David Dayen

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2026-03-18 13:24:06 UTC

ICYMI we have a full roundup of last night's outcomes in the Illinois midterm primary: the winners, the losers, the big money that dominated the scene. [@emmarjanssen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:ttz3ziydhzzy2xrw4ocin7oj ) has that story.
[prospect.org/2026/03/18/s...](https://prospect.org/2026/03/18/special-interest-super-pacs-underperform-illinois-democratic-primary-stratton-biss-miller-bean-ford/ )
[Special-Interest Super PACs Un...](https://prospect.org/2026/03/18/special-interest-super-pacs-underperform-illinois-democratic-primary-stratton-biss-miller-bean-ford/ )

2026-02-19 14:53:13 UTC

Lots of rumblings that the Trump administration will intervene to block the Netflix-Warner Bros merger, & pave the way for a Paramount takeover that would include CNN, a further corruption of broadcast news. But state AGs have the power to stop this, if they act fast.
[prospect.org/2026/02/19/t...](https://prospect.org/2026/02/19/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-cnn-hbo-stephen-colbert/ )
[The Wild Card in Trump’s Attem...](https://prospect.org/2026/02/19/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-cnn-hbo-stephen-colbert/ )

2026-02-06 14:44:30 UTC

Bad Bunny, fresh off the Grammys, takes the giant stage of the Super Bowl halftime show this weekend. The NFL assures that there won't be a political message, but Bad Bunny is inherently political: his music is a reflection of Puerto Rico's colonial state and recent tragedies, James Baratta writes:
[Bad Bunny Bowl - The American ...](https://prospect.org/2026/02/06/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-puerto-rico/ )

2025-12-17 14:49:10 UTC

The Bondi Beach massacre would have been much worse without Australia's gun laws that forced the assailants to have to use a bolt-action rifle, writes @npub1r56…jt3u.
[prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/17/australia-proves-gun-control-works/ )
[Australia Proves Gun Control W...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/17/australia-proves-gun-control-works/ )

2025-12-17 14:15:59 UTC

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
[prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/17/amazon-conning-school-districts-out-of-millions/ )
[Amazon Has Been Conning School...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/17/amazon-conning-school-districts-out-of-millions/ )

2025-12-11 15:04:48 UTC

What was the movie of 2025? According to our critic A.A. Dowd, it was Sinners and it's not even close. Yet Hollywood's power brokers tried to downplay it, maybe because Black directors and stars are still considered "risky" bets in the movie biz, against all evidence.
[prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/11/sinners-hit-hollywood-didnt-want/ )
[The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want ...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/11/sinners-hit-hollywood-didnt-want/ )

2025-12-10 15:06:41 UTC

We review Tim Wu's The Age of Extraction, about how everything online has been designed to take from us. From Rhoda Feng, who writes that "In the digital age, the tollbooth has been reborn in algorithmic form."
[prospect.org/2025/12/10/i...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/10/internets-tollbooth-operators-wu-review/ )
[The Internet’s Tollbooth Opera...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/10/internets-tollbooth-operators-wu-review/ )

2025-12-10 14:47:31 UTC

Seven straight Warner Bros. pictures earned over $40 million on their opening weekends. Warner Bros. led the Golden Globes noms. It's having one of the best years critically and financially in its history.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
[Why Is Warner Bros. for Sale a...](https://prospect.org/2025/12/10/why-is-warner-bros-for-sale-at-all/ )

2025-12-09 14:06:55 UTC

Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html )
[Same Product, Same Store, but ...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html )

2025-12-06 16:00:37 UTC

Here's who has come out against the Netflix/Warner Bros. deal:
-Writers Guild
-Directors Guild
-SAG-AFTRA
-documentary filmmakers
-theater owners
So all of Hollywood.
They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.

