Andrea Muñoz Beaty

Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers - The American Prospect Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.

While most companies and institutions that have cut ties with Larry Summers have been clear about why, others have attempted to quietly scrub him from their websites. This just makes his inevitable attempt to return to respectability all the easier. New in @prospect.org

Acting FEMA chief David Richardson just resigned. Good riddance!

This is the unqualified hack who couldn't be reached during the deadly Texas flooding disaster in July.

Weeks 42-43: Our Scourge of Elite Impunity The latest trove of Epstein emails reminds us that the wealthy and powerful face no consequences for even the most egregious acts.

Elite impunity is the name of the game in DC. Trump allies get pardons, corporations walk, and the rich party like Gatsby during a shutdown. For the rest of us: dirtier water, dirtier air, and empty stomachs.

Read more in our latest Corruption Calendar:

8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight An oversight idea for each member of the Cave Caucus.

Eight Senator Dems caved on the shutdown. They should have been using Congressional Oversight to increase their leverage instead.

On Wednesday, LA City Council will vote on strengthening the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, the law that protects hundreds of thousands of tenants from giant rent increases. Please make calls & send emails in support of the changes today, & join us on Wednesday at 8am at City Hall!
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Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary - The American Prospect Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do th...

NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.

Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team:

“I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Trump Axes Expert Panels at Historic Clip, Defying Agency Advice The Trump administration this year has eliminated about 160 expert advisory committees across the federal government, almost a third of them over the recommendations of the agencies that oversee them,...

Trump 2.0 has eliminated over 160 federal advisory committees in 2025, gutting federal agencies of expert knowledge. These panels offer invaluable insights into the science and operations of specific industries, guiding agencies in crafting policy 1/5

Exclusive: Trump moves to fire watchdog of US housing regulator involved in crackdown, sources say The internal watchdog for the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in President Donald Trump's targeting of perceived political enemies.

"His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers that the FHFA was not cooperating with the inspector general's office, three of the sources said."

Useful analysis on the legality of Pulte's crusade against Trump's political enemies

Screenshot of an X post from Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) posted on Oct 30: “For nearly a month, the Left has held our government hostage. Here’s the status of vital HUD programs:” Embedded media: a video still of Scott Turner speaking in front of the U.S. Capitol dome. A subtitle bar at the bottom reads: “for families in need, including delayed maintenance and buildings in winter months.”

Since when does Sec. Turner care about delayed maintenance? He just fired HUD's entire building inspection team.

Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration's latest rounds of corruption.

NEW: Over the past two weeks alone, the administration has: pardoned a crypto CEO who laundered money for terrorist groups, created pay-to-play opportunities with the White House ballroom, given government contracts to Don Jr., and more.

Read more in our latest Corruption Calendar ⬇️

Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...

Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong??

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2

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NEW statement by our @jeffhauser.bsky.social:

"Melissa is poised to unleash unspeakable harm on Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean... Americans will face huge—and largely avoidable—risks if and when the game of dice comes up against us."

See: Trump's life-threatening assault on NOAA & FEMA

Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want - The American Prospect The price tag on Donald Trump’s garish White House ballroom, now up to $350 million, keeps increasing. That’s because the cost of construction isn’t nearly as important as having an inventory of donat...

bought and paid for! prospect.org/2025/10/28/h...

That could set a dangerous precedent, says Jonah Karsh of @mtochicago.bsky.social: “If landlords can just call the feds to get rid of who they want, then that’s a really bleak reality for tenants and their security going forward.”

Eviction By ICE? Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

"It costs a lot more money to evict someone than to call ICE on them."

A month after the military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, residents are still searching for answers about why their homes were targeted—and the role their investor landlord played. inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

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Our Toni Aguilar Rosenthal and Julian Scoffield call out the hollowness of the RFK Jr’s populist rhetoric by revealing the corporate revolvers he has brought into HHS

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

The Chatbotification of the Federal Government The Trump administration uses AI to fulfill its typical antisocial ends: eroding worker power, violating civil liberties, and reducing transparency and accountability.

Our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social examines how the Trump administration has embedded AI chatbots in its operations, both as feeble replacements for fired workers and as increasingly empowered decision-makers involved in everything from personnel decisions to war games to surveillance.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.

Big Business Will Not Save Us | Revolving Door Project Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist. This article was originally published on the Revolving Door Project…

"The most effective means of helping the American people is for the government to actually defend their labor rights, their ability to have healthy communities and environments, and share in the prosperity they help to build."

Read more from @andreabeaty.bsky.social in this week’s newsletter.

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FYI, Greystar +other corporate landlords are trying to distract from the real story: their recent settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged they conspired to inflate rental prices using RealPage software.

The 'rental fraud' claims come out like clockwork after every corporate landlord L

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Affordable Housing Left Vulnerable After Trump Fires Building Inspectors The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.

🚨 HUD just fired its entire building-inspection team — days after a Bronx public housing collapse.

No federal staff remain to oversee safety in subsidized housing nationwide.