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Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
Blowing Up Fishing Boats Won’t Win the Drug War - OtherWords
There’s a reason we don’t want drug warriors playing judge, jury, and executioner.
otherwords.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
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NEW REPORT: As the G20 approaches its 20th summit, a new independent assessment finds it has failed to tackle inequality and deliver economic justice.
The report warns that the forum must do more than fight fires - it needs to reform a broken international system. 🧵1/7
The report warns that the forum must do more than fight fires - it needs to reform a broken international system. 🧵1/7
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
NEW REPORT: As the G20 approaches its 20th summit, a new independent assessment finds it has failed to tackle inequality and deliver economic justice.
The report warns that the forum must do more than fight fires - it needs to reform a broken international system. 🧵1/7
The report warns that the forum must do more than fight fires - it needs to reform a broken international system. 🧵1/7
NEW: In close to 20 years, the G20 summit has consistently failed to address the systemic inequities driving debt burdens, ecological collapse, and widening social insecurity.
A new independent assessment from @neweconomics.bsky.social, IPS, and others shows key steps to change that. REPORT:
A new independent assessment from @neweconomics.bsky.social, IPS, and others shows key steps to change that. REPORT:
The G20 at a Crossroads
An independent assessment of the G20’s impact, and lessons for an equitable economic future.
ips-dc.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NEW: In close to 20 years, the G20 summit has consistently failed to address the systemic inequities driving debt burdens, ecological collapse, and widening social insecurity.
A new independent assessment from @neweconomics.bsky.social, IPS, and others shows key steps to change that. REPORT:
A new independent assessment from @neweconomics.bsky.social, IPS, and others shows key steps to change that. REPORT:
The Trump administration claims it can't use $8 billion to fund SNAP in November.
Simultaneously, it's pushing to use $156 BILLION for Department of War projects during the shutdown, including $24 billion for Trump’s absurd Golden Dome.
This is policy violence.
Simultaneously, it's pushing to use $156 BILLION for Department of War projects during the shutdown, including $24 billion for Trump’s absurd Golden Dome.
This is policy violence.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Trump administration claims it can't use $8 billion to fund SNAP in November.
Simultaneously, it's pushing to use $156 BILLION for Department of War projects during the shutdown, including $24 billion for Trump’s absurd Golden Dome.
This is policy violence.
Simultaneously, it's pushing to use $156 BILLION for Department of War projects during the shutdown, including $24 billion for Trump’s absurd Golden Dome.
This is policy violence.
The future will not be saved by algorithms or distant leaders; it will be shaped by ordinary people in ordinary places choosing to work together.
Democracy Begins Where We Live - OtherWords
Whether we’re facing flooding, AI disruption, or authoritarianism, it will be the people around us who get us through.
otherwords.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The future will not be saved by algorithms or distant leaders; it will be shaped by ordinary people in ordinary places choosing to work together.
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Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.
People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
NEW: When the Great Recession began in 2008, many state lawmakers responded with cuts, layoffs, and austerity measures that only harmed the economy more. Right now, we must choose differently.
Amber Wallin of the State Revenue Alliance:
Amber Wallin of the State Revenue Alliance:
States Must Learn the Lessons of the Great Recession Before It’s Too Late - OtherWords
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is going to cause major pain in statehouses. Lawmakers need to prepare now.
otherwords.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: When the Great Recession began in 2008, many state lawmakers responded with cuts, layoffs, and austerity measures that only harmed the economy more. Right now, we must choose differently.
Amber Wallin of the State Revenue Alliance:
Amber Wallin of the State Revenue Alliance:
When parents and caretakers can’t get child care, they lose work, educational opportunities, and enrichment opportunities for their kids.
New Mexico's new free child care is not just an investment in kids — it's an investment in thriving communities.
New Mexico's new free child care is not just an investment in kids — it's an investment in thriving communities.
Child Care Can Be Free and Universal - OtherWords
In most of the country, child care is too expensive for families and pays too little for providers. New Mexico is fixing that — and all states should follow.
otherwords.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When parents and caretakers can’t get child care, they lose work, educational opportunities, and enrichment opportunities for their kids.
New Mexico's new free child care is not just an investment in kids — it's an investment in thriving communities.
New Mexico's new free child care is not just an investment in kids — it's an investment in thriving communities.
In 2006, a huge immigration raid in Marshalltown, Iowa tore the community apart and tanked the economy.
Since then, immigrant residents have helped the town open new businesses, recover from a natural disaster, and thrive.
We're stronger when everyone — immigrant or not — is free to pitch in.
Since then, immigrant residents have helped the town open new businesses, recover from a natural disaster, and thrive.
We're stronger when everyone — immigrant or not — is free to pitch in.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In 2006, a huge immigration raid in Marshalltown, Iowa tore the community apart and tanked the economy.
Since then, immigrant residents have helped the town open new businesses, recover from a natural disaster, and thrive.
We're stronger when everyone — immigrant or not — is free to pitch in.
Since then, immigrant residents have helped the town open new businesses, recover from a natural disaster, and thrive.
We're stronger when everyone — immigrant or not — is free to pitch in.
