Cameron Miculka
@miculka.bsky.social
Formerly reporting at Pacific Daily News and West Hawaii Today
Currently in Glasgow, Scotland
Currently in Glasgow, Scotland
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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📢 Today we publish analysis warning that without urgent investment, over 210,000 Scottish children (22%) will be trapped in poverty by 2030
🏟️ That’s enough children to fill Murrayfield Stadium x 3 - and double the legal target
Read the briefing 👇
www.ippr.org/articles/ach...
🏟️ That’s enough children to fill Murrayfield Stadium x 3 - and double the legal target
Read the briefing 👇
www.ippr.org/articles/ach...
March 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
📢 Today we publish analysis warning that without urgent investment, over 210,000 Scottish children (22%) will be trapped in poverty by 2030
🏟️ That’s enough children to fill Murrayfield Stadium x 3 - and double the legal target
Read the briefing 👇
www.ippr.org/articles/ach...
🏟️ That’s enough children to fill Murrayfield Stadium x 3 - and double the legal target
Read the briefing 👇
www.ippr.org/articles/ach...
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Would be great if journalists stopped using insider phrases like "third rail" and the same kind of smug detached irony ("Perhaps Elon Musk wasn't paying attention" 😏) that prioritize seeming clever over actually cluing readers into what's happening.
“The events of 2005 cemented Social Security’s reputation as the ‘third rail of American politics.’ For the next two decades, Republicans didn’t touch it. Perhaps Elon Musk wasn’t paying attention,” Russell Berman writes:
Musk Comes for the ‘Third Rail of American Politics’
Donald Trump promised to protect social security. Elon Musk didn’t.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Would be great if journalists stopped using insider phrases like "third rail" and the same kind of smug detached irony ("Perhaps Elon Musk wasn't paying attention" 😏) that prioritize seeming clever over actually cluing readers into what's happening.
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A single eviction filing—even one that doesn't result in an eviction—can negatively impact renters for years. With mounting evidence of the devastating consequences of this practice, it's time for our lawmakers to create a records sealing policy to protect renters.
hiappleseed.org/blog/impleme...
hiappleseed.org/blog/impleme...
Implement strong eviction record sealing processes to protect Hawaii renters — Hawaiʻi Appleseed
A single eviction filing—even one that doesn't result in actual eviction—can negatively impact renters for years. It's time for lawmakers to take decisive action to protect vulnerable tenants.
hiappleseed.org
March 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A single eviction filing—even one that doesn't result in an eviction—can negatively impact renters for years. With mounting evidence of the devastating consequences of this practice, it's time for our lawmakers to create a records sealing policy to protect renters.
hiappleseed.org/blog/impleme...
hiappleseed.org/blog/impleme...
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/6 It’s not clear to me why the “no due process for criminals” people aspire to be American. It seems if you have that blind faith that the state will do the right thing you’d be better off in some totalitarian society where the state dictates every aspect of your life, for the common good.
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
/6 It’s not clear to me why the “no due process for criminals” people aspire to be American. It seems if you have that blind faith that the state will do the right thing you’d be better off in some totalitarian society where the state dictates every aspect of your life, for the common good.
I've been (re)reading Olson's Abolition of White Democracy, which also shows how this strategy has been used time and again throughout American history for similar aims.
March 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I've been (re)reading Olson's Abolition of White Democracy, which also shows how this strategy has been used time and again throughout American history for similar aims.
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New analysis says ~2/3 of unpaid taxes come from the top 10% of households, w/ 28% coming from the top 1%.
The GOP CR would cut $20.2 billion of IRS funding for catching rich tax cheats - because the GOP is laser-focused on helping the rich cheat on their taxes.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev...
The GOP CR would cut $20.2 billion of IRS funding for catching rich tax cheats - because the GOP is laser-focused on helping the rich cheat on their taxes.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev...
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New analysis says ~2/3 of unpaid taxes come from the top 10% of households, w/ 28% coming from the top 1%.
The GOP CR would cut $20.2 billion of IRS funding for catching rich tax cheats - because the GOP is laser-focused on helping the rich cheat on their taxes.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev...
The GOP CR would cut $20.2 billion of IRS funding for catching rich tax cheats - because the GOP is laser-focused on helping the rich cheat on their taxes.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev...
