hump dayyy

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

@haymarketbooks.org and I proudly present: Read Theory

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Interesting take. Now let's take a look at how this anti-business attitude shaped out for the United States of America from 1932 onwards

one bit of history i love is the letters indian soldiers sent home from france during world war 1, they're really moving (and some are pretty funny, i hope Jai Singh made it to Paris)

It's from Indian Voices of the Great War!

one bit of history i love is the letters indian soldiers sent home from france during world war 1, they're really moving (and some are pretty funny, i hope Jai Singh made it to Paris)

"I am joining the war on public housing on the anti-NYCHA side"

???

I’m already there, buying a new pair of shades

obviously what democrats really need to be doing to win elections in suburban seats is to nominate moderates who vote with republicans on immigration and identity issues

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack didn’t apply to child exploitation.

President Trump has protected, pardoned and/or partied with a lot of pedophiles. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

marshmallow fluff argues that the Administrative Procedure Act forces bureaucrats to focus more on covering their asses than on executing laws like the IRA rapidly. They want to see lots more state capacity to deliver with fewer of the procedural restrictions on doing so.

The Huguenot returns to Caravanserai to discuss the challenge (and opportunity) of streamlining the federal provision of public works and services. And they also call out Congress's role in effecting that change.

California Chrome has a great piece on what Congressional reform requires. Without a first branch of government that takes its job to legislate and provide oversight seriously, the key vehicle for preserving American democracy is at risk.

Our experiment in representative democracy has effectively concluded. How should the federal bureaucracy be reformed to work better and more effectively than it did before Trump took office?

"The rot in state capacity requires root-and-three-branches reform."

Caravanserai's latest issue is all about bureaucracy—and what it's going to take to fix it once Trump is gone. Streamline executive agencies, redo the APA, and, please, fix Congress.

caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/bureaucrac...

oh yeah happy tax day

Our next issue comes out in two weeks! :)

We are accepting letters to the editor! For one, we didn't publish anything about judicial branch reform--so any opinions on that are much appreciated!

Our experiment in representative democracy has effectively concluded. How should the federal bureaucracy be reformed to work better and more effectively than it did before Trump took office?

"The rot in state capacity requires root-and-three-branches reform."

Caravanserai's latest issue is all about bureaucracy—and what it's going to take to fix it once Trump is gone. Streamline executive agencies, redo the APA, and, please, fix Congress.

caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/bureaucrac...

Also great job to @dataforprogress.org for the polling work here.

Working off the fact that the private sector will neither decarbonize the economy nor stabilize prices, this report builds off of progressive strategies in the IRA and, perhaps more importantly, Build Back Better, to make life more secure and more affordable for Americans.

Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.

Here's an agenda for a democratic, climate-forward politics, where we build state capacity for investment and regulation in the interest of affordability and public health.

Great work @pmbigger.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social!

stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org

Today @cplusc.bsky.social launches a working class strategy for tackling the affordability & climate crises. The climate‑cost nexus is already costing billions every year, and it will get worse the longer we don’t act on climate; we also must address working peoples’ immediate economic problems

literally i am get so excited imagining the open-source music recommendation algorithms one could make if anonymized listening data were public. A public universal spotify!

Risk Data Gap Will Bleed Onto Balance Sheets Also, the prediction market has catastrophe problem

The market has not priced the balance sheet risk of losing the data foundations of private market catastrophe models as a result of Trump Administration budget cuts, stresses @kellyhereid.bsky.social @libertymutual.com

www.riskmarketnews.com/trisk-data-g...

Green new deal in blue

Agree with Joel here. The idea that Americans rejected a new equilibrium of higher prices but even higher wages is bad for the prospects for social democracy, but the fact that most of the price increases were a supply chain crisis rather than from public spending should temper our fears!

green new deal for public music