Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

A well-sourced & accessible 30m explainer of why tariffs don’t work, damage the industries they’re supposed to protect, and amount to punching your own economy in the d*ck.¹ Receipts for days – this is where farce and catastrophe collide 💸💸 __ ¹ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

bsky is nice because of engagement/thought partners, but bad because it def feels like it is segregated off from the rest of world and 'no caesars' but VC funding is a false sense of freedom

Breaking: Nine Democrats join Republicans in a 62-38 Senate vote to pass a continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown, after Chuck Schumer decided to side with the GOP. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

God this is nauseating

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE: www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

Lucky to have representation in the Senate committed to doing the right thing If you reside in HI, NV, NH, NY, or RI you are not so lucky and need to voice your displeasure NOW ☎️ (202) 224-3121

House Dems are still texting and calling Senate Dems pressuring them to vote no. And House Dems are getting an earful too. "I have also never had so many people from home personally texting me—ANGRY," said one. "I don't think they knew who Chuck Schumer was before today."

This is my current vote count for the Democrats/Ind. on the 6-month Republican Continuing Resolution: NO: 31 YES: 2 (Fetterman, Schumer) und.: 14 I keep this up-to-the-minute updated: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

"Inside CISA, vital support staff are gone, international partnerships have been strained, and workers are afraid to discuss threats to democracy that they’re now prohibited from countering" New @ericjgeller.com reporting on the purge at the US cyber defense agency

the Venn diagram of chucklefucks who think Leon is a genius, and chucklefucks who think engineers don’t need managers is the world’s most perfect circle

I have never avoided discussing substantive law or politics on the dreaded LinkedIn. But now that Trump is trying to ruin law firms he fears a d dislikes, sharing posts like this on there seems exactly right. heidi-says.ghost.io/explained-pe...

can’t wait to hear what an impossible choice they faced when senate dems wave through this backstab of a CR instead of laying down spikes *fight* for us, you fucking cowards

it’s frustrating how the "I have concepts of a plan" soundbite went viral, while the OPM docs (whose metadata shows they were drafted by Project 2025 folks) and implementation like above show Project 2025 was the plan all along

state power must be bound by the laws it promulgates – that is the definition of «rule of law» we do not currently have that. Rule of law is no longer the governing principle of the United States for some it never was, but now anyone with fewer than two commas in their net worth is SOL

imagine if dems spent as much effort safeguarding democracy as they do preserving the appearance of it imagine if they got as excited about justice, reparations, and the right to a dignified existence – free from fear, deprivation, and oppression – as they get about respectability politics ✨wild✨

Highest quality thoughts I’ve seen on this ruling 👇🧵👀

«Billionaire» is not a success marker, it’s an anti-social pathology that deserves its own spot in the DSM Nobody who seeks to accumulate wealth so vast it eclipses their own comprehension is rational. Nobody who kneecaps their own country for the sake of money they can’t count is altruistic.

Dems acting like this is just a socially awks moment to navigate… The wolf in me that spent 15 yrs studying imperial domination & resistance to it says that – to keep our democracy – they must either fight like hell today as the opposition, or tomorrow as an insurgency Here’s hoping for the former

I assume the FARA investigators/enforcers at NSD were first against the wall in the purge of Justice, so godspeed to any of the OFAC interagency left standing 🫡

Journalism doesn’t even hold space for critical takes of *fashion* anymore Affiliate marketing has spared nothing, and this is the model we tolerated long enough to watch democracy die in daylight

Greetings! I am on Mastodon; any subsequent postings you see here will be cross-posts from there BCAP gives the ick and I do not care how much this place feels like ‘old twitter.’ I am unwilling to put serious effort into a platform clearly destined for familiar mistakes and disappointment 🖤🖤🖤

backed by uncountable money with a queue to get in the door and this heap doesn’t even have DMs are you all having a fucking giraffe

the most predictable +1 in history a lot of folks are still mourning the loss/slow death of a lot of communities at the hands of a perfidious fuckmuppet billionaire; please don’t ignore the other perfidious fuckmuppet billionaire when he tells you this probably isn’t the safest place to rebuild

If you build a platform, but do not a) decide how it will be used, and b) build the controls to maintain that scope, your platform will be used to erode the fabric of society. This is the disinformation age, and the purpose of a system is what it does.

Who could possibly have predicted this trust and safety nightmare except all the people who predicted this trust and safety nightmare ¯\_(ツ)_/¯