Steadman™
National politics reporter at The New York Times. A real one in these streets. [email protected]
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Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Eliminate Tuition and Cancel Student Debt
Nytimes.com 8h 8 tweets
Ms. Warren’s proposal would use new taxes on the wealthy to end tuition at public colleges, and eliminate all student loan debt for more than 75 percent of borrowers.
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Steadman™ A stat worth isolating: Elizabeth Warren's student debt proposal would affect 42 million Americans and would cancel the entirety of student debt for 75 percent of all borrowers 8h
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Steadman™ NEW from me: Elizabeth Warren's latest proposal is a $1.25 trillion overhaul of higher ed. It includes -- massive debt cancellation up to $50k for student borrowers (public and private) -- free public college -- a $50 billion fund to support HBCU's 8h
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Steadman™ Warren's proposal would also -- end federal $$ for for-profit colleges -- require an annual "equity audit" to see how schools serve poor + minority students -- ban schools from using criminal history or citizenship status in admission decisions 8h
2020 Democratic Candidates Target Barr Over Mueller Report
Nytimes.com 4d 1 tweets
“He’s behaving as the president’s personal lawyer,” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said. “He’s not behaving as the attorney general of the United States.”
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Steadman™ Here in Iowa, with Sen. Gillibrand, the first question she got during her "rural listening tour?" Whether Democrats should impeach AG Barr. A full story on how 2020ers reacted to Mueller report from + me 4d
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Broad Plan to Protect Public Lands
Nytimes.com 7d 11 tweets
Ms. Warren said she would aim to undo the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks and prohibit new leases for fossil fuel drilling on public lands.
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Steadman™ New: Warren with another policy proposal ahead of UT/CO trip. This time it's a multi-pronged approach to protecting public lands, including the creation of “a 21st century Civilian Conservation Corps” staffed by 10,000 young people. Read 7d
How the 2020 Democrats Diverged on Trump’s Attack on Ilhan Omar
Nytimes.com 8d 2 tweets
The question of how — and when — to engage with Mr. Trump’s political broadsides has become a dividing line among Democrats and party activists.
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Steadman™ NEW from me: "Black folks are watching. Muslim folks are watching. Brown folks are watching." How 2020 Democrats are responding to Trump's attacks on Ilhan Omar, and how some campaigns, in the eyes of party activists, flunked an all-important test 8d
How Kamala Harris’s Tax Returns Compares to Those of Other Candidates
Thomas Kaplan - Nytimes.com 8d 3 tweets
The candidates’ tax returns showed that they earned substantially more than a vast majority of American households.
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Steadman™ A great example of how to make something like a candidate's tax returns really accessible to readers. 8d
The Real Reason America Has Never Had A Female President
Refinery29 10d 2 tweets
There's a discrepancy between the number of people who say they want a female president and the number who say they will vote for one in 2020.
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Steadman™ "The misogyny in political coverage is made worse by the fact that 70% of political coverage overall and 74% of election news at online news outlets is done by men, according to a new report from the Women’s Media Center." 10d
The Incredible Shrinking Fox News
POLITICO Magazine 13d 6 tweets
Don’t believe the hype. Rupert Murdoch and friends can’t re-elect Trump by themselves.
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Steadman™ One thing this piece misses: Fox News influence doesn't derive from the sheer amount of people who watch it, it's about the disproportionate influence that minority of people have over the Republican Party -- and thus the broader political system 11d
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Steadman™ Another policy proposal by : increasing corporate taxes (7% after first $100 million in profits) "That means Amazon would pay $698 million in taxes instead of paying 0. And Occidental Petroleum would pay $280 million in taxes instead of paying 0." 11d
This Is Getting Really Dangerous
Splinter 11d 1 tweets
On Wednesday morning, Fox News used its biggest megaphone to amplify an attention-starved congressman’s bad faith charge against Rep. Ilhan Omar: that, in remarks before the Council on American-Islamic Relations, she characterized the Sept. 11...
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Steadman™ Things that have happened in last year - Pipe bombs sent to prominent Dems - Coast Guard Officer Arrested for Assassination Plot on Dems - NY Man Arrested For Threatening Omar - Man Arrested W/ Ammunition After Threatening to Kill Dems During Kavanaugh 11d
Democrats Used to Campaign. Now Everyone Has a ‘Movement.’
Nytimes.com 13d 1 tweets
The language shift reflects a party that is seeking to appease its newly empowered activist base, which has been emboldened since President Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election
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Steadman™ NEW from me: 2020 Democrats rarely refer to their campaigns.... as campaigns. Instead, everyone is mounting a "movement." On the small wording change change that speaks to the moment 13d
The Death of an Adjunct
The Atlantic 14d 52 tweets
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia's permanent underclass.
