Marc Stier

Pittman's constituents need policies that would help both them and urban Pennsylvanians, not holes in environmental regulations that will give them dirtier air and water.

Majority Leader Joe Pittman whining about the problems of rural Pennsylvania. Yet they get worse every year because he and his party act on behalf of multinational corporations and billionaires.

Statement on the Senate Republicans’ Pennsylvania Budget Bill “Six weeks after the budget deadline, Senate Republicans have voted today to flat-fund education and every other part of the state budget. This budget fails to meet the moral and constitutional req…

Senate Rs pass a budget that flat-funds education, Medicaid, and everything else and does not responsibly fund public transit. This is a joke not a serious #PABudget. pennpolicy.org/research_pub...

The Progress Pondcast Episode 20: How the GOP Will Come For Medicaid, with Marc Stier, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Policy Center Podcast Episode · The Progress Pondcast · 12/23/2024 · 59m

The new episode of the Progress Pondcast is here! We interview @marcstier.bsky.social from PA Policy Center on GOP plots and schemes. @booman23.bsky.social @susiemadrak.bsky.social @steveeboy.bsky.social @owillis.bsky.social support progressive media!
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Sorry. Empathy is out of network.

I am proud to be selected as one of @cityandstatepa’s 2024 Impact Award honorees! Read about all of the honorees here: bit.ly/4fzGWmR

Trump earned LESS than half of the votes in 2024.
No landslide.
No mandate.

A lucky win.

I am thankful for a social media site that’s not run by disinformation-pushing maniacal billionaire, not controlled by an algorithm design to censor news and much-needed debate, and not overrun by mean-spirited people who encourage and celebrate ignorance. Thankful, indeed.

When people tell me that Democratic "extremism" costs us votes, my response is, what you think is extremism, I think is fairness.

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.

It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/

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If only he said this a little bit more often while in office. And offered legislation to accomplish it.

This Oberlin College sophomore speaks for the entire Democratic Party, meanwhile the Heritage Foundation somehow doesn't speak for the Republican Party despite issuing a policy document they're all following and employing all those guys on their own campaigns

Post you from a different era.

I know that Gaetz, Gabbard, Kennedy, Hegesth are scary. But the appointment of Chris Wright who is pro-fossil fuels and a climate change skeptic may be, for the future of humanity and the earth, the most dangerous.

If Trump sacrifices a third of Ukraine to "settle" the war, what do you think is the likelihood, that Russia then turns to the Baltic states and Finland and "finds" Russians in this territories who are being treated "unfairly" and who needs Russian "protection" (whether they want it or not?

NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.

Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...

Tweet that says if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women’s spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women.

All of this.

Let’s hope they say it publicly & refuse to confirm him.

Evidence against the Sanders-Frank thesis that a left economic message is the key to winning working class white voters. Sanders out performed Harris in Lilly-white Vermont where he is a well known and admired by ONLY .2 points.

Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year?

A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.

Am I the only one only one who thinks that Matt Gaetz is a stalking horse for Todd Blanche? Gaetz needed an excuse to resign before the damning ethics report comes out. He and Trump must know that he has little chance to be confirmed. He loses and becomes a MAGA martyr. And Blanche slides in as AG.

And two seats in PA that we just lost, costing two great members of Congress.

I love you all, but I find it kind of odd that there are so many expressions of surprise at news of the Gaetz nom.

Disgust, horror, trepidation, sure.

But surprise? This is exactly who Trump is. Qualifications mean nothing to him. Loyalty means everything.

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As a nerd who loves numbers I keep looking at the rising numbers of Bluesky users on their open source log.....over a million NEW users today 💙💙

Love it

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