“Last year’s report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023“. R cuts funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by about 20%, or $186 billion through 2034, the largest cuts to SNAP in its history. wonder why? 🙄 www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

The GOP is whining about fraud while making it easier to scam consumers. Republicans are defunding the CFPB as it handles record numbers of fraud claims. These hearings are “a sham,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) says. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/68XtwtV

Labour is in a mess. My advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to restore the government as a transformative, democratic “big green state”, rather than a technocratic managerial one serving private wealth. In today’s Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For anyone who thinks the current assault on free speech is limited to people who criticize Charlie Kirk…

Just forget the Declaration of Independence and the words & reasons for its writing in opposition to a king. youtu.be/ATxL1dLkPnY?...

When citizens get their news from outside their country because the dear leader has an onion skin ego and mounts the founding documents on his walls rather than read them OR knowing the foundational history for their writing.

“Let’s all just sit here motionless for the next four years and hope things work out! Then the merger can go through; then the shareholders can breathe a sigh of relief. Surely someone else will say something before it’s too late.“ www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

He made a sociological argument wrapped up in religious prostelizing. “calling on America to stop being society it is and go back to being the kind of society it hasn’t been for generations... he wanted us to enact his fantasy about what our society once was like.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

NEW: The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death. Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer. By @maxblau.bsky.social

Good article on where the money for this is coming from observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Don Jr went on Fox to attack people who call their opponents fascists. Yes, this Don Jr:

"I don't see any way to view him as anything but a failed hedge fund manager. He started with $4.5 billion of assets under management. He shut down the fund with $577 million. He lost 90 percent of his capital." Marshall Brandt talks Scott Bessent's record with @timmiller.bsky.social:

NEW: Trump said that banks who deny financial services “on the basis of political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities,” will feel the full force of government regulators. But he’s dismantling an agency that could enforce such rules.

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In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics.

Just wow! The “Free DC” march is now on its way the White House. (🎥 Notify DC)

Yes DC!

Yesterday, President Trump said of RFK: “I like the fact that he's different." Yes. RFK is *different.* He’s the first HHS secretary to actively endanger children by undermining what doctors & scientists around the world know to be true: Vaccines have saved millions of lives.

Trump’s tariffs are a hidden tax on working families. Last month, Americans paid a record $30B in tariffs. That’s a 230% increase in one year. It’s not “China paying the tariffs.” It’s you. buff.ly/9CveptO

Happy Labor Day!

This is incredible.

“It is impossible to claim guns as our guard against “domestic dangers” when firearms killed more children than any other cause—more than cancer, more than car crashes—for three years in a row. It’s impossible to assert that guns keep us safe from “distinct threats” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

the problem with twitter isn’t “there’s a lot of mean and racist stuff” the problem with twitter is that it’s an algorithmic fascism promotion machine

Spot on: www.esquire.com/news-politic...

"Conservative state leaders appear to be nearly unanimous in their view that big cities should be prevented from governing themselves. In particular, they are committed to denying local governments the freedom to ask their own voters to raise their own taxes" -- humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

Game on.

Been listening to Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and it is amazing! You cannot understand America today without understanding the nature of private equity and her book on how it too often goes wrong is excellent. Gift link to review: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Amid a worsening national affordable housing and homelessness crisis, the administration's proposed HUD changes include a two-year limit on the federal government’s signature rental assistance programs. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/hud-...

This should be where the end begins. Let’s pray it is. Governor Ferguson, America salutes you.

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

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Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.

Sandwich Fascists For @rawstory.com Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Andres Paredes Morales and his partner were planning a future together. Now marriage plans are postponed after plainclothes immigration agents arrested the Norristown resident at his workplace near the King of Prussia mall last month. www.inquirer.com/news/immigra...

#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos. Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

This single economic myth props up inequality more than almost anything else: Marginal productivity theory. It isn’t a law of nature—it’s a scam designed to keep wages low and inequality high.

US real GDP growth over both 2025 & 2026 is 0.5pp lower each year from all 2025 tariffs. In the long-run, the US economy is persistently 0.4% smaller, the equivalent of $120B annually in 2024$. The unemployment rate rises 0.3pp by the end of 2025, & 0.7pp by end-2026. 6/10

The 2025 tariffs disproportionately affect clothing and textiles, with consumers facing 40% higher shoe prices and 38% higher apparel prices in the short-run. Shoes and apparel prices stay 19% and 17% higher in the long-run respectively. 5/10

Tariffs are a regressive tax, especially in the short-run. The short-run burden on 1st decile households (as a % of income) is >3x that of the top decile (-3.4% versus -1.0%). The average annual cost to the 1st & top decile are $1,300 & $4,900 respectively; median is $2,200. 4/10

The price level from all 2025 tariffs rises by 1.8% in the short-run, an average per household income loss of $2,400 in 2025$, assuming no Fed reaction & full consumer passthrough. The post-substitution price increase settles at 1.5%, a $2,000 loss per household. 3/10

Jon and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss if it’s time for a bolder Democratic Party.

Conservatives like Megyn Kelly see the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad as a sign that the days of underrepresented white women are over

Authoritarians don’t need to burn books - they just flood the shelves with lies.

Read this paragraph, please. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

People in lower-income families with employer coverage spend more of their incomes on health costs than those with higher incomes, and the cost — including premiums, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs — has risen steadily over time: on.kff.org/476hFPF

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

“It’d take 160 flights per day to give the necessary food” Christiane and Jamie discuss how airdrops won’t work and how aid on trucks needs to surge right now to stave off famine 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/EajaY... Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on Global Player 🎧 #themiddleeast