"changes to SNAP are happening alongside cuts to Medicaid. It leads to what Allen calls a “terrible synergistic effect” of people’s food being taken away and people getting sick because of it while health care is stripped away."
Eligibility unchanged: its all policy change via administrative burdens
Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record
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This is a horror.
PSA:
- everyone can comment! What would these regulations mean for you, the country, for anybody! Doesn’t need a fancy policy memo.
- the agency must respond to all comments
- comments inform litigation against the policy
- number of comments indicates political risk to them
- you did something!
There are lots of radical ideas in the 151 pages of regulations the Department of Education is proposing. This one involves a fundamental misunderstanding or misrepresentation of how academic life works. 🧵 (1/7)
I know I have to put up with people on social media saying that I was a paid shill for Orban’s government. It is certainly true that I received a salary for the work I did here. It was a large salary by Hungarian standards, but less than I could have made had I stayed in the US; I had to give up the significant income I made yearly from giving speeches. The Hungarians knew that if they wanted Western people to work here, they had to give us enough to make it worthwhile. Nothing dodgy about that.
Rod “I gave up so much I could have been billing American philanthropists so that I could bilk Hungarian taxpayers” Dreher
“We have not impounded anything,” Vought repeatedly said.
In a decent society, a party that elevated this person to one of the most powerful positions in government would never be heard of again.
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IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.
This is a VERY big test case.
This is an existential crisis for American higher education, & it remains maddening, if not sadly predictable that there continues to be <exactly> no loud, collective public action by university chancellors & presidents to speak out against & try to reverse these policies (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970).
They did the same thing at Broadview ICE.
“You have to meet them where they are” taken to its logical extreme.
Last week, OpenAI argued that the government may need to create a vast new welfare state to counter AI-induced unemployment and inequality.
And yet, the company's leaders have ignored - or abetted - attacks on actually existing social programs www.vox.com/politics/485...
reminded of in 2019, when Democrats in Virginia were finally able to claw a razor thin state legislative majority away from a Republican gerrymander by winning two consecutive 10 point landslides and Josh Barro said it proved gerrymandering doesn't matter.
Voter turnout in the WI Supreme Court election fell from last year’s record high, but still one the highest since the 2011 nail-biter between Kloppenburg & Prosser
Major swing in Kenosha County, which had been trending red in recent years.
2024: Trump+6
2025: Crawford+6
2026*: Taylor+17
I’ve been on this bandwagon for a while. The question is why? A reasonable place to start is likely voter models that weight the electorate too Republican. We are in at least a 2018 environment, if not more Democratic
Truly apocalyptic numbers for WisGOP in the state's most important swing region
Trump insane Easter post
Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings
One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!
Rigorous Enumerationism for the Article I branch (lol undergrad chatGPT-fresh US v Morrison citation)to prop up good-old-fashioned Despotism for the Article II branch.
Proposing to cut LIHEAP — ending energy assistance payments for low-income Americans — for the nth time hits different when you’re plowing money into a war that is raising those energy prices.
Publius book reviews are pretty great because the reviewers and books are pretty great! How about this?
“The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Othman Atta, the executive director of the mosque, as saying that deportation documents focused on Sarsour's arrest by Israeli authorities as a teenager living in the West Bank to argue he provided material support for extremists.”
Sarsour is 53 years old.
Really great review (0$) by @philiprocco.bsky.social of a really tremendous book, David Jones’s Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta. (If you need a great public health/social policy book to teach, look no further)
*lawyer who can't accurately describe law review article*: So let me tell you about the debates over the 14th Amendment...
My newest for @donmoyn.bsky.social 's blog! I wrote about prediction markets, and why governing them is, at its core, a federalism problem.
Polymarket and Kalshi are caught between a federal regulator claiming exclusive jurisdiction and states insisting it's theirs to police. /1 🧵
This is what the collapse of the rule of law looks like.
Universities have been turning discretionary spending over to people with mostly Events backgrounds to enhance “student experience” and now that choice has inevitably come for the curriculum.
Stopped at a Costco and while we were inside, prices at the pump jumped 40 cents.