2025-11-29 16:47:36 UTC

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set

2025-11-26 19:29:25 UTC

"This column presents empirical evidence that inflation is highly granular – it is significantly influenced by the prices set by a small number of large firms"
Oh.
[cepr.org/voxeu/column...](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/granular-origins-inflation )
[The granular origins of inflat...](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/granular-origins-inflation )

2025-11-16 23:38:04 UTC

We're not really talking enough about how the tariff reversals on fruits and nuts and spices is an admission by Trump that his entire economic program is a miserable failure.
[www.axios.com/2025/11/15/t...](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/15/trump-tariffs-grocery-prices )
[Tariff relief at the grocery s...](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/15/trump-tariffs-grocery-prices )

2025-11-10 15:57:55 UTC

Bob Kuttner's latest on the shutdown is brutal on the Senate Cave Caucus. He also has some reporting on the House, where nearly all Democrats will oppose this and maximize pressure on Mike Johnson to find the votes.
[prospect.org/2025/11/10/d...](https://prospect.org/2025/11/10/democrats-get-rolled-by-their-own/ )
[Democrats Get Rolled by Their ...](https://prospect.org/2025/11/10/democrats-get-rolled-by-their-own/ )

2025-11-09 23:43:41 UTC

Cave bill text is out
[www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...](https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/continuing_appropriations_act_2026_bill_text.pdf )
[appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/...](https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/continuing_appropriations_act_2026_bill_text.pdf )

2025-11-08 22:30:32 UTC

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
[Why Does Schumer Keep Trying t...](https://prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-does-schumer-keep-trying-to-cave-government-shutdown/ )

2025-10-28 06:46:08 UTC

Two 18-inning World Series games, 2018 and 2023.
This never happened in Biden's America

2025-10-27 22:52:41 UTC

Trump loses some of his power if he's seen as a lame duck. He wants to be a first-term president in his second term so nobody will tune him out. That's the third-term talk in a nutshell.

2025-10-27 14:02:48 UTC

This is something, a 2026 Montana ballot measure would prevent state-chartered corporations from campaign spending, and would force out-of-state corporations doing business in Montana to abide by the restrictions. Harold Meyerson explains Montana's anti-corporate history & the potential of this law:
[Montanans Go After ‘Citizens U...](https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/montanans-go-after-citizens-united/ )

2025-10-27 13:35:18 UTC

Look, I just don't care about defending random candidates and I don't care about destroying them. The point of politics is to improve people's lives, and for those not actually in legislatures, the most productive activity is to change the ground politicians feel comfortable standing on.
[Politicians Aren’t Heroes - Th...](https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/politicians-arent-heroes/ )

2025-10-23 14:33:07 UTC

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.

2025-10-23 14:09:30 UTC

I didn't have "we need to explain the Law of the Sea" on my 2025 bingo card, but @npub1r56…jt3u does his duty in breaking down Trump's summary executions of random fishermen.
[prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...](https://prospect.org/2025/10/23/pirate-lord-donald-trump/ )
[The Pirate Lord Donald Trump -...](https://prospect.org/2025/10/23/pirate-lord-donald-trump/ )

2025-10-22 17:35:10 UTC

Our story so far:
Trump orders minions to destroy the Capitol on Jan 6.
He's banned from YouTube.
He returns to the White House.
He sues YouTube for banning him.
They settle for $22 million.
That money is used by Trump to destroy the East Wing
[www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/t...](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/trump-white-house-ballroom-east-wing-demolition-youtube.html?taid=68f90036808f32000109516b )
[Trump White House East Wing ba...](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/trump-white-house-ballroom-east-wing-demolition-youtube.html?taid=68f90036808f32000109516b )

2025-10-17 14:29:13 UTC

I was pleased to be asked to participate in TPM's 25th anniversary.
My story is about paywalls and the privatization of news. The average news consumer today has more available to read than at any time in human history, yet less ability to understand what’s really going on.
[DC’s Access Journalists Turned...](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good )

