Thread on what leadership Dems ARE doing, thatās not getting mentioned in the media.
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Thread on what leadership Dems ARE doing, thatās not getting mentioned in the media.
Photos from last nightās protest in DTLA
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: ā¢admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states ā¢abolish ICE ā¢grant citizenship to any immigrant ā¢disband the 5th Circuit ā¢expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
It's worth pointing out the role of journlaism in this. That Politico article was deliberately incindiary even though we knew that by May 2020 the risk of outdoor transmission was low, the protests emphasized masking. By August we knew that police killings didn't go down even during lockdown /1
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Dr. Saker was an incredible teacher, and a wonderful human being. She was my absolute favorite professor of all time. Thank you, Dr. Saker, for all the smiles, and support, and for sharing your gift with us. āIn Memoriam: Dr. Marilyn Saker, Professor of Music Theory at EMU from 1993-2025ā
Thread on the hearing regarding Trumpās illegal attempt at firing Dr. Lisa Cook
Not only have you not done enough to prevent it, you actively assisted in it.
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And if Iām recalling the stats correctly, I believe it was Gen X white women in the lead. Which continues to baffle me.
It appears Michigan House Republicans think Arab American, African American, and Jewish history alike are not worthy of preserving. WAKE THE F*** UP, MICHIGAN. It is what you think it is.
Slotkin and Peters. Every damned time.
Good lord
Women, especially Black women, face so much resistance and discrimination in the field of Economics, itās why I ended up leaving the field. I stand with Governor Cook in support for her refusal to resign.
The āfiringā of Lisa Cook is not only illegal, and an attack on the independence of the Fed, but also an assault on a Black woman who has spent her entire life pouring herself into serving her community.
You know how I feel about Substack, so Iām not asking you to click through, but I am asking you to PAY ATTENTION to this, and Mr. Krugmanās voice is bigger than mine.
I'm out of here for the night, but I'll end with this. GOVERNOR LISA COOK IS AN EXCEPTIONAL ECONOMIST, EDUCATOR, POLICY LEADER, AND HUMAN BEING. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT HER LEGACY WILL OUT LIVE THEIRS. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.
Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
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Matt Hall, Rylee Linting, and the rest of the Michigan MAGA, have been targeting children all year. Theyāre nothing but bullies and this latest budget battle is another way for them to make life harder for Michigan families.
Great thread here on the āclaimā that Dems need to avoid using certain a words or phrases.
Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. āToday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,ā his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
Hey Michigan, letās be the second to do this!
See, there is another way than the āwell, trans rights seem unpopular š¤·š»āāļøā None of this is hard and we deserve something bigger and better than the centrist vision.
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57ā67%.
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.
Had to miss a lot of school when the kid was sick, or for work, but I was (& still am!) so lucky to have an amazingly supportive family. It was of the biggest decisions of my life. I loved being a student & learning new things. I am incredibly proud of that degree. Go Eagles š¦ šš¤
16 years ago today, I went back to college after dropping out in 2001 to have my son. It was incredibly difficult to be a commuting mother with a job. I did class work on breaks & lunches, while cooking meals or on the way to class. (My husband drove me to campus twice a week, we only had one car.)
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a ādistraction.ā Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
Interviews start on Monday!
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Director of Bands - Trenton Public Schools
What a fuckjng shit show this country is
š¦ Sex reversal in wild birds A study of five Australian species found 3ā6% had mismatched genetic and physical sex, including a male kookaburra that laid an egg. š www.science.org/content/arti... #SciComm š§Ŗ
The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what itās doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is a crisis, and the service sector is about to collapse.
Great thread here. Mom worked āodd jobsā in the 70s, things like church secretary and seasonal sales at Macyās in the mall at Christmas. My grandmother AND great-grandmother were nurses āpart-timeā in the 50s and 20s, respectively. Car/house were from the husbands income, food/clothes from theirs.
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, weāre publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
Evergreen take
The share of credit card debt that is delinquent 90+ days reached 12.3% in Q2 2025, the highest since Q2 2011. This is just 1.4 percentage points below the all-time high. #agsky
Next Trenton Dems meeting is Aug 21, Downriver Dem Clubs Picnic is Aug 23. Message me for more details!
PreK teachers deserve a pay raise equal to that of other specialties.
Slotkin seems to finally be getting in formation here. After her voting record of the last few months, thereās been a lot of anger.
