the extent to which Callais is a green light for Jim Crow just cannot be overstated

Misogyny. This specific political tendency is called misogyny.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Me Too did not go far enough.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Jim Crow, but make it national.

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

"Speculative finance does not directly cause landlords to charge higher rents, but it leads them to create business plans that can only succeed if rents rise faster than current tenants can sustain." rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

This is a creditor view of the world. Public commitments should be recognized as PRIOR to relative financial commitments. Promises to keep people housed, educated, safe, and enfranchised should govern how financial claims are managed—not be deferred to satisfy repayment for Wall Street. 4/

This is an unusually serious document that rightly recognizes that democracy doesn’t reproduce itself without an institutional surround. There’s a lot to commend. In the area of public finance, though, the document stops at the threshold of de-centering a market ontology, and we can do better. 🧵 1/

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

More evidence for @adamserwer.bsky.social's thesis that the current Supreme Court hates the Reconstruction Amendments and seeks to recreate the antebellum Constitution.

Higher wage floors due to minimum wage increases or repeal of subminimum wages do not appear to have disproportionate impacts on workers with disabilities, from Roisin O'Neill, Shailee Manandhar, and Douglas L. Kruse www.nber.org/papers/w35368

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

speaking of #econsky #socsky (are either of these a thing on here?) I'm looking for papers that have used national surveys (like ATUS or NHIS) to construct measures of administrative burden reccs greatly appreciated!

supporting and even working with the popular, winning DSA candidates is also technically an option

A better world is possible and we’re building it in DC 🌹🤝

DC resident, can confirm: for people pushing that narrative this map is more or less the funniest conceivable result

Tonight I’m thinking of the thousands of DC families who will be able to access paid family leave after Muriel Bowser’s attempt to knee cap the program because @janeese4dc.bsky.social is our mayor elect 💜🦄👾🪁🌹

dc sunshine rainbows and lollipops subplot loading 🥹

That’s my mayor

navigating the unfiltered dysfunction and cruelty of the American healthcare system when you or a loved one needs care is a hell I wish on no one

Economics has always functioned as a polite accounting language for animating racial and gender fantasies: who counts as productive, who counts as burden, who deserves investment, and who must be managed as a ward of the productive people.

And women know who is to blame for this mess. Their rating of how the government’s doing fighting inflation or unemployment is the worst it’s ever been. 8/9 #NumbersDay

This is a really important conversation. Our research shows white women, Latinas & Native women are particularly overrepresented in AI-vulnerable occupations: their shares of the most AI-vulnerable jobs are nearly double their shares of the overall workforce nationalpartnership.org/report/ai-em...

Yah, this is it right here. Children should be able to make decisions about their bodies regardless of their parents. Including deciding what type of puberty they want to go through. But a lot of people won't make this argument because deep down they believe children are property.

New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey. Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

"No lithium means no batteries, and so no electronic devices, and so no value to the labor of Apple product managers. But lithium miners are not paid in a way that reflects this necessity, because what is necessary is their collective labor, and they are paid one by one."

IF what is possible for the many is shaped by what many believe is possible, which is shaped by what many believe was possible— THEN the success of our movements depends on our ability to find + retell those parts of our history that many do not yet know, as @greenbackbetter.bsky.social does here.

"To be a parent in America is to race constantly in vain against the clock." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/m... This excellent piece is why I'm so excited that our new Good Life Agenda included a whole section on time. (rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...)

It also violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. A case about similar GEO Group practices in Colorado is finally going to trial this year (was filed in 2014!). I wrote a bunch about GEO's forced labor policies and the litigation against them here scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

Bodily autonomy is so new

No moms, no teachers, no HR, no gen z girl boss in a mini, no bitch ex-wives. No women with authority over men.

‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...

would love more movement on the data center issue in DC. we alongside Maryland are in Pepco's (energy distributor's) service area and as far as I can tell we are effectively collectively subsidizing data center buildout

this is NOT funny. Societies only invest trillions of dollars in $30k care robots instead of paying home care workers a living wage when they are VERY sick

another work day another opportunity for google chrome to bar me from clicking on research article links because *checks notes* I've clicked on too many links recently and might be a bot

cruelty is the point

I’m struck by how many far left policies from a decade ago are supported by a majority today. What capacities and foundations can you build today that will change the world in 10-15 years?

"Consider what this means in practice. Under neoliberalism, public investment in education, health care, and infrastructure crowds out private capital. Under market humanism, it is investment in the cooperative capacity of the workforce—the foundation on which all private growth depends."

73% of US workers lack PFL at work. But health and caregiving needs are inevitable and come with additional costs A typical worker needs $9,500 on avg to cover basic necessities & caregiving costs for 12 weeks of unpaid leave #PaidLeave means being able to afford the basics @npwf.bsky.social

New for the Vibecession Debate. Working paper argues that using microdata to get household-specific inflation rates (rather than aggregating first like CPI), you find -lotta variation in household inflation -greater avg inflation during price upturns -lower real wages for lower income people

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

WATCH AND LEARN: In 1876, insurgent Whites attacked the mostly Black town of Hamburg, South Carolina, killing five men. After an investigation 87 men were indicted. One, Matthew Butler, became a state senator that same year. Another, Benjamin Tillman, would become governor of South Carolina

Mr. Robot said: "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime; that is the corporate motto of these United States. You wanna oink-oink with all the other capitalist pigs? It’s not about how much money; it’s about robbing money itself." Subjecting public budgets to private bond markets is robbery.

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Nobody is entitled to a growing population. But everybody is entitled to protection from creepy, manipulative demands that they reproduce/don't reproduce in service of "population."