Experts and state housing agencies say this would set back tens of thousands of future affordable housing developments nationwide, particularly hurting Appalachian towns and rural counties where government aid is sparse and investors are few. @pagecodems.bsky.social @shencodems.bsky.social

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Trump, at the memorial, says where he disagrees with Charlie Kirk is that he hates his opponent and doesn’t want the best for them

Bing. Bam. Boom. 🧵 in three parts. Chaos.

"Ted Cruz Accuses FCC Chair of Mafia-Like Tactics Amid Jimmy Kimmel Fallout" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Query: PRAYER LISTS. Before putting a private person on a prayer list (e.g., your church bulletin), should you ask the consent of the person/family? Not to skew the replies, but to be transparent, my opinion is that without consent, it is an invasion of privacy. 1/2 ⚓

Trump has "success" making imports more expensive for American consumers. That includes inputs into US made goods.

While Trump is getting rid of U.S. Attorneys who won’t gun up prosecutions against his enemies, his Justice Department is quietly closing investigations into members of his own administration (apparently at Bove’s direction) www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

⚓ "The Taskforce is charged with continuing the vital work of addressing the Church's historical complicity with chattel slavery; violence against Indigenous peoples and the land; segregation; and other racist systems." - Diocese of Virginia episcopalvirginia.org/news/truth-a...

Finding myself in a reflective mood today, I decided to reread Humberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism.” Meditating on the definition & essential properties of fascism, Eco identified 14 key features, only one of which is needed “to allow fascism to coagulate around it." It is, perhaps, relevant. 🧵

Starmer's Neville Chamberlain moment.

Goebbels starts a humor contest to prove "we still really have humor .... genuine humor" and dispel the impression that there is no humor in Germany. Source: Herald and Review Decatur, Illinois · Sunday, February 05, 1939

The reactionary right has been inflating and misrepresenting these dynamics for a reason: they decided that they couldn’t win if they left civil society to its own devices. Instead, they’d have to rely on state repression.

It's that frustration and distraction you feel when someone close to you has the trait of being overly helpful.

One idea that's shaped this country is that it's un-American to suggest that the dominant could or should face consequences. You clear the land, stake a claim, do and say want you want, and move on like it never happened. That's the way things should be. No one has a right to say any different.

Give this man a late show.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

🧵 Trump nominee dodges question on whether a Census before 2030 is allowed by law. Reporting by NPR correspondent with clips from the confirmation hearing in the thread.

⚓ ACNA archbishop's letter on recent violence in America. "The violent taking of life - and in the case of Mr. Kirk, the attempt to silence by force those with whom we differ - is a profound evil....[W]e are called to proactively promote respect, listen with humility, and reach across divides...."

A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

⚓ Breaking News:

Holtz-Eakin explains very clearly why Trumponomics is BS. 6 minutes well spent: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

19 drones launched over several hours, from Russia and Belarus, into Poland, were not a mistake. Many of them did not carry explosives, so they had not gone astray in Ukraine....they were a probe of Poland, NATO and Trump.

No part of SSA was spared Trump Admin staff cuts--not even the front-liners taking appts & answering calls. SSA HQ has been nearly halved, which includes a 94% cut to the office that helps Congress assist constituents & develop Social Security legislation. And yet Hill Rs haven't intervened.

NEW: The House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would impose extreme criminal penalties on immigrants. This legislation will massively increase the federal prison population and divert resources away from youth services and prevention programs that improve community safety.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's directive limiting immigrant families' access to Head Start. Children and their families will continue having access to critical education while the case continues.

A story thread right out of Season 6 of Unforgotten, except there it's leftists.

National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about Trump’s federal takeover of DC, has assessed that its mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans

Your econ term for the day is Technology Transfer. Once you understand it, you'll immediately see how destructive it was for ICE to frogmarch Hyundai's Korean workers off in chains.

Trump's influence on Netanyahu is getting results.

Trump's influence on Putin is getting results.

Federal Judge Finds That Forcing High School Students to Convey Confederate School Names Violates Their Constitutional Rights #NAACP #VANAACP #ShenandoahCountyNAACP #ShenandoahCounty www.facebook.com/share/p/164t...

Lots of sudden “interest” in the preliminary benchmark revision. Here's a test: The BLS publishes detailed explanations of its methods. Ask a critic where the methods are explained. If they don’t know, they’re not critiquing methodology. They’re just partisans who are full of sh_t.

This entire book is a nightmare

"In the factory, AI increases employment of low-skilled workers by making machines more productive and easier to operate.... Because the effect on production workers dominates, AI increases employment and decreases inequality." 👀 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

"Katie Johnson's story is all too believable. And we have buried and ignored it to our national peril." Very compelling argument from @katemanne.bsky.social

Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely

"Automakers are passing tariffs on to consumers without raising prices" share.google/NEj6tkyLQulM...

The Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely disabled adults and children. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Scalia: Congress does not "hide elephants in mouseholes."

Federal Appeals Court Reinstates an F.T.C. Commissioner Fired by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

#NoKings. It's not a new concept. It's woke. Baring witness to truth and freedom.

That's fact, not opinion.

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

⚓ "Howard served the ... Diocese of Florida for 20 years until his retirement in October 2023, after reaching the church’s mandatory clergy retirement age." He faces two Title IV cases - one financial, one for discrimination against LGBTQ+ clergy & aspirants episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/08/29/d...

⚓ Trump vote share. Episcopalian share is blueish, but still depressingly high. Atheists track most closely with Jesus IMHO.

I can’t tell you how many people have sent this to me. At first I laughed because I think it’s almost an endorsement if this guy is against it, but he does influence school lunches and what a lost opportunity. We live in a world where ketchup is a vegetable And beans are not a healthy protein.

Read this thread 🧵. Read past the first post.