@jschmittwdc.bsky.social
Economist, Washington DC Labor, social policy Formerly: @epi.org, @ceprdc.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @cep-lse.bsky.social, UN Peacekeeping (Very old picture.)
What is the best way to tax high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) in Europe effectively?
12.12.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The cruel irony of Republicans voting down ACA subsidies is that it will end up hurting Trump voters the most.
57% of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in congressional districts represented by a Republican.
They're selling out their own voters.
(AP) — A grand jury declined for a second time to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, refusing to resurrect a mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
apnews.com/article/leti...
🚨NEW REPORT: Did Trump really fix NAFTA?: What USMCA failed to do and how to put workers first in North American trade.
Trump pledged to fix “The worst trade deal ever made.” 5 years later, things are only getting worse for US trade and North American workers 👀🧵 ...1/n www.epi.org/publication/...
Lashing out at reporters.
Falling asleep at meetings.
Misremembering basic facts.
Donald Trump appears to be totally losing it.
Be warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHLciC67V8
Krugman: "...to blame Democrats for the economy’s problems [Trump] would have to admit that the Trump economy has problems ... the speech was important because it revealed that he won’t make any such admission, and will continue to gaslight the public."
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-says...
"high deductible health plans and HSAs do not empower patients. Next year..,out-of-pocket maximum will soar to $21,200 and premiums will surge above $27,000 for family plans...most medical care can’t be shopped for (let alone covered) with an HSA."
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/kff-health...
Out-of-Pocket Pain From High-Deductible Plans Means Skimping on Care kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
09.12.2025 11:56 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried.
Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
08.12.2025 21:40 — 👍 20024 🔁 10719 💬 804 📌 1046@deanbaker13.bsky.social is "In Search of Donald Trump’s Booming Economy."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Are the wheels coming off the bus or are they about to hijack the plane?
07.12.2025 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Despicable
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Donald Trump could rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship in the middle of Fifth Avenue and note lose a single conservative Supreme Court Justice.
06.12.2025 15:49 — 👍 308 🔁 109 💬 24 📌 10I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
> Between 1995 and 2021 (our sample period), there were a total of 47 individuals who have been a congressional leader; 20 of whom made stock trades both before and after ascension to leadership.
03.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 54 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0You can’t handle the truth vibes
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Three side-by-side screenshots of Quarto extension cards showing development status banners. The left card displays a GitHub extension with a brown superseded banner, the middle card shows a GitLink extension with a green stable banner, and the right card presents a details extension from the coatless-quarto collection with repository statistics and description.
🎉 New feature on the Quarto Extensions directory!
Extension developers can now display development status banners using GitHub Topics (superseded, deprecated, archived, experimental, stable).
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#Quarto #QuartoPub #QuartoExtension #OpenSource #DataScience
Trump says each boat sunk by the US military in the Caribbean has saved 25,000 US lives.
Has any reporter or politician asked Trump or Leavitt about the US domestic death toll from the 400 tons of cocaine that the recently pardoned former Honduran President Hernandez shipped here?
As I show in Holding It Together, the resulting trickle down of care is crushing women, particularly the low-income women (disproportionately immigrant, Black, and Latina women) who have been forced to do an outsized share of the underpaid work of care.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Deporting a Honduran Dreamer when Trump has announced he’ll pardon the ex-President is really something else
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Follow @lawyeroyer.com on Bluesky.
30.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sure seems like the kind of thing that would have led to a third impeachment back in the first Trump term.
www.youtube.com/shorts/4tiT1...
But he is correct that this has never been seen before.
29.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Journalists speaking to any Administration official have a simple question to ask:
Please define “remigration”.
It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.
Trump says he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who’s serving a decades-long US sentence for cocaine trafficking.
29.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 57 🔁 43 💬 35 📌 15Background on "remigration" in great replacement theory, European far right, etc, and State Dept plans to create an Office of Remigration from earlier this year:
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