One of my lessons in this is we need to do a better job in high school American History classes of not waiting until the last 2 weeks of the year to teach 1939-Present Day.

On June 13, RI will be the center of the world. Royal Wedding in Watch Hill, Brazil World Cup match at Gillette.

i already edited my syllabus once today... but here we go again.

This is a key point. If you are server making $65k after tips, you are getting a $2,500 tax break, but your insurance costs go up by $3,000. You just lost $500.

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

a man sitting at a table with his arms outstretched in front of a late night show ALT: a man sitting at a table with his arms outstretched in front of a late night show

You know, just

Feeling like this option would mostly benefit those states that are currently implementing, or seeking to implement, work requirements that don't align with the legislation.

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The implementation considerations for this is unfathomable. It takes 18-24 months to build the system. You can't start building the system until you have regulations. It takes 12-18 to regulate.

I have to think the lines on the Knicks/Celtics are going to move with this news.

The rebranding was not peer reviewed and therefore cannot be accepted.

Question for the economists. The Fed uses interest rates to balance our economy between inflation and recession. Lower rates spur activity but are inflationary; higher rates tamp down inflation but slow growth. What is the path when tax policy creates a recession that is also inflationary?

and the last time the market dropped like this (2020) we got increased FMAP in 5 days.

Will be interested how business students calculate return on *equity* at this point as well.

What I saw was let the house pass what they can and the Senate can do it's parliamentary magic

Republican Tax Legislators’ Potential Framework for Extending Trump’s Tax Cuts Is a Gimmick That Would Cost More Than Advertised Using a current policy baseline to mask the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts is a gimmick that cannot change the fact that doing so would increase the deficit.

Sec. 312 of the Congressional Budget Act states that the Senate Budget Committee is resposible for determining outlays and revenues. So if the committee determines that DOGE savings reduce outlays, they can include that in the projections. www.americanprogress.org/article/repu...

That’s a good plan. I also have to manage a practical project with a state! Not sure we will be scoping that for a little while.

Honestly, I'm so scared of fall semester. Will I need a new syllabus? Are there even academic writings about what could be happening?

This is why Southwest is getting rid of open seating.

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

It's why you have to use policy levers to overcome the incentives of the market. I'm old enough to remember insurance companies arguing against tobacco cessation because smokers are cheaper over the long term, due to higher mortality rates. Really gross stuff.

The calculation used to be different for Medicare, which had lifespan impacts in mind. But the proliferation of MA plans and the ability to move every year puts us back at square one.

Or $73 million for the Port of New Orleans to construct a new container terminal on the Gulf Coast for the Port of New Orleans that is not air-draft restricted.

Each of these projects reference Justice40. 4/4

Or more than $18 million for the Florida Department of Transportation will receive over $18 million to reconstruct a portion of State Route 907 in Miami Beach to be more resilient to worsening flooding events due to high tides and sea level rise. 3/

Like - In Iowa, the City of Cedar Rapids will receive $56 million to replace the 86-year-old, structurally deficient Arc of Justice Bridge, which provides a critical connection for residents and emergency services during extreme flooding events. 2/

Unseen in this memo is the attempt to starve state and local governments of badly needed resources to update their infrastructure. Justice40 was a required element of every grant proposal, so "eliminating...funding agreements...that reference Justice40" is all currently awarded projects. 1/ 🧵

I mean, yesterday a federal judge said "I can't cross-examine a tweet."

COURTROOM HRG: CA25-39JJM State of New York, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al. YouTube video by U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island

State AG's hearing about the OMB funding freeze will be streamed live - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3q...

Begun, the war on breakfast, has.