Trump’s FCC chief Brendan Carr has weaponized the agency to intimidate news organizations and media companies by threatening their broadcast licenses. @thenation.com (from June) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public @thenation.com [from March] www.thenation.com/article/econ...

I write in @thenation.com that Paramount’s recent settlement with Trump is a symptom of deep structural rot in our hyper-capitalistic media system. I argue that we should be thinking now about the structural media reforms we need for the post-Trump era as we rebuild journalism from the ground up.

Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died. Tribute from @nicholsuprising.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

congestion pricing is one of the most comprehensively successful policies NYC has ever seen, so of course all the worst people want to get rid of it

Fodder for novels about our times: 1) Trump Commerce Sec H Lutnick says people won't really notice if SocSec misses a payment cycle: www.axios.com/2025/03/21/s... 2) Lutnick just bought house in DC for $25 million, all cash 3) Seller: Bret Baier of Fox www.washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...

As FCC chair, Brendan Carr has launched multiple attacks on freedom of the press. He’s demonstrated a clear pattern of supporting Trump’s authoritarian takeover by using his government perch to quash dissent. My latest piece dissects his seven most chilling attacks on free speech.

The Federal Reserve has significantly revised down expected growth for this year and meaningfully revised up expected inflation for this year. Trump’s chaotic and harmful approach to the economy is already showing up.

DOJ is ditching a bunch of guidelines on how businesses can accommodate people with disabilities. It's supposedly about combating high prices.

Redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

Trump's trade war will hit Trump voters hardest. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yale Budget is out w/ illustrative analysis of what following the House budget plan could look like - of what cutting Medicaid & SNAP while extending the Trump tax cuts could look like. It’d hurt the poor, be roughly neutral for the middle class, & help the rich. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...

Important new work from my @budgetlab.bsky.social colleagues Harris Eppsteiner & John Ricco on the House budget resolution. Neutral illustrative policies consistent w/ committee deficit targets suggest the proposed tax + spending cuts are regressive: they benefit the top & hurt the bottom. 1/3

Wrote about "current policy baseline" earlier this week. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

Trump and his GOP allies are plotting a massive budgetary gimmick designed to conceal the fact that their budget numbers don’t add up—and they know it. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The Trump administration is looking for ways to obscure the true cost of its economic plans at a time when the US economy is already flashing warning signs of a recession. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

AP: Trump downplays business concerns about uncertainty from his tariffs and prospect of higher prices apnews.com/article/trum...

AP: US economic worries mount as Trump implements tariffs, cuts workforce and freezes spending apnews.com/article/trum...

Basically, a highly regressive consumption tax that would transfer huge amounts of wealth upward. Which I suppose is the point.

Trump and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

New op-ed from me: yes, House Republicans really are coming for your Medicaid and SNAP. In this piece, I explain why the Republicans who say, "oh, we're not actually going for Medicaid and SNAP" are bullshitting you. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

🧵 (1/4) Critics aren't the only ones that call this a gimmick. It simply is so. @bbkogan.bsky.social and Congressman Schweikert have it right; fiscal costs vanish. www.wsj.com/politics/rep... from @richardrubindc.bsky.social

The DC press turns every story into a win or loss for the president. That's particularly nuts on a night like tonight when the House just voted to take food from millions of kids.

$DJT 10-k

very good reporting here, at micro and macro level www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Important piece from @pamherd.bsky.social on what Trump's reforms mean for people with disability in public life open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

CDAPress: Chaos erupts at legislative town hall in Coeur d'Alene cdapress.com/news/2025/fe...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

The end goal is to claim enough savings -- real or fabricated doesn't matter -- to fund the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cut, which was "skewed to the rich, expensive, and failed to deliver on Its promises." www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Eliminating the ACA Medicaid Expansion Match Could: --Reduce Total Medicaid Spending by Up To $1.9 Trillion Over 10 Years -- End Coverage for 20 Million People www.kff.org/affordable-c...

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

Trump saw Chinatown in 1974, and ever since he's been an expert in California water issues.

Paramount brass should watch The Insider again. Or maybe for the first time?

The Nation: Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: The Billionaires and the Crypto Bros www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Good story, Tony. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Totally normal. NYT: Trump’s Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the World’s Most Valuable www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

AP: Bitcoin soars past $100,000 ahead of possible early action on crypto by Trump apnews.com/article/trum...

I was thinking about this story from last week today for some reason.

Final sunset.

NEH: The Trial of Hannah Arendt www.neh.gov/humanities/2...

Debris Rains From Space After SpaceX’s Starship Is Lost in Flight www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/s...

Trump and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM. www.thenation.com/article/poli...