an act of moral dissent during a speech than she is at anything Trump has done his first weeks in office... - you wonder how the NYT finds a voter like this; - you wonder about the media ecosystem for this person or people

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment