Chuck Willer
@chuckwiller.bsky.social
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Working to explain finance capitalism. Based in Oregon.
Working to explain finance capitalism. Based in Oregon.
Churning the federal workforce is meant to disrupt many good functions and streamline dirty work on the ground.
USDA proposes closing regional Forest Service offices in Portland, moving work to Colorado, Utah oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/31/u...
USDA proposes closing regional Forest Service offices in Portland, moving work to Colorado, Utah oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/31/u...
USDA proposes closing regional Forest Service offices in Portland, moving work to Colorado, Utah • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Headquarters would be closed, Pacific Northwest Research Station would move to Fort Collins, Colorado.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Churning the federal workforce is meant to disrupt many good functions and streamline dirty work on the ground.
USDA proposes closing regional Forest Service offices in Portland, moving work to Colorado, Utah oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/31/u...
USDA proposes closing regional Forest Service offices in Portland, moving work to Colorado, Utah oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/31/u...
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It's actually a bit impressive how wrong Jenkins is about absolutely everything, all the time.
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's actually a bit impressive how wrong Jenkins is about absolutely everything, all the time.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake
There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
www.levernews.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters peacefully demonstrating in L.A.
📍Los Angeles, CA
📍Los Angeles, CA
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters peacefully demonstrating in L.A.
📍Los Angeles, CA
📍Los Angeles, CA
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State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
Go Austin!
Protesters with a makeshift scooter blockade in Austin. Photograph: Joel Angel Juarez/Reuters
Protesters with a makeshift scooter blockade in Austin. Photograph: Joel Angel Juarez/Reuters
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Go Austin!
Protesters with a makeshift scooter blockade in Austin. Photograph: Joel Angel Juarez/Reuters
Protesters with a makeshift scooter blockade in Austin. Photograph: Joel Angel Juarez/Reuters
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AIPAC “just want you to be silent.”
Former members of Congress @coribush.bsky.social and @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social launch their new Zeteo show!
‘Bowman and Bush’ pull back the curtain to show you what happens behind the scenes.
Watch the first episode:
zeteo.com/p/jamaalbowm...
Former members of Congress @coribush.bsky.social and @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social launch their new Zeteo show!
‘Bowman and Bush’ pull back the curtain to show you what happens behind the scenes.
Watch the first episode:
zeteo.com/p/jamaalbowm...
March 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AIPAC “just want you to be silent.”
Former members of Congress @coribush.bsky.social and @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social launch their new Zeteo show!
‘Bowman and Bush’ pull back the curtain to show you what happens behind the scenes.
Watch the first episode:
zeteo.com/p/jamaalbowm...
Former members of Congress @coribush.bsky.social and @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social launch their new Zeteo show!
‘Bowman and Bush’ pull back the curtain to show you what happens behind the scenes.
Watch the first episode:
zeteo.com/p/jamaalbowm...
Here is something I wrote for the org I work for.
It's part of what I do.
Comments on the Northwest Forest Plan's proposed amendments (DEIS) by the Forest Service.
coastrange.org/wp-content/u...
It's part of what I do.
Comments on the Northwest Forest Plan's proposed amendments (DEIS) by the Forest Service.
coastrange.org/wp-content/u...
coastrange.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Here is something I wrote for the org I work for.
It's part of what I do.
Comments on the Northwest Forest Plan's proposed amendments (DEIS) by the Forest Service.
coastrange.org/wp-content/u...
It's part of what I do.
Comments on the Northwest Forest Plan's proposed amendments (DEIS) by the Forest Service.
coastrange.org/wp-content/u...
So many are wondering what is Trump's real game plan?
Mark Blyth has deep insights that make sense. His assessment of the democrats is hard to argue with.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99V...
Mark Blyth has deep insights that make sense. His assessment of the democrats is hard to argue with.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99V...
Burning Down the House: Carbon Politics, American Power, and the Almighty Dollar
YouTube video by LSE European Institute
www.youtube.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
So many are wondering what is Trump's real game plan?
Mark Blyth has deep insights that make sense. His assessment of the democrats is hard to argue with.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99V...
Mark Blyth has deep insights that make sense. His assessment of the democrats is hard to argue with.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99V...
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I am once again asking US colleagues to understand that I shall not be working over the weekend/late at night/toward a 24-hour deadline like I am corporate lawyer or something.
March 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I am once again asking US colleagues to understand that I shall not be working over the weekend/late at night/toward a 24-hour deadline like I am corporate lawyer or something.
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MUST WATCH: Zeteo is launching a NEW show on YouTube!
Former Congress members @coribush.bsky.social + @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social will cut through the propaganda, the misinformation, & the special interest-centered politics in the US.
Watch the trailer + SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3L...
Former Congress members @coribush.bsky.social + @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social will cut through the propaganda, the misinformation, & the special interest-centered politics in the US.
Watch the trailer + SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3L...
MUST Watch! Cori Bush & Jamaal Bowman's New Show for Zeteo
YouTube video by Zeteo
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
MUST WATCH: Zeteo is launching a NEW show on YouTube!
Former Congress members @coribush.bsky.social + @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social will cut through the propaganda, the misinformation, & the special interest-centered politics in the US.
Watch the trailer + SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3L...
Former Congress members @coribush.bsky.social + @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social will cut through the propaganda, the misinformation, & the special interest-centered politics in the US.
Watch the trailer + SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3L...
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Elon Musk has a brilliant plan to bring airfares down. He decided that if we had more crashes, people will be afraid of flying. With fewer people flying, fares will come down. And people doubt that Musk is a genius!
February 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Elon Musk has a brilliant plan to bring airfares down. He decided that if we had more crashes, people will be afraid of flying. With fewer people flying, fares will come down. And people doubt that Musk is a genius!
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This paper is both enlightening and rigorous. I really enjoyed its high level discussion of the infrastructure of power and agency in a world in which private authority over money trumps public authority.
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This paper is both enlightening and rigorous. I really enjoyed its high level discussion of the infrastructure of power and agency in a world in which private authority over money trumps public authority.
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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
At least the BFS website is still working.
www.fiscal.treasury.gov
www.fiscal.treasury.gov
February 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
At least the BFS website is still working.
www.fiscal.treasury.gov
www.fiscal.treasury.gov
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I get that this was rushed out, but I did break this story and it would be nice to get cited, especially since I cite @wired.com. Wired is even cited in the headline from a PULL QUOTE from one of my sources.
www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
February 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I get that this was rushed out, but I did break this story and it would be nice to get cited, especially since I cite @wired.com. Wired is even cited in the headline from a PULL QUOTE from one of my sources.
www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
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Two things: 1) They are lying, As I've reported about TWICE today and broke (with the exception of @wired.com) yesterday.
2) The acknowledgement of Marko Elez having even **just** read only access is extraordinary and is actually a confirmation of the crisis
www.crisesnotes.com/changing-the...
2) The acknowledgement of Marko Elez having even **just** read only access is extraordinary and is actually a confirmation of the crisis
www.crisesnotes.com/changing-the...
February 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Two things: 1) They are lying, As I've reported about TWICE today and broke (with the exception of @wired.com) yesterday.
2) The acknowledgement of Marko Elez having even **just** read only access is extraordinary and is actually a confirmation of the crisis
www.crisesnotes.com/changing-the...
2) The acknowledgement of Marko Elez having even **just** read only access is extraordinary and is actually a confirmation of the crisis
www.crisesnotes.com/changing-the...
Waiting for Steve Keen, Nathan Tankus and many other non-mainstream economics people to join.
November 20, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Waiting for Steve Keen, Nathan Tankus and many other non-mainstream economics people to join.