Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Colorado slacking at 11th
you'll be shocked to hear that DC, New York, Massachusetts, Washington State, and California are the top-5 in GDP per capita
Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.
This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.
Your regular reminder that you should not have a ChatGPT subscription.
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
New research with @aaronsojourner.org of the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social posted on @northstarpolicy.org's blog. We find that Operation Metro Surge caused declines in employees working, hours worked, and businesses open, leading to an estimated $106 million wage loss for Twin Cities workers.
Supply shift right, equilibrium price go down, equilibrium quantity go up. A shockingly simple idea for so many elected officials to not understand.
I am co-organizing sessions for the 2026 Southern Economics Association Annual conference in Houston in November. Looking for Maternal & Infant Health, Fertility & Family formation, and other Health and Labor topics. Fill out the form by March 14th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
elected representatives, business leaders, college administrators, the list goes on
Would still surprise me if Roberts didn't want to be the one to kill it himself. Put the cherry on top of his career.
there is also something very “i have never interacted with a human being” about the idea that you can pick and choose which rights you’re going to defend without any backlash within your coalition
that the Democratic party would be better served, along with the people of the United States, by not waiting decades at a time to stand up for vulnerable people. And that maybe we should spend more energy shaming the party's transphobes for being transphobes, since Will thinks shaming people works.
are Jeffries and Schumer not Democratic party leaders? When did I say ALL of them? And yes, the Senate minority leader and House minority are much larger defections than we've ever seen from the left-wing of the party against a moderate candidate.
interesting, because we all just watched Democratic party leaders refuse to support the Democratic party nominee, and Lina Khan ally, for New York mayor. Instead, they supported the candidate endorsed by Donald Trump. Maybe you should spend more of your time scolding them?
You also won't be able to get people back in the fold if you spend three years saying that their civil rights and liberties are not important, and that they would be "fools" to not vote to make themselves 2nd class citizens.
If the Democratic nominee for President believes that trans people should be permanently relegated to 2nd class citizen status, I'm not going to shame my trans friends and family members for not voting for that. It's the job of politicians to win elections, not of discriminated against people.
Did you not follow the New York mayoral election? Did you not see the leaders of the Democratic party align with the Trump supported mayoral candidate?
It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?
Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK...
Proposals due: March 22, 2026
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026
Conf dates: Nov 21-23
#econconf 1/2
"If we have to follow the law and constitution we won't be allowed to break the law and violate the constitution" says man sworn to uphold the constitution.
yeah I don't know, maybe people should stop giving Meta access to all of their personal information and conversations via Facebook and Instagram
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*
The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
