Dan Taylor

Industrial policy, organizing and shenanigans.

Tweets are my own.

[Dan Taylor @DanTbobMan]

Cool

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?

Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Brutal economic report for Team Trump

Inflation has surged to 4.2%

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Rollins literally asked "where are all the sterile flies?" on national television.

DOGE cut the USDA screwworm monitoring program. DOGE cut USAID's border parasite prevention program. Both happened after she was sworn in.

The sterile flies were in the budget she let get gutted. That's where they went

[Mike Konczal @mtkonczal]

And with this bruiser of an inflation report, there's been no real wage gains for all employees under President Trump. It's zero.

For production and nonsupervisory workers, wages are back down to February 2025 levels, with the Iran War erasing around 15 months of previous gains.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: U.S. inflation surged to a 4.2% annual rate in May, as higher energy prices put more pressure on the economy. https://t.co/f5ZEMpwzRy

[Dan Taylor @DanTbobMan]

Is this in partnership with the building trades, or some kind of scab program?

[Engineering at Meta @Meta_Engineers]

Today we're announcing America's Workforce Academy (AWA), the largest private-sector commitment to the skilled trades in American history, beginning with a $115 million commitment in the first year alone.

This cost-free program supports all participants while they learn and then guarantees a job for all graduates in high-demand fields such as electrical work, mechanical systems and plumbing. Every graduate will be guaranteed a job on a Meta construction site.

Learn more: https://t.co/xaTR2MFudD

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump just posted this:

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://t.co/NZuFGFdFhy

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It's a journey. I've made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with and that I continue to learn from. And I'm still far from perfect. But every day I wake up and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was before.

And if you give me the chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Susan Collins is being asked to respond to a smears against platner while she gladly voted for kavanauh despite all the allegations made against him. The media bias is a actually nauseating

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Maybe she owes Maine an answer for dating a married man whose wife had cancer, if Senate seats are now about someone’s dating history

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Knicks fans and New York City, not billionaire owner James Dolan, built the team into the cultural and financial juggernaut it is today.

The people of New York should own the Knicks: https://t.co/aJJaONHH0k

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Charlamagne tha God on Trump: “For once can this guy give working class people a break? His policies have already stifled job growth, raised the cost of basic goods through tariffs, weakened labor rights to favor corporations and other rich people like himself, gas prices are through the roof. Guys like James Dolan and Donald Trump hate us. The working class people who make them rich. When Donald Trump says things like he’s not thinking about Americans’ finances not even a little bit, this is what he means”

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

JUST IN: Trump’s overall approving rating hits 27%.

The lowest for any president since Richard Nixon the week he resigned.

[Dan Taylor @DanTbobMan]

@RoKhanna Of course Pratt lost. He was unpopular candidate in a city where Republicans are very unpopular in general.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports' greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back.

The solution? Yes, that's right: public ownership of the Knicks. https://t.co/PiHbQrw7vH

[danny @dabbs346]

Update?

[Dan Taylor @DanTbobMan]

For the love of God, please don't fuck up game 4 too.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Trump goes to the Knicks game, gets booed, falls asleep on camera and Knicks lose for the first time in more than a month.

The guy just can’t stop winning.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

They cancelled the watch party and screwed over all of the bars and businesses in the area just so he could get booed fall asleep in a luxury box.