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May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
April 25, 2025
Uh Oh! Abundance Group Does Not Like Abundance
The Breakthrough Institute’s critique of Abundance is so bad that I feel the need to defend Klein and Thompson.
April 24, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
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DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s enforcement power and ability to carry out federal programs have been weakened for years by staffing shortages. This blog overviews the key reasons why HUD needs more staff.
February 26, 2025 | No Corporate Cabinet
No Corporate Cabinet: Bill Pulte
FHFA Nominee & Extremely Online Scion Of A Real Estate Empire
February 12, 2025
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President Trump Would Like You To Say Goodbye To Our Food Inspectors
This week has seen further escalations in an already dramatic first month of Trump 2.0. In particular, in addition to “cartoonishly corrupt” moves like signing an order to halt enforcement of a bribery ban, the Trump administration has used a number of methods to reduce enforcement capacity across federal agencies, building on the hiring and funding freezes Trump ordered on his first day in office. (While judges have readily agreed to challenges to the funding freeze, it appears the administration is illegally withholding funding, anyway.)
February 11, 2025
RealPage Defender Jay Parsons Joins HUD Secretary’s Former Real Estate Company
Jay Parsons, the economist and price-setting software cheerleader who left RealPage right before it started getting sued by tenants and state AGs across the country for allegedly colluding with landlords to raise rents, joined JPI last week. If JPI rings a bell, perhaps it is because it is the development company that Scott Turner just left before his improbable nomination and confirmation as Secretary of HUD.
January 15, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Tough Questions For Trump Nominees: The Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner Edition
We urged a more aggressive and justifiably confrontational approach in our recommended questions for Doug Burgum, Chris Wright, Russell Vought, Pam Bondi, and Scott Bessent, which you can read here and here. Today we’ll get into questions for Lee Zeldin, nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency, and Scott Turner, nominee for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
January 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Trump’s Attack on Government Capacity Will Fan the Flames of the Home Insurance Crisis
The U.S. Forest Service is already underfunded and understaffed. Slashing its resources further is likely to unleash more severe wildfires.
November 26, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand
The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money
November 04, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Climate Crisis Is a Cost-of-Living Crisis
The right’s climate denial means higher prices.
October 28, 2024
State Insurance Commissioners Are Far Too Important to Ignore
The deeply intertwined crises of climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice are escalating. State insurance regulators cannot tackle these problems on their own, but their role in aggravating or ameliorating them deserves greater scrutiny.