@brantlmcfarland.bsky.social
Reposted
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Reposted
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.
Reposted
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
Reposted
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
Reposted
Literally describing Mar-a-Lago staffing here.
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Literally describing Mar-a-Lago staffing here.
Reposted
People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical
unherd.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
While throwing Gatsby themed parties
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
While throwing Gatsby themed parties
Reposted
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
Reposted
Trump and Republicans just passed a tax cut that will gift $100B annually to the richest 1%.
$100B could fund SNAP for a year.
It's not a matter of what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.
People are starting to understand this.
$100B could fund SNAP for a year.
It's not a matter of what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.
People are starting to understand this.
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trump and Republicans just passed a tax cut that will gift $100B annually to the richest 1%.
$100B could fund SNAP for a year.
It's not a matter of what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.
People are starting to understand this.
$100B could fund SNAP for a year.
It's not a matter of what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.
People are starting to understand this.
Reposted
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
Reposted
oh just straight up gutter racism!
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
oh just straight up gutter racism!
Reposted
I liked it when Left-wing parties were antifascist.
There is always money for war, never for the poor.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I liked it when Left-wing parties were antifascist.
Reposted
it's funny everytime we hear "dems should focus more on economic issues" it's never "we should improve universal provisioning" but rather "how do we do another means tested program" among a certain type of wonk
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
it's funny everytime we hear "dems should focus more on economic issues" it's never "we should improve universal provisioning" but rather "how do we do another means tested program" among a certain type of wonk
Reposted
Sign of things to come? FBI not ICE but at what other time would people think masked weirdos might actually be Feds.
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sign of things to come? FBI not ICE but at what other time would people think masked weirdos might actually be Feds.
Reposted
Jeffersonians, Jeffersonians! Jeffersonians!!! JEFFERSONIANS!!!!!
All of you are Jeffersonians, none of you are free from sin
All of you are Jeffersonians, none of you are free from sin
it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jeffersonians, Jeffersonians! Jeffersonians!!! JEFFERSONIANS!!!!!
All of you are Jeffersonians, none of you are free from sin
All of you are Jeffersonians, none of you are free from sin
Are they acting like they ever expect to face a fair election?
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Are they acting like they ever expect to face a fair election?
Reposted
Trump is doing to it what he has been doing to America: tearing down generations of progress and possibility, disfiguring and erasing the work of so many who have come before him, and rebuilding it into his own bloated, garish, grotesque image.
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump is doing to it what he has been doing to America: tearing down generations of progress and possibility, disfiguring and erasing the work of so many who have come before him, and rebuilding it into his own bloated, garish, grotesque image.
Reposted
Watching the White House’s beautiful East Wing being leveled by bulldozers and seeing decades of our nation’s rich history crumbling in a few senseless seconds, it’s impossible not to see it as a microcosm of what has been happening for the last ten months.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stopping-t...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stopping-t...
Stopping The Demolition of America
This is painful to witness.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Watching the White House’s beautiful East Wing being leveled by bulldozers and seeing decades of our nation’s rich history crumbling in a few senseless seconds, it’s impossible not to see it as a microcosm of what has been happening for the last ten months.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stopping-t...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stopping-t...
Is it a Sibboleth for them?
100%. But I would add that in addition to antisemitism it's not just "hateful rhetoric". He's a vicious and proud anti-Black racist. "race science", skull size, inferior races, etc etc. It's just par for the course in Trump world.
"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," @katierogersnyt.bsky.social writes of the Ingrassia case. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Is it a Sibboleth for them?
Reposted
Trump: To touch Confederate monuments is to launch an attack on our collective history.
Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Literally and figuratively, Trump is trashing the entirety of the White House’s East Wing
In July, the president said his ballroom project wouldn’t “interfere with” the current White House structure. So much for that idea.
www.msnbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Trump: To touch Confederate monuments is to launch an attack on our collective history.
Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
Reposted
“The survivor of a US strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime in the nation”
How is he alive if his boat was “full of fentanyl.”🙄
How is he alive if his boat was “full of fentanyl.”🙄
Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime
He was released by authorities in the South American nation.
www.politico.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“The survivor of a US strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime in the nation”
How is he alive if his boat was “full of fentanyl.”🙄
How is he alive if his boat was “full of fentanyl.”🙄
Reposted
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Reposted
"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"When electoral gains from moderation have been exhausted—when Democrats are running moderates in every competitive district and still losing—the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters reason to believe politics can deliver real change." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...