Cole Stangler

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Now available in podcast form on all the platforms! link.deezer.com/s/32ycvwesZz...

A person in a pink shirt and green apron smiles, holding a card reader at a flower stall. Bright flowers and price tags surround them, conveying a welcoming outdoor market vibe.

Declaring a “War on Fraud” has long been a political smokescreen: target poor people, protect bigger corruption.

@colestangler.bsky.social reported on the playbook in 2013, when SNAP fraud was tiny, while crop insurance fraud was far larger and expanding.

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La députée @delia.bsky.social, proche de AOC, Zohran Mamdani et Bernie Sanders, m'a expliqué pourquoi les élections de mi-mandat aux États-Unis devraient être favorables à l'aile gauche du Parti démocrate. 1er épisode de WHAT DO WE WANT www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgA...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Ça fait plaisir à entendre ! Merci à toi :)

💡 En pleine glorification de l'extrême droite en France d'une campagne de caniveau à Marseille, cette interview relève le niveau et remet du baume au coeur. Merci !

1er épisode de WHAT DO WE WANT ? La députée Delia Ramirez, proche de AOC et Bernie Sanders, sur la résistance à l'autoritarisme, l'avenir du Parti démocrate, et la politique étrangère des 🇺🇸 après Trump. Regardez sur YouTube, il y a des sous-titres en français :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgA...

1er épisode de WHAT DO WE WANT ? La députée Delia Ramirez, proche de AOC et Bernie Sanders, sur la résistance à l'autoritarisme, l'avenir du Parti démocrate, et la politique étrangère des 🇺🇸 après Trump. Regardez sur YouTube, il y a des sous-titres en français :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgA...

First episode of WHAT DO WE WANT is now online! A conversation with Squad member @ramirez.house.gov about fighting for democracy, the working class, and US foreign policy after Trump. Link in bio!

À Saint-Avold, une candidature ouvrière peut-elle faire reculer le RN ? Dans cette ville de Moselle, le syndicaliste Christian Porta conduit la seule liste de gauche, face au candidat du RN. Alors que les organisations de gauche traditionnelles ont disparu, l’ouvrier déf…

À Saint-Avold, une candidature ouvrière peut-elle faire reculer le RN ? via @mediapart.fr
www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Excited to announce "What Do We Want? Conversations with the International Left." First episode coming on YouTube next week. www.youtube.com/@cstangler

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

Oh right well we’re in agreement then.

How so?

A prominent left-wing presidential candidate explicitly stating that working class voters outside of large urban areas are not the priority for a modern left of the 21st century, what could go wrong?

The best critique you'll read in English of Mélenchon's "New France" discourse, which assigns a whole swath of today's French working class to a backwards "Old France."

Couverture du livre de Cole Stangler "Le Miroir Américain"

🗓️ RV ce jeudi 12/02 à 18 h dans notre librairie de quartier #Marseille 13002 avec notre talentueux journaliste marseillais d'adoption dont le dernier livre est (malheureusement) on ne peut plus d'actualité...
@colestangler.bsky.social @arenes.fr
⏩ Pour vous y rendre : maps.app.goo.gl/5iCe2Gbpa41f...

Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong

"The point is not that what progressives do must never be criticized; the point is that the relentless drive to find fault with both sides equally results in a sense of (false) equivalence among those taking cues from supposedly trustworthy centrists."

Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today

In Minneapolis, the sounds of ICE Watch whistles echo the church bells that guided Resistance in occupied France. In my latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I spoke to Minnesotans & WWII historians to explore the lessons of such parallels for the Minneapolis uprising newlinesmag.com/essays/minne...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

See you in the streets Wednesday! (The Vieux Port that is) #iceout #solidaritywithminneapolis

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

This is an elected member of Congress & the GOP saying that he welcomes a war against another nuclear power who is literally our oldest ally & with whom we have a formal treaty military alliance.

Congrats again on that National Conversation™️ about which party has moved further from the center 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Tfw you're looking at the "Europe" tour dates for an Americana/rock/folk/country band and it's all Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden. #CometoFranceandSouthernEurope

The great @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on today's general strike in Minneapolis newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Appel à la grève générale à Minneapolis aujourd’hui, de nombreux syndicats soutiennent le mouvement

Just checking in on the extraordinary emergency summit of European leaders underway

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.

It includes:

-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders

And more. 🧵