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Sarah Dougherty
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Economist focused on strategies to solve and survive climate change. Current @nrdc, former ATL Federal Reserve. e-bike evangelist. Atlanta, GA.
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Sarah Dougherty @sarahdougherty.bsky.social · Dec 4
Lots of clear signs the economy is weaker than last year (but the stock market is not one of them: wonder when that floor is going to drop to catch up with all the data). Believe data, not Trump and his cronies.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Dec 4
Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”

@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
We all have to stand up for our neighbors, our democracy and our way of life.
nrdc.org NRDC @nrdc.org · 7h
Read the full statement: on.nrdc.org/4afIvos
February 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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propublica.org
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Hard agree
rooseveltinstitute.org Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 9h
Lost in the Fed Chair nomination news: what Kevin Warsh’s leadership could mean for climate change policy.

Central banks shape how economies can prepare for changes to our climate—but Warsh previously dismissed climate change as “politically charged.”

Climate finance isn’t politics. It’s policy.
Trump’s Fed chair pick could lead shift on climate change
Kevin Warsh faces a tricky path to actually taking up the Fed leadership but were he to take charge, he may lead a major shift in how the Fed views climate.
www.semafor.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
No one should have billions of dollars. This is the kind of crap they do with $(along with efforts to destroy democracy). I vote for no more billionaires, aka tax billionaires until they are no longer billionaires. Ps.This as Bezos’ Washington Post is laying of tons of people from his news room.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14h
Thinking once again about Jeff Bezos's giant boat's giant boat
Mr. Bezos’ vessel is a sailing yacht, a departure from the diesel-powered, floating palaces popular with other billionaires. But it is still massive. At 417 feet, Koru is the world’s largest sailing yacht, according to Boat International, and it cost an estimated $500 million to build, Bloomberg reported. Koru will be trailed by Abeona, a 246-foot support vessel. Superyachts often have support vessels following along behind them. These “shadows,” as they are colloquially known, are for the “toys” — the ATVs, supercars, seaplanes, motorcycles, smaller boats, scuba gear, personal submarines and even helicopters that pleasure boaters might bring on a trip. According to its builder, this model of boat can carry these gadgets along with dozens of crew members. (Ms. Sanchez flies helicopters, and the couple was recently photographed taking a helicopter to board Abeona and then Koru.) Abeona, a motor yacht, will have enough range to follow Koru from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean — a common course for yachts — on a single tank of gas.
February 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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brendanvduke.bsky.social
New 25-page @centeronbudget.bsky.social paper from me summarizing the distributional, fiscal, and economic effects of One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts and cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and climate investments. 🧵

www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Republican Megabill Trades Essential Support to Low-Income People for Skewed Tax Cuts
The sprawling megabill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Trump in July 2025 will redistribute trillions of dollars upward over the next decade, making it harder for ...
www.cbpp.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:52 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Still the only real reason I can find for crypto (and it is a horrible one): enables criminal activity. makes it harder to catch criminals and harder to get their money.

Chinese organized crime networks moved $16 billion in crypto in 2025, according to report www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/c...
Chinese organized crime networks moved $16 billion in crypto in 2025, according to report
A report published on Tuesday has found Chinese organized crime networks to be laundering massive volumes of illicit funds through
www.cnbc.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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obarcala.bsky.social
Congress should demand to see a copy of this NDA
leahlitman.bsky.social Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d
Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S. Supreme Court for an unusual announcement. Facing them in a grand conference room beneath ornate chandeliers, he requested they each sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to keep the court’s inner workings secret.
February 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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howephil.bsky.social
Re: More MARTA project closed door convo stopping BeltLine Rail

Need you to message all decision makers, contacts linked.

-Advance our transit projects
-All future funding votes are now at risk due to loss of public trust
-Stop fucking us over

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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ianbassin.bsky.social
I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
vanhollen.senate.gov Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Not what I am hearing when I talk to the people of Georgia…
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Rep. Buddy Carter: "I applaud Don Lemon being arrested. He should be. As I go through the state and I hear people, they are tired of this. They are tired of seeing what's happening here. They want to see people in handcuffs, they want to see people go to jail."
February 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Sounds like someone that is going to cower to Trump’s demands, not make well reasoned decisions based on facts. Warsh might not be as bad as some of the other options Trump talked about. Does not make him an actual good choice for Fed Chair.
 David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 2d
Neil Dutta of Renaissance Macro asked Claude AI to rate Warsh’s speeches & public comments for monetary hawkishness or dovishness. Krugman posts chart, says Warsh was very hawkish following GFC, but turned abruptly dovish after Trump won in 2024. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kevin-wars...
February 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Welcome!!
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
If he does this, and isn't impeached and removed, it's a Rubicon moment where we are no longer a republic. Sorry, I don't care how much Republicans like his policies or fear his wrath, you can't just let a president cut checks to himself from the Treasury.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
February 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Trump endorsed the loser and sent three posts in the days ahead of the election backing the loser. See: bsky.app/profile/chri...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Q: In Texas, a Democrat won a special election in an area you won by 17 points. Your reaction?

TRUMP: I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran -- where?

Q: In Texas

TRUMP: I'm not involved. You mean I won by 17, and this person lost? Things like that happen. I'm not on the ballot
February 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
So glad this young boy is back at home where he belongs, as is and should his father.

The pressure is working. Loving our neighbors is why we will win.
ilhanmn.bsky.social Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3d
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA. Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century. In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews. For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Community showing up ❤️❤️
pedalingpastor.bsky.social Travis Norvell @pedalingpastor.bsky.social · 4d
Dear ICE/DHS/CBP you have no idea what level of compassion and love for our neighbors you have opened up in Minnesota!

3,000+ cyclists in 20° weather biked seven miles for a man we loved, a city we love, and ALL of our neighbors that we love.

Whose Streets?
Our Streets!
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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philinvestigates.com
This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Sarah Dougherty
ilhanmn.bsky.social
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.
January 30, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Sarah Dougherty
rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Bondi: "At my direction" feds arrested journalists.

At direction of AG may be because:

"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
Bummed Estrellita will be moving out of Grant Park, but happy they will be getting a larger space so more people can enjoy their amazing food.
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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volts.wtf
What kills kids in America:

1. cars
2. guns

Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
sarahdougherty.bsky.social
That is my data! I vote in Fulton county, GA and do not feel the least bit comfortable with what they want to do with that data.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.”

@reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:24 AM