Isabella Liu (she/her)

When prices rise because *demand* is hot, wages usually follow. When prices rise because tariffs raise costs -- a *supply* shock -- there’s no reason paychecks catch up. That’s why tariff inflation hurts a whole heckuva lot more. It's a permanent reduction in living standards.

Gov. Bob Ferguson discusses AG Pam Bondi's demand to end sanctuary policies NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson after he received a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi threatening criminal prosecution for impeding immigration enforcement.

Spoke to NPR for today's Morning Edition about AG Bondi’s disgraceful letter.

It is all posturing. She won't challenge us in court, because she would lose.

makes you think

Where are we at on tariffs and taxes?

Opinion | What we can learn from the senator who nearly died for democracy The brutal caning of Sen. Charles Sumner in 1856 shows the difference between courage and concession.

Let’s all have more courage. What’s the point of having power or being alive if we never use it for anything

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'Mountainhead' skewers the tech elite — and it's very satisfying Four super-rich tech leaders gather for a poker weekend in a mountain mansion while AI technology leads to global chaos in the new HBO film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.

“It may not be obvious how to take power back from people who shouldn't have it, but the least we can do is to see them for what they are with clear eyes, and to refuse to pretend they are anything else.”

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But her emails…

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.

We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.

That would be the end of democracy.

1000%

Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.

Bankers and CEOs’ surprise and dismay over Trump’s massive tariffs appears genuine.

They really did believe in an Imaginary Reliable Trump, one who was tossing meat to the rubes but would do what a Wall St. CEO would do, and told each other this to the point it was socially-reinforced groupthink.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

I can’t compete with this

Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE.

Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!

I’m willing to pay more for eggs and imported goods if that’s what it takes to make this country a dictatorship.

Every lawyer should be required to read this.
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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

Why is this not trending and the top news everywhere? These people are trying to squash all dissent in America. This is the stuff of totalitarian governments and a nightmare that’s only just beginning

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Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

Just in time for the growing measles outbreak — including kids dying — our new government is focusing not on disease prevention but rather promoting a scam conspiracy theory connecting vaccines & autism.

They want to get rid of vaccines, period.

These folks are truly a death cult.

Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar The scale of corruption in Trump’s White House has been stunning and unprecedented.

I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

These people are trying to destroy U.S. power is the world with wildly unhinged allegations and you have to ask why this benefits them? What will China or Russia give Musk and Trump if we hand the world to them?

Russian government leading the effort to get Tulsi Gabbard confirmed. "We've got your back, Tulsi", says Russian TV.

Trump's nominee for top State Dept job is a Uighur genocide apologist who also thinks America should deliver Taiwan to China.

China and Russia LOVE Trump term 2.

Joe, we miss you so much already. Thank you for everything

From midnight tonight until next Saturday morning, there's no TV, no Internet, no Social Media, no nothing for me.

Symbolic protest is better than none at all.

#5DayBLACKOUT

Thank you, President Biden, for prioritizing people of color and recognizing that The Black community is the working class.

This would’ve been a great story in October. Or better yet: in June before the New York Times made the debate a make or break moment and then helped push Biden out of the race.

Biden added more jobs to the economy than Trump, Obama, or Bush The U.S. economy added 2.23 million jobs in 2024, including 256,000 in the final full month of Biden's presidency.

More jobs have been created under Biden than during the full terms of Trump, Obama, or Bush 43. @danprimack.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/01/10/i...

He thought he had escaped Beijing’s clutches only to vanish back into China The secret repatriation of a Uyghur man shows China’s long reach, especially against Uyghur Muslims, whom the U.S. says are targets of an ongoing genocide.

Thank you for this reporting and ensuring people know what’s happening to Uyghurs in China www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Chuck E. Cheese was the fever dream of one Bay Area tech executive That's 'Charles Entertainment Cheese' to you.

Love this article and revisiting all the reasons Chuck E Cheeses were horrifying and yet unexplainably popular?! Also who doesn’t love a local story 🌁

#bayarea #1990s

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