“They unleashed an army of highly talented, skilled, and competent public servants that now have the motivation and the time to fight back. They've tried to break our souls. They tried to break us down, but they're not going to take that fighting servant spirit. They're really not.”
1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran.
Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
A new study finds that a two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for care to be “affordable.”
Parents are routinely paying more on childcare in a given month than they do on rent.
When that’s the benchmark, there’s no denying that our childcare market is broken.
Private equity was behind a majority of 2025’s largest bankruptcies, according to a new report.
PE firms had a hand in 54% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies last year, per @pestakeholder.bsky.social.
These were cases involving $1 billion or more in liabilities at the time of filing.
DHS assault survivor Aliya Rahman, a disabled Minneapolis resident and guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar, was dragged out of the State of the Union gallery, arrested, and jailed for hours after silently standing in protest, saying, “I was arrested for standing up.”
For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
“I’m playing Risk with Monopoly pieces” should be on his tombstone.
The president complained to the men's Hockey team that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House
"When I checked out I asked the cashier how long she’d been working there. Veinte años. A history perhaps not quite as long nor as significant as the Library of Alexandria’s. And yet this was a valued community space that is now lost—not to an accidental fire but to intentional corporate greed."
And now the second test. Which companies will bring prices back down now that the tariffs are gone?
📢 You ever see a story about private equity (PE) destroying a cherished business and wonder what could be done to stop this?
Today, we’ve got a new report on child care modeling how local advocates & govs can prevent PE profiting at the expense of families and communities 🧵
Check out the full report (and Playbook!) to find additional ideas, case studies, and resources for building a child care industry centered on the wellbeing of children, families, workers, and communities rather than the financial interests of Wall Street investors
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Step 4: Ensure corporate accountability to the public good by building countervailing power through:
💡Stakeholder advocacy organizations
💡Small business organizing
💡Worker organizing
💡Industry committees
e.g. Parent Voices CA is calling out deteriorating care quality at PE-owned programs
Step 3: Equitably increase child care supply by helping diverse providers to thrive
💡Increase funding from state govs, CDFIs, employers
💡Support shared-service alliances
💡Explore public centers, real estate, & tech assistance
e.g. NM's created a public trust fund for child care
Step 2: Protect fair and competitive markets so that PE can’t abuse their market power
💡Increase transparency and public market oversight
💡Restrict corporate consolidation
💡Enforce state fair market rules
e.g. Colorado used state antitrust laws to break up an PE-owned anesthesiology monopoly
Step 1: Strengthen guardrails to prevent PE from cutting costs & harming kids and workers
💡Protect staff levels, wages & part-time staff
💡Set conditions & disclosures on public $
💡Help providers meet standards
e.g. NJ Abbott Districts set clear operating standards for private providers to get $
📢 You ever see a story about private equity (PE) destroying a cherished business and wonder what could be done to stop this?
Today, we’ve got a new report on child care modeling how local advocates & govs can prevent PE profiting at the expense of families and communities 🧵
Although this Playbook focuses on child care, many of the strategies included are ones that local advocates & policymakers can use to push back against private equity in other industries where they are causing harms, from hospitals to housing.
TLDR: The power to rein in PE lies with the states!
3️⃣ You can also find Case Studies about recent campaigns to confront private equity in child care in New Mexico, Massachusetts, Colorado, & Vermont
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4️⃣ Campaign Materials, like talking points, a campaign roadmap, & a training deck
2️⃣ The Playbook also includes Model Legislation on topics like:
- Increasing transparency about PE in child care
- Placing guardrails on public funding contracts
- Ensuring compliance
- Increasing reporting about child care markets
www.communitychange.org//wp-content/...
This new paper builds on our 2024 “Children Before Profits” Report, which explored the tactics that private equity uses in child care markets, and the risks these pose to efforts to provide child care as a public good.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
1️⃣ First up in the Playbook is my new “Children Before Profits in the States” Report that describes policy strategies for increasing:
- protections for families & workers
- market fairness & competition
- child care supply
- corporate accountability to the public
(More details coming in my next 🧵)
As more state & local govs step in to increase $$$ for child care, it is critical that build strong guardrails to ensure that this money goes towards increasing families’ access to affordable, high-quality care rather than towards lining the pockets of Wall St investors
🎉 Announcing the release of the Children Before Profits State Playbook!
This toolkit from Community Change, @openmarkets.bsky.social @nwlc.org & @ourfinancialsecurity.org is for state & local advocates working to protect child care from private equity
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
will lewis:
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See:
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