Newsom rejecting the billionaire wealth tax is one thing. Supporting the billionaires' poison pill alternative which would ban taxes on assets permanently, end any chance to fix stepped-up basis, & could be used by an enterprising lawyer to invalidate vehicle fee or other tax changes is another.

Since we're a top trader of energy with Russia, doesn't the Trump administration under the Russia sanctions law now have to impose tariffs on goods produced in the rogue country of the United States?

As Republicans avoid public scrutiny, the Maine Senate race is one of the last with multiple debates: four, to be exact. Lincoln-Douglas it isn't, but Troy Jackson met the moment, making Susan Collins answer for her vote for Brett Kavanaugh & her initial support for the Big Beautiful Bill.

In the Maine Senate race, Susan Collins knows that her advantage is wielding power, but Troy Jackson met the moment in the first two of four (count 'em) televised debates.

AOC to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed at six stops next Thursday and Friday, per email:

The Supreme Court gave Trump the ability to cancel temporary protected status & deport immigrants back to home countries in strife. But he hasn't done so with one country: El Salvador, where ally Nayib Bukele is in power and which has had a TPS designation for 25 years. Naomi Bethune reports on why.

25 at once is a big part of the problem here. I think it alienates voter participation. I support direct democracy in theory but the practice in California is an enormous mess.

Somebody collect a couple million signatures for my $10 a ballot measure plan, paid for by the initiative sponsor. It would pass by about 90 points and we'd never have this tax on the free time of conscientious voters again

Between city, county, and state, Los Angeles voters will have 25 measures on the general election ballot. Where is our stipend for being part-time legislators this year? Maybe $10 a ballot measure?

Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.

It's paywalled so you only have to read a little bit?

Alejandro Betancourt is the key figure in the deal Venezuela made with the U.S. to give away a substantial chunk of its oil wealth. Betancourt's legal problems disappeared as the deal was being made. But Betancourt's rivalry with his longest-running hater, Thor Halvorssen, unlocks this strange tale:

It would save $760 billion over a decade and put a stake in the privatization of health care, I don't give a shit about the slogan