The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.

"Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it.

This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America."

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Truth Social post via factbase about sending $2K to low and middle class citizens... no program exists as it's required by Congress

This. This is how people believe he has the power of the purse. He does not.

No progeam, act, or anything has been approved and posting about it puts pressure on Congress.

They must hold and not vote to reopen based on a promise.

#ProudBlue

Thank you to the democratic party leadership for bringing me down to earth after Zohran’s win. #shutdown #democrats

Supreme Court just exposed Trump's secret behind tariffs: legal experts The Supreme Court is exposing President Donald Trump's secret behind tariffs — and who they actually end up "handicapping."In a conversation with Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate's Amicus podcast, Marc Busch, the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the E...

The Supreme Court is exposing President Donald Trump's secret behind tariffs — and who they actually end up "handicapping.

Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies

Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?

"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"

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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.

Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.

The American people need more from their leaders.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.

Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.

Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.

Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.

This is BRUTAL.

Trump LOUDLY BOOED at the Commanders game.

America lets him know exactly how they feel — to his face.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.

Breaking News: President Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The move doesn’t shield them from state charges.

👇 #facts

This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

Traitors Senator Tim Kaine Senator John Fetterman Senator Angus King Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senator Cortez Masto Senator Dick Durbbin Senator Maggie Hassan Senator Jackie Rosen

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

Depressing night. Just when I was getting used to feeling hopeful.

The corruption never ends

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

We need the names. Cowards.

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

In a new book, Scott Galloway declares that discontented young men need an “aspirational vision of masculinity” to oppose the misogynist messaging of influencers like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wFm9hX

Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.

Democrats are considering a Republican deal to reopen government with a promise of a later vote on extending health-care tax credits—but no guarantee.

One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."

Neither Zohran Mamdani nor Abigail Spanberger are the future of the Democratic Party.

We won’t win by imitating either campaign, but we’ll win by doing what they both did: running local-first campaigns, giving people a vision for the future, and rebuilding the American Dream for Gen Z.