Here is part I of my piece w/ Noa Rosinplotz on "ABAWDs," a category constructed to provide a rhetorical punching bag for politicians who want to cut the social safety net. This piece focuses on misconceptions about the group. Part II will be on the consequences of sorting folks by "deservingness."
04.09.2025 20:06 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
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Social Security is one of the most important public programs in US history.
It helps millions retire with dignity, supports people with disabilities, and keeps families afloat.
A cornerstone of economic security worth fighting for. #ProtectSocialSecurity rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/doge-wa...
13.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
For so long, so many of us warned about heading right to this moment:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
12.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump Stands to Profit As He Signs Crypto Legislation
The president signed the GENIUS Act, which would establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin, but critics have raised concerns over conflicts of interest.
“If the president can issue his own currency, then the White House becomes a storefront for personal gain, and the mind runs wild with all the possibilities for corruption,” said Bilal Baydoun, director of Democratic Institutions at the Roosevelt Institute.”
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-stands...
18.07.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
does not take a crystal ball to know that this will not end well
18.07.2025 12:48 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
Collateral Damage in Federal Work Force Cuts: Summer Interns
At the very beginning of their professional lives, some young people have had their summer internships derailed by the Department of Government Efficiency.
15.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 1463 🔁 402 💬 95 📌 17
This bill isn’t just an economic travesty, it’s a moral one. Forget trickle down economics; we’re now in a greed-first economy, one that will take great moral courage to overturn.
03.07.2025 21:57 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Another corporate pardon.
02.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 146 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 1
You cannot be so much of an institutionalist that you let the institutions bring us fascism. What was the value of the insitutions supposed to be in the first place?
27.06.2025 17:08 — 👍 3437 🔁 632 💬 51 📌 23
Hoping we'll all have a little less patience for defeatism, moaning about the electorate and democracy, etc. We can win. It is not a given that we will. But if you aren't willing to see it as a possibility or think creatively about how to get there, politics isn't for you.
25.06.2025 04:14 — 👍 3732 🔁 543 💬 43 📌 23
The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves
Much of the country is facing brutal, potentially deadly heat. The reasons for such extreme events are not complicated.
“The world’s climate is behaving exactly as we said it would all along, for many years. It is warming due to human influence. It gets faster if we don’t act on it.”
https://trib.al/nef2X6T
24.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 118 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 0
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
22.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 36881 🔁 7814 💬 397 📌 309
Feels like the current trend in the U.S. is that a lot of people will experience climate change as a creeping, steady boil of rising rents, insurance premiums and prices for everyday items that fewer and fewer people will be able to swallow month to month
20.06.2025 19:50 — 👍 313 🔁 92 💬 8 📌 9
‘Jaws’ made people fear sharks. 50 years later, can it help save them?
Scientists are using the lure of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster to aid shark conservation efforts.
After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.
20.06.2025 12:55 — 👍 5027 🔁 1211 💬 208 📌 74
Map of the United States showing the percentage of adults with medical debt from 2019-2021. Each state is color-coded, ranging from light blue (5%) to dark purple (15%). Source: KFF Tracking.
Medical debt isn’t a personal shortcoming—"it is the result of decades of policy failure and, frankly, sabotage."
A broken insurance market and state refusal to expand Medicaid have left millions, especially Black and Hispanic Americans, vulnerable. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
18.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 60 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3
It was clear that it was going to be a disaster and also that there was nothing anybody could do to stop it as they went through the steps to justify it. So you just had to sit and watch in horror.
19.06.2025 00:49 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
18.06.2025 00:55 — 👍 15523 🔁 1574 💬 706 📌 353
As a Roosevelter, I feel a particular responsibility to this. FDR laid out four freedoms—of speech and expression, of religion, from want, and from fear—that remain the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy that we must fight for.
11.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
And as FDR said when ended that speech: “Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”
11.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Quote that reads: The patchwork approach that many parents must use in finding care—a mix of formal and informal, paid and unpaid, regular and irregular providers—is not serving parents or children well. We need a comprehensive system for filling these gaps that starts in early childhood, spans after school and summer, and is affordable for all families and accessible by all children.
NEW: Too many families rely on a patchwork of care—unpaid, informal, unaffordable.
In a new report, @kedseconomist.com lays out federal, state, and local paths to a Child Development System that meets families’ real needs: whole child, whole day, whole year. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
12.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 5
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
11.06.2025 13:21 — 👍 16607 🔁 3737 💬 256 📌 94
And as FDR said when ended that speech: “Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”
11.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
As a Roosevelter, I feel a particular responsibility to this. FDR laid out four freedoms—of speech and expression, of religion, from want, and from fear—that remain the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy that we must fight for.
11.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Where we, as a country, fell short in response to the campus encampments, to Mahmoud Khalil and other student activists, and over the last decade as the backlash to protest grew: we cannot fall short now. We can not be fractured.
11.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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