MM de Silva
@mmdesilva.bsky.social
Communicator w/ @rooseveltinstitute.org, @rooseveltforward.org
(She/Her/Hers)
"All models are wrong, some are useful." - G. Box
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"All models are wrong, some are useful." - G. Box
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Find someone who looks at you like -
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Find someone who looks at you like -
‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
In the wise words of Liz Lemon: If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Lawrence Summers Has Come Back From Scandals. Will This Be His Last?
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In the wise words of Liz Lemon: If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Someone else here said it best - this is the gig economy gestapo
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Someone else here said it best - this is the gig economy gestapo
People over profits.
This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
People over profits.
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Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
PE ruins another workplace.
Really hard to think of anyone doing granular econ reporting as well as @lydiadepillis.bsky.social rn!
This is a fantastic dive into how Private Equity is trying to cash in on the remodeling industry & (frequently) going bust on that bet
This is a fantastic dive into how Private Equity is trying to cash in on the remodeling industry & (frequently) going bust on that bet
How Private Equity’s Vision for a Roofing Conglomerate Went Bust
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
PE ruins another workplace.
hmmm I wonder what big shift in civil rights happened to impact women of childbearing age in the last 8 years? What could it be?!
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
hmmm I wonder what big shift in civil rights happened to impact women of childbearing age in the last 8 years? What could it be?!
So DHS legitimately just felt like it should terrorize poor and brown people. Got it.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So DHS legitimately just felt like it should terrorize poor and brown people. Got it.
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Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Did tampons in bathrooms ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
Did that cute girl from HR with the skirts ruin the workplace
Did the fact I can’t call ladies “toots” ruin the workplace
Did women stopping wearing pantyhose ruin the workplace
Did that harpie who told me I can’t snap bras anymore ruin the workplace
BOULDER!
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
BOULDER!
THIS is how you "give 'em hell."
S/o to Regan, inspired to participate more.
S/o to Regan, inspired to participate more.
also I want to shout out Harry Reid alum Regan Lachapelle, a person I first met in DC 16 years ago, who instead of trying to grift off Reid's name like Ad*m Jentle*son, is using her belief in government and democracy to encourage political participation of everyday people, many for the first time.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THIS is how you "give 'em hell."
S/o to Regan, inspired to participate more.
S/o to Regan, inspired to participate more.
You know who knows a metric ton about US immigration law? Immigrants.
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You know who knows a metric ton about US immigration law? Immigrants.
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ICE has reported 20 detainee deaths in custody since Trump took office — the most in a single year in decades — reports Politico.
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
ICE has reported 20 detainee deaths in custody since Trump took office — the most in a single year in decades — reports Politico.
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If we don’t have a king we have no paychecks? Sounds like we’re being ruled by a king.
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If we don’t have a king we have no paychecks? Sounds like we’re being ruled by a king.
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A new SCOTUS term begins today. What fresh hell awaits our flailing democracy this time around?🧵
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A new SCOTUS term begins today. What fresh hell awaits our flailing democracy this time around?🧵
Throw out the whole party, start over, rebrand.
I know what the GOP has done against my interests. I'm not sure what the Dems have in my interest but call for "civility" while the rights of women and immigrants are eroded.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know what the GOP has done against my interests. I'm not sure what the Dems have in my interest but call for "civility" while the rights of women and immigrants are eroded.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party | Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara
Voters support progressive economic populism, our survey shows. They just don’t trust Democrats to deliver it
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Throw out the whole party, start over, rebrand.
I know what the GOP has done against my interests. I'm not sure what the Dems have in my interest but call for "civility" while the rights of women and immigrants are eroded.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know what the GOP has done against my interests. I'm not sure what the Dems have in my interest but call for "civility" while the rights of women and immigrants are eroded.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The whole piece here: newrepublic.com/article/2014...
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The whole piece here: newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Necessary 🔥from @meredithshiner.com. Dems can't keep participating and funding a fundamentally lawless government.
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Necessary 🔥from @meredithshiner.com. Dems can't keep participating and funding a fundamentally lawless government.
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you guys I think I might have just filed my most scathing essay yet
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
👀
physically sick, we used to think the worst case scenario was deportation to where someone came from. Now we know there is worse.
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
physically sick, we used to think the worst case scenario was deportation to where someone came from. Now we know there is worse.
So...unfettered markets aren't working out for Argentina... huh.
Libertarian George Mason goon Tyler Cowen's headline on this, "Not the best news from Argentina," is priceless
www.ft.com/content/731a...
www.ft.com/content/731a...
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei
Scott Bessent says ‘all options’ are on the table to support the country through period of market volatility
feeds.feedblitz.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
So...unfettered markets aren't working out for Argentina... huh.
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Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...