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Steadman™ The adjunct "position is often inaccurately described as akin to a form of slavery....It is more like the lowest rung in a caste system, the one that underrepresented minorities tend to call home." via 14d
Disappointed Fans of Mueller Rethink the Pedestal They Built for Him
Nytimes.com 28d 11 tweets
The subset of liberals who idolized Robert S. Mueller III and thought he would bring down President Trump are devastated, but some still hold out hope for the special counsel’s full report.
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Steadman™ NEW from me + : How anti-Trump superfans of Robert Mueller are dealing with their disappointment. Hear abt the cult of personality from the podcasters at "Muller, She Wrote," , + a woman w/ a Mueller tattoo (she doesn't regret it) 28d
How Pramila Jayapal shepherds the freshmen Dems
POLITICO 31d 4 tweets
The second-term lawmaker has become a progressive leader and mentor for women of color in the House.
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Steadman™ I know it's for click reasons, but wild that Jayapal -- who had her own progressive legacy before last year -- is reduced to "the woman mentoring Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez." 29d
Second Parkland shooting survivor commits suicide, cops confirm | Miami Herald
miamiherald 29d 20 tweets
A second Parkland shooting survivor killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed. The death comes just about a week after a recent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate took her own life after being diagnosed with PTSD.
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Steadman™ Two Parkland shooting survivors have now committed suicide in a week 29d
2020 Democrats begin to approach topic of reparations for black Americans
Cbsnews.com 31d 3 tweets
Long taboo in the political mainstream, Democratic candidates are seriously discussing reparations and whether they should be implemented
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Steadman™ A good roundup on where the candidates stand on reparations and the seperate issue of closing the racial wealth gap via 31d
‘Florida Is Tired of Being a Cheap Date’: Andrew Gillum Wants to Help Democrats Win in 2020
Nytimes.com 33d 6 tweets
In an interview, the former mayor and rising Democratic star confirms he’s not running for president, and outlines his plans to mobilize Florida voters for the election.
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Steadman™ Exclusive: Ahead of his speech today, I talked with Andrew Gillum about why he's not running for president, how he plans to turn Florida blue in 2020, and why Beto O'Rourke, he said, "enjoys a set a privileges" that allows him to be "taken seriously." 33d
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Steadman™ Gillum also said Florida Gov. DeSantis has, to this point, won some goodwill by seeming pragmatic. Gillum later offered this warning shot for Joe Biden, who is preparing to confront a very skeptical progressive wing 33d
Stacey Abrams Has a Big Decision to Make
The Cut 36d 10 tweets
Governor? Senator? Veep? President?! The Georgian who is usually sure about everything finds herself conflicted about her future.
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Steadman™ . and 🔥🔥🔥 36d
How Trump’s Brand of Grievance Politics Roiled a Pennsylvania Campaign
Nytimes.com 38d 22 tweets
After a state election defeat, Republicans in the Scranton area complain the country is being overtaken by undeserving outsiders and the Democrats who represent them.
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Steadman™ part of the reason we want to write these stories is to flip the "identity politics" narrative on its head. It's not only marginalized groups who view their identity as an important lens for their political choices; but white voters also. Just ask them 38d
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Steadman™ NEW from me: In addition to 2020 stuff, I'll also be writing occassional stories abt the politics of white grievance and fears of white replacement that's currently animating Trump's GOP. This is the first, from Pennsylvania. I hope you'll read to the end 38d
Son defends parents caught in college admissions scandal while smoking blunt
New York Post 40d 19 tweets
Maybe this is why Gregory and Marcia Abbott allegedly bought their daughter’s way into college. Their “rapper” son, Malcolm, popped out of the family’s Park Avenue building to smoke a giant blunt —…
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Steadman™ imagine u commit crimes to get your kid into college just for them to become a soundcloud rapper 40d
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
Nytimes.com 45d 12 tweets
The Massachusetts senator, who is running for president, is set to announce a regulatory plan aimed at breaking up large tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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Steadman™ Warren's new plan will limit tech giants from sharing data w/ third parties + competing in own marketplaces, while undoing mergers Previews how Big Tech is set to become 2020 divider, and how Warren is, again, trying to lead on policy to stand out 45d
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Steadman™ Scoop: Elizabeth Warren will today announce a detailed plan to break up big tech companies including Amazon, Google, and Facebook ahead of her New York City rally in Queens. Plan would also unwind recent big tech mergers like Facebook/Insta, Google/Waze 45d