Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.” 👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

it's so funny to watch the far right White House press pool try to bait Trump to say something nasty about Mamdani and every time he's just like "nah this guy rocks"

Cárteles contra ecologistas - By Ioan Grillo (CrashOut).- El crimen organizado ataca a los defensores de la naturaleza en México. www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carteles-c...

When you run on a nativist platform of “immigrants are taking your jobs and driving down your pay” but then enact policies that will formalize that process…

This is so cool. Driving an E.V. Across North Dakota? Thank the Standing Rock Tribe. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, wants to examine how the nation’s largest bank handled the reporting of more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions. #MomSky www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

🚨BLACK FRIDAY ALERT🚨 Here’s where we WON’T be shopping from Black Friday to Cyber Monday this year and how to make sure billionaires feel it!

Uniter Yo, Misogynist Bigot! We’re all Mary Bruce We’re all Jamal Khashoggi We’re all Yamiche Alcindor We’re all Emmett Till We’re all Catherine Lucey We’re all Miss Piggy #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory 🎁 Trump Berates One Reporter & Tells Another,‘Quiet Piggy’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

Struggling to find mainstream legacy media journalists capable of asking tough questions? Meet Mary Bruce, chief White House Correspondent, ABC News. Trump berated and insulted Ms. Bruce and her employer because this is how POTUS and the rest of his administration deflect criticism.

"At a 2024 campaign rally, he fantasized about shooting journalists. His comments to female reporters have another through line: Why can’t you just be silent like a woman should? Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity—and making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too."

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.” “Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats. That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

My god does anyone at the NYT have a memory that goes back more than 5 years? 2019 is a bygone era? *Twilight* of the NY elite of bankers and real estate moguls? WHO'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE JFC I'm going to have a stroke www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...

Thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump is out of control and Congress is useless. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

Prayers are needed for this child 🙏 and so many children separated from their families by ICE. Call your Congress member. If in a Republican district send this story. This should never happen in America. NEVER. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

It's murder & we're the bad guys. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

@nwirp.bsky.social is hiring for a Bilingual Legal Advocate to work in their Asylum Seeker Support division! Apply today on the Fuse Progressive Jobs Bank: www.fuseinnovation.org/jobs/bilingu...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Congratulations to ALL of our endorsed candidates on their victories! Seattle's future is looking bright! #Seattle #SEAElex #KingCounty #KCElex #WAElex

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Watch out Nickel!

Gift link www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

UPDATE: latest round of ballots counted shows that Katie Wilson now leads Bruce Harrell in the Seattle Mayor's race by 1,346 votes. That's currently within the 2,000 vote margin to trigger an automatic machine recount. Though there are ~1,000 ballots with signature issues that could change that.

This is how the Trump administration, Congress, and the Supreme Court are recognizing Veterans Day this year. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

At today’s D.C. Vets Say NO protest, veterans called on the MAGA administration to “remember your oath” — and stop waging war at home and abroad.

SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR "... a challenge to Mississippi’s counting of mail-in ballots ... in dozens of states, creating chaos leading up to the 2026 ELECTIONS" What are the odds the MAGA SUPREMES find another way to screw democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

And they already voted down the 1 year extension of ACA credits: “In a 53-to-47 party-line vote, Republicans defeated a last-ditch effort by Democrats on Monday night to try to add a proposal to the spending package that would extend the credits for one year.”

There was a similar thermostatic anti-287(g) backlash during Trump 1.0. On a local levels, non-cooperation policies have had enormous success in recent years. Unfortunately, that has also led to a backlash, with multiple GOP states *mandating* cooperation through new state laws.

The right to love and build a life with someone you care about is about dignity, respect, and equal protection under the law. I’m glad to see SCOTUS make the right call — it strengthens our rights and the dignity of every family.

❤️this: “fight not fold, focus on affordability, make a populist argument that names the villains, and respond to cultural attacks” open.substack.com/pub/charting... @waytowinus.bsky.social thank you!

The Just Move Right hypothesis struck us initially as being a bit simplistic, a bit too conveniently aligned with the DC establishment’s pre-existing beliefs and opposed to their ideological opponents'. The more we’ve talked to voters over the past year, the more this explanation has unraveled.

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

91 vote lead!!

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Downtown L.A. landmarks are lighting up with massive portraits of Angelenos — including Edward James Olmos and George Takei — protesting recent immigration raids. The public art campaign asks the public: 'Am I next?'" laist.com/brief/news/l...

America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it. I am voting NO.

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

If we want to vote in an honest Congress in 2026, winning the redistricting war won't be enough so long as money is the real king in DC. Montana found a way for states to short-circuit Citizens United. Its on their 2026 ballot. All states should put dark money front and center in the 2026 election.

Your ballot might not have counted!

Look. It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it. In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of +1.4 pts. This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.

New analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness: US Billionaires added $5.1 trillion to their fortunes since 2017. To put that in perspective, if that money went to the American people instead, every household would get $37,800.

“…now that the United States has decertified Colombia as a “drug control partner,” it will no longer supply intelligence to Colombia’s authorities—a move that will almost certainly increase the flow of drugs to the United States more than the boat strikes will reduce it.”

“Funding the railways through a bubble, rather than through central planning (as was the case in much of Europe), left Britain with a very inefficiently designed rail network,” says Quinn. “That’s caused problems right up to the present day.” on.ft.com/3XcKd3M