Benjamin Luehrs

Public policy, with an emphasis on the local, in the Americas.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Basically one of the only walkable, pedestrian-first Sun Belt cities is Disney World and there's a reason people love going there.

[Working Families Party 🐺 @WorkingFamilies]

the 4/20 content is not going to stop from us today btw

[Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer]

Ah. https://t.co/sEeWPVqptT

[Working Families Party 🐺 @WorkingFamilies]

hello happy 4/20. legalize weed, expunge all prior records, end the war on drugs.

[Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer]

I appreciate Lee making explicit here that he believes speech in America is too free because you are allowed to criticize rich Republicans and Supreme Court justices for their yearslong lucrative, undisclosed financial relationships and get away with it https://t.co/WFp1rC5OY3

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

But if you question this logic and believe defunding schools, libraries, & housing drives crime, you’re labeled an “extremist” or “far-left.”

It’s shouldn’t be considered “extreme” to prioritize funding schools, healthcare, housing, libraries. But perhaps in today’s world, it is

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Under the Republican estate tax legislation, the family of Warren Buffett would save up to $42 billion in estate taxes on his $106 billion fortune. His family would pay up to $26 billion more in taxes under my legislation.

[David Moore @ppolitics]

Closing the carried interest tax loophole could raise between $1.4 billion and $18 billion annually, per @RealBankReform.

Sen. Sinema's demand kept it out of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, and since then private equity execs have shown thanks:

https://t.co/vl7fzoLQpJ

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Have you been spending a lot of time and money filing your taxes? You’re not alone: the process takes Americans an average of 13 hours and $200. And here’s a big reason why—corporate greed:

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Lot going on here.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

A Nazi-curious billionaire who has spent two and a half decades pampering a Supreme Court Justice bought the house where the Justice’s mother lives from him, she remains a resident there on unknown terms, and they have kept the whole thing a secret.

[Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky) @JuliaCarmel__]

Four years ago, I had to terminate a pregnancy through a medication abortion here in NY. It was not a tough decision for me: I knew then, and know now, it was the right thing to do. I found out I was pregnant at *7 weeks*.

Many people don't even know they're pregnant at 6 weeks.

[David Moore @ppolitics]

Something to keep in mind for Tax Day: where do powerful lawmakers show up?

More than half of Senate Democrats showed up at the annual fundraiser by the top-spending D.C. lobbying firm, which lobbies for Intuit to keep tax filing difficult.

https://t.co/rg0Wefstzi

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

NEW:

Harlan Crow paid Thomas for property.

The law explicitly requires disclosure of property sales.

Thomas didn't disclose anything.

Here's Thomas' signature on the undisclosed deal.

https://t.co/zC7JGm1l10

By @JustinElliott @js_kaplan & @Amierjeski

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

9:16 pm last night. Our stalkers SWAT our home for the 27th time, 4th time that day. After 9 months of this and 3 previous calls THAT DAY, MPD officers prove they have learned nothing whatsoever and yet again lay siege to our home with assault rifles. 1/

[☆ ‧dreamboy··‧̩̥˟͙冬˟͙‧̩̥l @LilNasX]

to my gays fans from saudi arabia reading this, i hope this song is getting you through whatever you’re going through and i hope someday soon the laws against us change and you can be free in your own home.

[Benjamin Luehrs @bluehrs]

@ChuongIsHere @resnikoff Both and whatever we can get!

[Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer]

The bullshit discourse around free speech reaches its logical conclusion: the destruction of public facilities open to all because they may include books contrary to state-approved ideology https://t.co/HEpaqOXP1z

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Mifepristone is—and will remain—safe, legal, and available in Massachusetts. https://t.co/z63qP2Q9N6