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Peter Weiss was a fearless lawyer who cooked up wildly creative ways of going after the baddies, from Henry Kissinger to corporate criminals. He also had a wicked dry wit.
Grateful to have had the chance to spend time with him during his 99 yrs.
@ips-dc.org tribute: ips-dc.org/remembering-...
Grateful to have had the chance to spend time with him during his 99 yrs.
@ips-dc.org tribute: ips-dc.org/remembering-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Peter Weiss was a fearless lawyer who cooked up wildly creative ways of going after the baddies, from Henry Kissinger to corporate criminals. He also had a wicked dry wit.
Grateful to have had the chance to spend time with him during his 99 yrs.
@ips-dc.org tribute: ips-dc.org/remembering-...
Grateful to have had the chance to spend time with him during his 99 yrs.
@ips-dc.org tribute: ips-dc.org/remembering-...
IPS mourns the immense loss of Peter Weiss, a path-breaking international human rights lawyer who led the Institute’s board of directors with a steady and courageous hand through Nixon-era political repression and the assassination of two IPS colleagues.
Remembering Peter Weiss - Institute for Policy Studies
Remembering Peter Weiss
ips-dc.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
IPS mourns the immense loss of Peter Weiss, a path-breaking international human rights lawyer who led the Institute’s board of directors with a steady and courageous hand through Nixon-era political repression and the assassination of two IPS colleagues.
NEW: Yesterday, Colorado voters passed a policy securing FREE breakfast and lunch for all public school kids and support for SNAP — all through a tax on the rich.
This isn’t a far-fetched idea. It’s a popular, commonsense solution.
This isn’t a far-fetched idea. It’s a popular, commonsense solution.
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
coloradosun.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Yesterday, Colorado voters passed a policy securing FREE breakfast and lunch for all public school kids and support for SNAP — all through a tax on the rich.
This isn’t a far-fetched idea. It’s a popular, commonsense solution.
This isn’t a far-fetched idea. It’s a popular, commonsense solution.
NEW: "If you have $30 million, you have multiple houses, you fly first class or private jet. When you start to get above that, you're not just buying a jet or another house. You're buying senators."
@chuck77.bsky.social breaks down the "billionaire class." Listen:
@chuck77.bsky.social breaks down the "billionaire class." Listen:
How wealth concentration by the ultra-rich impacts your life - WORT-FM 89.9
Sponsored Chuck Collins is the Director for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. He coedits inequality.org and has authored several books on […]
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November 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: "If you have $30 million, you have multiple houses, you fly first class or private jet. When you start to get above that, you're not just buying a jet or another house. You're buying senators."
@chuck77.bsky.social breaks down the "billionaire class." Listen:
@chuck77.bsky.social breaks down the "billionaire class." Listen:
Just as rural communities were on the cusp of a massive investment in reliable fiber broadband, the Trump administration derailed the program and restructured it around a giveaway to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper.
Rural America Deserves Dependable Broadband, Not More Billionaire Handouts - OtherWords
The Trump administration’s new rules for broadband funds favor giveaways to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk over reliable internet for rural communities.
otherwords.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just as rural communities were on the cusp of a massive investment in reliable fiber broadband, the Trump administration derailed the program and restructured it around a giveaway to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper.
NEW: When our politics feel distant and impersonal, place-based organizing is how we restore politics to a human scale: neighbors coming together to defend what they love and demand accountability where they live.
IPS Rural Organizing Fellow @katehesspace.bsky.social of @hoosieraction.bsky.social:
IPS Rural Organizing Fellow @katehesspace.bsky.social of @hoosieraction.bsky.social:
Democracy Begins Where We Live - OtherWords
Whether we’re facing flooding, AI disruption, or authoritarianism, it will be the people around us who get us through.
otherwords.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
NEW: When our politics feel distant and impersonal, place-based organizing is how we restore politics to a human scale: neighbors coming together to defend what they love and demand accountability where they live.
IPS Rural Organizing Fellow @katehesspace.bsky.social of @hoosieraction.bsky.social:
IPS Rural Organizing Fellow @katehesspace.bsky.social of @hoosieraction.bsky.social:
Few programs can claim the success of nearly $300 billion mobilized annually, millions of jobs supported, and thousands of communities transformed. The CDFI fund could — until Trump just eliminated its entire staff.
A Cruel and Short-Sighted Attack on Low-Income Communities - OtherWords
The federal government has a powerful tool to spur investment in communities traditionally locked out of it. But Trump is dismantling it.
otherwords.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Few programs can claim the success of nearly $300 billion mobilized annually, millions of jobs supported, and thousands of communities transformed. The CDFI fund could — until Trump just eliminated its entire staff.
NEW: National Veterinary Associations, or NVA, have quietly bought up hundreds of local mom and pop pet care practices nationwide. NVA is owned by the Reimann family, the second richest family in Germany with a dark Nazi past.
@chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
@chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: National Veterinary Associations, or NVA, have quietly bought up hundreds of local mom and pop pet care practices nationwide. NVA is owned by the Reimann family, the second richest family in Germany with a dark Nazi past.
@chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
@chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
NEW: Earlier today, two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund SNAP using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
Yes, we should continue funding the program that feeds 1 in 8 Americans.
Yes, we should continue funding the program that feeds 1 in 8 Americans.
Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Trump's administration must continue to fund SNAP, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
6abc.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
NEW: Earlier today, two federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund SNAP using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
Yes, we should continue funding the program that feeds 1 in 8 Americans.
Yes, we should continue funding the program that feeds 1 in 8 Americans.
NEW: In a national first, on November 1 all families in New Mexico will be eligible for universal, no-cost child care.
"I see the positive impact our child care programs have on children, including lifelong benefits," writes New Mexico child care teacher Rita Bee:
"I see the positive impact our child care programs have on children, including lifelong benefits," writes New Mexico child care teacher Rita Bee:
Child Care Can Be Free and Universal - OtherWords
In most of the country, child care is too expensive for families and pays too little for providers. New Mexico is fixing that — and all states should follow.
otherwords.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
NEW: In a national first, on November 1 all families in New Mexico will be eligible for universal, no-cost child care.
"I see the positive impact our child care programs have on children, including lifelong benefits," writes New Mexico child care teacher Rita Bee:
"I see the positive impact our child care programs have on children, including lifelong benefits," writes New Mexico child care teacher Rita Bee:
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Think of it this way: the drug war acts like a “price support” for traffickers. Cartels are the last people who want the war to end. We will never make drugs disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Stop amplifying the motivational feedback loop of the people you’re trying to stop.
Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
Blowing Up Fishing Boats Won’t Win the Drug War - OtherWords
There’s a reason we don’t want drug warriors playing judge, jury, and executioner.
otherwords.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Think of it this way: the drug war acts like a “price support” for traffickers. Cartels are the last people who want the war to end. We will never make drugs disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Stop amplifying the motivational feedback loop of the people you’re trying to stop.
NEW: A federal program was set to invest $42.5 billion in expanding rural fiber broadband access. Then, Trump changed the focus to satellite and fixed service that puts billionaires' profits over reliable internet access.
@cwaunion.bsky.social president Claude Cummings:
@cwaunion.bsky.social president Claude Cummings:
Rural America Deserves Dependable Broadband, Not More Billionaire Handouts - OtherWords
The Trump administration’s new rules for broadband funds favor giveaways to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk over reliable internet for rural communities.
otherwords.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NEW: A federal program was set to invest $42.5 billion in expanding rural fiber broadband access. Then, Trump changed the focus to satellite and fixed service that puts billionaires' profits over reliable internet access.
@cwaunion.bsky.social president Claude Cummings:
@cwaunion.bsky.social president Claude Cummings:
Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
Blowing Up Fishing Boats Won’t Win the Drug War - OtherWords
There’s a reason we don’t want drug warriors playing judge, jury, and executioner.
otherwords.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Most drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. But the higher the risk to the smuggler — like the risk of getting arrested, or blown up — the more they can charge.
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
In short, our policies are making trafficking more profitable, not less. @sanho.bsky.social:
NEW: As pet ownership grows more popular, billionaires and private equity firms are buying up an unprecedented share of pet services and hospitals. Today, the cost of veterinary care is 60% higher than a decade ago.
IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
www.thenation.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW: As pet ownership grows more popular, billionaires and private equity firms are buying up an unprecedented share of pet services and hospitals. Today, the cost of veterinary care is 60% higher than a decade ago.
IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:
CLIMATE WIN: In 2017, two companies tried to construct a colossal new radioactive waste dump in New Mexico.
After years of advocacy from @beyondnuclear.bsky.social and a broad coalition, including late IPS scholar Robert Alvarez, the plan has officially been terminated:
After years of advocacy from @beyondnuclear.bsky.social and a broad coalition, including late IPS scholar Robert Alvarez, the plan has officially been terminated:
Tireless advocacy delivers victory
New Mexico radioactive waste dump is cancelled
beyondnuclearinternational.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
CLIMATE WIN: In 2017, two companies tried to construct a colossal new radioactive waste dump in New Mexico.
After years of advocacy from @beyondnuclear.bsky.social and a broad coalition, including late IPS scholar Robert Alvarez, the plan has officially been terminated:
After years of advocacy from @beyondnuclear.bsky.social and a broad coalition, including late IPS scholar Robert Alvarez, the plan has officially been terminated:
SNAP has been proven highly effective at reducing hunger — *and* it improves school performance, social skills, and overall health.
When a program works this well, we should expand it. Instead, the Trump admin is cutting it for 1 in 5 kids in the country.
When a program works this well, we should expand it. Instead, the Trump admin is cutting it for 1 in 5 kids in the country.
Stop Trump’s SNAP Coverup - OtherWords
The administration isn’t just cutting food benefits for hungry kids. It’s cancelling federal research into who’s even hungry.
otherwords.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
SNAP has been proven highly effective at reducing hunger — *and* it improves school performance, social skills, and overall health.
When a program works this well, we should expand it. Instead, the Trump admin is cutting it for 1 in 5 kids in the country.
When a program works this well, we should expand it. Instead, the Trump admin is cutting it for 1 in 5 kids in the country.