Bobby Kogan

Two starter packs from me! First, for the very few of you who care about it, a budget and tax starter pack! Please let me know if you should be on this and I missed you! go.bsky.app/N6Nukd7

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖

Shitposting aside, it cannot be overstated how much red tape Republicans added to the process of getting Medicaid and SNAP. Millions of people who literally qualify for these programs are being kicked off them, despite qualifying, because of all the red tape Grassley voted to add to them.

Unfortunately Republicans hv been even harder @ work raising costs+ making life harder for Americans They hv already increased gas prices and imposed tariffs and cut Medicaid and SNAP Grassley helped each step along the way

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

I really recommend all people who care about hunger in American follow Katie. She's the first person I go to when I have questions and want to make sure I'm understanding things right.

Surprising that the president who tried to end American democracy and stay in power even though he lost is queuing up additional ways to try to end democracy in America

Great graph here 😏

We used to have a federal survey that measured hunger in America, but the Trump administration stopped conducting the survey right after the bill that cut food assistance was passed.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

If you have student loans, your monthly bill might be about to spike—all thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

The 'Big Beautiful Bill' transformed student loans in ways that raise costs and eliminate protections for student loan borrowers. Read my latest on this: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Bookmark this for every time they say “we have no problem with legal immigration, we’re just trying to stop illegal immigration.”

The biggest difficulty for Trump and Republicans here is that the first three steps for improving people’s living conditions all involve undoing what they’ve done. 1) Undo the health care and food assistance cuts 2) End the tariffs 3) Go back in time and never start the Iran war

I really think the campaign trial is the best chance we have to explain to voters that the worst hasn't begun yet.

Really really clear from this graph 1) when Trump imposed tariffs, and 2) when Trump started the Iran war.

You know,,,, it’s starting to sound like the president, who ran on and won because of a very real anger at people struggling to afford a comfortable life, then decided to pull every lever he possibly could to make the situation worse

Still can't believe that Trump and Republicans enacted a law that made the poor poorer while making the rich richer. Taken as a whole, the Big Beautiful Bill was the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in all of US history.

Perverting the power of the state into a tool for targeted political attacks is an assault on democracy itself. Shattering our institutions harms every Conservative American and every Liberal American.

Americans’ inflation-adjusted pay is back down to where it was when Trump took office. Legislatively, he kicked millions off their health insurance & took food assistance away from millions, including over a million kids. But the only thing he’s truly focused on is building a ballroom for himself.

Impoverished children have no recourse if their food assistance gets stolen because the richest man on earth used his power and influence to kill a bill that would have helped them.

Really cool graph from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social on the bad site. Gen Z is the wealthiest generation in history controlling for age. Millennials are now finally wealthier than previous generations were at the same age. We are a very rich country. The problem always is bad distribution of wealth.

The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.

Genuinely wow. Insane list here. Dozens of pages of open problems, partially or fully solved.

#JobsDay numbers came in well below expectations (+29k jobs). Revisions reversed the narrative of a strong end-of-summer hiring boom (-60k fewer than reported). Trump's economy fails to deliver jobs for Americans as job growth slows, unemployment increases (4.2%), and inflation outpaces wages

Great piece from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social on Russ Vought’s most recent illegal budgetary action with some quotes from me and others.

"Knock, knock" "Who's there?" "Deez" *rolling eyes, sighing* "Deez who?" "Deez are the voyages of the starship Enterprise"

New annual PCE data today! Here's spending on alcohol for consumption at home (as opposed to a bar or something). It's adjusted for both inflation specific to alcohol and population growth. Easy to see the COVID jump.

New annual PCE data today! Here's spending on movie tickets, adjusted for inflation and population growth. Post-COVID, people just go to the movies way less.

New PCE data today! Here's total household spending on tobacco in the US, adjusted for inflation and population growth in billions of 2025 dollars.