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ICYMI

ICYMI

That’s what we thought as well (great minds!) We released this one to everyone, and will follow up with two back to back Bonus Eps to balance it out

Cheers! 🍻

Really great episode of Left Anchor ( @ryanlcooper.com and @alexios.bsky.social) @diplomatofnight.com was on and they killed it.

Highly recommend listening to it. Was the first time I’ve heard a convincing argument for the shift in attitude on Gaza.

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @diplomatofnight.com on to discuss the abrupt recognition of Gaza atrocities: www.leftanchor.com/e/a-turning-...

ICYMI:

Rule of law might be something of a fiction, but it's one that matters. It's a standard against which to detect raw exercises of power.

"we thought only the poor people would suffer"

The American Prospect A pioneer in nonprofit journalism, The American Prospect was founded as a 501(c)(3) and published its first issue in Spring 1990 as a champion for informed discussion on progressive public policy. Si...

Weekly roundup happening right now with @emmarjanssen.bsky.social, check it out!
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Also he lied about it

that's right www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the...

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

"At Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo said he "didn't debunk" Mamdani enough. Cuomo added that Mamdani got "more than 50 percent" of the Jewish vote. "Those young people, the under-30 people, they are pro-Palestinian, and they don't consider it being anti-Israel.""

Andrew Cuomo's strategy is to go before the general electorate and tell them that Zohran Mamdani is an incorrigible antisemite, and to go before an older generation of New York Jews and tell them that they need to convince their children and grandchildren that Mamdani is an incorrigible antisemite.

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges.

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott

At the end of the day this is why none of the attempts to suppress upheaval within the liberal base will work tbh— the actually existing reality of singular apartheidism is clearer than ever and there's no way, discursively, to put it back in the bottle

Ezra Klein, in so many words, calls it apartheid in the NYT.

This is an incredible post even by Adam Johnson standards

Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada' Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

This must not happen here.👇

there is just a lot of evidence that trump systematically sexually harassed and abused as many women as he could for decades.

Personally, I would be too embarrassed to claim that a grandmother assaulted me.

Free Speech Police Under the Trump administration, every law enforcement agency is an immigration agency. And that often means attempting to deport people for their political beliefs, particularly about Israel.

Under Trump, law enforcement agencies have become the free speech police—especially when it comes to suppressing pro-Palestinian views. This is the new McCarthyism. From James Baratta:

semi-fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, @alexios.bsky.social is still out so we are re-running our Prospect live show with @assignedmedia.org about transphobia, the Supreme Court, and the NYT: www.leftanchor.com/e/transphobi...

Vought is on the long list of guys who are going to need to go to prison once we eventually fight our way out of this

“Elon Musk is repeatedly insisting, no, no, there’s a difference between what I’m doing and being a Nazi. And what the model keeps telling him is, statistically, that’s not the case,”

anti-woke means Nazi, we have proved it with math

This is the kind of thing that would be immediately obvious if you’ve ever spoken with a “low information voter.”

Democrats didn’t go too far left. The people on the bottom thought they went too soft against the people on top.

How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work.

I did some research and reporting to try to understand why Elon turning Grok "anti-woke" also made it into MechaHitler, some interesting stuff in the guts of LLMs. feat @theophite.bsky.social prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.

"The air conditioners shut off chronically, but the interrogation lights never do; the floor is flooded with human waste from overflowing toilets; and the price tag now exceeding $600 million means there’s room for all the grifters to get a piece." prospect.org/power/2025-0...