New from me at @rooseveltforward.org Building economic security will require major upgrades to our forgotten and threadbare programs for people with disabilities. I describe the decade of neglect that have left millions on SSI languishing in poverty...1/3 www.firesidestacks.com/p/ssi-reform...

Well done summary of the potentially enormous financial impact losing Fed independence (and what would happen if Humphrey's executor isn't maintained as the Supreme Court reviews it in Dec).

At last we will have our revenge. youtu.be/SrbfGbfelvY?...

Yeah this is the other thing. The poverty rate and the safety net expiration are generally not even relevant for the people who were unhappy about the state of economy. The poverty rate isn't an indicator that "things are bad" in the way they meant.

#priorities www.propublica.org/article/geor...

The superdole was a wild success that the left and populists pretend never happened and no one gave any political credit for and really should have been an early warning sign that deliverism would fail.

I think "low unemployment, rising real wages for the working class for the first time in literally decades, worker power growing and the poverty rate still went up" is a bit of a shock both to the "employment is the pathway out of poverty" centrists and the old school "worker" left.

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Blueskyism

“I’d like to stop the concentration of power in a disparate network of car dealers” *monkey’s paw curls* proceeds to concentrate power into a single sociopath

Strange new respect for Elon Musk.

<Burglar tries to rob my house> <Only thing with non-negligible street value is my current laptop> <My laptop is stored in a pile of 8 non-working laptops>

is this not just kidnapping?

wow you're telling me this for the first time www.axios.com/2025/09/22/t...

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

Kimmel has the best opsec in America.

Many of my followers don’t want to hear this but it is at least, uh, interesting how Trump’s potent combination of bigotry and economic illiteracy prove out the broader virtues of neoliberalism (caveats withstanding). Turns out open markets and not being a dick is good for the economy!

Need Chappelle Roan to do a jingle ad for them.

The galaxy brain is that military genius is just the abilty to train and move more reliably average soldiers than the other guy can

“Mr. Johnson underscored that the new fee would also affect workers in the medical & manufacturing industries as well as at universities who receive H-1B visas. “The numbers of companies & industries where H-1B workers play a really critical role is incredibly broad” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

In Ec10 I survey students and the vast majority object to movie theaters that have a surcharge for people ages 12 to 59. But they're all OK with a discount for 11 and under and 60 and over. Your favorite examples of price discrimination and framing?

Ahhhhhhhhh

True, but this is not even an economic principle, this is 3rd grade arithmetic

These people really dislike capitalism and it’s wild

A bit of good news this morning: Harvard vs Trump: millions in grant money begin trickling back to scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Star Wars George Pearkes be like: Here we go! FOLOR: ROGUE SQUADRON REFORMED FOLOR: ANTILLES CONFIDENT IN NEW PILOTS FOLOR: PROVISIONAL COUNCIL ANNOUNCES COREWARD OFFENSIVE

I suspect that the sudden increase is "prominent conservative assassinated", not "people don't like the Trump economy".

Chris Freiman talked on Twitter about how downplaying the economic strength on both the left and right is used to boost support for radical reforms that aren't necessary or harmful. I see a lot of this here.

a huge part of the gap is that markets are, at their baseline, completely insane, so hard-focusing any part of them makes the entire thing sound like a house of cards that is going to topple at any second

Pretty big divergence between what the Politics Knowers think is happening to the economy and what Economy Knowers say is happening to the economy. I find that gap troubling. Keep your expectations in check, folks.

HR 1 greatly expanded work requirements for both SNAP and Medicaid. Join me and other experts at a webinar next week on policy implications, operational strategies, and ways to reduce burden and protect access. September 25 at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New in @jamanetworkopen.com with Gabe Miller and Nicole Jones: the 2010s saw a reversal of an enduring disparity in insurance rates among 🏳️‍🌈 ppl, particularly for same-sex couples. So how have these gains been realized? Let's get into it! A 🧵! 1/6 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"the Empire would only do something this monstrous if the deep substrate foliated kalkite were worth it" I mean I HALF believe that THEY believe that, but also, they're morons, so.

They should just call them " a tax on imports".

Let’s fix our community college system — ASAP, writes Laura Arnold @arnoldventures.bsky.social. www.arnoldventures.org/stories/lets... .

🧵 Big changes may be coming to disability benefits. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is preparing a rule that could reshape how eligibility is determined for SSDI and SSI. Here’s what you need to know—and why it matters. www.urban.org/research/pub...

that’s what the legend claims but historians agree he is more likely an amalgamation of multiple Wills Stancil

Summers: If you drive drunk, you often get safely to your destination. It’s still a terrible mistake. Bad policy risks bad outcomes; it does not ensure them.

The issue with focusing on negative shocks is: 1. Creating some sort of blame narrative story for unemployment. 2. Portraying things as unfixable when they could be fixed. Outside the zero bound, the Fed does indeed have to change its rates to hit the same level of NGDP.

It's really unfortunate how the high school history treatment of the Great Depression gives people very bad intuitions about how the business cycle works.

People would be horrified and disgusted if they had any real awareness of what American immigration law is like even before Trump. A friend who works on immigration policy tells the story of being asked at a public event why undocumented didn't simply "go to the Post Office and get registered."

I can't tell how many people think this is a real thing versus a funny joke.

My father-in-law is an evaluator. It is difficult to get his attention in an analysis because he is lost in wonder. We were in 20 year TAA evaluation together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.

some of the replies to this are like a social experiment on what it looks like when a refusal to read the article and a profound belief that world needs your opinion on everything combine

Sam Enright has a post for Progress Ireland on how Ireland could become the world leader in replications.

The Federation absolutely provides guns to civilizations that are being occupied by FTL capable civilizations. See "A Private Little War".