I'm writing a book. After years of reporting, I realized we've come to expect too much from policy. CAPABLE is about how a well-intentioned distrust of agency has gone too far—sapping our prospects for structural change, and undermining well-being in the process.

RT @dylanmatt: Probably the worst law enacted in my lifetime. Cruel, fiscally disastrous, harmful to economic growth. Completely indefensi….

RT @CitizenCohn: @rcobooth @AJentleson And it’s not just clinics closing . It’s also clinics scaling back services, capacity and reach.

RT @MattZeitlin: single stair reform . chi osse 🤝 @rcobooth 🤝 ilana glazer

RT @dorajfacundo: One of the four largest Catholic health systems, Trinity Health, already loses $500 million/year covering Medicaid patien….

the warnings that Medicaid cuts will lead to hospitals and health clinics closing across the country and especially in rural areas is not hyperbole or hysteria. it's basic math.

this seems like a big deal to say as the CEO of Bumble

RT @allenanalysis: 🚨 NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has officially detailed the torture he endured inside El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison. In a….

RT @MattZeitlin: i can't emphasize enough how much elected officials are reading the same posts you are and forming their ideas about the w….

the states that would be hit hardest by Congress defunding Planned Parenthood are states like California, Oregon, Washington and Illinois. 90 percent of the PP clinics at risk of closing are in states where abortion is legal.

RT @anniekarni:

just awful and stupid stuff.

over 50 biotech CEOs and investors sent a public letter to the FDA urging the agency to reject political interference in its review of mifepristone. their letter challenges the recent @EPPCdc report, saying it would compromise drug development, discovery and delivery.

I wrote about the report and the "Rolling Thunder" campaign to take mifepristone off the market here.

full letter:

"The bill’s cuts to, and imposition of new work requirements upon safety net programs, such as Medicaid and SNAP, suggest the authors do not take the risk of automation-caused job loss at all seriously.". @dylanmatt's writeup of BBB is well worth your time.

between 1976 to 1979, per Freddie Mac, construction of entry-level, single-family houses averaged 418,000 a year, or more than a third of all new homes built. In the 2010s, it was 55,000 starter homes on average per year.

RT @ArthurDelaneyHP: the Senate-passed version of the Big Beautiful Bill has a wacky SNAP cut provision, rewritten to win over Lisa Murkows….

I wrote about these clarification bills, and why we're seeing them come from lawmakers who insist their bans need no clarification.