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This is now out in front of @theverge.com paywall for 24 hours (cool experiment!).
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is now out in front of @theverge.com paywall for 24 hours (cool experiment!).
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
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More from our story on FDA:
—Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency
—Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr.
with @ddiamond.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ddia...
—Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency
—Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr.
with @ddiamond.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ddia...
The top drug regulator abruptly resigned. Staff complaints piled up. Outside experts warned FDA was in trouble.
That was a month ago, prompting urgent meetings. Leaders soon claimed problems were fixed.
Then it all happened again in the past week.
On FDA chaos w @rachelroubein.bsky.social
That was a month ago, prompting urgent meetings. Leaders soon claimed problems were fixed.
Then it all happened again in the past week.
On FDA chaos w @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA instability, alarm over agency’s direction escalate after top regulator exits
As leadership churn continues, FDA’s unpredictability rattles companies relying on stable regulation.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
More from our story on FDA:
—Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency
—Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr.
with @ddiamond.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ddia...
—Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency
—Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr.
with @ddiamond.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ddia...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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New interactive map from @CenterOnBudget showing out-of-pocket premium increases in every congressional district due to premium tax credit enhancements expiring. Explore it here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
Marketplace Enrollees Across the Country Face Steep Premium Increases Unless Tax Credit Enhancements Are Extended
Annual premium increase, 60-year-old couple with income of $85,000 (401% FPL), by congressional district, 119th Congress Note: FPL = federal poverty level. Examples are based on 2026 average...
www.cbpp.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New interactive map from @CenterOnBudget showing out-of-pocket premium increases in every congressional district due to premium tax credit enhancements expiring. Explore it here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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HSAs are tax shelters masquerading as health policy. They don't help people who are struggling to afford health coverage.
Read more from @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/fh5rabhx
Read more from @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/fh5rabhx
Expanding Health Savings Accounts Would Do Little to Improve Access to Affordable Health Care
Amid the urgent debate over whether Congress will act to prevent cost increases for millions of people in 2026 marketplace plans, some Republicans are promoting expansions of health savings accounts.....
tinyurl.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
HSAs are tax shelters masquerading as health policy. They don't help people who are struggling to afford health coverage.
Read more from @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/fh5rabhx
Read more from @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/fh5rabhx
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A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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I didn't have "we need to explain the Law of the Sea" on my 2025 bingo card, but @ryanlcooper.com does his duty in breaking down Trump's summary executions of random fishermen.
prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...
prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...
The Pirate Lord Donald Trump - The American Prospect
All evidence suggests the president is directing the military to assassinate random civilians off the coast of South America, and thereby violating norms and laws that stretch back to before the found...
prospect.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I didn't have "we need to explain the Law of the Sea" on my 2025 bingo card, but @ryanlcooper.com does his duty in breaking down Trump's summary executions of random fishermen.
prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...
prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...
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Angelenos face fines for sprinklers. Silicon Valley’s servers face none.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages?
It's a steep price to pay so that Mark Zuckerberg can sell AI-enabled spy glasses.
www.thenation.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Angelenos face fines for sprinklers. Silicon Valley’s servers face none.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
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🧑🌾 As we talk about another Trump farmer bailout (because of his trade war), worth remembering the government has been subsidizing farms for 100 years.
Yet they call @ZohranKMamdani a “communist” for wanting to help people with food & transportation? 🤔 usafacts.org/articles/fed...
Yet they call @ZohranKMamdani a “communist” for wanting to help people with food & transportation? 🤔 usafacts.org/articles/fed...
October 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🧑🌾 As we talk about another Trump farmer bailout (because of his trade war), worth remembering the government has been subsidizing farms for 100 years.
Yet they call @ZohranKMamdani a “communist” for wanting to help people with food & transportation? 🤔 usafacts.org/articles/fed...
Yet they call @ZohranKMamdani a “communist” for wanting to help people with food & transportation? 🤔 usafacts.org/articles/fed...
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California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
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The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.
October 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
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In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
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Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”
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Context matters
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Context matters
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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
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Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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thank you brett kavanaugh!
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
thank you brett kavanaugh!