Ashley Nowicki
@ashleynowicki.bsky.social
Midwestern, first generation graduate fighting for economic justice and a government that works for all people.
AELP | Sen Warren; PMF at IRS & FTC; UMich.
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AELP | Sen Warren; PMF at IRS & FTC; UMich.
repost, follow, or likes ≠ endorsements
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Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so
governments should act accordingly
governments should act accordingly
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so
governments should act accordingly
governments should act accordingly
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the real story is the way the country's obscenely rich have hijacked new and old media to pour lemon juice in the country's unhealed race and gender wounds to divide the electorate and derail genuine progressive reform, justice-oriented taxation, and corporate oversight
now THAT's a story
now THAT's a story
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
the real story is the way the country's obscenely rich have hijacked new and old media to pour lemon juice in the country's unhealed race and gender wounds to divide the electorate and derail genuine progressive reform, justice-oriented taxation, and corporate oversight
now THAT's a story
now THAT's a story
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when the press covers its own consolidation it's paragraph after paragraph of stenographed business analysts ignoring documented history and chittering about synergies and scale
the actual impact on real people, competition, markets, and labor is of absolutely ZERO interest to any of these people
the actual impact on real people, competition, markets, and labor is of absolutely ZERO interest to any of these people
It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
The streaming giant's proposal includes a $5.8 billion breakup fee and promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, "including theatrical releases." Theater owners are already speaking out.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
when the press covers its own consolidation it's paragraph after paragraph of stenographed business analysts ignoring documented history and chittering about synergies and scale
the actual impact on real people, competition, markets, and labor is of absolutely ZERO interest to any of these people
the actual impact on real people, competition, markets, and labor is of absolutely ZERO interest to any of these people
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again it's this very weird, narrow, simulacrum of journalism, shot exclusively through the lens of corporate business interests, that couldn't give any less of a fuck about the real-world impact of unchecked corporate power, corruption, consumer rights, the impact on the arts, or anything else
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
again it's this very weird, narrow, simulacrum of journalism, shot exclusively through the lens of corporate business interests, that couldn't give any less of a fuck about the real-world impact of unchecked corporate power, corruption, consumer rights, the impact on the arts, or anything else
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when you take on this level of debt you inevitably turn to layoffs and corner cutting and price hikes to please Wall Street's demand for impossible quarterly growth, and it inevitably goes downhill from there (in a saturated market esp), regardless of what a clever special boy you think you are
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
when you take on this level of debt you inevitably turn to layoffs and corner cutting and price hikes to please Wall Street's demand for impossible quarterly growth, and it inevitably goes downhill from there (in a saturated market esp), regardless of what a clever special boy you think you are
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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59 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to codify Trump's suggestion box for billionaires to complain about public interest regulations that prevent them from defrauding you.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025311
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025311
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
59 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to codify Trump's suggestion box for billionaires to complain about public interest regulations that prevent them from defrauding you.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025311
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025311
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Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.
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Like a virus, DOGE is adapting, evolving
NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Like a virus, DOGE is adapting, evolving
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This guy championed the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank while also berating the government as useless.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This guy championed the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank while also berating the government as useless.
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it's not just "regulating AI" they're fighting. They're also trying to ban states from protecting the environment, protecting labor, or holding companies accountable for fraud.
The focus is on "AI" to sell the idea that they're protecting amazing American innovation from mean old government.
The focus is on "AI" to sell the idea that they're protecting amazing American innovation from mean old government.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
it's not just "regulating AI" they're fighting. They're also trying to ban states from protecting the environment, protecting labor, or holding companies accountable for fraud.
The focus is on "AI" to sell the idea that they're protecting amazing American innovation from mean old government.
The focus is on "AI" to sell the idea that they're protecting amazing American innovation from mean old government.
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the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power
Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws
Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now it’s back—in Trump form.
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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The fact that it created more millionaires is proof that taxing the rich works!
Those taxes don’t exist in a vacuum: they get reinvested in social programs that actually improve peoples’ lives, not pork barrel projects and overly complex wonkery that helps like 3 people.
Those taxes don’t exist in a vacuum: they get reinvested in social programs that actually improve peoples’ lives, not pork barrel projects and overly complex wonkery that helps like 3 people.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The fact that it created more millionaires is proof that taxing the rich works!
Those taxes don’t exist in a vacuum: they get reinvested in social programs that actually improve peoples’ lives, not pork barrel projects and overly complex wonkery that helps like 3 people.
Those taxes don’t exist in a vacuum: they get reinvested in social programs that actually improve peoples’ lives, not pork barrel projects and overly complex wonkery that helps like 3 people.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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A confidant of Bill Pulte provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming officials of the govt-backed lending giant who warned it could expose Fannie Mae to claims it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates.
The alarmed officials got fired.
The alarmed officials got fired.
"Emails reviewed by The Associated Press show that Fannie Mae executives were unnerved about what one called the 'very problematic' disclosure of data by Lauren Smith, the company’s head of marketing, who was acting on Pulte’s behalf." apnews.com/article/fann...
Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data
A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A confidant of Bill Pulte provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming officials of the govt-backed lending giant who warned it could expose Fannie Mae to claims it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates.
The alarmed officials got fired.
The alarmed officials got fired.
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The government forcing employees to mouth its partisan messages always seemed like more of a constitutional violation rather than (just) a Hatch Act violation
Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees’ email messages to add partisan language about the government shutdown without their consent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The government forcing employees to mouth its partisan messages always seemed like more of a constitutional violation rather than (just) a Hatch Act violation
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Trump's tariffs are probably cooked, but the conservative justices are going to be very careful to preserve what matters most: their power to invent sharp limits on executive power next time a Democrat is in the White House
The Conservative Justices Are Keeping the Major Questions Doctrine For Themselves
The six-justice conservative supermajority can both strike down Trump’s tariffs and preserve its power to veto future Democratic policies it doesn’t like.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump's tariffs are probably cooked, but the conservative justices are going to be very careful to preserve what matters most: their power to invent sharp limits on executive power next time a Democrat is in the White House
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i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out
ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out
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Another measure of our wildly illegal administration. The law is short and uncomplicated, just over one page. It's entire purpose is to reassure federal employees they will be paid. There is nothing in the law that distinguishes between furloughed employees, or employees required to work.
Breaking news: The Trump administration is sending messages to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that guarantees pay to furloughed employees, too.
Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown
Agencies are sending messages indicating that workers who are on the job will be paid when the government reopens — with no mention of those on furlough, despite a 2019 law protecting their wages.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Another measure of our wildly illegal administration. The law is short and uncomplicated, just over one page. It's entire purpose is to reassure federal employees they will be paid. There is nothing in the law that distinguishes between furloughed employees, or employees required to work.
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Dillon Dingler is the AL Gold Glove award winner at catcher, beating out Alejandro Kirk and Carlos Narvaez. He's the Tigers' first Gold Glove winner since Ian Kinsler in 2016, and Detroit's first Gold Glove catcher since Pudge Rodriguez in 2007.
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Dillon Dingler is the AL Gold Glove award winner at catcher, beating out Alejandro Kirk and Carlos Narvaez. He's the Tigers' first Gold Glove winner since Ian Kinsler in 2016, and Detroit's first Gold Glove catcher since Pudge Rodriguez in 2007.