Jeff Hauser

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective - The Sling While degrowth as a framework has been around for a while, its extremely limited presence in the zeitgeist is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern progressives are not anti-growth; they simply recog...

No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth.

Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social!

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

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Analysis | Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why? Four theories to explain the surveys that keep showing sour public opinion about AI.

As a rule, most of the positive takes I have consumed about the possibilities of AI the past couple of years are from the authors of Abundance (Ezra and Derek).

We've long argued Abundance is a way to get the center-left to support pro-AI rule/norm breaking.

And AI... sucks? wapo.st/4o18DIU

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

The Trump Administration is Deregulating our Airspace. Who Asked for This? Drone and eVTOL companies have spent big money lobbying with Trump-adjacent firms.

While the FAA is, by its own admission, overworked, understaffed, and working with outdated technology, its also opening the door for drones and uncertified eVTOLs to flood our airspaces.

Who asked for this? From our @kjboyle.bsky.social

Remember, too, that Sen. Mike Lee wanted (but failed) to sell off millions of acres of public lands -- lands owned by the American people.

"Permitting reform" is simply a different mechanism for Lee to achieve the same objective: The plunder of America's cherished public lands & environment.

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

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Important story!

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

White House offers white glove, concierge service to fossil fuel companies.

Meanwhile, wind and solar aren’t even allowed to check into the Motel 6.

Great scoop from @jakespring.bsky.social

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Kinda undermines the idea that she is somehow a moderate center-left person EXCEPT for Israel and pretending lefty campus disdain for her is a 1st Amendment issue.

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

#AZ07

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects." Another must-read banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Bombshell non-response by Bondi. A yes or no Q as to whether she has seen —or the FBI has found— photos of Trump w/scantily clad very young women (author Michael Wolff has discussed multiple times on-air that he's seen them).

Bondi attacks Sen. Whitehouse, never answers.

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Hi @anguskingiii.bsky.social, your top supporter @senangusking.bsky.social just voted with Trump again - despite admitting to reporters today that Rs aren't negotiating to save health care

Mainers will suffer big time if Rs get their way. You know that. So does he

If any Senate Democrat is still trusting Susan Collins then he or she doesn’t belong in the U.S. Senate. Not after this. ↘️

I'm trying very hard not to second guess the DC Democrats.They don't have real institutional power and these subsidies are important to people. But it's surreal to see this normal policy argument on the split screen with the President sending an invasion force to American cities.

It's disorienting.

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

yup. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers - Inside Climate News The agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, says he wants to “get out of the way” and stop “gumming up the works” so that fast-track construction of the massive computing facilities will “make America the...

The Abundance Agenda for chemicals associated with AI is... scary. insideclimatenews.org/news/0210202...

In a new report out today our @toni-v-aguilar.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @alanzibel.bsky.social
uncovered 100+ people with ties to polluting industries who are occupying high level offices throughout the Trump administration.

Railroad Barons Launch an Astroturf Campaign For Their Mega-Merger Those supporting a new railroad monopoly include paid-off politicians, business partners, and… an anti-monopoly group?

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, two of the nation's largest rail companies, are trying to merge. Unions and impacted industry groups oppose the deal. That hasn't stopped the rail behemoths from trying to astroturf the appearance of public support.

A guest post from Brett Heinz:

California police pull over a self-driving Waymo for an illegal U-turn, but they can't ticket Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn.

YIKES--literalizing "BigTech never held responsible for breaking the law." apnews.com/article/waym...

Police departments aren’t ticketing fully autonomous cars Three police departments in major U.S. cities where fully autonomous vehicles (AV) are operating say they can’t write moving violation tickets if there’s no driver, raising questions ab…

Police departments aren’t ticketing fully autonomous cars www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/01/06/p...

BREAKING: The Trump admin has installed 100+ fossil fuel insiders and corporate lobbyists to roles across federal agencies.

These staffers are enacting a dirty energy agenda and destroying our public lands.

Our new report with Revolving Door Project breaks it all down ⬇️

Musk's xAI Is Showing Us Exactly Why We Need Public Interest Lawsuits | Common Dreams When powerful corporations are able to completely circumvent basic democratic accountability, public interest lawsuits are a final backstop to protect the community’s well-being.

Public-interest lawsuits are a critical mechanism to defend communities from exploitation. This summer, Memphis showed us why attacks on them from the abundance movement, Trump, and SCOTUS are so dangerous.

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social for @commondreams.org

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What the Dem group chats should consider but I’m sure are not is what these numbers look like with the universe we’ve been calling “gettables,” (prob need a better name): roughly 95% of Dems + 70%-ish of Is + the half-ish of Rs that are non-MAGA.