2025-10-15 13:57:22 UTC

Nvidia is paying OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips. The money is going out of one pocket and into another.
This "vendor financing" is what has analysts concerned about AI reaching bubble territory. Bryan McMahon explains what's going on.
[prospect.org/power/2025-1...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-15-nvidia-openai-ai-oracle-chips/ )
[The AI Ouroboros](https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-15-nvidia-openai-ai-oracle-chips/ )

2025-10-08 13:11:04 UTC

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."
[Trump Labor Department Says Hi...](https://prospect.org/politics/trump-labor-department-immigration-ICE-food-crisis/ )

2025-10-02 15:33:40 UTC

Super-interesting episode of our Organized Money podcast here.
The US is bailing out Argentina & MAGA pal Javier Milei. But Argentina is the main competitor for soybean exports to China, so the bailout is hurting US farmers. America First!
Matias Vernengo & Rohit Chopra are our guests.
[The Very Weird Farmer Revolt A...](https://www.organizedmoney.fm/p/the-very-weird-farmer-revolt-against?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3134908&post_id=175115986&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=7klov&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email )

2025-10-02 13:50:50 UTC

An under-the-radar but huge story: in less than 2 weeks, Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 10 operating system, which is currently used on 42% (!) of all PCs globally. Over 400 million computers will be vulnerable to hacks or destined for the dump if users don't pay up.
[Microsoft Is Abandoning Window...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-02-microsoft-abandoning-windows-10-hackers-celebrating/ )

2025-09-18 15:10:39 UTC

See this is very sharp, but it's the kind of thing that should populate the budget bill. Any illegal impoundment should result in the immediate elimination of the presidential travel budget, for example.
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2025-09-16 13:37:37 UTC

This is a magisterial look at resistance to Trump from a number of different angles by Bob Kuttner.
Resistance in the courts, resistance to ICE, resistance in the streets, resistance at Target & Tesla showrooms, resistance from universities and law firms, and on and on. Ordinary people speaking out.
[Can Resistance Succeed?](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-16-trump-can-resistance-succeed/ )

2025-09-05 22:04:21 UTC

Left: yesterday
Right: today
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2025-09-05 13:30:56 UTC

We've got a great story from the inimitable Moe Tkacik.
It's about how MAHA found itself supporting cane sugar in Coke. It's about how a company running something akin to a slave plantation still imports to the U.S.
It's about the Fanjul family, an obscure dynasty that runs on the sweet stuff.
[Sugar Daddies](https://prospect.org/power/sugar-daddies/ )

2025-09-04 13:46:13 UTC

From me: Some view Trump's 10% equity stake in Intel as "protecting" US semiconductor investment, but as [@warren.senate.gov](https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov ) explained today, Intel's own financial statements say the company now doesn't have to complete factories & can shift them overseas.
[prospect.org/economy/2025...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-04-trump-deal-lets-intel-move-factories-overseas-sen-warren-equity-stake/ )
[Trump Deal Lets Intel Move Fac...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-04-trump-deal-lets-intel-move-factories-overseas-sen-warren-equity-stake/ )

2025-09-02 13:22:50 UTC

Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/gerrymander-democrats-california.html )
[Opinion | Do Not Re-Gerrymande...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/gerrymander-democrats-california.html )

2025-09-01 13:53:41 UTC

We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
[Trump Celebrates Labor Day as ...](https://prospect.org/labor/2025-09-01-trump-celebrates-labor-day-as-most-anti-union-president/ )

2025-08-11 13:55:43 UTC

A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:
[When Sleeping Is a Crime](https://prospect.org/justice/2025-08-11-when-sleeping-is-crime-homelessness/ )

2025-08-06 13:50:50 UTC

🚨SCOOP:
A "select" number of FEMA probationary employees have been involuntarily reassigned to ICE, effective immediately, to "assist with hiring and vetting." If the employees don't report to ICE within seven days, they are threatened with termination.
[prospect.org/labor/2025-0...](https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned-to-ice/ )
[FEMA Employees Reassigned to I...](https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned-to-ice/ )

