Audrey Stienon
@astienon.bsky.social
industrial policy at the Open Markets Institute • fascinated about how we shape industries and markets to serve the public interest • book nerd & recovering globe trotter • views are my own • 🇧🇪🇺🇸
This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
theatlantic.com
The OIG report “highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.”
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez@ramirez.house.gov · 10h agoBig corporations and their lackeys in the Trump administration scapegoat immigrants to divert attention from their theft and abuse. While they lie to us about the problem they are the ones stealing from working people. Plain and simple, they want us divided and distracted while they rob us.
Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
rooseveltinstitute.org
They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Tomorrow’s ballot in Missouri includes a GOP-backed proposal that would kill the popular initiative process that allows voters to use referendums to enact the policies that lawmakers refuse to act on: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...
Under this August Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts
Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, in large part because Missouri empowers citizens to petition for ballot re...
boltsmag.org
lots of DNC stories and I’m seeing all kinds of crazy accusations and responses. Let me summarize the reality 1. Ken Martin is taking on DC corp/centrist consultants. Many of the leaks/hit pieces are sourced to them. 2. Martin is shifting $ to states and on-the-ground early spending. Good.
Truthout@truthout.org · 2d agoThe NYT published a missing chapter of the DNC “autopsy,” titled “What Happened in 2024” which offers criticisms of party consultants who are “self-enriching” and out of touch with the concerns of ordinary voters.
FCC commissioners are supposed to regulate companies like Paramount—not accept luxury gifts from them while the company seeks FCC approval. We filed ethics complaints urging an investigation and calling for Chairman Carr's recusal from Paramount merger proceedings.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints no
propublica.org
“The problem is that there's a human being on the other end of whatever political point it is they're trying to make," said an attorney for Maria Rojas, the Texas midwife who is the first person to be prosecuted under the state's criminal abortion ban.
Texas Midwife’s Clinics Won’t Reopen Despite Court Victory
The use of an abortion ban to target a midwife evokes a long, racist history.
autonomynews.co
Merici Vinton from the Center for American Progress & Lynn Overmann from Georgetown's Beeck Center extract five principles from NYC's new Public Interest Technology Crew that they argue should be standard practice for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.
Cities and States Can Replicate NYC’s Ambitious Public Interest Tech Crew
Merici Vinton and Lynn Overmann extract five principles they say should become the standard operating procedure for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.
buff.ly
This is an important story, beyond the world of sports. There were BIG MONEY interests at stake here. But *organized opposition* to a cartoonishly corrupt sell-off torpedoed the plan. Almost immediately. There is a lesson here.
Infantino scraps FIFA World Cup sell-off plan after backlash
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash, including from within global soccer's governing body, and a threatened boycott by European Nations.
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What is in Fifa's 25-page sales pitch: a reference to more than doubling the number of global tournaments held each year, from 200 to 450 What is not in Fifa's 25-page sales pitch: a single reference to women's football
Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game
Fifa’s sales pitch to persuade members to approve the sale of the World Cup’s commercial rights clearly states that their plans for financial growth will be achieved by staging more tournaments, havin...
theguardian.com
Supermarket sushi is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but according to a new lawsuit, the market is fueled by an unjust franchise system that skirts labor laws to exploit the industry's Burmese workforce. To learn more, read Victor Maung's latest for @prismreports.org:
The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom
Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit
prismreports.org
No, DoorDash, you cannot “support the District’s right to self-govern” while telling Congress to gut the District’s right to self-govern. Those positions *are* mutually exclusive. Your lobbyists are absolutely blowing this.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · last wk.In a letter to the D.C. Council, Door Dash says its recent advocacy for a House GOP bill that restricts D.C.'s ability to determine taxes and fees reflected its opposition to a new 20-cent delivery tax in D.C., "not D.C.'s broader ability to... govern autonomously."
Francesca Hong, a candidate for Wisconsin governor, is part of a wave of democratic socialists finding traction with an old idea
How free childcare started winning US elections: ‘Overnight, people realized how essential it was’
theguardian.com
I have a piece coming out on the bad politics & bad policy of the Trump Administration doing this, but I also think this connects to my New Republic piece on Dems’ failure to take victory laps. Did seniors even know the Medicare Pt. D subsidy came out of the IRA? (No) newrepublic.com/article/2125...
Trump’s Budget Bill Has a New Trap for Democrats
Blue state leaders want to mitigate the harms of Trump’s budget bill. But will cleaning up another Republican mess only serve to let the GOP off the hook?
newrepublic.com
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
“The whole assumption that you know growth means fraud is absurd, especially given all of the investments that the state has made to actually intentionally grow the program in order to benefit its disabled population and to support people living at home.”
California does Medicaid home care well. They're being punished for it.
Republicans are deferring $850 million from the state because of unfounded fraud claims.
motherjones.com
People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
newrepublic.com
"'Not It' determines which country must accept responsibility for a military disaster. The last country to touch the war is responsible for the entire war, unless the United States says 'not it' first while touching the side of its nose." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nuh...
“Nuh-Uh,” “Not It,” and Other New Pentagon Strategies for Winning at War
“Modern warfare is full of consequences that continue to exist even after the president says they do not. Fortunately, the Pentagon has begun replacing outda...
mcsweeneys.net
NEW: A federal judge threw out ICE's claim that state inspection law didn’t apply inside its detention centers. But since it took so long to adjudicate, ICE has now written the same language into contracts for four more facilities. It doesn’t need to hold up. It just needs to take years to resolve.
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
wired.com
Countries with good governance and environmental rule of law can make a just transition work.
More Countries Are Factoring Fairness Into the Clean Energy Transition - Inside Climate News
Countries with strong environmental governance and trusted institutions are well positioned to pivot away from fossil fuels, a new United Nations report finds.
insideclimatenews.org
"Before, I was saying, ‘As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically. Now I am turning around and saying, ‘If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any travel.’” – Shannon Shepherd, immigration lawyer
Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
motherjones.com
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
Despite pulling out of warehouse conversions, recent solicitation requests show that ICE is seeking facilities with room to hold up to 6,000 people across Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington state, and more detention sites around the world. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports.
ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention - The American Prospect
Community members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting.
prospect.org
I love that Trump undercut basically all GOP critique of this with his silly freedom gas stations
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
“I just want the opportunity to keep working.” Across the country, TPS holders and #DACA recipients are being forced out of their jobs, including caregivers that older adults rely on every day. Congress must pass a pathway to citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out
Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer.
nytimes.com
