rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Incredible stuff. Years and years of work. Congratulations @newkingsdems.bsky.social 010
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025 281227744192
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialPitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices. Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...nytimes.comSame Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ 571398692
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com 1344537408032
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." 242247804
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here. 16365542302
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Cherry on top of this really interesting interview was the @moeperiod.bsky.social song at the end. A proper throwback. 041
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 17/07/2025EXCLUSIVE: Democratic voters who skipped the 2024 election favor candidates like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Polling shows they believe inequality is at the heart of America’s problems and health care should be available to everyone.rollingstone.comDemocratic Voters Who Skipped 2024 Election Want Candidates Like Bernie, AOCNew research suggests the prevailing wisdom in Washington — the idea that Democrats tacked too far to the left last year — might be wrong. 2361375355
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter 802146093020
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill. 25803454710836
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt. If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that? 732047388
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“I am begging Democrats to embrace candidates who can authentically speak to the electorate they’re running to represent, whether they’re in red, blue, urban or rural areas.” @rebeccakkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani. They Should Have Been Taking Notes. 761590
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Brad Lander IS having a great day (Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-) www.thecut.com/article/brad...thecut.comBrad Lander Is Having a Great DayAin’t no party like a Zohran Mamdani victory party (attended by New York City comptroller Brad Lander). 933186236
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Loving the love for Brad Lander. It’s updated me a bit on RCV. RCV could create more Brad Landers, more coalition builders. A counterweight to the extremely individualistic incentives of executive and single member district legislative elections 131002141
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025If am reading this correctly, the 10 year AI regulation moratorium for states is one step closer to becoming law- so much awfulness going on but more people need to pay attention to this: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...budget.senate.govMore Provisions in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Are Subject to Byrd Rule, Parliamentarian Advises | U.S. Senate Committee On The BudgetThe Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget 030
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/06/2025This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense. 1045349328865
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Can't stop thinking about the all the political realignment opportunities on the table for Dems: (1) Go hard on fighting the sale of public lands and pick up the outdoors community- I'm not talking about the REI crowd- go get these hunters; 100
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025ENOUGH. Release Brad Lander now! Trump regime arrests another politician of the opposing party, this time a top NYC elected official and candidate for mayor. These are gestapo tactics. They must end now. Every American must call their representatives and demand an end to this. (202) 224-3121 211443
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing. 813212925
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialPitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Repeat after us: Rich people don’t create jobs. Your job doesn’t exist because a billionaire felt generous. It exists because people buy stuff. That’s how the economy works. 🎧 Listen to the full episode at the following link or wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/BBartlett 0123
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison. 20829301374
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again 5633101065
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This is what hope feels like. So glad @daveyseligman.bsky.social is getting in the fight for Colorado AG. 040
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books. 669145274841
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/04/2025Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.washingtonpost.comU.S. economy shrank in early 2025, as tariffs sapped growthGDP shrank in the first quarter, a new report shows, offering a look at how tariffs are reshaping spending patterns and changing the economy. 51273492639
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1937... 53993305
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It was great stuff today. Kudos to Booker. But it needs to be the <start> of continuous action, every day, to keep this going & build on it. Prove those of us who were skeptical about the performative nature of it wrong. Use every possible platform & power as Senators to defeat the fascism. More. 171043155
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary. 3252757610444
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263626416137
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work. 366512765825749
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025There's been a long-standing organizing effort to get better Dems in office. This week proves how important that is. They just need more of you. Follow @repyourblock.bsky.social @newkingsdems.bsky.social and get involved. 061
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement. 12052251206
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it. 497297694929
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialJesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020. 979165764213
rlauter.bsky.social @rlauter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025as a constituent I’d now like to know what @adamsmith.house.gov plans on doing to protect our democracy 020
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic” 199168592509
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed” 583378547338
Reposted by @rlauter.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design. 321845481
