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100K+ people will die from preventable deaths when millions lose their health insurance. Hard to see how that is immaterial.

The bottom 80% will be poorer as a result of OBBA + tariffs. Grateful to @jacobbogage for this great visualization of our latest @The_Budget_Lab analysis.

I was just informed that the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), of which I was a member, was terminated abruptly and all upcoming meetings are also canceled. This was a committee that has been around since at least 2000. We were a group of experts from

1/ Good news! I'll be joining the @SFBART board this December, representing San Francisco Bay Area D3 residents (If you live closest to the Berkeley, El Cerrito or Richmond stations, that means you!) 🧵 Here's the story of my last year, and what my priorities will be…

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Trump and Biden should do a joint presser in coming days. Unite the country, remind people this is an election not a war, call for civility. Would be politically good for both of them, would be existentially necessary for the country. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

Domestic abusers cannot own guns, US Supreme Court rules

The UAE arming of the most brutal and most genocidal faction in Sudan is unconscionable, so good to see this effort by @SaraJacobsCA.

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So the solution to poverty has always been sharing the wealth...proud to work at @communitychange where we get this. @LPeraltaSchulte @SSNScholars @ForgeOrganizing @RevDrBarber @RadhaSeshagiri @afsc_org

In India the world’s biggest electorate has just shown how democracy can rebuke out-of-touch elites, limit the concentration of power and change a country’s destiny https://t.co/SSy6kPDLg7

When you’re as good as @CFPB is at doing its job to protect consumers, you can expect that giant banks, payday lenders, and Republican politicians will come after it and try to shut it down. But yesterday, the Supreme Court followed the law, and the @CFPB is here to stay!

A huge victory 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Congrats @SophieHahnBerk

Honored to have been a part of the years long effort to save the West Berkeley Shellmound and return it to the Ohlone people. Check out the Sacred Land Film Project's short film for a special preview of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust's vision for the land:

@rsgexp God bless you and yours. You have been important to so many people. Me included.

It’s Tax Day and it has me thinking about the Child Tax Credit…..If we know that there’s a policy that could address child poverty in our country, why wouldn’t we pass that policy? #ChildTaxCreditforUS

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Yellen says she hopes that at some point the IRS can use information from W-2s, etc, to prepopulate returns in a future version of Direct File. No decisions about next year and beyond, but Yellen definitely signaling expansion of this year's government-run free tax filing pilot.