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Kristian Ramos

@kramos1841.bsky.social
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Advisor to Aspen Institute's Who Is Us: A Project On American Identity. Contributor to The Atlantic, Washington Post and NBC News.

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Democrats fight every day to expand healthcare access and make it more affordable. Republicans fight every day to cut it. Medicare cut $536 billion. Part D subsidy ended. Medicaid gutted. Different parties. Different values. #RepublicansCutMedicare
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The current affordability crisis is not an accident or a natural economic cycle. It is the direct result of specific policies enacted by Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress. Their choices made your life more expensive. #TrumpflationSucks
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We cannot allow a rogue agency to just kill immigrants and American citizens. ICE was never designed to act the way that it currently is. As I told @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy , this should not be a partisan issue; Republicans should join Democrats and rein in an out-of-control agency.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Does anyone feel safer when masked federal agents can just shoot an unarmed American in the face? Republicans in Congress must answer for this shocking and deeply sad moment.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@torygavito.bsky.social speaking TRUTH: “In the last 11 months, Donald Trump has done everything but think about Latinos’ interests.” Since Trump took office, Latino unemployment is up, the cost of living is up, health care benefits are down, & the rich are richer. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
politico.com
Trump built a surprising voter coalition. One key piece just cracked.
Republicans could not recreate the president's coalition in last week's off-year elections.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
As I told @nickvalencianews.bsky.social: Zohran is running a campaign built on authenticity; voters believe he is on their side, & workers believe he cares for them. This is not rocket science, but it matters for Democrats. Do what you say, say what you mean, and fight for what you believe in.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Under Republican governance overall unemployment is up, Latino unemployment is up. And May & June jobs reports are revised down. Next up for MAGA taking away your health care, and rising your electricity cost. Still no plan from stable genius leader to lower costs. www.reuters.com/business/vie...
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Instant View: US job growth sharply slows in July, unemployment rate ticks higher
U.S. job growth slower much more than expected in July, and the data from the prior month was revised sharply lower, indicating the labor market could be showing signs of stalling.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
😵‍💫 THE GOLDEN AGE 😵‍💫 🚩 ECONOMY added only 73,000 JOBS 🚩 the big story: May and June REVISED DOWN by -238,000 JOBS 🆘
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The tariffs are modern day taxation without representation. They benefit the rich and hurt working people. They are illegal and unconstitutional. They are wildly unpopular and are driving Trump’s numbers down. And Democrats should be fighting to repeal them with everything we got.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There is a reason that President Trump's ONLY piece of legislation is stuck in Congress right now, Congressional Republicans are arguing about, HOW MUCH, not if they should cut Medicaid. That ceiling is now at $500 Billion, all to give billionaires tax cuts.
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Elbows Up, eh 🇨🇦 @abunchofmalarkey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
So more retail & management layoffs to add to 141,000 government job losses, factory & manufacturing job losses, freight management & trucking job losses? Looking good, America.
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fewer imports means fewer things to buy and higher prices. This is the NFR’s import forecast for May through August. P.S. America is not great.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Talked to Politico about President Trump's first hundred days in office, as I said in the piece “Trump has miraculously, in 100 days, taken his two strongest issues and has cratered on them, has destroyed his credibility on the economy and on immigration." Full piece -> tinyurl.com/k47ere46
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/04/2025
NEW: Trump's mass deportation scheme is a failure (so far). ALSO, great quote here from @kramos1841.bsky.social : "What is remarkable about Trump's first 100 days is that he took the two issues he was strongest on—the economy and immigration—and completely destroyed his credibility on both."
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100 Days In, Mass Deportation Is a Failure
Deportation statistics and poll numbers both say so.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
If we want to win in 2026 & beyond we have got to understand why Biden voters skipped in 2024. @jenancona.bsky.social from @waytowinus.bsky.social gets it right: “It’s not a question of left versus center, its a question of, ‘Are you going to fight for me, or are you going to fold and capitulate?’
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
An underrated banger from my youth
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Second, this mind-boggling deep cut of an after school special about Nazism that @kramos1841.bsky.social brought up, The Wave. Yes, this is a real thing. The 80s were WILD. And it is in fact available in unabridged format right here. youtu.be/4qlBC45jk3I?...