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There will be essentially no fair housing enforcement for the next four years, as befits a president who was sued early in his career for housing discrimination. From our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social:
prospect.org/infrastructu...
prospect.org/infrastructu...
Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Fair Housing Groups, Weakening Discrimination Protections
The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
prospect.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There will be essentially no fair housing enforcement for the next four years, as befits a president who was sued early in his career for housing discrimination. From our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social:
prospect.org/infrastructu...
prospect.org/infrastructu...
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In America, eventually, everything is monetized, even public services (e.g. health care). Social Security has avoided that fate.
By "politicized" he means that it is a popular and functional public program that people don't want to see cut or privatized. Plenty of proposed options to sustain it.
By "politicized" he means that it is a popular and functional public program that people don't want to see cut or privatized. Plenty of proposed options to sustain it.
March 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In America, eventually, everything is monetized, even public services (e.g. health care). Social Security has avoided that fate.
By "politicized" he means that it is a popular and functional public program that people don't want to see cut or privatized. Plenty of proposed options to sustain it.
By "politicized" he means that it is a popular and functional public program that people don't want to see cut or privatized. Plenty of proposed options to sustain it.
Always worth noting that the rationale for choosing "certain" immigrants inevitably descends into meaningless references to "shared" values and ahistorical just-so assertions dressed up as "plain facts".
March 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Always worth noting that the rationale for choosing "certain" immigrants inevitably descends into meaningless references to "shared" values and ahistorical just-so assertions dressed up as "plain facts".
It's authentic because you have to wait five hours before you get served.
www.mysanantonio.com/food/article...
www.mysanantonio.com/food/article...
BBQ favorite cooks up a taste of Texas for British flyers
British Airways is partnering with Franklin Barbecue in Austin to provide a taste of Texas to their loyal flyers in the sky.
www.mysanantonio.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's authentic because you have to wait five hours before you get served.
www.mysanantonio.com/food/article...
www.mysanantonio.com/food/article...
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If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
www.unpopularfront.news
March 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
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At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.
A Lagos community, destroyed in one day
At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats an...
www.npr.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.
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This is abt latest turn in the U.S. African Development Fdn story where Trump's purported appointee showed up this afternoon w US marshals and forced his way in. Story below. I'm curious what people know about the authority under which the marshals were even there. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Marshals Escort DOGE Team Into African Aid Agency
A day earlier, U.S. African Development Foundation workers had refused entry to Department of Government Efficiency workers and the State Department official in charge of foreign aid.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is abt latest turn in the U.S. African Development Fdn story where Trump's purported appointee showed up this afternoon w US marshals and forced his way in. Story below. I'm curious what people know about the authority under which the marshals were even there. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Very sad news to wake up to. Hard to see the end of such a hugely important site for the development of data journalism. Hope all the brilliant people affected are quickly picked up elsewhere.
man ABC completely blew it on this. absolute fumble. it feels like it's been the end of an era for most of an era but this is kind of devastating anyway.
March 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Very sad news to wake up to. Hard to see the end of such a hugely important site for the development of data journalism. Hope all the brilliant people affected are quickly picked up elsewhere.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed.
An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
NYT v. Sullivan: Will the Landmark Defamation Ruling Survive? (Gift Article)
New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed.
An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
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🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours
Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower
You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit
Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶
Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower
You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit
Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶
Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” Adjusted for Late-Stage Capitalism
In case you need help with the tune. - - -Come in on a Sunday? You’ve gotta be jokin’ Christmas bonus was a car wash token Startin’ to think our sy...
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours
Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower
You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit
Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶
Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower
You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit
Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶
Might write more about this at some point, but I think a lot about how the collapse of local news and spread of "thinky" web outlets has led to a class of pundits who quite frankly have no experience doing any kind of journalism that engages with what's happening without turning it into game theory.
i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions
seeing a lot of too-cool-for-it takes pointing out that the US has backed awful dictators before. it's certainly true that this country has blood on its hands, but this is another example of pundits treating trump like a literary foil instead of an actual president who is doing bad things.
March 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Might write more about this at some point, but I think a lot about how the collapse of local news and spread of "thinky" web outlets has led to a class of pundits who quite frankly have no experience doing any kind of journalism that engages with what's happening without turning it into game theory.