The Govt. Accountability Office issued a report today finding that the Trump admin has violated a law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved @mmolteni.bsky.social & I break it down: www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g...
Why did Dems leave the state rather than allow Texas Republicans to gerrymander away 5 new seats? Because Trump dictated to their stateās Governor to start a redistricting process & find 5 new Republican seats b/c heās afraid of losing the House in 2026. Remember when he wanted 11,000 votes? Same.
šØ Texas Democrats just pulled one of the boldest moves in recent political history: They walked out, got on airplanes, and broke quorum to block a Trump-backed GOP gerrymander. This is democracy on the line ā and Texas Dems are fighting with everything theyāve got.
This is such a damning video. You should watch it if you havenāt.
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal
good WDET reporting on @umich.eduās shameful, Trump-pleasing conduct. wdet.org/2025/07/29/t...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
Trump fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics by tweet just now, in case you're wondering about how reliable job numbers might be getting over the next 3.5 years
THIS IS WHY I WONT READ YOUR SUBSTACK. Do better. There are other options, you are choosing the Nazi bar.
I mean, Friedman won it, so š¤·š»āāļø
He was able to get this seat in the first place because three Democrats, Masto, Manchin, and Rosen, agreed with horrifically Islamophobic attacks and voted against Bidenās pick for the seat, prison reformer Adeel Mangi who, unlike Bove, is not a proud criminal. Well done, Senate Democrats. Again.
NEW ā 10 members of Congress are now calling it āgenocide.ā Here is a list of the politicians, nations, human rights organizations, and experts calling Israelās genocide a āgenocide.ā Youāll want to bookmark this one, as we will keep updating it.
My local dems would agree
Insurance Georg, who works with 11,000 claim denial specialists, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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The Trump administration is set to destroy a large stockpile of U.S.-funded contraceptives stored at a warehouse in Belgium. Belgium, the United Nations and aid groups say they have offered to save $9.7 million in supplies.
šØ This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the āundercoverā mobsters nearly backed into her.
Michiganās Huwaida Arraf was a member of this flotilla.
They sure do teach stats in HS! My kiddo was introed to stats in his sophomore math, and then took Stats & AP Stats over the next two years. So, 2018,19,20. Heās a stats major at UMich now, and credits those classes for getting him interested. I did not get Stats in the 90s tho until Uni (Econ).
Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.
my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
I wrote about John āOzzyā Osbourneāa working class lad made good, who rose from a slaughterhouse killing floor to the highest echelons of rock stardom in spite of himself, who gave us heavy metal and left a more complex legacy than many realizeāfor @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
āYou feel like youāve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they donāt care.ā
Tomorrow's front page š° Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
This would have been a great speech in 2016.
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the militaryās top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The only royalty I ever acknowledged. Rest in power š¤
This is a concentration camp.
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates ālike dogsā, per a report from Human Rights Watch
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. š“ LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq
Seen at my local Michaels
People need to go to prison for these stories.
A reminder that Substack platforms Nazis, right in the middle of MoJo's profile of Jordan Lasker and his influence in Trump's world. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Fort between Harrison and West could look like this! (My unending beef with Fort St continues)
Democrats should loudly let it be known right now that anyone who is carrying out corrupt ordersāor illegal onesā on Trump's behalf will not be able to hide behind bureaucratic obscurity later. They will be held accountableāpolitically, or if needed, legally as well. newrepublic.com/article/1980...
The only people surprised by this are the goddamn Senate Dems.
wtf
Rep. Robert Garcia: "I rise today to demand that Donald Trump and our attorney general come clean to the American people and release the Epstein files ... it's obvious that somebody is lying and someone is trying to hide something."
āMy inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,ā writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. āI have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.ā
We are in the midst of such a wide ranging constitutional crisis, easily the most serious since the Civil War. and most of our political leadership has not come even close to catching up to it.
if democrats retake power they will have to wield it to rebuild civil society almost from scratch.
the thing that the next dem candidate for president will have to understand and have to explain is that this court, with these powers, will not let a democratic president or a democratic majority govern, and that president and that majority will have to respond accordingly.
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My favourite thing about this, is that people have been calling for Obama to come out and say something for months. He says this, and all Iām seeing are people criticising and complaining.
Florida is sending random undocumented immigrants pulled over in traffic stops to the Everglades detention camp, and because the whole thing was set up haphazardly, they still donāt have any easy way to find out if someone is detained there (like at any normal detention center or jail).
This is wild
Hereās why thatās bad for Democrats
Insanity