Steven Hussain

CSR, Eco-Dev, all things policy nerd. Opinions are my own. RT doesn’t equal endorsement.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

I hope folks will think about the fact that @HaleyforMI demanded that @AbdulElSayed denounce as antisemitic an ad he was not associated with, but is now endorsing a man who called Abdul a terrorist. She is fine with bigotry and racism as long as its against the right people.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Wow. In unreleased Diary of a CEO interview, @JamesTalarico says “Ken Paxton is a child of god.”

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.

[Steven Hussain @steven_hussain]

@johnarnold is one of the best follows. The thread below outlines something that everybody in government/politics/policy knows but doesn't want to admit.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

A common political line is that America doesn't have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem. Maybe. But is there any viable pathway to materially cutting spending? I'll show there isn't. That leaves us with either a revenue problem or a debt/deficit problem. You choose.
1/n

[Brad Johnson @bradj_TX]

Also in @TXBullpen this morning: Abilene ISD testimony to State Affairs today states that the data center in Abilene will put the ISD into recapture for the first time ever: https://t.co/H8ImvHWktM
#txlege

[Steven Hussain @steven_hussain]

Nobody tell them about the commissaries on our military installations...

[@jason @Jason]

These folks have no idea how to run a business, have never run a business, and — wait for it — they put out an RFP to let entrepreneurs run their state sponsored grocery stores

So… the government is going to pay companies to discount groceries, which have a 1-2% profit margin

Amazing!!! 🍿

Can’t wait to see them use some insane DEI criteria to select the RFP winners and this entire experiment to devolve into chaos!

COSTCO ALREADY HAS ZERO PROFIT MARGIN GROCERIES — YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST NEGOTIATE BUYING ACCESS TO THEIR SELECTION FOR DISADVANTAGED NEW YORKERS!!!

[Sam Liccardo @sliccardo]

Ken Martin must resign.

As Democrats, we have become too captured by failing strategies. We must fail forward, and pivot. The urgency of this moment will not reward—and our children will not forgive—torpidity.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

“The weaker I am, the weaker all of you are.” Is the comment that tells me he doesn’t know how to lead. He’s basically making himself the North Star, not the party. That’s not leadership.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

>$30 million of capital per job created. This is a harbinger of factory automation.

via @FoxBusiness

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Texas celebrates every time CA raises taxes
'17 Toyota: LA -> Dallas
'19 McKesson: SF -> Dallas
'20 Oracle: SF -> Austin
'20 CBRE: LA -> Dallas
'21 Schwab: SF -> Austin
'21 Tesla: SF -> Austin
'22 HPE: San Jose -> Houston
'24 Chevron: SF -> Houston
'26 Public Storage: LA > Dallas

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The oligarchs taking control of media like CBS have to lie about what they do bc it is indefensible.

[Ian McMillan, CMT @the_chart_life]

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers.

This is 100% fraud.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Not a great enodrsenent for the Bitcoin narrative.

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

Jamie Dimon, complaining about the Clarity Act and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong this AM: “He’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington in this thing.”

Maria: “He said he’s representing the whole —”

Dimon: “He’s full of shit.”

Maria: “…well.”

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

The AP is licensing its election data to OpenAI through the 2028 election

[Andrew Ross Sorkin @andrewrsorkin]

In 1930, Ethelbert Stewart — Commissioner of Labor Statistics "widely recognized as the foremost analyst of labor conditions in the United States" — was "retired" by President Hoover. His offense? Challenging the administration’s false claims about employment.

History rhymes.

[Steven Hussain @steven_hussain]

So many of us in government affairs have a deep understanding of how important things like BLS data are for a functioning economy. I think it's important we speak up before we lose every credible data source out there.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

[litquidity @litcapital]

This is some third world country shit

[Steven Hussain @steven_hussain]

So hard to explain to people who don't working government/policy how bad this really is.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

a little hard to communicate to normies just how bad/dangerous this is! but yeah