If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Racism is the core principle of MAGA. Cut federal workers, which are disproportionately black. Cut foreign aid, which mainly goes to non-whites. Attack and deport non-white immigrants. Cut Medicaid and SNAP, which both have black representation above their share of the population. Voter ID, etc.
Black women age 20+ down 427,000 since January peak, with black men 20+ down 294,000 from April peak. Black unemployment rate overall has increased from 6.2% to 7.2% since Trump started.
Democrats have to be perfect, Republicans just have to be white.
@markjacob.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @brianbeutler.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social @willbunch.bsky.social Thank you, Kristen Welker.
NYT at its best: Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
The new head of the CDC, folks, Jim O’Neill.
Pyromania and Hysteria, two of the great rock albums.
Appeals court says Trump's tariffs illegal. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
"The firing of Monarez is part of a larger effort by Trump, his Cabinet and his aides to consolidate power inside the executive branch and at its margins. In many cases, the targets are experts in their fields, people Trump appointed himself or both." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Democrats need a leadership committee (3 Gov, 1 House, 1 Senate, 1 DNC) that employs a marketing department with at least 1 full-time economist. They communicate the Democrats' position and create talking points and slides for all to share. Everyone should know Dems #1 choice on economy.
The history of Germany’s Weimar Republic serves as “a reminder that democracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted to defend it.”
The economy does vastly better under Democrats, so voting Republican on the economy makes no sense. Republicans loved 2019, but hated 2021-2024. But here's what happened.
Nor does silence. People that want to be angry are going to find excuses. Things are better, that’s what matters.
Republicans don't want us saying crime rates are falling. They want the "Dem cities are apocalyptic wastelands" to play with their rural base who has nothing to do with it anyway and sees using the military OK to keep the brown people in line. Don't fall for it!
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
That's a line invented on behalf of Republicans. The economists were saying that Harris had a lower-cost plan than Trump, as she wasn't going to raise tariffs. Nobody said: Democrats have historically outperformed Republicans, and Biden did as well.
This should be a non-stop media campaign for the next three years. Stop running solely against Trump; he won't be on the ballot. Explain over and over again why unless you're a billionaire, Democrats are *always* better for your personal financial situation. The evidence is abundant. 🧵1/x
Republicans are killing our kids.
Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
Democrats should have a full-time marketing team, that includes an economist whose #1 job it is to make sure everyone knows the economy does vastly better under Democrats. It should report to a party leadership committee with authority to speak for the party. bsky.app/profile/davi...
Democrats need an actual marketing team, that reports to the Democratic Party Leadership Committee, the body that represents us when we don't have the presidency. It should have an economist whose job is to make sure everyone knows the economy does vastly better under Democrats.
Everyone should go into the voting booth knowing the Democrats have the vastly superior economic record. All our politicians should be publishing this stuff all the time.
"We need a vision. I think we need to stand for something that we're not just not Trump. What are we going to do that's going to affect Americans' lives positively?" Tom Steyer joins @lauren-egan.bsky.social to discuss Democratic strategy and messaging:
1. Create leadership group with the authority to speak on behalf of Democrats on key issues and drive messaging. 2. Strategy starts with a mission statement, the economic value we plan to deliver to voters, and goes from there into the specific policies.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Here is the entire speech. Enjoy. charliesykes.substack.com/p/what-pritz...
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Read more about this major Democratic victory here:
On @cnn.com AC360 I shared that Trump's targeting of officials who disagree with him could not be more transparent Cook. James. Schiff. Dugan. McIver. This is more like a police state than the United States, which is why Cook & the other cases will draw judicial skepticism
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
HCR on Pritzker’s speech warning Trump not to come to Chicago. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-...
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
This is 100% correct.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Schiff on the Bolton raid: "They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition in an effort to intimidate them. That's what this is about. It's not about Bolton per se. It's about anyone else that like Bolton might stand up to the president."
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Fact check: True.
And of course Biden funded it.
Yes, occupying your political opponent's territory with a military or militia unit you control is unlawful and not conducive to liberty.
"Occupy D.C." was first, "Occupy Illinois" is next.
Yes, it's interesting that the Constitution did not allow funding for a standing army for a term longer than 2 years. Occupation is not conducive to liberty.
That aged poorly.
FEBRUARY 28, 2024 FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Actions to Fight Crime and Make Our Communities Safer bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
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Stagflation in some form is coming. The trillion-dollar question is whether inflation becomes entrenched paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...
