Joan Walsh
@joanwalsh
GOING INACTIVE. Nation writer. Co-author: "Corporate Bullshit." https://www.corporatebsbook.com/ Producer "The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show."
BREAKING: In a deeply unsettling unearthed 2006 audio recording, Donald Trump says he has no “age limit” for sleeping with young girls. He claims he’d stop at “12 year olds.”
Mamdani's grocery campaign inspired me to write this. New York City can stop big chain stores and big suppliers from distorting grocery markets. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
24 million women rely on Medicaid to access basic health care. Routine physicals, maternal and postpartum care, birth control, childbirth, cancer screenings. Republicans have sacrificed their health to make a handful of billionaires richer.
“We Make All the Work Possible”: Home Care Workers Speak Out About Coming Medicaid Cuts thenation.com/article/politi…
Knowing Clapper, I think that is the sound of a man distraught that a nation he spent his life defending as an intelligence chief now has one who is using the position to defame people Trump doesn't like in order to deflect from his scandals. That's the sound.
BREAKING: James Clapper admits he is concerned about prosecution and has "lawyered up." You can even hear the trembling in his voice. Good. That's the sound of a person who just found out that he is not "above the law."
One night I want to see Abby Phillip get up from the table and say, "You don't pay me enough to deal with these ham-handed liars." Although I'll have to watch it on social media because I won't watch the show.
CNN Anchor Catches Trump Defenders Flat-Footed Trying To Explain Obama Conspiracy mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn-a…
Girls have been doing better than boys in school for 100 years! Excellent reporting by Jessica Grose. PS I've been saying what she documents for over a decade in my @thenation column. …saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render…
She has one of the strongest pro-Palestinian voting records in Congress. It’s fair to debate strategy and disagreement over specific choices--but vandalizing her office and saying @AOC “funds genocide” isn’t just wrong. It’s reckless, dishonest, misleading, and deeply unserious.…
.@AOC’s Bronx HQ was redecorated with red paint tonite by a group called the Boogie Down Liberation Front. The group denounced AOC’s vote to fund Israel & the genocide in Gaza & also called out how politicians (like AOC & Ritchie Torres) use the Bronx to further their careers.
If Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC's mayor, he will face monumental challenges. So how should he govern? As @_waleedshahid writes, he can start by learning some lessons from three of his predecessors. thenation.com/article/politi…
I forgot how CBS canceled "Lou Grant" after the great Ed Asner professed support for Salvadoran rebels: How CBS Decided It Couldn't Afford to Let Stephen Colbert Speak His Mind thenation.com/article/archiv…
The USDA stole 16 MILLION acres of black farmland through racist loan denials — estimated worth of $250-$350 billion. The gov. admits this in reports dating to 1965. This administration is pure evil. I wrote about this. Begging you to read: thenation.com/article/societ…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-…
4,725 wire transfers. More than $1 billion. #followthemoneyepstein
The Supreme Court's emergency docket decision to allow Trump to gut the Department of Education is maybe the most pro-Trump, pro-Authoritarian ruling the Court has made in service of Trump thus far, and I've read them all. thenation.com/article/politi…
The media accused her of faking a French accent for putting emphasis on the word "The." Then, after three years of similarly biased coverage, the media was like, "Why won't she talk to MORE MEDIA?" I've never seen anything like it.
We had our first female VP from 2021 to 2025 and it was the most I have *ever* seen a VP's performance being covered and evaluated as they were serving. Gore and Biden didn't get that treatment until they ran for POTUS, but for Harris it began the moment she was sworn in.
This is so fucking sick. I'm glad Epstein is causing trouble for the Orange Sex Felon, but this shit is what should really be making people stand up and protest.
Several people taken away by masked federal agents at Sacramento Home Depot sacbee.com/news/local/art…
Kyrsten Sinema (no longer a senator) spent nearly $400,000 in campaign funds over the past three months, including: -$86k on airfare and in-flight services -$86k on security detail (including $600 on ski tickets) -$7k on meals
For those of you that don’t know I’m driving my wheelchair from Neenah to Madison, Wisconsin. I want to raise awareness of the lack of home healthcare access for people like myself who are on Medicaid. Specifically the low pay for home health aide workers.
This really hit me, not just the human loss of jobs, but the scale of what these fossil-fuel lackeys are doing to the booming clean energy economy and, well, our planet. So f'd up.
I know they voted for this and Trump said he was going to do this, knowing it would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. But I still feel immensely bad for these people in Maine, whom are going to lose everything. @TheMaineWonk
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called on Democrats to stop enabling the fossil fuel industry’s “malevolent propaganda operation.” thenation.com/article/enviro…
One of the lesser-known provisions of the OBBBA will effectively defund Planned Parenthood by preventing women on Medicaid from accessing any Planned Parenthood services, including STI screenings, PAP smears, and breast cancer screenings. americanprogress.org/article/10-egr…