Alexandra Filindra

GOP seem to prize power above everything. They are content to rule without challenge over a country that is discredited, whose vaunted institutions are crumbling, and whose economy will decline rapidly as soon as it is clear that data about it have less credibility than Greek numbers in 2012.

Why would anyone buy US bonds if the statistics on which their value is based is not to be trusted? Destroying the legitimacy of BLS and the Treasury also destroys the legitimacy of the greenback. The dollar is just a piece of paper.

thanks anne—and we're not done.

if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).

so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!

We have three days to STOP the rescission packate that will kill PEPFAR. All we need is to delay a vote. If it doesn't pass by 18th of July, the bill is dead. CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW!

1869, 1969, it is the 69 that counts really.

Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city.

The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU

We need fresh elites. These ones have failed us.

Fabulous idea in its own right, of course.

After the rapture doesn't sound that bad. It is the before that has me worried.

What exactly does it mean when they say test for the end of times to come, Jews must return to Israel? That has me worried.

Not original enough for originalism.

Somebody should tell this fine gentleman what the Framers thought of Germans (Ben Franklin was a super fan) and the Irish (delightful pogroms in several cities), and Eastern Europeans (his last name). And law students should do us a favor and read some sociology and domestic real history.

At this age, 12 days is an eternity. Since January 20th, I have aged about 170 years.

Insert into the city?

This demonstrates the power of national myth making. People adopt the myths that elites and institutions present as dominant.

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

Taking bets on what the Elon executive order will be about: contracts? Citizenship? Just a bitching proclamation?

Even my six year old who loves to joke about body parts and bodily functions does not come anywhere near this frequency.

This checks.

I really can't unsee that tweet. The idiocy is stratospheric.

How close to 1 are the odds of 47 being kicked out of X?
#polisci

Immigration Research Shows Stephen Miller Wrong About American Science Stephen Miller, the chief architect of Trump immigration policy, argues that American scientific achievement owes little to immigrants.

Stephen Miller said recently that American scientific achievement in the mid-20th century owed little to immigrants, given immigration quotas at the time.
Someone should tell him that from 1945- 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel in physics were immigrants www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Wtf?

The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America - Kindle edition by Ericson, David F. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America.

Ericson's book on the liberal foundation of slavery is also interesting
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Trump administration takes action on illegal immigrants getting Medicaid This effort marks an escalation in federal and state tensions over Medicaid eligibility and the use of taxpayer funds.

Caring for immigrants ' health is good for citizens, too.
www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

This is well-meaning but what it proposes may well be counterproductive. Correctionof false narratives may actually strengthen said narratives.

The GOP Budget: Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and More Medical Debt for Everyone Else - Roosevelt Institute The GOP’s reconciliation bill, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (yes, it’s actually called that), is a cruel exercise in slashing benefits for the poor, the elderly, and the sick to free up fiscal space for yet more tax cuts for the rich.

The GOP’s reconciliation bill plans to offset tax cuts for the wealthy with massive cuts to health-care programs that could result in 13M more uninsured individuals.

@socio-steve.bsky.social outlines how these "savings" are merely another poor policy decision.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...

Tariffs Can’t Replace the Income Tax - Roosevelt Institute The 1870s were a golden age for tax policy—at least if you ask Donald Trump. It’s true that the US had tariffs, and no income tax, in the late 1800s. It’s worth remembering what else the US didn’t have: Medicaid, federal assistance for primary education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, financial support for families struggling to pay the costs of food, utilities, and housing, and so much more.

President Trump wants to replace the income tax with tariffs. That’s not just bad economics—it’s a plan to defund the government and shift the burden to working families.

In our essay collection, @dashching.bsky.social‬ tackles why this matters.
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Quote that reads "Medical debt is a problem largely generated by poor policy decisions. It would rapidly disappear if we could extend comprehensive health insurance coverage to the millions of uninsured and underinsured under constant risk of a sudden medical event leading to ruinous financial consequences." from The US Medical Debt Crisis: Catastrophic Costs of Insufficient Health Coverage report By Stephen Nuñez

A '22 report found that ~107M US adults carry some form of medical debt, and ~62M have medical debt that is past due.

The medical debt crisis isn’t just bad luck or bad decisions—it’s the result of decades of policy decisions. We can choose to do better.
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Frontiers | Are immigrants allowed to criticize the government? Ingroup identity, economic threat, and majority group support for immigrant civil liberties in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey Assaults on immigrants’ civil liberties have been on the rise across Western countries. This study asks whether majority-group natives exhibit less political...

Our new article is out in Frontiers in Sociology!
Are Immigrants Allowed to Criticize the Government? Ingroup Identity, Economic Threat, and Majority Group Support for Immigrant Civil Liberties in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....