2025-08-05 13:49:56 UTC

The economy in Los Angeles and California is depressed. 3.1% of the state's workforce stayed home in June. ICE raids are the clear culprit; some businesses say it's worse than COVID.
Isn't ICE responsible for that? And shouldn't they pay for the damage? A provocation from me:
[ICE Raids Broke Los Angeles’ E...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-08-05-ice-raids-los-angeles-economy/ )

2025-08-01 14:01:25 UTC

The conventional wisdom swing on non-pharmaceutical measures during COVID has tilted toward "doing nothing, like Sweden did, was good." @npub1r56…jt3u puts this through the ringer: [prospect.org/health/2025-...](https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-01-covid-contrarians-are-wrong-about-sweden/ )
[COVID Contrarians Are Wrong Ab...](https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-01-covid-contrarians-are-wrong-about-sweden/ )

2025-07-21 13:37:07 UTC

From me: Antitrust policy has gone from Lina Khan to dust. Signaling leniency on mergers has become the method to boost asset prices and keep Wall Street happy. It's a path to greater risk and inevitable crash.
[prospect.org/economy/2025...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-07-21-deregulation-swings-pendulum-toward-financial-crash/ )
[Deregulation Swings the Pendul...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-07-21-deregulation-swings-pendulum-toward-financial-crash/ )

2025-07-17 14:03:49 UTC

Who are the contractors that built Alligator Alcatraz?
-1 has an armored car subsidiary that "lost track of" Federal Reserve $$
-1 got a forest mgmt contract in Oregon & accidentally chopped down 10,000+ healthy trees
-1 was sued in an insurance fraud scheme
Moe Tkacik has the details:
[Meet the Disaster Capitalists ...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-07-17-meet-disaster-capitalists-alligator-alcatraz/ )

2025-07-05 20:52:24 UTC

Remember when JD Vance & the "realignment" right were talking about increasing the child tax credit to $5000?
I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill.
Let's check the numbers—
Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase?
And the poorest families are still excluded from it?
No way!
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2025-07-03 16:34:27 UTC

Hakeem Jeffries is still speaking but eventually Republicans are going to pass their megabill.
And it hasn't been discussed much, but that is going to force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Not just Medicaid. Medicare.
Here's why:
[prospect.org/politics/202...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/ )
[Republicans Are Cutting Medica...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/ )

2025-07-03 15:19:24 UTC

C-SPAN puts up the Jeffries speech clock
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2025-07-03 14:34:28 UTC

Fortunately, Trump learned his lesson from all the legal trouble he faced, and even though none of it led to any accountability, he moderated himself and served the people with distinction.
That I assume is @npub1r56…jt3u's point- Wait, it turns out Trump doubled down!
[Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-trump-prosecution-law-felonies-fascism/ )

2025-07-03 14:01:40 UTC

If Jeffries can only keep speaking until 12:00pm ET on January 3, 2027, we've got this

2025-07-02 16:11:47 UTC

I loved making this latest episode of the Organized Money podcast with Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify And The Cost Of The Perfect Playlist, about how Spotify changed how we listen to music and even what music gets made:
[podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-spotify-monopolized-music/id1773721991?i=1000715255506 )
[How Spotify Monopolized Music](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-spotify-monopolized-music/id1773721991?i=1000715255506 )

2025-07-02 14:28:43 UTC

"If Xi Jinping were to draft an American energy policy law, it’s hard to see how he would have done it differently." -@ryanlcooper.com
[prospect.org/environment/...](https://prospect.org/environment/2025-07-02-big-beautiful-bill-green-energy-climate-china/ )
[Is the Republican Party a Chin...](https://prospect.org/environment/2025-07-02-big-beautiful-bill-green-energy-climate-china/ )

2025-07-01 16:05:32 UTC

The Senate version of the Big Beautiful Bill has passed, 51-50. It will have to be approved by the House. There is a House Rules Committee hearing scheduled for this today and the House will be in session tomorrow.

