David Dayen

Executive editor, @TheProspect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Organized Money podcast, Tips/pitches: ddayen at prospect dot org.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

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[David Dayen @ddayen]

This is hilarious, Bains is going to lose the primary and the DCCC is pretending it won't happen. It could be called as soon as today.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

as recently as yesterday the DCCC was still touting its support for Bains in fundraising emails

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The utility already struggles with a broken billing system that charged one customer $10,521.42 for power to a home she already sold.
Great story from @jamesjbaratta.
https://t.co/z0BAZQRy1Q

[David Dayen @ddayen]

BlackRock is poised to buy a major power utility in Indiana.
The law firm representing the utility gave $25k to Indiana Gov Mike Braun, who then appointed the head of the commission presiding over the case.
https://t.co/z0BAZQRy1Q

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Crazy story from @moetkacik.
https://t.co/9ZLDrr5X2R

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Here's the sad but true story of Debbie Wasserman Schultz bigfooting into a historically Black district after FL redistricting & avoiding the swing seat she lives in, even though the leading Republican there is a crypto bro with many lawsuits against him
https://t.co/9ZLDrr5X2R

[James Baratta @jamesjbaratta]

An excellent read that I can’t recommend enough

[moe tkacik @moetkacik]

wrote about the time the New York Times killed a story about a girl impregnated by the Meir Kahane, the terrorist idol & spiritual leader of Smotrich, Ben-Gvir & modern Israel

[David Dayen @ddayen]

This failed 49-50. Three Republicans joined the Dems to vote for it, but one Dem didn't vote, eliminating the opportunity to put JD Vance firmly on the record supporting keeping the slush fund alive.
I mean is there a more Dem thing

[Senate Budget Democrats @SenateBudget]

.@SenSchumer moves to prohibit any federal funding from being used for Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The only way to make health care affordable is to reduce what makes care expensive: middlemen, admin costs, and leverage.
https://t.co/iGeUfqEenz

[David Dayen @ddayen]

High-deductible health insurance can be "affordable," if you never, ever use the coverage.
This is a great corrective from Thom Walsh, a health care regulator in Vermont.
https://t.co/iGeUfqEenz

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Good report by @jamesjbaratta.
https://t.co/w7TK1Wn4sj

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Democrats were on their way to give in on extending warrantless spying, until bill Pulte was picked for Director of National Intelligence. Now Dems must answer for handing over surveillance authority to a brazen partisan actor.
https://t.co/w7TK1Wn4sj

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The resource curse is looming in Guyana, where the public sees little from the tremendous wealth creation by oil and gas interests. Great story from the ground, check it out.
https://t.co/ChXRB5cB2P

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is leading the oil and gas industry to the ends of the earth to find product they can extract and ship. One such place is Guyana, where our writing fellow @NaomiBethune has family and visited recently.
https://t.co/ChXRB5cB2P

[David Dayen @ddayen]

From Chain of Title:

[Zachary D. Carter @zachdcarter]

My favorite Scott Pelley piece is this gem from 2011 on the foreclosure fraud crisis of 2006 - 2014ish (@ddayen gets final say on the official timeline) https://t.co/LtSJCxpscA

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The ruling against the slush fund turned out to be a gift to Senate Republicans, giving them just enough leeway to agree to unstick the bill funding ICE/CBP for 3 years.
https://t.co/pWTdl9Hk2A

[David Dayen @ddayen]

We've bought time (and subsidized oil consumption) by tapping into reserves and artificially keeping down oil futures through constant promises of a deal around the corner. Time's run out on this.
https://t.co/pawf7m2msG

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Great piece from Ryan Cooper about why we haven't seen real consequences of the Strait of Hormuz closure in the form of shortages, and why stopgap measures cannot hold back the reckoning much longer.
https://t.co/pawf7m2msG

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The House will now look like the Senate, where Black representation actually worsens as the Black share of a state’s population grows.
This evidence should inform movements to address this collapse in full representation of all Americans. https://t.co/mFilBzmVfE

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Here is the empirical case against Callais. We studied 20 years of congressional votes and half a million survey responses, and found that in the South, Black representation in the House relies on a near-majority of Black voters in a district.
https://t.co/mFilBzmVfE