A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

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Thanks to @stephenpimpare.bsky.social & @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for the interview about #ContentConfusion. Curious about how to navigate media deception? Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/content-conf... #commsky #booksky #academicsky

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in August 2027 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on wealth inequality, the other more broadly on economic inequality. Apply by Nov. 2! stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications...

Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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Had an important conversation @donmoyn.bsky.social. We went through his "authoritarian checklist" and analyzed where Trump has been successful (many areas, sadly) and where he has not. newrepublic.com/article/2130...

Transcript: Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Failed in One Critical Way

Political scientist Donald Moynihan argues that Trump has consolidated power on many fronts, but has largely failed in his efforts to take control of the U.S. election process.

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Trump is not just a bad president. He's the Confederacy in control of the White House. Not merely an administration violating the Constitution in this or that particular matter, a regime fundamentally without legal validity in all respects whatsoever. A rebellion against the supreme law of the land.

What's left to be decided by #SCOTUS this term? Over at "One First," my preview of the 23(ish) rulings still to come down from the Supreme Court, starting tomorrow at 10:00 ET: www.stevevladeck.com/p/232-and-th...

232. And Then There Were 23(ish)...

As we enter the three key weeks of the Supreme Court's term, a guide to what's still left to be decided, what to expect, and some of the broader takeaways.

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Are you a journalist and want to cover housing—even when it’s not your beat? Housing Journalism for Everyone is a virtual event with practical reporting tools for journalists, hosted by the Online News Association and Eviction Lab. Register + join us on June 4 www.journalists.org/events/housi...

"CA's billionaires currently pay such a low tax rate that even if all of them left the state, it would take 25 years for the loss of their tax payments under the current set of rules to surpass the amount the state would raise if the one-time tax succeeds this fall." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax

Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.

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"By 2021, Republicans, on average, perceived white people as facing more discrimination than Black people." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

A few last thoughts. We should probably stop expecting shocking events to do all the work of mobilizing citizens for us. We found similar null effects in response to school shootings. I think there might be some similarities between the two cases.

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

“Major question answered by Congress thrice but we don’t like the answer”, the US Supreme Court

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

Power, democracy, and clarity

What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?

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I mean ... Heller, Citizens United, Shelby County, Burwell, Trump v. Hawaii, Brnovich, Dobbs, Trump v US, Callais ... That's a steady stream of radical rulings from a guy who pretended he had no agenda and promised he'd only call balls and strikes. He's a partisan hack, pure and simple.

If the Voting Rights Act is rightly seen by many of us as the real beginning of American democracy, then it is fitting that a Court hell-bent on undoing democratic rule, including granting the president king-like powers, would seek to dismantle it.

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing

Here is something you can do about it

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This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

John Roberts has secured his place in history alongside Al Capone and Bernard Madoff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo ago

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

After Republicans passed the biggest food stamps cut in history, enrollment has declined by 2.5 million people www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by 2.5 million people (6 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and December of that year, the latest month of data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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You may have noticed: American politicians are really old. You, and everyone else who follows American politics. But you may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies. leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...

Why America Has the World's Oldest Politicians

How our creaky electoral system created the most advanced gerontocracy on earth.

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Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Opinion | Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s Potential - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

Roberts, like many conservatives of his generation, believes enforceable standards to prevent discrimination against Black people in employment, schooling, housing, or the electoral process are an affront to liberty, while the actual discrimination is, if it even exists, the natural order of things

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very good synoptic review of the Roberts Court as an enemy of civil rights and voting rights, and its historic partisanship & polarization. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy

Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies

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The Republican megabill’s deep cuts to SNAP are already costing ppl food assistance -- 2.5M fewer ppl received SNAP between the law’s enactment in Jul 2025 & Dec 2025. New @centeronbudget.bsky.social interactive tracks the decline in SNAP participation in every state: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented

SNAP Participation Dropping Following Enactment of Harmful Republican MegabillPercentage change in SNAP participants between and Source: CBPP calculations from USDA and state program dataCenter...

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Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last July, the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. Today, we're releasing a tracker of how many people in each state are losing the SNAP benefits they need to afford groceries. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...