except... health insur is complex. who has a lg audience, understands health insurance, & can explain it? More people will agree with Trump's plan than people that understand why Trump's plan is the pre-2010 situation that led to over a $1 trillion of medical debt & many bankrupcies.

The deal is that he wants people to get cheap junk insurance that won't do anything for people when they need it. This is a RETVRN to pre-2010 insurance markets. Make America Great Again.

Extending the health care tax credits for one year costs about the same as Trump’s bailout of Argentina. Trump and Congressional Republicans must come to the table and negotiate—before tens of millions of Americans see their health care premiums double.

@markjacob.bsky.social this sounds really bad. FYI, www.levernews.com/inside-ices-...

But I thought Trump's tariff taxes were supposed to be good for US jobs?

This encapsulates so much….

One big lesson I drew from the elections is that electricity prices are a top-tier political issue. The 2 Dems who won seats on the utility regulatory panel in Georgia overperformed Kamala Harris by 28 points(!) Mikie Sherrill ran on freezing rates. There's an agenda here for the Dems.

NY Times essay adapted from my new book, "The Age of Extraction." Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

ADP for Oct showed private sector hiring of 42k after a decline of 29k jobs in Sept, but the 3m avg is barely positive at 3k and it is increasingly clear smaller firms are bearing the brunt of policy chaos. Now add in federal layoffs not captured in ADP data and it is no surprise voters are unhappy

Eleven years ago Zephyr Teachout and I ran a campaign against Cuomo to uproot the corruption he had brought to New York and his lack of respect for the democratic process. Yesterday was a good day! www.politico.com/states/new-y...

Have now purchased backup train tix for my weekend flights to/from NYC because America is great again

OUT NOW: What’s at Stake in Trump's Supreme Court Tariff Case by @wallachlori.bsky.social on the Economic Populist via @econliberties.bsky.social. economicpopulist.substack.com/p/whats-at-s...

At the center of gov shut down are ACA enhanced premium tax credits . The @rooseveltinstitute.org has a good explainer: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/enhance...

Good thread about supreme court arguments RE: Trump tariff power over reach case.

Mamdani isn’t wasting any time. Lina Khan is a great pick for his transition team.

Governor JB Pritzker is creating the Illinois Accountability Commission to document what he says are examples of harassment, intimidation and abuse by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz. trib.al/HHxYJP2

The federal government is shut down because Trump & Congressional Republicans want higher healthcare costs for working people, even stripping care from millions. Why? To give tax giveaways to billionaires, while expanding the fastest growing class in America: the working poor.

The President prides himself on “The Art of the Deal.” Well, now’s the time for him to make a deal.   Lower health care costs—don’t shut down the government.

The polling is clear: Voters want Congress to stop their health care costs from skyrocketing. And come Nov. 1, those health care costs could cost families an extra $3,500+ a year. It’s a crisis Trump heard about for the first time yesterday.

Hey so we're doing our fall fundraising campaign and I want to share with you why it's so important. 🧵 secure.actblue.com/donate/tap-f...

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

"Democracy is an outdated software system" Gil Duran on The Nerd Reich youtu.be/z2W3tmCBEnE?...

Amen, brother Matthew

Good news for consumers

Great interview about "free speech" rights in the US vs Britain -- as well as many people's conflicted support of "free speech". If you only support "free speech" for people you agree with, you're not really supporting "free speech".

Jimmy Kimmel is off air, people are getting fired for opinions about Charlie Kirk, so why is the White House worked up about free speech … in Britain? I tried to break it down with Asma Khalid @asmamk and Tristan Redman on the BBC’s Global Story podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

So many people are canceling Disney+ over the Kimmel suspension that the cancellation page crashed. Did you cancel too?

Billionaires claim their wealth is just “on paper.” Funny, since they borrow against it to buy yachts, mansions, even companies. This week’s Closer Look shows how the #EqualTaxAct & Billionaires Income Tax would ensure ultra-wealthy pay their fair share. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

"A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity."

Good journalism is happening. It's important. And it could use more funding and readers.

The US government and especially the State Dept are now fine with this kind of thing apnews.com/article/char...

📖💬💥 Read Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic! Developed with @joelchristiangill.bsky.social and the BU Visual Narrative MFA program, based on Power & Progress by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social & @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social shapingwork.mit.edu/power-and-pr...

Excellent conversation on political violence in the US. Why it's increasing and what elected officials could do to lower its risk.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

"On August 29, the State Department leadership notified staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements...designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

11/11 At the moment when climate action is most urgent and clean energy is becoming the cheapest power source globally, the US is walking away from the ambition to lead (or participate) in that transition. China is ready to fill that vacuum.

10/ The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time.

John Stewart talks to @jbpritzker.bsky.social about Chicago, Trump, ICE... and how to mitigate crime. Pritzker has an impressive command of the facts and what Trump is doing to make suppressing crime harder. youtu.be/JVAaPNI4kak?...

Trump admin pulls the plug on Texas’ Solar for All program - "White’s Port Arthur-based co" among "participants in Texas’ Solar for All program, ...initiative to deploy solar energy in homes across Texas and build out a workforce to install the technology in low- and moderate-income communities."

Texas solar program left in limbo after Trump administration pulls the plug on $250 million grant

I call on Donald Trump to join me in consistently denouncing political violence and to renounce his past calls for violence against the media, protesters, criminal suspects and immigrants.

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July. Now some farmers are saying that as a results of ICE raids, and of workers be afraid to show up to job sites, crops are going to waste.

Working families in Pennsylvania pay higher tax rates than millionaires and billionaires. That’s why we spoke with @deluzio.house.gov today about passing the #EqualTaxAct to close loopholes and fix the broken tax code in this country.

"We're going up against a lot of money. But I'm a former middle school teacher --I don't scare easily. And Texans don't scare easily." "There is far more that unites us than divides us."

I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...

"American Manufacturing Employment Has Declined by 22,000 Jobs During the Past Six Months"

From @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