Candidates who want my vote should be asking these companies how they plan to pass refunds to customers.
Ro Khanna@rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Trump Administration is sending billions to Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and other big corporations to refund them for Trump’s tariffs. American households were estimated to lose over $1,000 to tariff price hikes. Here's an idea: refund working families before big business.
Anyone trying to high-road us about Graham should remember Trump’s solemn eulogy for Robert Mueller: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
The big US car companies cut EVs because they didn’t sell, but they never tried making cute ones. Or pretty ones. Or small ones.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo agoChina's passenger car exports jumped 73% year-on-year in May to around 809,000 vehicles, an industry group reported Wednesday, as higher gasoline and diesel prices due to the war in Iran raised interest in electric vehicles. https://to.pbs.org/4fyFfZN
I’d love to see this sort of thing from some people with a (D) by their name.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4mo agoHungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours?
Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration
open.substack.com
that's right
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...
Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico: Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war
Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.
politico.com
I'm going to introduce legislation blocking Trump from stealing taxpayer dollars with this absurd lawsuit. Stay tuned.
Trump shares his plan for the $10 billion he expects to receive from his IRS lawsuit
The more the president tries to defend his desire for a taxpayer-financed payout, the worse his position appears.
ms.now
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
“Imagine if Hunter Biden were helping assemble billions in Saudi and Qatari financing so a progressive media owner could take over Fox News while quietly assuring the White House that he planned to replace hosts and reshape the network’s direction."
Trump’s Family Is Helping Foreign Governments Buy CNN. No One Can Stop Them.
Foreign wealth and political power are converging in the CNN takeover bid, exposing how weak America’s protections are against media capture.
mediaite.com
Texas results are super disappointing; I may have to arrange a swap with one of the rich people leaving New York.
Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social I hope you are seeing this. Because it’s everywhere I look, and I agree. The Democratic Party has OPPORTUNITY , right now. Let us not waste it.
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 9mo agothose senate democrats are led by a man who refused to endorse his party's own candidate; a candidate who, tonight, we know will be the next mayor of new york — a democratic socialist, a muslim, a generational talent who relentlessly focused on cost of living and fairness
This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up
If we can figure out how to explain “marginal tax rate” to the majority of US citizens before next November, that would be great.
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
Amarnath Amarasingam@amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
Can I get some glasses that block me from being unwittingly recorded by other people’s glasses?
The UAE put $2B into a crypto firm largely owned by the Trumps and Witkoffs (as in Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East)—then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63t
Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
trib.al
You have a baby too young to vaccinate, and your older kid is exposed to Freedom Measles or Populist Polio in their classroom. You don’t have kids,but you may be impacted if you have cancer. Herd immunity is the point. The silent majority needs to get loud; make this a political liability for Ron.
Adam Rogers@jetjocko.bsky.social · 11mo agoKids are going to die. Needlessly. Because some other kid's parents are listening to these people. It's monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, more like this please.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 12mo agoDemocratic Party leadership failed to stave off fascism and has failed to provide real resistance. If that is going to change it’s time we expected more, so much more, from political candidates and the party as a whole. I laid out baseline minimums. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/saving-the...
Dems should start working out approximate per person costs for some of these things so they can hammer home "you just paid $683 to deport your son's soccer coach" or whatever.
“Never again” means not starving civilians to death. This, exactly: newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Mom, You Taught Me to Say “Never Again.” Well, It’s Happening Again.
A letter to my Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza
newrepublic.com
Sometimes it helps me to leave long rambling messages at Ted Cruz’s office about how clearly, Republicans no longer care about democracy. But mostly it doesn’t help.
Ethics and laws aside, that 747 interior is just hideous.
We’ve modernized legacy government systems. We know what it takes. DOGE’s plan to migrate SSA’s COBOL systems without understanding is a disaster waiting to happen. Here’s why DOGE will fail — and why it matters. 🔗 https://www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-it-really-takes-to-migrate-cobol
It’s not “deported,” it’s “imprisoned in a foreign country without due process.”
