Melinda Hightower (@mel_hightower) 's Twitter Profile
Melinda Hightower

@mel_hightower

Detroit Native. Cornell ILR, Chicago Booth, and UVa Law. Former @NBLSA Chair. Do-gooder and smart aleck.

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Ron Davis (@rondaviscp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I want to thank President Biden for the honor of serving in the Biden-Harris Administration as the 12th Director of the United States Marshals Service (USMS). Working with the outstanding women and men of th USMS was the greatest professional honor of my life.

Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has just issued an order saying Trump “Can Not delete, destroy, remove or impair any data or other CFPB records [and] shall not terminate any CFPB employee”

BREAKING: Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has just issued an order saying Trump 

“Can Not delete, destroy, remove or impair any data or other CFPB records [and] shall not terminate any CFPB employee”
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@symonedsanders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are the 10: Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Marcy Kaptur Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi I think we should ask everyone on the list “why?” Maybe they will have interesting or compelling answers

Democratic Wins Media (@democraticwins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: In a shocking move, House Democrats have returned to DC to rail against the CR. This is the exact kind of leadership we need right now.

Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dems in Trump-won districts/states that voted no that Schumer hung out to dry: Senate: • Baldwin • Gallego • Kelly • Ossoff • Rosen • Slotkin • Warnock House: • Cuellar • Davis • Gonzalez • Gray • Harder • Kaptur • Lee • Perez • Pou • Rivet • Suozzi • Vasquez

James Surowiecki (@jamessurowiecki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 (@cfishman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Could Trump's tariffs spark a US factory & manufacturing renaissance? Let's say they do. Here's the problem, even if we double the number of factories the US has now. Even if we—somehow—start making microwave ovens and pleated-front chinos and pillow cases in the US again. —>

Lawrence H. Summers (@lhsummers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s now clear that the Donald J. Trump Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if

James Surowiecki (@jamessurowiecki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You can't say, as many MAGA supporters are, that the current system had to be blown up because it wasn't working and also claim that the sell-off on Thursday and Friday was unjustified. If you're blowing up the system, investors in that system should absolutely be concerned.

Lawrence H. Summers (@lhsummers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Administration was crowing over the weekend about all the countries that wanted to talk. No postponement then. Now they are rightly scared after collapsing markets. Reckless improvisation not a strategy and total dishonesty about what is driving them.

derek guy (@dieworkwear) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So good. IMO the gala tonight will be the gala, but if you can visit the Met exhibit, you should. If not, the Superfine book accompanying the exhibit is worth picking up. IG metcostumeinstitute