Profile avatar
socio-steve.bsky.social
Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltinstitute.org Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer Taxes are what we pay for civilized society Opinions are my own
16,818 posts 13,746 followers 768 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 29 Comments 21

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

Trump’s biggest tariffs were ruled unconstitutional on 5/28 Reinstated the next day to let the courts catch up Briefs were due yesterday The court just set arguments for 7/31 Lotta companies could go bust waiting for judges to rule on unconstitutional(?) tariffs www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 10 hours ago • 398 comments

I know I'm kind of a broken record with this right now, but: For all the horror, the political situation looks SIGNIFICANTLY better right now than it did a week or even a few days ago. Military occupation of blue cities is a travesty but it was a travesty we already EXPECTED of these fascists.

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

this sort of gives the game away. the whole point of the LA deployment is relitigating the dispute (both political and cultural) that the right feels it lost in 2020

submitted 14 hours ago • 91 comments

Representative LaMonica McIver has been indicted, according to Alina Habba.

submitted 11 hours ago • 43 comments

I have a feeling the Saturday march is going to be massive.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The GOP has tried to rebrand as pro-worker & pro-family but their reconciliation bill reveals them to be frauds. Take for example the Trump Account. It's not a baby bonus; it's not a baby bond; it's a poorly designed giveaway to the rich. Read my critique here www.firesidestacks.com/p/trump-acco...

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

"Any activity that may be reasonably viewed as directly or indirectly associating the Department of Defense... or any component... with a partisan political activity or is otherwise contrary to the spirit and intention of this Directive shall be avoided." -DoD Directive 1344.10 (2008)

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

submitted 13 hours ago • 35 comments

I mean, scholars of fascism were like, “He’s going to attack universities, the media, and unions, and he’s going to arrest his political opponents,” and most of America was like, “Stop exaggerating.”

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says.

submitted 14 hours ago • 701 comments

It's not a pejorative. I, like many on Bluesky, am a proud wife guy. And I have never felt under attack for my wife-guy-itude. The Atlantic is just trying to gin up controversy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump goads the troops into booing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass and attacks them as "incompetent"

submitted 14 hours ago • 409 comments

A very useful analysis of "Trump Accounts" for newborns, by @socio-steve.bsky.social, which concludes: "Trump accounts (sigh) are not a baby bonus... Trump accounts (double sigh) are not baby bonds either." -Stephen Nuñez www.firesidestacks.com/p/trump-acco...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The GOP has tried to rebrand as pro-worker & pro-family but their reconciliation bill reveals them to be frauds. Take for example the Trump Account. It's not a baby bonus; it's not a baby bond; it's a poorly designed giveaway to the rich. Read my critique here www.firesidestacks.com/p/trump-acco...

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Just caught a phishing attempt because the fine print at the bottom claimed it was from the "help centre."

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

I'm not sure how much "enhancement" this will actually provide but it marks the return of the game to Steam after a long absence. If you've never played it, it is worth picking up for the Mask of the Betrayer expansion alone. Planescape Torment level quality store.steampowered.com/app/2738630/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

@bbkogan.bsky.social puts it bluntly: The GOP tax and spending package will hurt millions of Americans by slashing Medicaid and food assistance—all to pay for billionaire tax breaks and add trillions to the deficit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

1/ The argument "if the labor force participation rate hadn't fallen, unemployment would be higher" is a bad one. The reason for the post-pandemic decline in labor force participation is age: Americans are aging. Prime working age participation is higher than pre-pandemic.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump threatens anyone who protests his birthday military parade this Saturday: "If there's any protester who wants to come out, they will be met with very big force." The right to protest is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

The people promulgating AI are not doing the tech any favors.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Rich people are people....with neighborhoods/amenities they like and social networks they belong to and while they may grumble they generally don't want to pick up and move to a different state over a tax increase they can easily absorb.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

The enhanced premium tax credits benefited people across the country but they were particularly important in states that did not expand Medicaid. IIRC about half of the newly insured come from just those 10 states. The enhancements were a bit of a patch for red state gov. malfeasance.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxW...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

As someone who grew up in small towns and on military bases coast to coast, I knew *the very first time* I visited NYC that I'd found home. 32 years since I made that real, and I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather make a home and raise a kid. But yes, I get concerned texts & voicemails from afar.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Very funny phrasing here from Lindsay Graham

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

NEW PIECE: The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market www.crisesnotes.com/the-one-big-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments