The House GOP's Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act expands Association Health Plans and CHOICE Arrangements for small businesses. Supporters argue the plan offers low-income workers affordable group coverage options, as CSR funding could reduce personal market premiums by over 12%.

Things continue to get worse ... and then the AI bubble will burst 💥📉

The Nov. 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows nonfarm payrolls up only 64,000, well below averages needed for sustained growth, with little net job change since April. Unemployment rose to 4.6%, a 4-year high. This points to subdued momentum in the labor market. www.bls.gov/news.release...

Historians call the early 20th-century Court the “Lochner era” after Lochner v. New York (1905), which struck down labor laws as violations of “freedom of contract.” Some see echoes in the Roberts Court. A look at their respective dangers to the working class is useful, even if not foolproof.

*With his 1988 book, Democracy and Economic Planning: The Political Economy of a Self-governing Society, Pat Devine put forward a concrete model of how democratic economic planning could actually work, and it is one of the essential reads for people interested in the debate* youtu.be/HSzcAw_2NV0?...

The American Civil War was a war for apartheid's future: southern chattel slavery versus northern segregation. The battle further hinged on how the persecution of Latinos, Indigenous Americans, recent Chinese immigrants, etc. would materialize during the US expansion westward:

*CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats* by @matthewccook5.bsky.social November 26, 2025 prospect.org/2025/11/26/s...

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

Warning: NOT a pro Maga thread. This is an assessment of one factor contributing to why Democrats lack majorities in all 3 branches of government and are in need of coordinated long-term strategies if they are to neutralize Maga. Since 1964, Republicans have pursued youth-to-leadership pipelines.

You are misinterpreting the post. This is not about what policies are better, which is obvious. It is about winning elections. Maga occupies all 3 branches of govt. For Democrats to regain power they must adopt long-game strategies, such as abandoning neoliberal economics for true populism.

Besides institution building, Republicans developed long-term coalition building: the Southern Strategy, evangelical mobilization, monetarist/neoliberal economic interests, cultural warfare. Democrats failed to match GOP coalition-building efforts. Now they wonder why Maga occupies the government.

Since Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, Republicans have pursued several aggressive political strategies. One of these is institutional expansion: funding think tanks, strengthening party infrastructure, reshaping the judiciary, etc. Democrats have failed to match this effort in consistency or magnitude.

Political economy, grassroots organizing, transformational leadership, and the evolution of consciousness, all at the same time

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected socialist government was overthrown in a military coup led by the US-backed fascist Augusto Pinochet.

Round one goes to Fed Independence over Trump Interference. A federal judge ruled that Lisa Cook is "substantially likely" to prevail in her argument that Trump can't arbitrarily fire her, so she stays a Fed Governor while the case works its way through the courts www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge says he'll toss the racketeering case against 61 people tied to protests over a training center called “Cop City.”

A nationwide general strike is without a doubt the best response to Trump's fascist moves to consolidate power, including his likely plans to steal the '26 and '28 elections. The trick of course is organizing it inthesetimes.com/article/plan...

I’ve been thinking about ways to combat Trump’s military invasion of our cities. Violence has to be the worst possible response, as it seems clear he’s trying to provoke a civil war. What about a nationwide general strike? If the stock market tanks and business leaders start squawking…. 🤔

Brian has been way ahead in articulating this argument and it's good to see more elite opinionmakers joining him...

Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, the state surgeon general announced today

*The country is rapidly devolving into rule by an unpopular despot. The Democrats who blind themselves to this are causing great harm* prospect.org/politics/202...

*Billionaires exist because market rules are rigged to push money to the top, not just because they pay too little tax* cepr.net/publications...

Argentina’s political regimes have used the central bank to finance deficits, causing over 200% inflation (2023) and repeated Peso devaluations. GDP swung from 10.1% growth (2010) to -2.5% (2018). Debt defaults (2001, 2014, 2020) also occurred. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

President Erdoğan’s control of Turkey’s central bank since 2016 has led to 85.5% inflation for 2022 and 80% Lira depreciation for 2015-23. There was some short-term growth (7.5% in 2017) with volatility in GDP. Investor distrust grew; Foreign Direct Investment did not. www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Art...

Reduced Central Bank Independence (CBI), where political regimes control monetary policy, often leads to high inflation, currency depreciation, and economic instability. Short-term growth may occur, but long-term instability, capital flight, and dismal investor confidence normally follow.

A 2022 Yahoo News/YouGov poll revealed 61% of Trump voters believe “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views." So goes the Great Replacement Theory, a core element of Maga immigration policy.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

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Very good Krugman piece on Trump's bullshit attack on Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

What’s going on right now is not normal. Military obedience does not require blind loyalty. If you’re activated in the coming days or weeks, please remember your oath to the Constitution and to the American people. #veteran #chicago #nationalguard #illinois youtube.com/shorts/HmgsD...

I believe in truth, justice, and the human way. It’s time to make America affordable for all Americans. It’s time to build an accountable government. #USPOL #Congress

1/ Judge in Habba ruling "Manipulation of official appointments had long been one of the American revolutionary generation’s greatest grievances against executive power, because the power of appointment to offices was deemed 'the most insidious and powerful weapon of eighteenth century despotism'"

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

*More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks* projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

The US on an AI path to destruction: "The 70 football field-sized AI powerhouse in Richland Parish will need around 2,500 megawatts of power. The facility will use roughly three times as much electricity as the entire city of New Orleans annually, according to the Alliance for Affordable Energy."

Three new gas plants for a Meta AI data center.

"“When the government tries to silence Palestinian voices, we stand with them,” said Rabbi Cat Zavis of Jewish Voice for Peace." www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984

“.. Fears of a bubble are mounting, as tech stocks follow a pattern that is ‘surprisingly similar’ to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s ..” @bloomberg.com $QQQ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Before we get totally blinded with self-serving data I wanted to dig into what's really happening in the Trump economy. I found: -stagnant job and wage growth -lower tariff revenue than projected -higher profit margins as seller's inflation kicks in -bad policy coming that will make everything worse

Mississippi becomes the fourth state to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, DC. governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-ree...

Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers *Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions* prospect.org/health/2025-...

The July 1933 Nazi Law enabled forced sterilization of people with alleged social or biological deficiencies, including some labeled as asocials. The current Maga intensification of criminalizing the homeless, which will employ incarceration without due process, is strongly similar to Nazi policy.

The Nazi persecution of the homeless began with earlier measures focused on sterilization and local detention rather than widespread removal from cities. The Maga government, the American fascist party, is already focused on widespread removal. They are in some ways accelerating Nazi policy.

Paragraph 175, instituted in 1871 under the Deutsches Kaiserreich, formally criminalized within the Reich Criminal Code what was termed “unnatural indecency” between men. In 1933, the new Nazi goverment dramatically increased enforcement of Par. 175, compiling “pink lists” of suspected homosexuals.