Dan Driscoll and I had some thoughts: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

SCOTUS tariff case transcript up! A lot of the coverage painted the arguments as a clear loss for Trump and a clear win for the plaintiffs. I think it's not so clear. Here's a thread with a few of my takeaways.🧵 www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever. Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family. This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.

Sovereign wealth fund has to suspend ethics rules in order to keep investing in US tech cos. "Norwegian politics should not be guided by Trump’s fear-mongering. I am concerned that the Norwegian government is now making decisions to accommodate him and tech oligarchs," www.ft.com/content/12a5...

SCOTUS is hearing case against Trump's tariffs. Listen along! I'll offer some thoughts as we go along. bsky.app/profile/todd... www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

“Even if SCOTUS blocks this set of tariffs, you can be sure Trump will come back with a new set of taxes...The only way to stop Trump’s price-hiking, job-killing tariffs for good is for Congress to step up and exert its constitutional power over trade.” subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

To protect democracy, we must play hardball.

Just projected Prop 50 passing in California... So here's the state's new congressional map More on redistricting here: www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-c...

"For decades, DC's influence over Brasília rested on trade, aid, and the threat of tariffs. That leverage has eroded. Lula can defy DC because Brazil no longer depends on the US the way it once did. Over the past two decades, a new behemoth has taken its place: China." jacobin.com/2025/10/trum...

Today, @rooseveltinstitute.org is hosting a conference "From Crisis to Confidence: Building a Government for Working Families." We have oodles of panels digging into our new report. Part post mortem on Biden admin, part Fight Song for the future. Follow along! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

"Two European diplomats, granted anonymity to discuss trade strategy, said the countries believe that the Supreme Court won’t strike down the global tariffs and, if it does, it won’t do much to shift the dynamic..."The court rulings won’t change anything,” said one. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Libertarian law firm suing over tariffs: “It has been complete cowardice on the part of industry. What about an alternate world where all the importers —all the Amazons, all the Walmarts, all the Targets—what if they had all said, ‘No, we’re not going to take this.’” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The Stacie Goddard @abenewman.bsky.social synthesis

This claim is false. "The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, represented a congressional effort to limit presidents’ reliance on invoking emergency powers when revising policies on international trade." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

US treasury chief says he will be present at Supreme Court hearing on tariffs reut.rs/4oJzt90

UMass-Amherst/WCVB out with the first poll I've seen of the Massachusetts Senate primary since Moulton entered the race. Markey 44% Moulton 25% Markey 31% Moulton 24% Pressley 20% Surveyed 416 likely primary voters, 6% MOE. htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/senate...

NEW from me @rooseveltinstitute.org: As the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s “Emergency” Tariffs, Few Good Outcomes Await. This explainer goes through the 4 main options for the Court next week, each of which comes with drawbacks or hurdles. Thread🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Today, @rooseveltinstitute.org is hosting a conference "From Crisis to Confidence: Building a Government for Working Families." We have oodles of panels digging into our new report. Part post mortem on Biden admin, part Fight Song for the future. Follow along! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

⚡One Nvidia GB300 computing rack uses more electricity than 100 homes ⚡One AI training run can require 10 trillion trillion operations, more than the number of observable stars ⚡ Sector absorbing massive amount of capital, farmland, and pirated texts For this... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Zucman wealth tax nixed for the moment, but France ok's "a 33 per cent tax on share buybacks and another measure that widens the scope of multinational companies that would have to pay a minimum 15 per cent tax." www.ft.com/content/d3d7...

Former Stellantis CEO: "The day a western carmaker is in severe difficulty, with factories on the verge of closing and demonstrations in the street, a Chinese carmaker will come and say ‘I’ll take it and keep the jobs’, and they’ll be considered saviours.” www.ft.com/content/5554...

Rich guy brain. Proud plans to build alternatives to Netherlands-based ASML’s advanced lithography machines. He added that his previous lack of semiconductor experience was “definitely a positive, because if I had, I would have thought this is impossible”. Via @tim.fo www.ft.com/content/2496...

"It appears that climate change had already started to vanish from the national conversation, well before Searchlight’s poll came out. Media coverage of the topic has dropped roughly in half since 2023," according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

"There are still deep ties between the US & Asean. The US is Asean’s largest source for foreign direct investment, accounting for $74.4b in 2023—the latest figures available—or a 3rd of inward flows. By comparison, China accounted for $17.5b, the 3rd largest behind the EU" www.ft.com/content/4d72...

