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MM de Silva

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Communicator w/ @rooseveltinstitute.org, @rooseveltforward.org (She/Her/Hers) No pasarán.

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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This paper was a banger. Really well done and accessible. www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Dem...
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
PUBLIC SHAMING WORKS: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Leaves Middle East After Months at Sea in Operation Against Iran
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, largely in support of U.S. operations against Iran, and is now heading home to San Diego.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is America. We don't protect workers. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
wsj.com
How Protected Is Your Job If You Go on Leave? Not as Much as You Think
Workers who take approved leaves of absence for medical or other reasons often think—mistakenly—that their positions are safe.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It me. #SubaruSocialist www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Preschool costs nearly 2X our mortgage, but let me tell you, the mortgage processor treats us with respect and understands that the payment is large and deserves advance notice. Preschool will tell you on 8/4 that Sept tuition is due 8/10. Surprise!
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Let's go. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
California Democratic Party endorses billionaire tax
The party’s executive board broke with several labor unions and Gavin Newsom on the measure.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For a Fed chair who is committed to minimizing communications, it was shockingly easy to put together a Warsh-specific press conference bingo card.
Bingo card lists the following terms:
inertia, family fight, cruel choice, deliver, 2%, land the plane, North Star, uncertain(ty), CPE, Goodhart's Law, target, forward guidance, FREE (markets), reaction function, price stability, full employment, market reaction, supply shock, performance, signal/noise, taskforce, data, Taylor rule, balance sheet, transmission mechanism
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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u... Don't live in Michigan. But want to be on the record that, as an advanced-degree-holding, upper-middle-class suburban white mom, this campaign and this candidate absolutely appeal to me. Medicare for All. Abolish Ice. Democratic Socialism.
nytimes.com
Can a Progressive Win in a Purple State? Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Find Out.
Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary is a critical front in the fight between Democrats’ progressive and moderate flanks and a preview of the 2028 presidential primary.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
YIMBYism is absolutely a precondition for decarbonizing the United States and it drives me insane that a lot of legacy climate orgs, particularly here in California, remain hostile to dense housing construction. www.sightline.org/apartments-a...
sightline.org
Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight
US climate policy is blocked. Housing isn’t.
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My latest column looks at how progressives and Democrats are drafting plans to to use the all-powerful, unitary executive that Trump has established (and the Roberts Court has blessed) to launch a new Progressive Era-- no legislation required. www.notus.org/perspectives...
notus.org
Dana Milbank: Democrats Are Drafting Plans to Govern Like Trump in 2029
He may have inadvertently sown the seeds of a new progressive age.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I mean yeah, this is good, but it shouldn't require an all-time great performance and the sudden attention of powerful people
theguardian.com
Mother of Cape Verde star Vozinha will secure visa to attend World Cup in US
Hakeem Jeffries, the top US Democrat, said that the visa fees for the goalkeeper’s mother would be waived so she could attend Cape Verde’s next match in Miami
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@rooseveltinstitute.org has ruined me forever b/c I now get this joke
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Not to get hyperbolic, but this man is showing the whole world how to do it.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’m telling you, there is blood in this water. It should be in the news every day.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
schadenfreude for breakfast. delicious.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I STILL THINK IT IS!
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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
chicago fed wades into the consumer sentiment debate www.chicagofed.org/publications...
chicagofed.org
Reassessing the Relationship Between Consumer Sentiment and Spending with a New Composite Index - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Surveys summarizing consumer sentiment (or confidence) have a long tradition in economics. In the U.S., the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers and the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence...
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
End-stage capitalism is failing us. Of course, we're socialists. www.ft.com/content/d6b1...
ft.com
Why young America is trending socialist
Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
And I thought it was wild to be an American Catholic during the papacy of Pope Frances...
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reminder that the devil wears a suit and tie and the biggest kind of theft in the United States is wage theft. #diadeltrabajador
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1
We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself….We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. 
I want—as all Americans want—an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as writtten, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the artibrary exercise of judicial power—in other words by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of which which are universally recognized.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
[Congress...]offered moms access to full-time, high-quality care for young children, as well as summer and after-school care for older kids, all for less than the equivalent today of $10 per day. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
ms.now
Opinion | Trump says the U.S. cannot afford child care in wartime. History says otherwise.
The U.S. government did “take care of day care” once – and used the defense budget to pay the bill.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
When Pilate saw that he could not prevail, but rather that a tumult was beginning, he took water and washed his hands.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Everyone Watches Women in Econ" www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
wsj.com
WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Senate has voted unanimously for the Democratic proposal to reopen DHS and fully fund TSA without giving a single dollar to ICE.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)
nytimes.com
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek smiles
ALT: a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek smiles
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
End the gerentocracy LFG!
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If conservatives and demographers are so worried about the birthrate, it's time to a) give women whatever we want, b) seriously consider matriarchy, and c) celebrate and welcome immigrants... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
nytimes.com
The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This. www.firesidestacks.com/p/billionair...
firesidestacks.com
Billionaires Shouldn't Just Pay More. They Should Have Less.
Igor Volsky leads the Tax the Greedy Billionaires campaign and is the founder of Volsky Ventures.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The original ProPublica reporting on family separation will never ever leave me. I will hear a small boy crying for his papi for the rest of my life, and I will never forget that an insecure, bald man from Santa Monica with hate in his heart is responsible.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Am sick of seeing headlines discussing "fallout." Pretty sure what you're trying to say is "accountability."
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court:
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
primary everyone www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘Show Up for Us’: 13 Democratic Voters on Trump, ICE and Their Frustrations With the Democratic Party
The group discusses the Democratic Party’s response to Trump and his reshaping of American life.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"The state represses, the law cheats, Taxes bleed the poor; No duties are imposed on the rich, The rights of the poor are empty words, We have languished long enough under domination, Equality wants other laws: 'No rights without duties,' it says 'Equals, there are no duties without rights.'”
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex... The Hyattsville location is in the same building as the PG County Service Center, including the SNAP office.
wired.com
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
So...the Wall Street Journal has started talking like this:
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 23/01/2026
Social Security isn’t facing collapse—it’s facing a political choice. Today’s shortfall is tied to rising inequality and policy decisions after the Great Recession, not just demographics. Our Director of Stratification Economics @socio-steve.bsky.social explains:
rooseveltinstitute.org
What’s Actually Behind Social Security’s Trust Fund Shortfall
And What Policymakers Need to Know to Fix It
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org
Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals
Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So...how many precincts in Minneapolis and Saint Paul could hold an election today? Go on, reassure me that we'll have free and fair elections in November. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protesters in Minnesota
In victory for Trump administration, appeals court has temporarily lifted injunction as JD Vance set to visit state
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"A big reason Trumpworld is unapologetic about Good...is to warn Americans showing solidarity with immigrants that they do so at their personal peril." My brothers and sisters in Christ, this has ALWAYS been true. Solidarity will cost you, maybe even your life. newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com
Trump Blurts Out Real Reason for Insurrection Act Threat—and It’s Dark
He thinks it lets him abuse his power however he wants. It’s up to the courts—and the American people—to show him otherwise.
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MM de Silva @mmdesilva.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
All you fascists bound to lose.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"ICE is different. It needs to be abolished because the agency is rogue, and, more pointedly, because it’d be exceedingly difficult to design an agency like ICE that wouldn’t go rogue eventually." Strong @brianbeutler.bsky.social take. www.offmessage.net/p/abolish-ic...
offmessage.net
Abolish ICE—For Real This Time
Neither activists nor elected Democrats should repeat the mistakes of the past.
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