I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.

Policy changes enacted since the start of the year (One Big Bill and tariffs) will hurt Americans' 2027 incomes on average at every income level by about -$1,500 Except the top 1%. They can expect a +$5,000 income bump

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

ABBY PHILLIPS: "The deputy attorney general met with Ghislaine and she shortly there after moved to a mininum security prison, why? PRO TRUMP ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED MAXWELL: stumbles uhh... "there's always a quid pro quo." ht: @citizenwillis.bsky.social

New data from @nzmurphy.bsky.social and me: the number of Americans who will lose health coverage under the Republicans' historic cuts to health care, by state and Congressional district. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

This chart tells the story.

BLS now says June job change was negative after revisions.

RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history. SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.

NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.

From PA's letter to Chair Thompson: USDA has gone dark on states about SNAP changes. Cancelling standing technical assistance calls ... still no guidance ... appalling stuff. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Great look at an under the radar rural impact of OBBBA. While it stopped short of including Sen. Lee's proposal to sell off public lands, it axed funding rural communities have relied on since 1908 fueling more public land sell offs. www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

"God damn well I declare.."

Stephen Miller was born in Santa Monica and in 2014, when he was 28, bought a $973,000 condo (with help from his parents) in one of downtown Washington's poshest towers www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliabl...

The MAGA regime is escalating attacks on families at home and abroad, from D.C. to Gaza. Deploying troops in D.C. is yet another attempt to scapegoat & target struggling people to advance their draconian agenda in service of billionaires, war profiteers, and white supremacy.

Restaurant reservations in DC plunged after Trump announced his takeover. It’s no surprise that rolling out troops into the streets dampens consumer appetite.

In a single act, Trump is undoing significant portions of the health coverage gains of the last 60 years.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and 83 other Senators voted to confirm Erika McEntarfer to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics

Pure Soviet shit...

DUN-DUN-DUN -- Maria Bartiromo and company react with stunned silence to a "disappointing" jobs report showing only 73,000 jobs were created in July

June was revised down from 147k to 14k, May was revised down to 19k. So we've created just 106k jobs since April, compared to over 100k in each of the first four months of the year. That's a really big revision!

Hearing rumors of ~300 new NSF grant terminations at UCLA today. Trump admin claiming Title VI violations again a la Harvard These would be the first new mass NSF terminations since late May. No word yet whether NIH grants are being terminated as well.

"It has become clear that the admin’s policy agenda is not merely to bend higher ed institutions to its political will, but that attacking higher ed is in and of itself a policy agenda." Devastating findings from @americanprogress.bsky.social's @gbedekovics.bsky.social & @citizenwillis.bsky.social

It has become clear that the Trump administration’s policy agenda is not merely to bend higher education institutions to its political will, but that attacking higher education is in and of itself a policy agenda. www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

The evidence thus far does not suggest that foreign suppliers are absorbing US tariff increases:

It's important to remember the long term con. In Trump's very first campaign speech in 2015 he promised not to cut Medicaid. "Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without cuts."

The most consequential piece of legislation in my lifetime that's primed to result in 17 million losing their health care is likely to pass this morning. Currently on CNN: a long segment on "romantic, spiritual connections with bots"

MUST-READ: My CAP colleague Alice Lillydahl has a terrific new column out today on why appeasement of Trump's illegal demands may be far more dangerous to organizations than compliance is.

This has to be one of the most morally bankrupt pieces of legislation I’ve ever seen. Government is supposed to help people, ESPECIALLY our most vulnerable. 50 Republican senators & the VP voted to hurt Americans, decimate rural healthcare, & literally take food from children.

The Blackburn/Cruz amendment on AI regulation is not an improvement – in fact, the new “undue or disproportionate burden" language is worse. We urge senators to pass an amendment to strike the state AI provision in full and vote no on this so-called "compromise."

🤔Their premise here is that Medicaid is a "welfare program." So let's dive in:

Disabled students are about to see deep cuts in their services through the republican tax and budget bill. Here are the top 5 ways they will be hurt, written by Weade James and I. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

@wyden.senate.gov on the Trump billionaire bailout: It is caviar over kids, hedge funds over health care, Mar-a-Lago over the middle class. These medicaid cuts are going to reach down into every corner of our nation's health care system.

The Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cost lives. John Oliver isn’t mincing words here. (data via @americanprogress.bsky.social)

Citing data from @americanprogress.bsky.social, John Oliver tells it like it is—Trump's bill will force MILLIONS of Americans off of their health insurance.

The Senate bill would kick 11.8 million people off their health insurance by cutting health coverage over $1 trillion

Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034. This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.

NABTU bringing the 🔥 on how devastating new Senate bill would be: “This stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of the country.” Union job losses “equivalent of terminating over 1,000 Keystone XL”s 1.75 million construction jobs, 3 BILLION work hours in clean energy kaput

How Americans feel about the One Big Beautiful Bill: FOX NEWS: 38% favorable, 59% unfavorable QUINNIPIAC: 27% favorable, 53% unfavorable KFF: 35% favorable, 64% unfavorable PEW: 29% favorable, 49% unfavorable WaPo-IPSOS: 23% favorable, 42% unfavorable www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

New @msnbc.com op-ed from me: despite protestations from the right, the “big beautiful bill” really would add trillions to the deficit and would harm, not help, the economy.

🚨”After Years Of Lying, Trump Organization Tries To Figure Out How Big Its Properties Actually Are” @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Damn. This is really sad.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Liberal stronghold, Waco, TX

New Pod @governorwalz.mn.gov discusses the rising authoritarian threat from the Trump administration & the president’s politicization of the military. Gov. Walz also talks about his record of delivering for Minnesotans & how Americans can push back in this moment.

$45 million of your tax dollars going to a birthday party.

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

BREAKING: The Trump admin is scrapping Biden admin guidance that hospitals in states with abortion bans can't turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. The move comes amid court battles over the guidance in Idaho, Tennessee and Texas. www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...