NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.

Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team: “I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Trump 2.0 has eliminated over 160 federal advisory committees in 2025, gutting federal agencies of expert knowledge. These panels offer invaluable insights into the science and operations of specific industries, guiding agencies in crafting policy 1/5

"His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers that the FHFA was not cooperating with the inspector general's office, three of the sources said."

Useful analysis on the legality of Pulte's crusade against Trump's political enemies

Since when does Sec. Turner care about delayed maintenance? He just fired HUD's entire building inspection team.

NEW: Over the past two weeks alone, the administration has: pardoned a crypto CEO who laundered money for terrorist groups, created pay-to-play opportunities with the White House ballroom, given government contracts to Don Jr., and more. Read more in our latest Corruption Calendar ⬇️

Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong?? Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2 prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...

NEW statement by our @jeffhauser.bsky.social: "Melissa is poised to unleash unspeakable harm on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean... Americans will face huge—and largely avoidable—risks if and when the game of dice comes up against us." See: Trump's life-threatening assault on NOAA & FEMA

bought and paid for! prospect.org/2025/10/28/h...

That could set a dangerous precedent, says Jonah Karsh of @mtochicago.bsky.social: “If landlords can just call the feds to get rid of who they want, then that’s a really bleak reality for tenants and their security going forward.”

"It costs a lot more money to evict someone than to call ICE on them." A month after the military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, residents are still searching for answers about why their homes were targeted—and the role their investor landlord played. inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

NEW FOR @prospect.org Our Toni Aguilar Rosenthal and Julian Scoffield call out the hollowness of the RFK Jr’s populist rhetoric by revealing the corporate revolvers he has brought into HHS

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

Our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social examines how the Trump administration has embedded AI chatbots in its operations, both as feeble replacements for fired workers and as increasingly empowered decision-makers involved in everything from personnel decisions to war games to surveillance.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.

"The most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build." Read more from @andreabeaty.bsky.social in this week’s newsletter.

FYI, Greystar +other corporate landlords are trying to distract from the real story: their recent settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged they conspired to inflate rental prices using RealPage software. The 'rental fraud' claims come out like clockwork after every corporate landlord L

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

🚨 HUD just fired its entire building-inspection team — days after a Bronx public housing collapse. No federal staff remain to oversee safety in subsidized housing nationwide.

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

@andreabeaty.bsky.social: “In other words, there’s no longer any practical room for Democratic administrative policy to be friendlier to Big Business than Trump. By definition, enforcing some rules is more hostile than enforcing no rules.“ Lots of good stuff 👇🏿

“The most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build.” If that alienates monopolies, billionaires, big business - so be it.

NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame. Our full response in today’s newsletter:

Evictions in DC reached record levels in 2024. The data for 2025 so far shows that the number of evictions per month this year is even higher. More DC families than ever are losing their homes, yet rental assistance has been slashed and protections for tenants are actively being gutted.

@capitolforum.bsky.social reported today that FHFA director Pulte met w/ the FBI weeks before his mortgage fraud tirade against Lisa Cook. Pulte also met with Goldman Sachs and BlackRock CEOs + UBS execs as the White House considers privatizing Fannie and Freddie attn: @gregsargent.bsky.social

Read our response:

Corporate America’s mouthpieces claim the few limits on corporate influence we helped win during the Biden admin drove Big Business to board Trump’s tyrannical train. If so, how can Big Business ever be trustworthy participants in a democracy? Our @jeffhauser.bsky.social in the @wsj.com:

Trump just got Letitia James indicted despite insiders leaking that the case against her is incredibly weak. He had to get his handpicked stooge to do it. This only shows how corrupt the whole thing truly is:

It's hard to overstate how alarming NY AG Letitia James's reported indictment is. This is the second time in weeks that a political opponent of Trump has been indicted, at his urging, against the advice of career prosecutors and Trump's own appointees. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, two of the nation's largest rail companies, are trying to merge. Unions and impacted industry groups oppose the deal. That hasn't stopped the rail behemoths from trying to astroturf the appearance of public support. A guest post from Brett Heinz:

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter. I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

Aaron's thread breaks down key parts of the expository text. It's extremely unusual in many ways, and ultimately pessimistic about the idea that the lower courts can change any big-picture outcomes right now. In the face of that realization, Judge Young writes of a crisis he can't stop.

I'm not usually a courts fetishist, but this document is a pretty remarkable...cry for help? from somebody who has spent decades in the middle of a system that worked as intended, and is currently experiencing a total breakdown of things he built his life's work around.

This is against the law FWIW

The Department of Housing and Urban Development website is having a normal one.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

🚨 "Boeing is regaining authority from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform final safety checks on its 737 MAX." Rather than increase agency capacity to conduct independent inspections and improve aviation safety, Trump's FAA will allow Boeing to certify the safety of its own planes.

According to reporters on the ground, ICE is now **deliberately firing** what appears to be "non-lethals" at press at this morning's protest in Broadview, IL. One @unraveledpress.com reporter got hit. Unraveled has been putting in serious work during this crisis--throw them some cash if you can.

Trump and his henchmen rail against the supposed violence of progressives. But Sasha Abramsky asks what do you call throwing Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, into jail to pressure him into self-deporting to a country in which he will likely die? @sashaabramsky.bsky.social

Hundreds of tenants across four states are uniting to take on the mega-landlord Capital Realty Group, demanding collective bargaining for safe and dignified housing. Inside the Tenant Union Federation’s bold new campaign inthesetimes.com/article/priv...

It’s rich that Jay Parsons, the 'economist' who literally pitched RealPage’s rent-setting software, is now scolding tenant advocates to work “in good faith” for accessible affordable housing. Where was that good faith when RealPage was squeezing every last penny out of renters?

Sen. Ted Cruz introduced new legislation seeking to protect AI initiatives from federal regulation. It's the latest in a string of attempts to insulate Big Tech from public oversight and democratic accountability. From Dylan Gyauch-Lewis: trib.al/XtUrh9p

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

#BREAKING: Supreme Court pulls trigger on FTC firing, siding with Trump over precedent @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

"The Roberts court has spent the last 20 years dismantling liberal democracy as Americans have known it. Its rulings have paved the way for the first quasi-dictatorship in the republic’s history." Why Congress must expand/reform #SCOTUS to rebalance a Court that once again adhere to rule of law. ↘️