"My dad... fell in love with basketball at a tender young age, in schoolyards with other Jewish boys on Long Island, and carried that love with him through his life." indyweek.com/news/culture...

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

Increased administrative burdens for Medicaid recipients plus decreased tax subsidies equals more costly health insurance (whether in dollars or maintenance) myeol.nccu.edu/sites/defaul...

MICHIGAN: Police arrest protestor of Trump’s attack on Venezuela while she’s live on air 🤔🇺🇸

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-mus...

Health insurance premiums are increasing across the board starting in January 2026, but North Carolina has additional looming threats to access to affordable health insurance.

Understanding the cuts to Medicaid, the expiring healthcare tax credits, and the constriction of affordable healthcare in North Carolina. myeol.nccu.edu/sites/defaul...

Tennessee saw the wild success NC had in diluting its dem voters and wanted to get in on the anti-representative democracy fun

Progressive candidates in the US right now naturally have their platforms built around affordability because healthcare, housing, transit, and food access are all precarious to untenable. We owe it to each other to meaningfully reimagine these systems.

I know we want to look away, sometimes we *need* to look away for at least a bit, just to get by, to try to get through it all. But sometimes, it's just too horrible to look away. We have to ask ourselves: what we will say, what did we do, where were we, when all this was happening?

DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.

Fascism does not accommodate moderates, it merely bumps them down the list. For our clients who think acquiescence or compliance are smart tactics, we encourage them to look to actions that inspire right now.

Well, Northwestern, at least 595 of your Faculty Assembly didn’t vote against this exact outcome… bsky.app/profile/matt...

595 faculty members voted for this resolution, with only 4 against and 8 abstentions.

Fascism does not accommodate moderates, it merely bumps them down the list. For our clients who think acquiescence or compliance are smart tactics, we encourage them to look to actions that inspire right now.

My I Am Not Enron T shirt is raising a lot of questions about whether I am Enron

NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office. President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

Collusive & shameless: MoneyLion charged borrowers “membership fees” for them to secure a loan, but didn’t properly include those fees in the total cost of the loan. Now, Vought’s CFPB is trying to undo a judge’s ruling by letting MoneyLion off the hook for its Military Lending Act violations.

Over 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce. This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA. I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.

Collusive & shameless: MoneyLion charged borrowers “membership fees” for them to secure a loan, but didn’t properly include those fees in the total cost of the loan. Now, Vought’s CFPB is trying to undo a judge’s ruling by letting MoneyLion off the hook for its Military Lending Act violations.

So it’s just hard to explain this as a strategic decision at all. Instead it looks like what they learned was their own unwillingness to see people harmed by the shutdown and their own lack of leadership, not anything about strategy

A major North Carolina solar power firm in Asheville has been forced to close and lay off hundreds of employees due to the Trump administration's war on renewable energy. www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...

By surrendering so utterly and completely at a moment of their maximum leverage and momentum, Senate Democrats taught Trump and his cadre an important lesson: Do enough damage and your opponents will buckle. Because of this surrender, our democracy is more imperiled now than it was before.

At @nclc4consumers.bsky.social conference and watching this panel on grassroots and grasstops organizing. Lots of obstacles but lots of persistence, too!

During a session on Deed Theft and Equity Stripping Scams, panelists discuss the threat to homeowners, with a particular focus on older adults, and ways to address these scams. #CRLC2025 #ConsumerLaw

#SNAP ’s contingency fund holds over $6B, enough to cover November benefits for 1 in 8 Americans who rely on the program to afford groceries. @sharonparrott.bsky.social emphasizes that the Admin should have prepared weeks ago to use these funds and still can act now. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

I argue that because financial protections are so impactful, government agencies and elected officials’ hostility towards consumer protection laws and enforcement is a useful bellwether for their prioritization of people’s interests over businesses’ immediate interests.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

I’ve shared my working paper on consumer protection and democracy on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Russell Vought mismanaging the country’s budget and then threatening to fire the federal workers who just want to get back to work is unconscionable.

Russell Vought, after shutting down the CFPB from within, on the surge of fraud:

"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference." — Jane Goodall, March 30, 2024, grist.org/looking-forw...

Russell Vought, after shutting down the CFPB from within, on the surge of fraud:

“Still, watching the craven response of so many to the imposition of authoritarian rule has been upsetting.”