love this America

Greg Sargent has some wisdom: newrepublic.com/article/2027...?

yes, Michael tomasky newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Jonathan Greenblatt doing clean-up for Kevin Roberts at the Heritage Foundation is the same as Kevin Roberts doing clean-up for Tucker Carlson is the same as Tucker Carlson doing clean-up for Nick Fuentes

Happy publication day to Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America A moving, powerful book that is so timely - you can get yours at bookshop!! bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...

30 arrests connected to the No Kings rallies, 29 of them were pro-Trump agitators trying unsuccessfully to pick fights. The 30th was a demonstrator in Fairhope, AL, who wore an inflatable penis that police deemed obscene, but that the arraigning magistrate concluded (correctly) was funny.

Yes, we take a lot of variables like house effects, mode effects, and pollster partisanship into account that other aggregators either do not do at all or do not do sufficiently correctly. This ends up causing a lot of phantom shifts in their trends. See here: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-to-rig...

BREAKING: Workers at D.C.’s iconic 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and Lincoln Theatre are coming together to unionize! More than 300 employees across production, front of house, box office, and hospitality are standing up for a voice on the job! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

One retiree said he chose to wave an American flag instead of a sign “because people who carry the flag do not hate America and as you can see there are a lot of flags.” WE ARE TAKING BACK THE FLAG 🇺🇸 #NoKings

The NFL is not going to like this attack on their efforts to capture an international audience. FYI Bad Bunny is an American citizen.

AIPAC losing, J Street winning: Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift A quiet retreat by Democrats from the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...? although maybe it is Israel is losing and Israel's government is losing.

AIPAC losing, J Street winning. Yippee! Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift A quiet retreat by Democrats from the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...? although maybe it is Israel is losing and Israel's government is losing.

#Hegseth is openly advocating that soldiers can do war crimes with his backing. This speech explains why Trump pardons murders and other war criminals.

My latest effort to be super-popular in @nytimes.com: “Spraying Roundup on Crops Is Fine. Really.” Yes, the world’s most hated herbicide is way less toxic than caffeine. Here’s a gift link where you can leave all your supportive comments: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

This is a ridiculously broad understanding of the President's foreign affairs powers -- that the Executive Branch experiences "harms to [its] conduct of foreign affairs" when it is must spend foreign aid money appropriated in a bill signed by the President. Whither Congress's power of the purse?

right on, Taylor.

Read his full speech: www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of...

“Suck it Sinclair”, a collaboration including Seattle Indivisible, led by @DefundMusk, is calling out Sinclair, Nexstar and KOMO to stop complicity with the administration’s silencing of Kimmel and free speech. 1/3 Www.suckitsinclair.com #suckitsinclair #localnews #seattle @defundmusk.bsky.social

I was one view because here in DC the show was not shown.

After-school programs across the country have closed or reduced capacity due to funding cuts and rising costs, leaving millions of children without care and forcing many parents—especially moms—to cut working hours or leave jobs. @kedseconomist.com in TIME: time.com/7318911/afte...

This continues work I started in 2003 with Sylvia Allegretto. Nice to see. @epi.org

The teacher pay penalty continues to grow. Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social

Civility Is a Fantasy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

Here's my chat about #BLS #statistics with @pkrugman.bsky.social! Jobs revisions, meddling, modernization and more... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi... #econsky

Wow, just wow

A small bit of good news here

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Charlie Kirk’s quotes about Black people: 1) “Prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people — that’s a fact.” 2) “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ‘boy, I hope he is qualified.’” 3) “George Floyd was a ‘scumbag.’” More: x.com/newstoter/st...

So is Trump going to send the National Guard to Utah now following the murder of Charlie Kirk?

The same people who are planning full military honors for Ashli Babbit and pardoned the J6 attackers are lecturing us about political violence.

"Now, tariffs, deportation, health care cuts, child care cuts, or tax cuts–these policies are all poised to make a bad situation worse." - @kedseconomist.com #Trumpflation www.momsrising.org/blog/how-we-...

SCOOP: Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

hmmm.

Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.

Yes, teach about workers rights in high schools, a no brainer. Thanks you @terrigerstein.bsky.social Shouldn't young women know about sexual harassment, all teens know about the minimum wage? newrepublic.com/article/1997...?

A Tale of Two Governors: Confronting versus Dick-Wagging www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a...

To be clear: bigoted attacks and sweeping bans to do not make Jews, Israel, or Americans safer. They only weaponize fear as a way to pit communities against one another and further erode our democratic norms and safety at a time when they're already under dire threat. 4/

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lisa Cook's firing is a big deal. Data-based economic decision making is essential to keeping costs and interest rates low. Leaving our economy vulnerable to the whims of the President will crush consumer confidence and drive up prices. @epi.org www.epi.org/policywatch/...

An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence docs.google.com/document/u/0...

question; is Lisa Cook still able to show up to work? Is she doing so?

Well there you have it: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

makes me smile

How Bad Slavery Was url:https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-08-26-how-bad-slavery-was/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other