Jordan Zakarin

Paramount just paid $150 million for a publication with 1.5 million subscribers, which is about 37% of the total that we have at More Perfect Union.

If it's all about merit and reporting relevance, why didn't David Ellison call us?

Excited for Bari Weiss because it shows that you don't have to suck up to billionaires or coddle those in power to succeed in this world

It’s disgustingly hot outside and fall in New York is all we really have left

When states restrict the rights of local govs & cede authority to the federal government, they open the door to abuses of power across policy areas. Read @jordanz.bsky.social's interview with LSSC’s Katie Belanger on the dangers of abusive preemption efforts. www.progressreport.news/p/how-states...

I was at that Gotham Awards ceremony 😖

Pete Hegseth is doing a reverse intervention on himself, summoning all the generals in his life to one place without explaining why

This place is the app equivalent of vegetables

“The smartest strategy for Democrats is to do exclusively things that do not inconvenience me personally or cost my patrons any money.”

Ezra Klein praises Charlie Kirk and then urged an embrace anti-abortion candidates, so obviously he should be the intellectual leader of the Democratic Party and chief strategist of the resistance to fascism.

ABC’s over the air broadcast is irrelevant. The FCC has no real control over its ability to disseminate its programming. Disney capitulated because it hates regulation and conservative corporate interests control local media

The corporate and institutional surrender to these second-rate clowns and charlatans has been breathtaking. The grooming of generations of bottom line-obsessed cowards and a sociopathic Supreme Court have done us in. The fascists will not ever stop.

Robert Redford could have been content being an Oscar-winning artist and all-time handsome guy, but instead spent the second half of his life rescuing American independent cinema, building the nation’s best film festival, and nurturing generations of young filmmakers. RIP king.

It’s that very sense of grievance that has animated almost every policy pursued by this second Trump administration, both officially and otherwise: the efforts to rewrite history in the Smithsonian museums and school curriculums; the war on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public and private settings, under the pretense that they are discriminatory by acknowledging race; the gestapo roundups and deportations of immigrants, predicated on the idea that they are taking American jobs and diluting the culture. Turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr is not simply mourning the loss of a likeminded colleague or a way to ensure his legacy lives on within the conservative movement. His death is being used as a cudgel to silence opposition and further dismantle the cultural infrastructure — schools, nonprofits, federal workers — that undergirds a permanent resistance to right-wing fascism. Shifting these institutions is exactly what Kirk sought out to do by building his right-wing campus infrastructure, and the Trump administration and its allies are using both formal power and mob rule to further that project. It also mainstreams his bigotry and embeds it in the culture

The days following Charlie Kirk’s murder renewed an exhausting cycle: liberal elites fall over themselves to praise a bigot who fucking hated them and the right uses it to persecute speech and the people that liberals are supposed to care about.

National moment of silence for the leader of the Hitler Youth

Mourn him, but don't let him become a martyr Charlie Kirk's murder is tragic. The right is already weaponizing it.

You can rue a murder without allowing somebody to become a martyr.

Charlie Kirk was a reactionary demagogue who devoted his life to recruiting young people into a movement driven by hate, greed, and deceit.

Kirk's murder is a tragedy, as was his work. www.progressreport.news/p/mourn-him-...

Remember when Joe Biden and most Democrats refused to even entertain the idea of expanding the Supreme Court?

Remember when Dick Durbin refused to investigate the corrupt right-wing justices?

These maniacs are working with total impunity and fascism is the result.

Edwin Diaz never in doubt

Eric Adams is either dropping out of the mayoral race or announcing that he's also running for governor

I'm going to see Pulp next week

Bari Weiss has continuously benefited from DEI as practiced by billionaire white men who can’t stand being criticized or questioned. She's a grifter, a pseudo-heterodox sellout, profiting off others’ pain.

Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race

Donald Trump should definitely interfere in the NYC mayoral race on behalf of Andrew Cuomo, that'll be a hit with voters here. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

Group hug on September 14th at 3pm in Central Park

FYI New Yorkers

Everything fucking sucks, so Trump is probably just recovering from de-aging surgery and is now biologically 38 years old

Imagine secretly paying $8,000 a month to have some of the most annoying people on social media praise the most annoying people in DC.

The goal isn't to win elections or enact social change. It's all a grift designed to siphon money that could go to real organizing.

True, though I’m not entirely sure that the primary goal of the program is to win elections

This operation is no different from how the rest of the Democratic Party’s infrastructure operates: they want complete fealty and control, a simulacrum of a grassroots movement without actually allowing for evolution or dissent. And they expect immediate results, no long term planning.

A critical special election in Iowa could revive rural Democrats The GOP supermajority is on the line

Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey scored a double digit upset victory in last night’s special legislative election, breaking the GOP's supermajority.

I spoke with her last week — what stood out most was how she laughed off deranged GOP attacks and built organizing infrastructure.

A critical special election in Iowa could revive rural Democrats The GOP supermajority is on the line

Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey scored a double digit victory in tonight's special legislative election, flipping a red district and breaking the GOP's supermajority.

I spoke with her earlier this week — check out our interview here: progressreport.substack.com/p/a-critical...

A critical special election in Iowa could revive rural Democrats The GOP supermajority is on the line

Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey scored a double digit victory in tonight's special legislative election, flipping a red district and breaking the GOP's supermajority.

I spoke with her earlier this week — check out our interview here: progressreport.substack.com/p/a-critical...

I can't believe the same Supreme Court that last year ruled that Donald Trump can do whatever he wants left the door open for Trump to do whatever he wants. Big mistake.