2025-07-01 14:02:55 UTC

Johnson initially voted no on the motion to proceed.
He flipped because of a promise for an amendment for more Medicaid cuts.
The Senate didn't vote on that amendment.
Now he's a yes.
It just wasn't serious that the Senate deficit hawks (outside of Paul) would bolt. They're fakes.

2025-06-29 22:01:31 UTC

A senate source says that there are 209 different amendments that have been filed on the Big Beautiful Bill for the "vote-a-rama." It could take hours to dispose of them all before a final vote can be called.

2025-06-29 20:48:15 UTC

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
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2025-06-25 10:53:24 UTC

People immediately pivoting to slot Lander into a progressive primary challenge are missing the implicit deal in the cross-endorsement: he's going to be deputy mayor, essentially COO of New York City. He's going to use his experience with the inner workings of government to help Mamdani deliver.

2025-06-25 02:55:11 UTC

NYS Tenant Bloc out with a statement:
“Tenants are the majority in New York. Zohran Mamdani understands that and he gave us something to vote for... Tonight’s results send a clear message to landlord-backed politicians like Andrew Cuomo: your time is over."

2025-06-23 12:52:11 UTC

I really enjoyed our last episode of Organized Money, about Hollywood, the death of cable, and how streaming will completely change what entertainment looks like and how it continues as a business. Check it out at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts.
[podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-hollywood-survive/id1773721991?i=1000713781525 )
[Can Hollywood Survive?](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-hollywood-survive/id1773721991?i=1000713781525 )

2025-06-18 19:23:00 UTC

It was stupider.
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2025-06-11 21:22:29 UTC

I was at a car wash in Culver City today that was raided twice last weekend by ICE. 25 car wash workers and 1 customer have been kidnapped over the past several days, and the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. I spoke to families of the kidnap victims:
[prospect.org/justice/2025...](https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-11-ice-los-angeles-kidnappings-trump-national-guard/ )
[ICE Kidnappings Stoke Fear and...](https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-11-ice-los-angeles-kidnappings-trump-national-guard/ )

2025-06-11 15:23:03 UTC

I've seen no stories about this elsewhere, but on the D-Day anniversary last Friday, tens of thousands of veterans protested the creeping privatization of their health care system. Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early reported on the DC rally and satellite actions in over 250 cities:
[Defending VA Veterans Health C...](https://prospect.org/health/2025-06-11-veterans-protest-d-day-anniversary-VA/ )

2025-06-10 02:14:33 UTC

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
[prospect.org/justice/crie...](https://prospect.org/justice/cries-defiance-songs-joy-los-angeles-ice-protests-immigration-raids/ )
[Cries of Defiance and Songs of...](https://prospect.org/justice/cries-defiance-songs-joy-los-angeles-ice-protests-immigration-raids/ )

2025-06-09 21:25:32 UTC

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
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2025-06-09 01:13:43 UTC

Almost every protest in my life is described initially as a "peaceful protest" that "devolves" into unrest or vandalism or violence or whatever else.
There's a quiet sit-in going on in front of the federal building. All local businesses are still open.
But the headline's now "Waymos on fire"

2025-06-08 04:58:30 UTC

Is Patrick Soon-Shiong personally checking each story in the LA Times about National Guard troops being commandeered and deployed by the White House to make sure they're not too mean to Trump?

