Lucas Osborne
@lucastosborne.bsky.social
Industrial Policy, Money, Monopolies, Public Utilities, Tech Platforms, PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
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Thanksgiving costs climbed about 10% this year over last year, according to new research from @groundwork.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org.
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thanksgiving costs climbed about 10% this year over last year, according to new research from @groundwork.bsky.social @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @aft.org.
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
That’s an increase of more than 3X the overall inflation rate. Explore the research👇
https://bit.ly/4rj7Rtf
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Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
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ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
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A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
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Tomorrow's political data roundup is about survey experiments and what they can teach us about how voters are responding to information about the policies of the Trump presidency/GOP-controlled Congress: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
Two new polls find learning about Trump's policies moves opinion to Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tomorrow's political data roundup is about survey experiments and what they can teach us about how voters are responding to information about the policies of the Trump presidency/GOP-controlled Congress: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
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Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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We will need tribunals and Democrats need to start talking about that
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We will need tribunals and Democrats need to start talking about that
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
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Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism
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Public grocery stores run into a monopoly problem: big grocers get better deals from suppliers. That's actually illegal, but the law that bars price discrimination to small grocers is effectively dormant. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social writes that NY is writing its own version of the law:
New York Gets Serious About Food Prices - The American Prospect
A proposed state antitrust law has the potential to cut food prices in New York, a boon to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
prospect.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Public grocery stores run into a monopoly problem: big grocers get better deals from suppliers. That's actually illegal, but the law that bars price discrimination to small grocers is effectively dormant. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social writes that NY is writing its own version of the law:
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"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“.. the first time any president since at least 2007 .. has refused to help residents recover from such extensive damage to their homes, federal records show.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“.. the first time any president since at least 2007 .. has refused to help residents recover from such extensive damage to their homes, federal records show.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
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As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.
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No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
Trump says he’s ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali refugees in Minnesota “immediately.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
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1. Good riddance.
2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress | HuffPost Latest News
The surprising news comes amid a public feud with President Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
1. Good riddance.
2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
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Polls this week showed Democrats growing their margin in the House generic ballot — by 2 points on avg, compared to polls from the same pollsters last month.
Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters!
If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”
Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters!
If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”
Democrats expand lead in U.S. House polls this week
Recent polls have shown a big shift toward the Democrats in the House generic ballot. If historical patterns of out-party gains continue in 2026, Democrats could see a larger "blue wave" than in 2018.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Polls this week showed Democrats growing their margin in the House generic ballot — by 2 points on avg, compared to polls from the same pollsters last month.
Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters!
If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”
Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters!
If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”
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In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards