The weight
Happy Hour: Etta James – Stormy Weather
Panhandle Slim … Art for Folk…
The plan
None of these states got this crazy by accident:
For over a year, I’ve been researching how SC became a battleground state in the conservative campaign against truth-based education (aka CRT)
It ballooned into a 4-part series detailing the history, people & politics involved in this fight
Part 1https://t.co/qGyZ8n6oSu
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) May 16, 2023
So sad. So avoidable.
💔MEMPHIS: “A family is mourning the loss of a 9yo girl after the child’s 7yo brother shot and killed his sister while playing with a gun on Mother’s Day… James Bowen Jr. (53) charged with negligent homicide, child neglect, felon in possession of a gun.” https://t.co/jRvu1CBhfg pic.twitter.com/1nORnmf8vc
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) May 16, 2023
Defeating Evil
"The level of solidarity among all the entertainment unions has never been stronger. Three striking writers didn't have the power to disrupt that production, but 60 supportive IATSE crew members honoring our picket certainly did."#WGAStrong #WGAStrikehttps://t.co/lvDOvaLlep
— Writers Guild of America East (@WGAEast) May 16, 2023
Line in the sand
NEW: Sen. Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he “cannot in good conscience support a debt ceiling proposal that pushes people into poverty”
Clear threat to vote against WH-McCarthy agreement if it includes work requirements that function as benefit cuts
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 16, 2023
The same three companies own the country
Comcast will likely sell Hulu stake to Disney at the beginning of 2024, CEO Roberts says https://t.co/sLQ58vzMmz
— CNBC (@CNBC) May 16, 2023
Biden’s gonna fold, isn’t he?
1. Unspecified across-the-board cuts to nondefense discretionary spending, down by one-third on average in 2024, after inflation. The cuts would then expand to roughly 59%, on average, by 2033
Does this mean WIC? Border security? Pells? FBI? No one knows https://t.co/vwiWOb1IGZ— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2023
2. Defund the tax police – make it harder for IRS to collect taxes legally owed by wealthy/corporate tax cheats, and set back the agency’s other IT upgrades.
(Would also increase deficits) https://t.co/DXeyUIweFe— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2023
3. Medicaid work requirements – which sound nice, but are a solution in search of a problem. See Arkansas’s disastrous experiment, which did not boost employment but did cause a lot of poor working people to lose their healthcare. https://t.co/G3SFXEvfKh
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2023
4. Provision to grind entire regulatory system to a halt, by requiring Congress’s approval for all major regs. That includes deregulatory action too btw
Congress can barely do the things it’s responsible for now. Like, say, paying our existing billshttps://t.co/biSBM4JgEX— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2023
Here’s a separate thread on what happens if Republicans don’t get their way, and instead force a default. https://t.co/KlxWoiCcmD
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2023