#Federal

People are contacting me for hot takes on Vilsack & land reform bills.IDK who needs to hear this but ag policy & the USDA are not agents of change. That's
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Today, the #JPMCInstitute released a new insight documenting the impact of supplemental UI benefits on job finding, spending, and saving of jobless workers btwn April-July 2020. We find little evidence
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As the climate warms and extreme weather events get more frequent & severe, workers are being exposed to increasingly dangerous heat, diseases, challenges to their mental health, and more. Our
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I have been allowed inside. Other reporters have not. Fix this ASAP, Southern District of Texas!!https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1323307786617368578 Harris County is presenting its case: That drive thru voting is legal, was approved
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Hypothesis: late-modernist progressivish neoliberalism a la Obama is actually the best philosophy of governance possible today. Anything better for the population will be rejected, anything more popular will be worse.
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Genuinely uncertain about correct takeaways here (and transitively, confused at people being really confident about the correct takeaways). Thread for putting relevant thoughts, facts and tweets. Category 1: Did Biden
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Is Mayor Lightfoot lying about Anjanette Young? [thread] The body cam footage from the Chicago Police Department’s raid on Anjanette Young’s apartment in February 2019 that CBS2 first aired last
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@RosieBarton @CBCNews today had the honor to advocate for #paidsickdays to Labor Minister @MonteMcNaughton. His response: federal 10 day benefit referring to CRSB which is not same as paid sick
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1/n: San Francisco #sffootgun roundup. (not The Onion)Resolution: all city meetings shall begin with an apology to the Ramaytush Ohlone tribe.Supervisors voted 7/11 in favor of cutting advertising with a
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Quick thread on the idea of 'corporate repentance':My thesis is that biblical repentance is a change of mind leading to a change in behavior. Therefore, we can only repent of
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I like and respect Mollie and Ben but I strongly disagree on this: Republican voters *thirst* for policy.The words every Republican officeholder needs to engrave on their office wall in
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On this day in 1861, delegates in Louisiana voted to secede from the United States. In New Orleans—the largest market for enslaved people before the Civil War—the independence was short-lived.
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Finally getting a chance to read Bellingcat's investigation into FSB's attempted assassination of Navalny.https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novi
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Mulling this article over this morning: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/business/economy/biden-democrats-economic-stimulus.html?smid=tw-share A thread ... Our economy is in trouble. Why? The virus has roared back. With COVID-19 cases aga
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KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s
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NEW Law enforcement has deep concerns about the inauguration. SecService is establishing a parameter w 15K NG troops. Officials are preparing for a worst case scenario of act. shooters. Extremists
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