2025-06-05 21:07:14 UTC

Maybe we shouldn't get into a situation where one guy can threaten the entire U.S. space program because the president wrote a mean tweet about him.
[www.bloomberg.com/news/article...](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/musk-says-spacex-to-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-immediately-mbjtsokw?taid=6841fe56d4835c0001f91a83&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter )
[Musk Says SpaceX to Decommissi...](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/musk-says-spacex-to-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-immediately-mbjtsokw?taid=6841fe56d4835c0001f91a83&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter )

2025-06-04 16:42:21 UTC

Brutal poll here for Ernst. An incumbent at 45% against a generic opponent is terrible, and 69% of voters (!) have heard her "we're all going to die" comments
[www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/joni-e...](https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/joni-ernst-unpopular-may-face-tough-reelection/ )
[Joni Ernst Unpopular, May Face...](https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/joni-ernst-unpopular-may-face-tough-reelection/ )

2025-06-02 23:54:24 UTC

Waymos are all over my 'hood and they seem a lot fucking better at driving than human beings. I am completely on board with letting that technology expand. But I don't think there should be an entire unregulated class of vehicles on the roads because Congress said so.
[prospect.org/infrastructu...](https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2025-06-02-ai-ban-spending-bill-states-driverless-car-regulations/ )
[AI Ban in Spending Bill Would ...](https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2025-06-02-ai-ban-spending-bill-states-driverless-car-regulations/ )

2025-05-27 13:09:32 UTC

The Trump administration has effectively ended white-collar crime enforcement. All this week, we're going to look at what ripoffs, deceptions, and cons will rise as a result to part the public from their money.
This intro sets the stage: it's the Golden Age of Scams.
[prospect.org/power/2025-0...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-27-golden-age-of-scams/ )
[The Golden Age of Scams](https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-27-golden-age-of-scams/ )

2025-05-08 14:48:20 UTC

If the Trump crisis is separating politicians who are trying to fight versus those laying in the weeds, freshman Rep. Dave Min has somewhat surprisingly put himself in the former category, despite his swing seat. James Baratta talked to him:
[prospect.org/politics/202...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-08-unchecked-balances-dave-min-pam-bondi/ )
[Unchecked Balances](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-08-unchecked-balances-dave-min-pam-bondi/ )

2025-05-06 22:34:09 UTC

CFPB decided that protections for people doing installment loans on apps for their groceries wasn't worth the trouble [www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trumps-cfpb-drops-enforcement-of-bnpl-as-consumer-protections-decline.html )
[Trump's CFPB drops enforcement...](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trumps-cfpb-drops-enforcement-of-bnpl-as-consumer-protections-decline.html )

2025-05-02 14:05:49 UTC

The NPR/PBS executive order is a sign of weakness.
Republicans were going to put that cut into a rescission bill, which has been delayed as reconciliation took precedence. The likely story is that Republicans found that they didn't have the votes for it, so Trump had to go it alone.

2025-04-30 20:15:00 UTC

Hearing that Jim Jordan was forced to ditch the part of the Judiciary Committee reconciliation package that would have transferred money and manpower for antitrust enforcement out of the FTC.
We wrote about it earlier today
[prospect.org/politics/202...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-30-republicans-declare-war-asylum-seekers-ftc/ )
[Republicans Declare War on Asy...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-30-republicans-declare-war-asylum-seekers-ftc/ )

2025-04-27 21:23:41 UTC

I've tried several times to be quiet about this, crossed out posts and stories, but Axios broke the seal, so it's at least known: Trump hasn't sent a single judge to the Senate since the inauguration.
[www.axios.com/2025/04/25/t...](https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/tump-judges-nominee-senate-republicans-john-thune-chuck-grassley )
[Senate awaits Trump judges](https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/tump-judges-nominee-senate-republicans-john-thune-chuck-grassley )

2025-04-24 22:55:55 UTC

🚨Still confirming, but just heard that the Department of Justice is dissolving its Consumer Protection Branch, compounding the impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau being under assault, as well as the heightened need to protect people from fraud and scams due to economic turmoil.

