We’ve been warning for months that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming hard for mail voting — and this week saw a major development in the campaign. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Seems like a good time to re-up this commentary I wrote two years ago for @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/ener... www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

The stealthy huntress stalks her prey. Can you even see her in this picture? #dogsky #dogsofbluesky

That's a safe bet. The Zuckerberg-Musk gang are too pathetic to be able to make a living in a free market without the government giving them help.

I don’t know why the Democrats don’t use us falling behind China as a line of attack because it highlights many of the stupid things the govt is doing now with foreign policy, science, higher education, tariffs/trade and immigration. Current policy is aiding China’s rise and our decline.

Everything Elon Musk says about economic policy is 100% nonsense. It's hard to believe anyone would invest money with that clown.

Exactly -- Majorie Taylor Greene did the right thing in breaking with Trump. She deserves to be praised for that. Someone else can worry about her soul.

Securing defections from the authoritarian regime is the centerpiece of any successful pro-democracy resistance. Politics isn’t fandom—when someone leaves the authoritarian coalition, we should take it as a win.

The financial and media elites appear to have overestimated the capabilities of the American tech billionaires.

The irony of the American economy being dictated by the whims of Donald Trump is that he'll have no one else to blame when it all crumbles. This will be his undoing.

President Trump issued three pardons to participants in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The latest pardons underscored the breadth of Trump’s efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts that he had hoped would overturn of the 2020 election.

How can you expect a Republican senator to have any idea how Obamacare works?

Tired: “National Emergency.” Wired: “Signature Policy.”

Too bad Tim Kaine didn't know about the SNAP suit before SCOTUS, which he almost certainly would have lost. It's hard to learn about such things in the Senate, apparently.

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CBS is the network that paid Trump $16m. CBS is the network owned by the Ellisons. CBS is the network that failed to push back in its 60 Minutes interview of Trump. Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.

Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"

This doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI bros, but great news for the rest of the country www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Local public radio and broadcasting orgs should be beneficiaries of this and should receive public and governmental support as well as other independent media

Thanks

You should read Dean Baker

I don't have any interest in dumping on Krugman, who I greatly respect, but we have to think in different terms than the NYT in today's media. Great we have the NYT, but I suspect independent media going forward will be tens of thousands of people, many writing for small outlets, many on their own.

a marriage made in, well, certainly not the good place

Not all Republicans are prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia

*In the Trump era, there is no doubt that we need a better media system. There are policies we could enact to make this happen* Nov 16, 2025 By @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

Pretty amazing, Casssidy apparently doesn't know people buy their own insurance under Obamacare.

Contrary to what Paul Krugman tells you, we can do something about getting government support for independent media, even in the age of Trump deanbaker22.substack.com/p/contrary-t...

At least with Trump no one has to spend lots of time ferreting out corruption, it is right there in front of our faces.

Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU

It's a good idea. And you're right, it could be done at the state and local level, as well as the federal gov.

Not all Republicans are prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia

Looks like Indiana's Republicans are telling Trump to eat shit and die when it comes to redistricting. I guess not every Republican is prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

I've always appreciated this proposal first articulated by @deanbaker13.bsky.social (also championed by Bob McChesney over the years). It's a way to publicly finance local journalism from the bottom up. Should definitely be part of the conversation.

Thanks Tanya

The US "used to heavily subsidize newspapers" via USPS -- 0.2% of GDP, "almost $60 billion a year in today’s economy." Here's "a serious way to support an essential public service like local newspapers." "The gov could give people a tax credit to "support the news outlet of their choice."

sounds better

Maybe others have better ideas, but don't say we can't do anything.

Here's my idea, an individual tax credit modeled on the charitable contribution tax deduction www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Definitely worth reading, but the end is infuriating. They talk about the decline of local journalism and conclude "what can you do?"

Krugman interviews Margaret Sullivan on the media, two people I greatly respect paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Obviously, we cannot do anything at the national level, but we can have policies to support journalism at the state and local level.

Remember, REPUBLICANS in Indiana told Trump to go to hell www.politico.com/news/2025/11... This is very good news.

Donald Trump has been (and likely will be) getting his ass serially handed to him on tariffs. He and his rubes are declaring victory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjd...

That would be 100,000 food stamp person-years went to Kristi Noem's friends for her ads.

Krugman interviews Margaret Sullivan on the media, two people I greatly respect paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Pence's revenge?

don't you feel safer?

The only thing missing is Walter Cronkite announcing the Viet Cong body counts on the CBS Evening News.

PRO PUBLICA: “The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends.” These people are all so corrupt it’s actually insane. Looting our country to enrich themselves. www.propublica.org/article/kris...