Devon Gray

Why Won’t the Federal Government Reimburse People Whose Food Stamps Are Stolen? The disastrous consequences for working-class families.

Stealing food stamp benefits from recipients is a huge problem due largely to EBT cards lacking microchips. That’s why the federal government used to reimburse people. But the new policy ends that, in essence telling families: Tough luck. READ @devongray.bsky.social in @thenation.com bit.ly/4jo1l0v

This is the kind of leadership we need more of in this moment of moral and spiritual decay

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

Literally none of this is surprising for people who took Trump at his word. But now we’re in this situation because enough people were convinced to “take him seriously but not literally”

Our institutions are comically ill-equipped for handling the moment in which we find ourselves. And it will only get worse before it gets better

“Hillary the Hawk, Donald the Dove”

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Starting to believe Pete Hegseth might not be a model citizen

“Look at my Urban American over here” - Trump, probably

Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections | CNN Politics Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a Transportation Security Administration list that prompts additional security screening before flights aft...

Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should let someone lead our intelligence agencies if they can’t even get TSA pre-check
www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/p...

In a normal country with a normal president, Pam Bondi would be an insane AG nomination. But because she’s not a child trafficker like Gaetz, she’ll get unanimous GOP support

I fear that the stupider politics get, the even more cynical people will become. And so on and so forth

102 vote lead for my soon-to-be Representative Derek Tran! #ca45

Genuinely curious how Trump’s treasury secretary—regardless of who it is—plans to both implement insane tariffs and keep Wall Street from revolting. Seems an impossible task—and maybe why it’s taken so long to land on a nominee

The same folks who think RFK Jr. will “make America healthy again” threw tantrums when Michelle Obama wanted to make school lunches healthier

California will fail to address poverty as long as false narratives shape the policies The false narratives that describe people in poverty often don't reflect research or reality, and further harm them by stalling solutions.

Looking forward to posting more on here, particularly as folks on our side of the aisle figure out how to regain the trust of voters and deliver for our constituents.

Resharing my piece in CalMatters last year that seems as relevant now as it was then
calmatters.org/commentary/2...

The best part of Twitter was that it had a critical mass of folks such that it didn’t become a total echo chamber. Now that that’s no longer the case, hoping that can be recreated here