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"Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves." @gregsargent.bsky.social on new @rooseveltinstitute.org report on how progressives must govern. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

The legal battle over Trump's tariffs arrives at the Supreme Court next week. Whatever the outcome, the lesson is clear: Congressional responsibilities are being left to the courts. @toddntucker.com walks through the implications of potential rulings: https://bit.ly/4nxawg4

Drug trafficking becoming so pernicious in Belgium that some judges forced to live in hiding are calling it a narco state, writes @lauramdubois.ft.com www.ft.com/content/4827...

Milei to ax "collective wage negotiations, which still dictate salaries in most industries & can force small companies to pay the same wages as much larger rivals. He also wants to curb labor lawsuits and dismissal compensation, which businesses say" empower employees. www.ft.com/content/44ab...

Great talk on the Battle in Seattle, 25 years later! A bit of a buried history, given the 9/11 demobilization of it all. Worth your listen to learn how concerns about the WTO, sweatshops, and IMF structural adjustment helped shape and politicize many of the 40 and 50 something lefties in your life.

This is like the sixth FT column this year - and second by Martin Wolf - on the Manuel Funke et al paper "Populist Leaders and the Economy." Hell of an impact factor! www.ft.com/content/2129...

@ryanlcooper.com profiles Common Wealth, a new lefty think tank focused on public ownership, public provision, and state capacity. Says one of its leaders: “In the long run, fixing these problems makes everything that everyone wants to do cheaper.” prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...

The US is considering leasing away army bases to private equity to build data centers, in exchange for access to computing power. Aim is to plug the gap between the $15 billion budget for army infrastructure and the needed $150 billion. www.ft.com/content/0e92...

If you want to understand what's in play in the SCOTUS tariff cases, beyond the headlines -- and why there are some ways Trump opponents could win that would be bad for progressive interests in the medium term -- read Todd's explainer.

NEW from me @rooseveltinstitute.org: As the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s “Emergency” Tariffs, Few Good Outcomes Await. This explainer goes through the 4 main options for the Court next week, each of which comes with drawbacks or hurdles. Thread🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

We continue to inch forward to what could be a Steel Deal. And if it's between the UK, US, and EU, it will be relatively "Green" - even if that branding is nowhere in the negotiating docs. www.ft.com/content/4619...

Well said, @alanbeattie.bsky.social: "The judiciary cannot by itself return trade policy to the realm of constitutional normality. That relies on the reassertion of authority by Congress to which power over tariffs was originally given and which it... allowed to slip away" www.ft.com/content/0e43...

Listen to @theameilee.bsky.social and @toddntucker.com talk about trade policy & what’s really at stake. It’s not just about stuff, it’s about people.

"Everybody makes mistakes, it’s true, but not everyone arranges sham stock sales with his wife to skimp on taxes while shielding his bank’s impossibly overleveraged position from market scrutiny." Love this review by Zach Carter of new Sorkin book. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection. Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance. https://bit.ly/4312Zid

Really important analysis from @rooseveltinstitute.org about the structures and decisions that held back a more ambitious Biden Administration agenda that might have resonated more with the public and what should change in a future administration. 1/ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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The EU has just announced a new plan “ReSourceEU” to stockpile critical minerals. With luck, we published a long read on the challenge of doing that this morning ⬇️ on.ft.com/4qqJpWB

AI has yet to prove a business case for many firms, but it's already creating some losses through falsified expense reports. www.ft.com/content/0849...

Bannon: "The Trump revolution must be codified. Executive orders and presidential actions are great, but at some point you must make these things federal law or this can all be undone, all be reversed with a stroke of a pen... and Johnson refuses to do this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

"We voted for him and now I am sitting here with no work and no money,” said Diego Gómez, 43, a chemical-plant worker who said he was laid off this year... Milei was not actually crushing the elite. "He blew up the working class,” Mr. Gómez said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...

Excited for the new leaders @steelworkers.bsky.social. Congrats to Roxanne Brown and team! usw.org/press-releas...

South Korea is the closest thing the fully democratic allies have to transfuse the deep understanding & technology of what it means to use flexible industrial policy to transform into an #electrostate. Even Japan has become calcified in its thinking.

GM "said it expected costs to be lower because of a change the administration announced last week that would exempt more imported parts from duties, and offer credits to manufacturers that lowered the cost of American-made vehicles." But RIP EV transition. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...

"As Chinese brands become increasingly popular elsewhere, the US market is not only Hyundai’s biggest, but one of its best growth opportunities, regardless of who sits in the White House. Between very high tariffs and other restrictions, Chinese cars" are shut out. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...