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The Wave -- Afterschool Speical -- 1981
YouTube video by tainlor
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Important analysis from the good folks at @waytowinus.bsky.social: The 2020 Biden voters who skipped ‘24 are crucial to rebuilding a winning Democratic coalition. Base mobilization and swing voter persuasion aren't opposing strategies—they work hand in hand. To win in 2026 we will need both.
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Americans—And The Missing Biden Voters—Want Change
The 2020 Biden voters who skipped ‘24 are crucial to rebuilding a winning Democratic coalition
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Republicans are going to gut Social Security to help pay for tax cuts for billionaires. @housedemocrats.bsky.social Democrats are holding hearing on the Republican scheme to destroy Social Security and its impacts on everyday Americans. Make sure to tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g6a...
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House Democratic Hearing on Social Security
YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Latinos starting to turn on Trump, overall job approval is down. As @simonwdc.bsky.social notes his approval dropped by 25 pt since Jan 20. Whatever gains he made have been erased by a toxic stew of mass deportations, racially profiling American born Latinos and badly hurting the economy.
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Annie Shoup @shoupshouts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New from @kramos1841.bsky.social ⬇️
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As Republicans love to remind us they control Cingress and the White House, it is their responsibility to keep the government open. They should negotiate with Dem’s on a bipartisan CR that protects Medicaid. Whatever happens here it is on Republicans. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Washington braces for a government shutdown — as DOGE cuts continue
The White House would have broad power to decide what agencies stay open if funding lapses.
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Alice Campos @ok-sure.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“It’s hard to grab a hammer without smashing yourself in the face, tho” Wait, no. Actually
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Let’s add, “it’s hard to rip the band aid off without getting some blood everywhere,” to the list of tone deaf, comments made by the Trump administrations about an economy in free fall. What makes the comments so infuriating is it’s an acknowledgment that their policies are causing harm to people.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
You know what I didn't hear tonight from the President, solutions. How is he going to lower cost of living for struggling families? We are headed for a recession and all I heard tonight was grievances & excuses. We need solutions not culture war nonsense. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
wsj.com
The Two-Headed Monster Stalking the Economy Has a Name: Stagflation
Tariffs have stoked fears of a dreary combination of weak growth and inflation.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Republican Budget + DOGE = MAGA Turd Sandwich. In 2 months GOP front liners have fired voters in their own districts without cause + proposed to take health care away from millions (including their own voters) to pay for Tax Cuts for billionaires. They will eat this Turd Sandwich in November 2026
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW EPISODE POSTED: This week Republicans took a big step forward on implementing their plan that @kramos1841.bsky.social has dubbed a Toxic Shit Sandwich. And he's maybe being kind. Kerry leads a roundtable with him, Maddie and Jenifer fusing updates from media, polling, the Hill, and the socials.
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Republicans Take The First Bite of a Toxic 💩 Sandwich
Podcast Episode · Charting the Way Forward · 02/27/2025 · 50m
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I dont know who needs to hear this but giving unelected billionaires access to everyones personal data, pardoning January 6 insurectionist and tanking the economy are wildly UNPOPULAR actions. Trumps poll numbers are dropping like a stone. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-pol...
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Trump’s Poll Numbers Are in the Toilet
Sarah and JVL discuss Trump's recent poll numbers, which show Trump's approval rating is falling fast, and how the economy might be Trump's weakness now that he is in charge.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE is contributing to rising grocery prices + unemployment, farmers aren’t getting paid, and an unelected billionaire has access to your private info all in the name of what? Because it is not passing any savings on to to the American people. www.notus.org/policy/doge-...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘Savings’ Aren't Really Savings
DOGE is axing billions worth of federal contracts and leases — but that money is still allocated to specific agencies.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nearly 20% of Medicaid users are Latino, any cuts to this critically important program will hurt this community. Republicans are offering literally nothing to replace these cuts, but they will be used to give tax cuts to billionaires. Sad. #HandsOffMyMedicaid www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The three most likely ways Republicans will try to cut Medicaid
Trump and his allies have little choice but to market large Medicaid savings as only harmless belt-tightening and reducing waste. Don't believe them.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Since Republicans have taken office: farmers are not getting paid, we have threatened trade wars, and have crippled OUR OWN government unsurprisingly, eggs, coffee, gas and overall cost of living is now rising. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US inflation unexpectedly increases
US inflation increased by more than expected last month, pushing up the cost of living for Americans.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A constituent points out he is losing money because of MAGA chaos in government, and his Representative says: "It's a little bit disruptive." No apology, no humility, what an absolutely tone deaf answer, this is his actual constituent, a human being. Not some abstract economic policy.
