@dorianwarren.bsky.social
My MSNBC debut, on the rising ACA premiums. The Trump Admin is letting the Biden Admin's enhanced subsidies expire, making marketplace ins prohibitively expensive (so younger/healthier people will drop out, leaving the rest costlier to insure), & tariffs aren't helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
22.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 161 🔁 76 💬 6 📌 2
This point — in a very insightful post by @adambonica.bsky.social — is so obvious that only bad faith actors can deny or ignore it.
21.07.2025 17:23 — 👍 89 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 1Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.
21.07.2025 17:24 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Trouble with having focused on Medicaid alone, instead of naming horror show #MAGAMurderBill, attacking it as financing fascist assault to abduct our neighbors, steal our healthcare, seize more power, is that Medicaid provisions go into effect AFTER midterms.
03.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 101 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 1Black leaders are on through the night to rally our community. You can join.
www.youtube.com/live/uax8jmJ...
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
A word on the sanctity of birthright citizenship: Rights that Black Americans created for our liberation—also benefitting countless others—are routinely undermined by opponents of our freedom who try to convince us it is in our interest to adopt their narrowest construction. 1/4
28.06.2025 00:03 — 👍 157 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 1
Will the Dem leaders and frontline members be “popularist” (join the large majority in opposition to war) or will they fold in the face of Republican bluster (which would tell us a lot about the role popularism actually plays in Dem politics)? www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...
22.06.2025 00:57 — 👍 307 🔁 57 💬 10 📌 8I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
22.06.2025 00:15 — 👍 5941 🔁 1654 💬 261 📌 101
🚨 NEW REPORT: We’re exposing 6 billionaires behind Trump’s cruel agenda.
In order to appease their billionaire donors, Republicans are pushing tax cuts for the ultra-rich and making us pay for it by slashing our survival programs.
Unlock the findings: popdemoc.org/trumps-oligarchs
administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country
17.06.2025 18:16 — 👍 7840 🔁 1459 💬 278 📌 64the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
15.06.2025 01:11 — 👍 27298 🔁 4994 💬 215 📌 120
Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
14.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 4916 🔁 1820 💬 55 📌 74Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social.
Take the time.
Join us on May 6 for the closing lecture of the 2025 #HCLS to explore the critical role of the labor movement in rebalancing power and achieving economic justice.
RSVP: event.newschool.edu/stronglaborm...
One week from today! @c-hughes.bsky.social, Stone Center Associate Director Leslie McCall, and @dorianwarren.bsky.social will discuss today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change. Moderated by @feliciawong.bsky.social. Register for the in-person event or livestream!
23.04.2025 13:21 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Today is launch day for the book Marketcrafters! I went on CNBC's SquawkBox to explain what it's all about -- and take on the skeptics www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
22.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Ditto.
14.03.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“They were not guaranteed to win, but they did choose not to fight.”
14.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remember when Biden's inner circle swore up down left right he would not step down? Made battleground state Dem leaders put out a letter supporting him staying the DAY BEFORE he stepped down?
Do not give up. This is not over & saying it is gives them cover.
#NoOnMAGAMurderBudget
It gets worse! Many, many Democrats have opposed filibuster abolition on the grounds that they’d miss it when Republicans gained a trifecta and it wasn’t available to them anymore.
13.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 3241 🔁 574 💬 35 📌 19
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
04.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 2258 🔁 802 💬 103 📌 132Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point.
The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math.
Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.
The Senate takes 3 votes this afternoon:
1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director
2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General
3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec
These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
01.02.2025 01:37 — 👍 4698 🔁 2096 💬 190 📌 212Today, Trump has:
-indicated he'll purge the FBI of everyone who isn't a fanatical loyalist
-allowed his crony to seize all government funding in an effective coup
-ripped the entire federal government off the internet
Today, Democrats have:
-done nothing
-said nothing
-tweeted about egg prices
Good piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social -- www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
30.01.2025 00:39 — 👍 175 🔁 65 💬 1 📌 4
LinkedIN post from Kristy Daphnis I am getting many calls, asking for advice regarding whether Feds should reply back, with a "yes" to the deferred resignation offer. Here is my take. Feds - Five reasons you should NOT accept the "buyout": 1. There is no guarantee that you won't have to work between now and Sept '25. Many exceptions are built in, like, your agency head demanding you do "transition of duties" work. 2. Under current law & regulation, only 10 days of admin leave are allowed (5 usc 6329a). 3. Under current ethics and conduct rules, you need permission to hold an "outside position" and often are obligated to report inquiries about job searches. Under this scheme, you are still a Federal employee, and therefore bound by the existing ethics and conduct laws and regulations. 4. Most of the Federal gov is only funded through March 14th. Any promises beyond that...? 5. There is uncertainty around what a "deferred resignation" means - it's all made up. There seems to be no way for the Administration to make promises to you around continuing to get paid, and other aspects of the offer. There *are* legit "buyout" authorities that exist, called Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments and Voluntary Early Retirement Authority. One might ask... "why aren't *these* being used?"
Info for Federal employees, from Kristy Daphnis, who served at OMB for 22 years, most recently as the Federal Workforce Branch Chief. Via Laura Haynes Gillam on LonkedIn.
30.01.2025 00:45 — 👍 382 🔁 159 💬 5 📌 12
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
subtitle = "Comparing total annual costs (in billions) and per-household amounts with the year-over-year gains of 100 billionaires (2024)",
If we can't afford the cost of groceries, we definitely can't afford the cost of billionaires.
24.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 70 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 3