Contrary to myth, we had a stronger police presence under Biden (2021-2024) than Trump (2017-2020) across the U.S. Increase in officers +97,282 Biden + 81,714 Trump Level average 1.1 mil Biden 1.0 mil Trump Ratio per 1,000 people, average 3.53 Biden 3.44 Trump cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webap...
Was never part of the Dem platform. This is one of many reasons why it's so important to communicate about our platform all the time, so people know what we stand for.
Hey, "the idea" was never in the Democratic platform, just part of the right-wing branding campaign about Democrats.
Between Oct '21 and June '23 we had 1.5 job openings or more per unemployed person as the economy boomed after the pandemic. Biden filled the jobs with immigrants, leading to rapid growth, low unemployment, near-record real wages, and making us much richer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?
Of course not! That only sounds reasonable to you if you set out with the requirement that you *must* find some, any, reasonable explanation for right-wing behavior. You must explain it in a way such that it sounds sane, like a reaction based on actual facts & experience. But why that requirement?
This is a five-alarm fire. Washington, DC is now going to be crawling with ARMED military units, for no apparent reason. At what point do our idiot media members drop the crime-fighting pretense?
August 22, 2025
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
www.factcheck.org/2024/10/bide...
GOP: Terrorize Americans, Protect Pedophiles like Ghislaine Maxwell.
A judge ruled late Friday that the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. on.nbcboston.com/jukBnrN
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
Tariffs expected to cost about $2,500/year per household for the next decade, if sustained at this level. 🔺Prices 🔺Taxes 🔺Unemployment 🔻Incomes / GDP growth www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Trump's taxes/tariffs of $2,500 per household are the equivalent of a 5% permanent increase in the price level vs. electing Harris. Math: $80k real median HH income, $50k of that spent after income & payroll taxes and savings. $2,500/$50,000 = 5%.
CBO: Trump has raised taxes about $2,500 per household each year over the next decade, via tariffs. Yes, voting Trump will raise your cost of living, as widely reported pre-election. Math: $3.3 trillion / 10 years = $330B per year / 132MM households = $2,500. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Deportations and detentions will inflict a lot of damage on the US economy 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the...
One thing I see in comments is a lot of people still saying solar and wind are no good when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. People, there are these things called batteries, which have also experienced huge progress 2/
American Businesses in ‘Survival Mode’ as Trump Tariffs Pile Up www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Some people make the argument that today's information environment is basically built for the right, designed to cut off or short circuit reasoned deliberation in favor of outrage & resentment, & that the left's goals-- cooperation, building over time --are simply incompatible with that environment.
Three economists on current state of economy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
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We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
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Krugman: "In fact, my guess is that arrests and deportations will eventually do even more economic harm than tariffs."
Krugman on mass deportations. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
FBI: Violent crime fell under Biden, after spiking under Trump, reaching the lowest level in 20 years in 2024. cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/
Federal Reserve officials worried at their July meeting about the state of the labor market and inflation, though most agreed that it was too soon to lower interest rates, minutes released Wednesday showed. Read more: cnb.cx/4fHEnjk
What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country? apnews.com/article/redi...
2. This week's Economist/YouGov poll is Trump's worst so far this term, 40%-56% (-16) approval. His 2024 coalition has unraveled (corrected for typo). 2/
Red States of White America
Immediately after his "segregation forever!" line in his inaugural address, George Wallace asserted that the federal troops at Ole Miss -- sent there after a racist riot killed two and injured hundreds -- were needed more in Washington, DC. This is a very old, very obvious play from racists.
BLS, Sept 2022: Union workers made $53.20 per hour including benefits, vs. $38.37 for non-union. www.bls.gov/spotlight/20...
BLS: Union workers make about 10-15% more than non-union workers, just in terms of pay (not incl. benefits). Private sector median weekly earnings: Union $1,258 Non-Union $1,131 www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to its false 2020 election claims - NPR
Trump’s claims, made without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
I'll take "Things Never Said at the Russia Summit" for $500, Alex.
CPI inflation is an average, so we all experience inflation a little differently. An urban professional with a condo and no car has avoided much of the inflation impact while benefitting from condo appreciation. A rural renter who needed a new pickup truck and drives far took a bigger hit.
Trump vs. the U.S. Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...
Real means adjusted for inflation.
And inflation doesn't determine purchasing power, real wages do. And Biden had the highest real wages on average among the last 11 presidents, along with the lowest unemployment rate, and the media still told everyone the economy was a liability for him going into the election.
