Bilal Baydoun

STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute on the End of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - Roosevelt Institute "In dismantling yet another democratic institution, the administration seeks to keep Americans in the dark about the forces that shape their lives"

"The administration seeks to keep Americans in the dark about the forces that shape their lives, and ensures its pro-billionaire agenda will be shielded from any independent oversight or accountability." Director of Democratic Institutions @bilalb.bsky.social

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The American Economy and Democracy After Dobbs - Roosevelt Institute On August 6, the Roosevelt Institute will bring together two leading experts to analyze how the legal complexities and economic constraints of the post-Dobbs landscape are reshaping our economy and de...

Cool event alert: next week, the @rooseveltinstitute.org will host a conversation on the legal complexities and economic constraints of the post-Dobbs landscape, featuring Kate Bahn and Rachel Rebouché.

And now he undelivered it

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Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."

The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.

I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.

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+public data

Lest anyone be confused about the first:

This 6-word platform looks pretty good right now:

-Stop corruption
-Lower prices
-End wars

It’s a war on “public” everything. Nothing has been spared. Public health. Public assistance. Public media. All so that a few billionaires can get richer.

The Crypto Crisis - Dissent Magazine The latest cryptocurrency crash illustrates why the entire financial sector needs to be subject to democratic control.

"Many have likened crypto to a Ponzi scheme, but at least Charles Ponzi did not substantially contribute to climate change or facilitate the exchange of child pornography."

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This is one of the funnier lines I've seen it a book review.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

As @ositanwanevu.com wrote last year, “the student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America.”

Chris Smalls Released from Israeli Custody Early Thursday morning, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls had been released from Israeli prison.

BREAKING: Chris Smalls has been released from Israeli detention & is returning to the United States

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Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate pledges to support the Block the Bombs Act, a new bill in Congress which would withhold U.S. weapons to Israel and address concerns about Israel's violations of U.S. and international law. More likely (total): 72% Less likely (total): 11% More likely (net): +61%

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate declines to take an international trip to Israel, saying they want to focus on addressing New Yorkers' issues and needs. More likely (total): 60% Less likely (total): 15% More likely (net): +45%

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

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The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

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still an awful lot of passive voice statements about mass starvation in gaza.

Shout out to @bridgemi.com for representing Michigan on this list. We love our nonprofit newsrooms.

Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news…

In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here’s our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States. buff.ly/8yo3BfO

The problem with AI is the same as the problem with the internet, and America, and the planet—namely, it’s controlled by a tiny oligarchy and their systems of rapacious extraction.

Like the internet, AI could be an emancipatory technology if it was under a form of democratic control.

The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people.

The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children.

Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.

Truly, it’s the racism.

Our moment from the newsstand.

Widening inequality, broken systems, and rising discontent aren’t isolated issues.

Americans are navigating economic precarity, failing institutions, and fractured communities. When institutions fail to deliver, people seek alternatives.

Roosevelt Fellow Daniel HoSang with a sobering op-ed.

The Verge cites the desire to "deepen[] its direct relationship with readers". Wired writes "The platforms on which outlets like WIRED used to connect with readers, listeners, and viewers are failing in real time", saying they wish to "connect our humans to all of you humans".

Interesting to see two major news outlets — The Verge and Wired — both announce major newsletter strategies nearly simultaneously. I suspect both are motivated by the hope that email will be "stickier" than the (declining) direct traffic to news websites.

“Politics Is Conflictual” “Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.

"...we underestimated the role of what you could call the material basis of communicative politics. The control of major communications platforms like Meta and Twitter by right-wing figures was a five-alarm fire that we didn’t treat as one."

- @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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