Christian Weller

Christian Weller

@profcew.bsky.social

Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development. Skeets are all my own opinions.

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To hold onto power, Republicans have bent the rules, ignored the Constitution, and stood by while Trump put his own interests ahead of Americans. They won’t give up without a fight. So we have to keep fighting, too, all the way to Election Day.

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Trump: "You gotta understand -- American did not start the war with Iran. Iran has been waging this war against America since 1979." (Trump launched an unprovoked attack on Iran in February.)

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Attention Utahns: Unless you are in the military or overseas, today is the LAST DAY you can request a mail-in ballot. (And officials say if you do, you should take it to a dropbox instead of mailing it back) That and more important midterms info here.

sltrib.comThe midterms are coming. Here’s when you can expect your ballot in Utah, and how to vote.Here are the major dates to look out for in the lead-up to the midterms, plus how to track your ballot and how to make sure it gets back to elections officials in time to be counted.

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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GS DESK: “.. Great parties can lead to hangovers, and it’s fair to call the current environment the latter at least with regards to the AI complex. .. .. This week we saw AI Beneficiaries (GSTMTAIP) having its worst day vs SPXXAI since DeepSeek Monday ..”

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Check out how easy this is.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Whenever someone who doesn't understand research and research funding says we don't need the government to take the long risks to make life better for everyone, we need to show them this thread.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

That should make American families feel better that their (nonexistent)portfolio is growing while their car is being repossessed. WTAF?!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

Thay is a disgusting misuse of Public funds.

Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social

NEW ANALYSIS: Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump’s administration has spent or plans to spend at least $1.6 billion in public funding on vanity projects. https://ampr.gs/4kdyUoM

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"Vote for us or we won't pay Marines and their families restitution for poisoning them" is one way to go.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune settlements: "If the Republicans don't do well, I'd say maybe they won't get their money"

Probably not a strategic vision. He/govt already own AI company shares. They need to force AI down our throats b/c gap between outlays and profits is large.

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Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin 👁👁 👀 The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca 1500-1200 BC. On display at Staatliches Museum für Ägyptische Kunst. 📷️ me

It's also a vision of a very boring country. Having people from many different cultures, places and backgrounds living together is a lot of fun, as I am regularly reminded in my community

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"

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Donald Trump just told Veterans poisoned by toxic water at Camp Lejeune that they’ll only get the money they’re owed if Republicans win the midterms. These are Marines and their families who drank contaminated water for decades, got cancer, and have been begging the government for relief.

"other" people! He has no problem with himself doing that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulent over access to the government than Donald J Trump"

This is about the study to deny newborns a vaccine as an experiment in a very poor country.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net

This "study" is unethical & deadly - and it's not the first time they have tried it. In March we sent an investigator out to Guinea-Bissau and got the initial trial cancelled. It was shelved, and now they are bringing it back. 🧵

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For those wondering if their vote matters: Speaking as a historian, there have been elections throughout American history that were decided by an AMAZINGLY SMALL number of votes. Don't surrender your right to have a say. Vote!

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ACA Premiums Will Rise by Double Digits for the Second Year in a Row The health insurance costs won’t spike as badly as last year but will still rise 11%, per documents provided to The Washington Sun www.washingtonsun.com/health/aca-p...

washingtonsun.comACA Premiums Will Rise by Double Digits for the Second Year in a RowThe health insurance costs won’t spike as badly as last year but will still rise 11%, per documents provided to The Washington Sun.

It also means that Paxton is for sale, right?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

This is such a heart breaking article. All of the suffering is the desired result from cruel policymakers who don't want to help those who need care. I am angry at Rs who don't see health care as a human right.

Not sure about the color choice on rising interest rates. But, those are not a good economic indicator (and people feel higher interest rates in so many different ways).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KERNEN: You have never seen Americans so sour on the economy HASSETT: The thing about the sour -- when you look at surveys, Dems think we're in the Great Depression. Republicans think things are fine. So surveys have lost their value. It's a very very strong economy, one of the strongest we've seen

This should help people feel better about their utility bills. He started a war he can't end, his tariffs and deportations are raising prices, ICE is ripping families and communities apart... But, the president is focused on redoing what was a nice public golf course. Priorities.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course ... They do not need an approval. Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY!"

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"Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comUS gave us no warning of Russian strikes on Kyiv power plants, Zelenskyy saysUkrainian president accuses Washington of ‘denial of reality’ in ongoing row with Trump over apparent support for Moscow
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

"America Is Now an Ally of Russia. Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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DEMOCRATS: "We're worried that voters are so distracted by the high costs of food and gas that they won't pay attention to the colossal corruption." DONALD TRUMP: "Hold my Diet Coke."

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OUT OF THE 2.2 MILLION OVERSEAS CITIZENS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, 11% VOTED IN 2024 Speak to your friends abroad. There’s a decent chance they need help voting!

VoteFromAbroad.org@votefromabroad.bsky.social

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“Disapproval of the job Trump is doing has reached 77% on inflation, 70% on the economy, 69% on tariffs, and 64% on foreign policy… Trump’s overall job approval is 36%, his lowest ever in a Fox News survey for either term” www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

foxnews.comFox News Poll: Cost-of-living concerns weigh on GOP in midtermsA Fox News survey finds Trump's approval on inflation hitting a new low of 22% as six in 10 voters say cost of living is their top economic worry.

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...