consumer law, antitrust, admin law. Trucks and farms w/@antimonopolyUS, SNAP/Medicaid policy elsewhere. Past: @CFPB @HouseJudiciary @ACLU. DIY philly guy
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2025 Abundance: Fields of solar panels, vertical farms and ozempic from space
2026 Abundance: Pipelines, Buc-ee’s, and spanking your kids
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Yep.
Massive electoral overpeformers like James Talarico ran as far away from Bernie’s message as possible — lambasting a rigged economic system that makes it impossible for working people to get by, calling out the greed of billionaires and advocating raising their taxes, focusing on a top-versus-bottom vs. left-versus-right division, raising the minimum wage, getting big money out of politics…
HEY WAIT A MINUTE
If the election was a test of whether Americans like Sanders’s message more or less than the standard Democratic message, the answer was clear: They like it less. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Jensen Huang Was a Busy, Horny Little Bee: Report gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-was…
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In January, there will be *seven* Black U.S. senators:
There have only ever been 14 elected or appointed Black senators in U.S. history
Alsobrooks
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Colom
Scott
Stratton
Warnock
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Breaking News: A three-story building partially collapsed in Brooklyn, killing one and trapping others inside, the police said. nyti.ms/4ewvWIr
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Major U.S. airlines are facing class action price-fixing lawsuits following @Capitol_Forum reporting that the industry's information exchange could raise antitrust concerns.
The recap in this week's tech newsletter:
Tech/Media/Telecom Weekly: U.S. Airlines Face New Price Fixing Allegations; FCC's Carr Could Be in Democrats' Crosshairs; State AGs Advocate for Kids Online Safety Act; PTC Shareholders at Risk in Schneider Deal; California Pushes for Cutting Edge Privacy Regulations
library.thecapitolforum.com/…
h/t @SaraMorrison, @brockhrehor, @EthanEhrenhaft, & @NeilTracey79369
$AAL $AAPL $ADSK $ALK $AMZN $AVGO $DAL $GOOG $GOOGL $INTC $JBLU $LUV $META $MSFT $PSKY $PTC $SBGSF $SBGSY $SU $TSM
I’m sure @hakeemjeffries will blame Team Gentrification for this one
More Dem disarray: Veterans bill they were whipping against passed on voice vote after Dems failed to call for a roll call vote
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New: @RepAOC speaks on the permitting reform bill, appears to agree with @JaredHuffman on waiting.
"As soon as we're looking at two Democratic chambers in the House and the Senate that can negotiate much more favorable conditions, now Republicans want to move this," she told me.
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What do we want? Slightly lower power bills!
When do we want it? In 2040!
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“It’s hard to put that genie back in The Bible” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard
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Do you agree? We need to show that this agenda has strong support. Sign our petition at ayannapressley.com/agenda
ALT Our Democratic majority should: Advance Medicare for All Expand abortion rights Stop data centers Abolish ICE AyannaPressley.com/Agenda
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Warren, in a speech this morning at the Popular Mandate conference, urged Dems to go big next year and dare Trump to veto:
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Nearly all the people who are falsely calling #BAAJA an “affordability” bill want to increase natural gas supply to power data centers.
This is simply a fact — they’re not even embarrassed about it!
But meanwhile…
There’s a lot this admin could have done on affordability if it were committed to a functioning CFPB—for example, it could functionally abolish stop-payment fees. It seems small but this would be a powerful weapon against dark-pattern subscriptions by cutting off auto-payments
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Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself.
This doesn’t make us safer, see why ⬇️