2025-04-24 14:01:58 UTC

Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets
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2025-04-21 18:21:14 UTC

Well apparently there is a red line, and Whiskey Pete crossed it, writes @npub1r56…jt3u. When you hire a substitute Fox host to run the largest organization in the executive branch, you get the clown show you deserve.
[prospect.org/2025-04-21-p...](https://prospect.org/2025-04-21-pete-hegseth-signal-chat-fired/ )
[Pete Hegseth May Be Too Incomp...](https://prospect.org/2025-04-21-pete-hegseth-signal-chat-fired/ )

2025-04-18 15:59:55 UTC

The people inside the Democratic Party cautioning restraint on kidnappings without due process should go down to Argentina and Brazil and talk to the Mothers of the Disappeared
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3ln3yd7dblc2x
#note1nhc…lxjl

2025-04-17 19:05:07 UTC

Why are we getting rid of a successful government program for direct filing of taxes for free? Intuit can give you $11 million reasons for it, and that's just the lobbying and campaign donations we compiled in this report from Dan Boguslaw:
[prospect.org/power/2025-0...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/ )
[Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Win...](https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/ )

2025-04-14 14:27:12 UTC

The dollar is slumping. Investors are fleeing it. Can we see a shift to a new global reserve currency? @npub1r56…jt3u thinks it's possible, if Europeans ditch their traditional allergy to debt and printing money.
[prospect.org/economy/2025...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-14-how-euro-can-replace-dollar/ )
[How the Euro Can Replace the D...](https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-14-how-euro-can-replace-dollar/ )

2025-04-11 16:35:31 UTC

Huge win in Arkansas(!) with the passage of a bill in both houses of the legislature that prohibits pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from owning pharmacies. (CVS, for example)
[www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...](https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/arkansas-lawmakers-are-breaking-up-big-medicine/# )
[Arkansas Lawmakers Are Breakin...](https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/arkansas-lawmakers-are-breaking-up-big-medicine/# )

2025-03-18 14:47:12 UTC

"if anything made America great during the long era of American economic ascendance, it was extensive funding of applied science" -Bob Kuttner
[prospect.org/politics/202...](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-18-burning-down-the-house/ )
[Burning Down the House](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-18-burning-down-the-house/ )

2025-03-08 13:30:42 UTC

Classic cover from the Pittsburgh City Paper this morning
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2025-03-05 02:54:31 UTC

"The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over," Trump says to applause from Elon Musk

2025-02-27 19:11:28 UTC

Another CFPB case has been dismissed, this one against Heights Finance, for trapping people in loans they refinance multiple times, earning fees each time.
[www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-installment-lending-conglomerate-for-illegally-churning-loans-to-harvest-hundreds-of-millions-in-loan-costs-and-fees/ )
[CFPB Sues Installment Lending ...](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-installment-lending-conglomerate-for-illegally-churning-loans-to-harvest-hundreds-of-millions-in-loan-costs-and-fees/ )

2025-02-10 19:06:21 UTC

You may have seen this BS propaganda document from the White House about CFPB. I'll have more later, but one piece of it is truly amazing. You wouldn't know from this language but they're actively defending segregation.
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2025-01-21 14:48:34 UTC

Here are a couple [@theprospect.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/theprospect.bsky.social ) stories on the LA wildfires before we start breaking down the executive orders.
First, [@emmarjanssen.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/emmarjanssen.bsky.social ) notes that California voted in November against ending involuntary work by incarcerated people. Now look who's fighting the fires.
[Incarcerated Firefighters Batt...](https://prospect.org/justice/2025-01-21-incarcerated-firefighters-battle-la-blazes-california/ )

2024-12-16 14:32:26 UTC

Barack Obama's end-of-presidency legacy essay ran in The Economist; Biden chose [@theprospect.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/theprospect.bsky.social ).
[prospect.org/economy/2024...](https://prospect.org/economy/2024-12-16-biden-from-the-middle-out-and-bottom-up/ )
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2024-11-22 11:17:51 UTC

Now here, dear readers, here is really what you want to know about Pam Bondi.
She is a hatchet-for-hire, willing to do the bidding of anyone who pays her.
[When Pam Bondi Protected Forec...](https://prospect.org/justice/2024-11-22-when-pam-bondi-protected-foreclosure-fraudsters/ )

2024-11-22 11:14:41 UTC

Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.
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