New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again.
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WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani on making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC in 2028, how he would fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again
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March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again.
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Welcome to the Trump economy.
March 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Welcome to the Trump economy.
I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said.
Is it a crack in the edifice?
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Is it a crack in the edifice?
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WATCH: Do Dems need new leaders? "Fair point," Ro Khanna says
I ask the California congressman about the Trump slump in the markets, why Democrats seem so spineless, how the donor class sabotaged his party, and what his vision for a comeback looks like
the.ink
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said.
Is it a crack in the edifice?
the.ink/p/watch-do-d...
Is it a crack in the edifice?
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Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?
It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?
Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold
A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Bezos just obeyed. We never will
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February 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.
February 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.
Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle.
If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa.
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If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa.
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Government is a miracle
Why DOGE's attack on "waste" is really an attack on an entire century of progress
the.ink
February 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle.
If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa.
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If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa.
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Really appreciate viewer feedback
February 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Really appreciate viewer feedback
Not one vote. What are these people doing?
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Not one vote. What are these people doing?
If only there were a word for this
A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.
Documents reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportations
The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If only there were a word for this
Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine
America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires.
It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.
Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.
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It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.
Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.
FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/milquetoas...
February 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires.
It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.
Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.
FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/milquetoas...
It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.
Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.
FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/milquetoas...
Reposted by Anand Giridharadas
Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism:
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WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
the.ink
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism:
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The month of moping ends now.
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The month of moping ends now.
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.
Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis.
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Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis
What explains the confounding Trump-Musk(-Vance) view of "free speech"?
the.ink
February 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis.
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New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.”
We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do.
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We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do.
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WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy
In an interview, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a grave warning about the country's most "serious moment" since the Civil War and answered questions about how Democrats must change their ways fast
the.ink
February 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.”
We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do.
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We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do.
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20,000!!!
This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: 20,000 new potential candidates since Election Day. RFS alum fighting to build more housing + lower utility costs. So much good stuff I could barely squeeze it into on email. Seriously. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
RFS feel-good update (2/18): 20,000+ since Election Day
The people we recruit today are the people who run in 2026.
rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
20,000!!!
We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us.
I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.
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I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.
FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...
February 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us.
I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.
FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...
I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.
FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...
I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.”
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
the.ink
February 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.”
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It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us.
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
the.ink
February 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us.
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The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice.
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How to survive the abuser-in-chief
The Ink “sees” a therapist to explore the links between narcissism and authoritarianism — and get some advice for the next four years
the.ink
February 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice.
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Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true:
Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures.
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Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures.
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Trump pardons…cancer?
As-yet-uncured ailments score a major victory
the.ink
February 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true:
Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures.
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Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures.
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Reposted by Anand Giridharadas
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?