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Chuck Rocha @chuckrocha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thank to everyone who came out at RootsCamp to hear @kramos1841.bsky.social Pili and myself today talk politics
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Elon Musk is the single biggest beneficiary of U.S. government contracts. Taxpayers are subsidizing the “fire hose of hate and falsehoods” that now appear on X that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Do you see a pattern here? Does this make you angry?
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Elon Musk’s agenda takes aim at all of us including those who voted for Trump. Right now there are thousands of angry people as far as the eye can see at the treasury wondering who the hell elected Musk President?
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Chuck Rocha @chuckrocha.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Join me this week at Rootcamp with this talented crew breaking down some hard facts. @kramos1841.bsky.social
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is going to hurt peoples lives. What is the point of Republicans having the power of the purse in Congress if they just let Elon Musk dismantle whole Government agencies without so much as a single Congressional hearing? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
politico.com
Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department
An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
As I told @waytowinus.bsky.social podcast, Trump's Tariff's are a $1,700 tax, raising prices on everything. More baffling, they are meant to protect domestic manufacturing, yet Trump is proposing no new manufacturing projects. As @torygavito.bsky.social noted we have a trade advantage with MX + CA.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Another plane crash. Its almost as if we shouldn't gut government agencies indescriminantly… Not an expert but two plane crashes a week after Trump gutted the FAA. Seems related, who can say. www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
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Watch live coverage: Plane crash in Philadelphia leaves multiple houses on fire, causes explosion
Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in Northeast Philadelphia after a small plane crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue, according to police.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
So not sharks with lasers on their head but sending migrants to GUANTANAMO BAY. This feels unnecessary? A little over the top? Totally batshit crazy…
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My latest for @salonnewsroom.bsky.social: Whether its tariffs, mass deportations or tax cuts for the mega-rich, all paid for with cuts to programs that benefit working class Americans working class Latinos and all Americans are going to be hurt. www.salon.com/2025/01/27/t... a 🧵
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The high opportunity cost of Trump's economy
As Trump threatens to derail the economy some Latino voters face buyer's remorse
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It is clear MAGA Republicans do not want to let ANY Immigrant legal or otherwise into the U.S. As I told @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social for @thebulwark.bsky.social, Dems can be for updating + enforcing immigration laws, allow people to contribute + legally enter country. This is a popular position.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
People will stop working if their family is at risk. These policies are very detrimental to the economy!
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It turns out, separating families, sending ICE agents into schools and churches and going after agriculture workers has NOTHING to do with lowering costs. If anything going after agriculture workers will RAISE costs. Who could have seen that one coming?
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We are about to get a crash course on interior immigration enforcement that most people are not ready for. Imagine what would happen if your child's best friend or teacher is removed from school during class? Has anyone thought through how traumatic that would be? www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...
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Trump says ICE can arrest people at churches and schools, directs agency to use ‘common sense’ | CNN Politics
Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to a...
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Democrats now is the time to fight for our vision of America in the face of a rising oligarchy, at a time when Billionaires are about to try to take away our health care, pass tax cuts for the mega rich and execute mass deportations that will raise prices for everyone.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We don't need more Joe Arpaio's all over the country. The Laken Riley Act allows for the indefinite detention of any immigrant SUSPECTED of theft. It lets cops detain citizens who look like immigrants until they prove their citizenship. Senate Dems say #NoRacialProfilingLaws vote against this bill.
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Kristian Ramos @kramos1841.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Joined @tonolatino.bsky.social to talk #LakenRileyAct an 8 page MAGA messaging bill, with possible real racial profiling consequences for non-immigrants. We should have real conversations about immigration enforcement, but this is a poorly written bill that could shred some peoples civil liberties.
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