@lucastosborne.bsky.social
Industrial Policy, Money, Monopolies, Public Utilities, Tech Platforms, PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
21.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 173 🔁 60 💬 10 📌 1It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
22.11.2025 23:16 — 👍 974 🔁 239 💬 64 📌 47ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:
Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin
A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
22.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 494 🔁 153 💬 9 📌 12
Tomorrow's political data roundup is about survey experiments and what they can teach us about how voters are responding to information about the policies of the Trump presidency/GOP-controlled Congress: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
22.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 61 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 6
When Davis learned that a breakaway faction was gathering on a Saturday afternoon at the offices of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to plot a strategy for DOGE’s future, he began calling likely attendees and told them not to attend what he called the “coup” meeting. (The firm did not respond to a request for comment on its role in DOGE’s work.) Those at the meeting who looked at their phones would have seen their fortunes change in real time, as they were removed from Signal group chats — DOGE’s primary status marker of who belonged.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
22.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 12379 🔁 5248 💬 924 📌 390A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
22.11.2025 21:58 — 👍 2372 🔁 1339 💬 105 📌 120We will need tribunals and Democrats need to start talking about that
22.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 792 🔁 291 💬 21 📌 6
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism
22.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 94 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 1Using this logic, FDR is anti-liberal so is John Rawls and the late John Stuart Mill. This makes no sense.
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Public grocery stores run into a monopoly problem: big grocers get better deals from suppliers. That's actually illegal, but the law that bars price discrimination to small grocers is effectively dormant. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social writes that NY is writing its own version of the law:
21.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 113 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 2
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“.. the first time any president since at least 2007 .. has refused to help residents recover from such extensive damage to their homes, federal records show.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.
22.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 7122 🔁 1478 💬 181 📌 124No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.
22.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 3038 🔁 899 💬 78 📌 35
1. Good riddance.
2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Polls this week showed Democrats growing their margin in the House generic ballot — by 2 points on avg, compared to polls from the same pollsters last month.
Dems lead with 2024 non-voters & get 25% of non-white Trump voters!
If historical patterns hold, Dems could exceed their 2018 “blue wave.”
This is even more silliness. First off, admitting that you want to make life harder for challengers is not a great look!
But more to the point, if need be, MD could delay *just* its congressional primaries and leave its legislative primaries untouched.
From The Washington Post:
The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Yup. @gluesenkampperez.house.gov you sought to censure members of your own party in wildly performative gestures, and we wonder where your outrage is when the president called for the deaths of your colleagues. And Mike Johnson refused to condemn those words. Where is your outrage, babe? Show us.
21.11.2025 05:42 — 👍 127 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 1Unsurprising that the take away for these two chodes is "Donald Trump is pretty great actually"
21.11.2025 23:01 — 👍 220 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2Not for nothing but the “bromance” stuff is as made up cope as anything else. I haven’t heard a clip of Mamdani saying anything other than “I appreciated the invitation to discuss things with him” and agreeing that he called him a fascist
21.11.2025 22:45 — 👍 1847 🔁 205 💬 37 📌 8
