One of the CFPB's achievements was getting the credit bureaus -- who have treated consumers with errors on their reports terribly for decades - to do somewhat better. Another awful consequence of Russell Vought's sidelining of the CFPB has been the reversal of this progress

So thrilled for Brian Goldstone and this book. I hope it brings millions of new readers to it, especially policymakers. If you haven't yet, please read it

What's the difference between the Republican Party and the Klan? Not actually joke. It's just a question. I don't see any. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I aspire to this energy, all the time

Giving Congress (well, a Subcommittee of a Committee at least) a piece of my mind

One of the items in the Ruth Asawa show at MoMA was Buckminster Fuller's patronizing, Orientalist reference for Asawa's Guggenheim application

Adding to the reposts saying “not The Onion”

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

What a racist sexist doofus

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

"This latest attempt to eliminate essential staff at the CFPB would reduce the bureau to an empty shell, unable to fulfill the functions the CFPB is statutorily required to engage in." @chichiwu.bsky.social via @law360.bsky.social #ProtectConsumers www.law360.com/articles/246...

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Will they still not care when they can't afford all their bills? That just might be the question that will determine whether the American experiment survives or not

TFW when your favorite restaurant/thrift shop/coffee place is featured by a social media influencer 🫠

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

“The market the President’s order would return us to is one of rampant discrimination, high and anti-competitive rates, and frequent calamitous market failures,” said Diane Thompson @nclc4consumers.bsky.social. “We must reject this dangerous rollback.” www.housingwire.com/articles/tru...

Oh great, Trump wants to roll back the safeguards instituted to prevent another mortgage meltdown. Yup, that’ll help affordability 🙄

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

When Republicans say the US is a “Christian country” and specifically call out Muslims as not belonging, they’re also silently saying that Jews, Buddhists, and every other faith are not welcome in their world (nor are atheists) They just think they can get away with saying the Muslim part out loud

TransUnion and Experian, have sharply reduced the share of consumer complaints they resolved in customers’ favor, according to a @propublica.org analysis. The credit bureaus “want to do as little as possible,” said @chichiwu.bsky.social. #ProtectConsumers www.propublica.org/article/cred...

Ever had an error on your credit report? Frustrated by problems with Equifax, Experian or TransUnion? Welp, unfortunately the federal agency helps consumers with these problems was gutted by the Trump Administration. ProPublica has the receipts showing how that's harmed ordinary Americans. #CFPB

Disgusting. Both the overt anti-Muslim racism and the acceptance of this hatred by Republicans generally

Guess I’m not going to any Thomas Keller restaurants any time soon

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

I mean, kinda self-evident. But good to have the polling to back it Voters like fighters and people who stand for their values. Doh!

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Two if my favorite policy folks have intersected on Bluesky, and I am here for it Also, please read this book. It’s devastating. Well researched, well written and a devastating indictment on our society

NEWS Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.

TFW you don't want to sign up for a streaming services but then a hot show has an episode on a wonky issue you work on ... 😭 I guess it's for the better cuz I just be screaming at the TV "you need to screen him for financial assistance goddamit!"

This dog, sigh, demands to go out in a blizzard

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

No, let her wear white. May she knows something we don't.

In its latest attack on the CFPB, the White House is claiming that consumer protections cost people too much money. “In the midst of an affordability crisis...it’s baffling that the administration is working against working families," said Diane Thompson www.nclc.org/white-house-...

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

I remember @sarahkendzior.bsky.social saying, and i very much poorly paraphrase from memory, that covid and then genocide were about getting people used to death at scale so people just shrug when it comes to American streets. This bringing foreign wars home, fits www.972mag.com/ice-immigrat...

In the richest country in the world, we spend billions on detention camps while people freeze to death on our streets

I hope every woman in this misogynist's life rips him a new one (verbally of course)

This afternoon, a coalition of 52 economic justice, civil rights, labor, faith and other groups sent a letter urging creditors and credit bureaus to provide relief to Minnesotans who have been financially devastated by the ICE surge. Proud to have spearheaded this effort

Yeah thus does not surprise me about the whole Abundance narrative More neoliberal con shizz

Israeli writer Amos Oz in his novel FIMA, talking about Arab children: "Can a worthless man like me have sunk so low as to make a distinction between the intolerable killing of children and the not-so-intolerable killing of children?"

Great thread Brad! Not only do I agree 💯 re financial education and have ranted about that so many times, but the connection with the Epstein files is a new twist

“Last year, consumers filed nearly five million complaints with the CFPB regarding credit reporting, mostly against the Big Three credit bureaus, one of the worst oligopolies in this country,” wrote @chichiwu.bsky.social. 1/2 www.levernews.com/the-companie...

“The #CFPB has been able to get relief for consumers, and under previous administrations, has really leaned hard on the credit bureaus to provide relief. Now we are looking potentially at all that being gone,” @chichiwu.bsky.social said. #ProtectConsumers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

The evil twin CFPB under Russell Vought is at it again, starting the ball rolling in potentially rolling over to the credit bureaus and making it harder to complain to the CFPB

This shizz is freakin’ scary Also, a sign of my terrible geekiness - my immediate thoughts are, is this a Privacy Act violation, and since the info was used to deny a government benefit, can we argue it’s covered by the Fair Credit Reporting act?

A reminder that regular police can be awful too, but usually to Black and brown folks. Hopefully the difference with ICE is there will be some accountability

This number DOES NOT include those starved, crushed, missing or killed by disease resulting from the attack.

Omg what the heck? Talk about negotiating against yourself 🙄

ICE committing more child abuse, against a 1 month old newborn

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free