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Christian Weller@profcew.bsky.social |
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Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development.
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Brendan Cantwell
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Here is a short analysis that focuses on what Project 2025 would mean for student borrowers and debt. It’s based on the concrete aspects of the P2025 proposal. Things get worse if you read between the lines.
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Christian Weller
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It is also important to recognize that Biden has done a ton of good for America's working families. He made sure that the recovery stayed strong and equitable, he led a huge effort towards greening the economy,,, He is the first president to join a picket line!
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Christian Weller
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Seems worth a try.
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Christian Weller
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That's it. Trump is proposing concentration camps. No Trump/MAGA supporter should later say that they didn't know about it, that they didn't want this or that they regret supporting him. Facts and figures are at everybody's fingertips -- unacceptable to vote for/against somebody based on "vibes".
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Christian Weller
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It is really important to take the Trump goons by their words. If you are a naturalized citizen speaking out against Trump, the two radical strands of anti-immigrant enforcement and using the government to take revenge on dissenters will come together and nobody will be safe.
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Economic Speakers Bureau
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Nearly 2 years ago, Biden signed into law the largest clean energy investment in U.S. history. Despite upfront costs from tax credits and clean energy, it is projected to cut the deficit by $175B over the next decade. ⤵️ Read @bbkogan.bsky.social @brendanvduke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4cLj8ui
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Maladroithe
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Holman was also the chief architect and proponent of parent-child separation, specifically as a punitive deterrent for illegal border crossings
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Sarah Posner
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Some editorial boards understand what’s really at stake. READ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Christian Weller
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The same law enforcement that raided protestor camps this spring will be charged with deportation. They don't do nuance. Black and Brown immigrants from all over the world will be caught up, no matter their legal status. "But I have a US passport" won't help.
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Pete Woods is full of love and pasta
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It’s simply a plan to purge the U.S. of brown people no matter where they were born. Because once you’re gone it’ll be almost impossible for you to get back.
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Aaron Sojourner
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American workers should get less overtime pay & their bosses should keep that $, according to Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm Project 2025.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Enjoying all the RTs on this! Would be even better if folks would read it. You need a laugh, and this guy's weird marketing scheme for his shady "dating" app is hilarious in its evil. Plus, what a wild story to tell when informing folks you know about Project 2025.
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Claire Willett
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“Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss” is like verbatim what we should be putting on billboards for undecided voters in swing states
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Thomas Zimmer
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I wrote about the relationship between Trump and Project 2025, between the inner circle of MAGA world on the one hand and the institutional and intellectual elites of American conservatism on the other: A radicalizing alliance against democratic pluralism.
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Joe Katz
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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
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Christian Weller
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Is his name Pablo? Because that's the cat that has been showing up in my yard and leaving gifts for about 18 mos. Looks very much like him.
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Christian Weller
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Conservatives have been trying to get this done for a long time. This is what GOP populism looks like: screw workers to enrich corporations.
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Christian Weller
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Some news outlets/reporters got bamboozled by the MAGA platform into saying that the GOP has moderated its stance on abortion. Wrong. They proposed a workaround through the states and courts rather than a national abortion ban. Extreme, misogynistic and unpopular:
19thnews.org/2024/07/repu...
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Jessica Pishko
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Wendy Sparrow
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This. This article is what so many of us are thinking.
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Greg Sargent
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"Imagine a world in which GOP president Donald Trump vetoes the national abortion ban that is sent by a GOP Congress. You cannot imagine that world, because it doesn't exist."
On the pod, D strategist Jess McIntosh is brilliant on Trump's softening GOP platform scam:
newrepublic.com/article/1835...
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Christian Weller
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Must read. There are good reasons why professionals with subject matter expertise run govt functions. Imagine Trump cronies doing procurement. 1st term corruption on steroids.
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Christian Weller
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Thread.
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Christian Weller
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This one hit home.
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Popehat
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Regular old murderer expresses disgust for serial killer
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Comfortably Numb
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THEY ARE NOT "SOFTENING" ANYTHING! THEY ARE GOING TO IMPOSE NATIONWIDE TOTAL ABORTION BAN! FFS @nytimes.com DO YOU REALLY WANT TO ELECT TRUMP SO BADLY?
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Grudgie the Whale
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GEE I WONDER IF ABORTION BANNING MAXIMALISTS ARE COMFORTABLE THAT TRUMP WILL DO WHAT THEY WANT
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Christian Weller
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I have lived through at least two elections where people said that the candidates were not that different from each other: Bush/Gore and Trump/Clinton. The outcomes showed how disastrously wrong people were. This election will matter, too.
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Christian Weller
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Wasn't that the election with the insipid question of "who would you rather have a beer with?" We got a GWB who dropped got us into two decades-long wars, squandered trillions in tax cuts and let the domestic economy run into the worst crisis since the Great Depression. But, nice dude to hang with!
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Christian Weller
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Project 2025 is not the only GOP/Trump policy platform. Others include the Republican Study Committee's budget, for instance. There, Rs proposed raising the Social Security retirement age. Not a good idea to say the least: www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
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David Wessel
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America’s “left behind” counties, once-great manufacturing centers & other distressed places that struggled mightily at start of 21st century, stage remarkable comeback. In past 3 years, they added jobs & new biz at fastest pace since Clinton was president. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/b... #econsky
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Christian Weller
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Black and Latino households have a lot less in retirement savings that white households. Black and Latino workers run into structural obstacles to saving, e.g. they have a lot less access to retirement plans at work.
www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
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Christian Weller
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Trump and GOP are waging a war on women. Ending abortion nationally is core to that. So is the end of no fault divorce. Other stuff will follow.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Yeah Trump is all-in on a full ban and his white evangelical base knows it
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Prisonculture
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If interested, this is the summary of Project 2025 that I read over the weekend. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...
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Gary Legum
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He literally four days ago signed a bill to fight Parkinson's because it's an issue his administration has been working on for awhile, might it be related to that, you weirdos?
www.parkinson.org/blog/awarene...
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Celeste Pewter
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If there's one thing my last post on the Admin's actions has really shown, it's that: 1. Not only do we need to keep talking about Project 2025, but 2. We do need to also share more of the current Admin's wins. Voters need positive reinforcement too. So, I'll be sharing more when it pops up.
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Christian Weller
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Crucial to build opportunities outside of large, expensive coastal centers.
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Christian Weller
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That. Been telling kids about stuff I did at their age and the universal responses are "did our grandparents know?" and "why did they let you do THAT?" S
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The Fig Economy
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This is interesting but what I took from it is that if granted power republicans will outlaw abortion in every state in the country.
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Dean Baker
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It's Fed rate cut time! cepr.net/time-for-the...
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Philip Bump
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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Max Kennerly
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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.
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America's Voice
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“Gene Hamilton, a top aide to Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions, wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Department of Justice. During the Trump administration, Hamilton drafted Trump's infamous child separation policy.”
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Christian Weller
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Racial retirement savings differences in large part result from gaps in access to and eligibility for retirement plans at work. Occupational segregation and less stable jobs, for instance, make it more difficult for Black and Latino workers to save for retirement. www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
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Christian Weller
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This is meant to terrorize anybody who may have different approaches. This is the book banning approach writ large. Create uncertainty and threaten sanctions. People will leave or comply with the whims of Trump.
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Christian Weller
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This is amazing.
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Christian Weller
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We will need daily explainer of Project 2025 and its links to Trump through November
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BombayK
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There is no “Set It and Forget It” option for democracy.
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Four Years Ago Today
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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)
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