As primary season continues, some Democrats claim the party needs to "move to the center" to win in November. Hogwash. Democrats can't repeat the same failed playbook of the last 50 years. It's time for them to grow a spine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzG_TrhyrY

I have been a vocal critic of gerrymandering. But the Supreme Court has unleashed the Republican Party on a gerrymandering spree. Democrats must respond in kind, removing any incentive for Republican states to gerrymander. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

As many of you know, we use a lot of cheerios around here and we are OUT! Can anyone help us restock our shelves? Thank you so much! Amazon: a.co/4VXKis0

Today I am a published author. THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK is now available everywhere. Thank you to @stormliterary.bsky.social, @heathercashman.bsky.social, @lernerbooks.bsky.social, and @amyarielfitz.bsky.social for helping to make the dream I’ve had since I could remember come true.

That would be bad if that ever happened.

For those of you who didn't know - you do now! #BookSky

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Hochul: "I’m working with the Legislature to change New York’s redistricting process so we can fight back against Washington’s attempts to rig our democracy." This is the way

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

56,000 people will die per year forever because of Mike Lawler's healthcare cuts. This was a choice made by politicians in Washington DC. to put our health at risk. Why did they do this? To give trillions in tax handouts to the richest people in the history of the world - @alaw202.bsky.social

Reminder that tour season is underway! Come visit if you are local or planning to visit Vermont! www.merrymacfarmsanctuary.org/tours

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job. One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

From time to time, I like to get personal on my Substack. Thanks for following along. Today I want to talk about aging... I turn 80 this year (gulp). https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-problem-with-aging

I understand the argument for how Israel’s national interest was advanced in this war. I do not in any way see how our interests were anything but severely harmed.

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

ICE is dangerous, cruel, and lawless - and a growing number of local law enforcement agencies in New York collude w/ ICE on a regular basis. We need the NY legislature to pass New York for All to protect immigrant communities and end the collusion. Add your name: action.aclu.org/send-message...

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

I literally cannot abide listening to the sound of Trump's voice anymore. For him to characterize Iran as a violent country because they shoot protesters is just idiotically hypocritical and shows his profound stupidity.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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Trump is plotting to shell out nearly $1 billion of taxpayer money to get an energy company to stop building two wind farms. That will make us more reliant on dirty fossil fuels, whose prices are soaring due to his war on Iran. Everyone loses — except Trump’s Big Oil donors.

So far the war on Iran has cost $25 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

It’s been a hard week. If you’re feeling angry, you’re not alone. I see it in your comments. I’m struck by how you are fighting back against this tyranny, nonetheless. You are giving me hope. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-we-will-prevail

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses. Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high. Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025. “Golden Age” for whom?

Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended. But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.

This flew under the radar, but Trump's DOJ has abandoned its legal assault on the law firms that courageously refused to bend the knee to him. This should serve as a reminder for the firms that sucked up to Trump: appeasing a tyrant will get you nowhere.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

‘Nonsense!’ CNN Fact Checker Daniel Dale Rips Up Trump’s SOTU Attempt to Blame 11,000 ‘Murderers’ on Joe Biden

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

I remember Robert Duvall from many movies- and a 1963 episode of my favorite classic TV show- "The Twilight Zone".

If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

BREAKING: New Jersey Governor Sherrill is creating an online portal for New Jersey residents to report encounters with ICE agents. She wants you to record as much as you can!

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky Eagles- "I Can't Tell You Why" ( 1979) youtu.be/Odcn6qk94bs?...

Now Donald Trump is talking about building insane asylums. Perhaps he should be the first person committed.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

32 people died in ICE custody last year — the agency’s deadliest year in over two decades. Meanwhile, private prison corporations that are building and overseeing ICE detention centers are raking it in. Cashing in on cruelty.

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Let’s start the new year by getting the facts straight about our Social Security system.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.