Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank has a message for progressives as he enters hospice: "I think they make a mistake by taking the most controversial parts of the agenda and turning them into a litmus test."
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Catherine Rampell
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Catherine Rampell
@crampell
@BulwarkOnline Economics Editor. @MSNOWNews (formerly known as MSNBC) Anchor. In prior lives: WaPo, NYT, CNN, NewsHour. Econ, politics, tax, theater, etc.
Katılım Nisan 2008
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
David Baer is very interesting here on what lessons are to be learned from Orban’s defeat in Hungary, from Magyar’s determination to pursue systemic change, and from Magyar’s ability to appeal to liberal patriotism against Orban’s illiberal nationalism.
youtube.com/live/7jOsorhpI…
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Nebraska will be the first test of how many people lose insurance—and who they are. Read the latest from @CitizenCohn thebulwark.com/p/trumps-big-m…
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A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Q: "Are we at war with Iran?"
Hassett: "Iran shut down the straits…and President Trump didn't think that was acceptable."
Q: "So we are still at war?"
Hassett: "I don't know what the definition of war is when we're not shooting."
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Q: "Can we end the conflict without taking back the Strait of Hormuz?"
Hassett: *doesn't answer*
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Like this is pretty key! x.com/GasBuddyGuy/st…
Patrick De Haan@GasBuddyGuy
STRAIT STINGS SPIRIT... Spirit Airlines begins ‘wind-down’, cancels all flights over fuel crisis... Spirit’s restructuring plan assumed jet fuel costs of about $2.24 a gallon in 2026 and $2.14 in 2027, but prices had climbed to about $4.51 a gallon by the end of April.
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Spirit had been struggling for a while but it was definitely the war that struck the final blow. This is not a murder mystery. I can tell you whodunnit
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Sean Duffy: "Spirit was in dire straits long before the war with Iran…The war was not the impetus for Spirit."
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
"The president cannot do a whole lot to make the economy better, particularly in the near term, but he can do a lot to screw it up, and we are seeing own goal after own goal."
@crampell and JVL on Trump's gas price excuses and his fantasy that prices are suddenly "way down."
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
STRAIT STINGS SPIRIT... Spirit Airlines begins ‘wind-down’, cancels all flights over fuel crisis... Spirit’s restructuring plan assumed jet fuel costs of about $2.24 a gallon in 2026 and $2.14 in 2027, but prices had climbed to about $4.51 a gallon by the end of April.
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Foreign contributions to political campaigns are banned.
Trump found a loophole—crypto—allowing him to rake in hundreds of millions from foreign regimes buying influence.
My @Morning_Joe Chart.
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Dems are adopting the Trump playbook and growing obsessed with coming up with bespoke, dumb, tax cut gimmicks.
newest file from the incomparable @crampell
thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to-t…
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Join us on May 11 at the @JHUBloombergCtr in Washington DC, for Wealth and Power: Ancient Elites and Today’s Billionaires, with Guido Alfani, Mary Beard, Louis Hyman, and Catherine Rampell. @wmarybeard @guido_alfani @crampell @louishyman
We’ll discuss wealth, power, politics, and democracy from antiquity to today.
Free, open to all, registration required at this link:
hub.jhu.edu/events/2026/05…
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
The Democratic tax message used to be simple: raise revenue to fund ambitious programs.
Now the party is flirting with a thousand little carveouts — some narrow, some expensive, some absurd.
@crampell looks at how Democrats started stealing from Trump’s fiscal playbook.
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments
I'm running out of points of comparison
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈@JosephPolitano
US spending on computers continues to skyrocket to record highs amidst the AI boom—real fixed investment in computers hit roughly $354B annualized in data released this morning, up 64% over the last year and 133% since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022
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Catherine Rampell retweetledi
Since March 1, Americans have spent $21.7 billion more on filling their tanks with gasoline. That includes today's addition to that figure- $509 million.
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Why is Powell staying on the Fed Board?
Because DOJ criminal probe into him is only “closed” in the same sense that the Strait of Hormuz is officially “open.” Which is to say: Trust neither pronouncement, at least when coming from this administration
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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@crampell is this bringing back bad memories for you too?
Joan Alker@JoanAlker1
👀Nebraska has chosen to go early with implementing Medicaid work reporting requirements on every state 5/1 -- which is Friday! Screenshot below just taken at 4:15 ET 4/29. The state's Medicaid website is going down for maintenance Friday.
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