David Dayen
@ddayenExecutive editor, @TheProspect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Organized Money podcast, https://t.co/7n78H1Tykt. Tips/pitches: ddayen at prospect dot org.
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Next week, @theprospect is holding a special event in D.C. building off our Cold Civil War issue, talking about state-level responses to the new federal regime. Food and drink will be served. Futures discussed. Special guests appearing. Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/panel-discus…
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Black voters and particularly Black male voters did not abandon Kamala Harris, but they did not turn out in high numbers. Why did we see drop-offs? @gurleygg explains: prospect.org/politics/2024-…
Meeting could have been an email
Trump transition team had a meeting today to discuss sexual assault allegations against Sec of Defense nominee @PeteHegseth (he denies it) vanityfair.com/news/story/pet…
The last time a Republican president won the popular vote (2004), a deportation bill passed the GOP House & led to a huge national mobilization & May Day 2006 demonstrations. The threat stalled. Historian Leon Fink wonders if that'll happen again: prospect.org/politics/2024-…
Despite the political environment, Kentucky voters beat back a ballot initiative that would have allowed the state legislature to steer public funds to private schools. @seanmeifert reports on how it happened: prospect.org/education/2024…
I used to do "Lina Khan's rough year" jokes, now it actually kind of is a rough year, but here's yet another FTC victory
Capri and Tapestry end an $8.5 billion plan to merge after a US court order freezing the deal due to antitrust regulators’ objections trib.al/yBkXHs5
Helpful piece by @ddayen on key role in Trump admin of "the czars, the internal White House appointees that Trump has made in parallel" to cabinet officials "and who are key to the emerging vision of centralizing power under the president-elect’s thumb." prospect.org/politics/2024-…
This was actually already known, @danielschuman had a great piece about it for us in July: prospect.org/politics/2024-…
Scoop: Trump aides studying changes to federal budget law that would allow implementation of the ideas from Elon Musk's commission w/ or with or without Congress, sources say Could provoke major Constitutional showdown over White House spending powers washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…
For a president bent on vengeance, I'd reckon that finding someone who was under investigation by the Justice Dept and letting them loose on the Justice Dept was about as deep as the analysis got.
In the race for who is destined to eat more shit in the Trump years, Kevin McCarthy surges ahead
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I sit at the intersection of organizing on the ground, and doing work on policy. There is a reason why people like me aren't all that enamored this "abundance agenda" thing, championed by Ezra, Matty churches, etc 1/
Same guy already said he trusts Trump's judgment. The main question is whether Gaetz gets 52 votes and 1 present or 53 votes
Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Matt Gaetz: “We had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor … of the girls that he had slept with. He’d brag about how he would crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.” Gaetz responds: “This is a lie”
The distraction is more about keeping focus away from the non-confirmed picks doing the work of mass deportation and tariffs and firing the public health bureaucracy from inside the White House.
The Gaetz nomination is so off-the-wall that I half believe he's sacrificial so Senate R's will gave an easier time confirming all the other questionable picks, having shown their independence by icing Gaetz.
Which is why he's picking a bunch of House conservatives, because they're the only political celebrities he knows and Jeff Epstein died so he's unavailable
The hilarious thing about Trump's appointments is that he basically nominates little celebrities he can remember. Like he can't be bothered to look at a list of names or a binder or anything like that. So he just goes with little celebrities he recalls.
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