Zach Ager
@zachager.bsky.social
Ex-PE/angel investor turned healthcare exec & consultant. Advocate, mentor, uncle x6. Duke, Mizzou & Chiefs fan (he/him) 🏳️🌈
"We're all just here for each other." -Mary DBT Semans
"We're all just here for each other." -Mary DBT Semans
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"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
Some common sense to remember in a trying time.
Originally written in April 2025
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Originally written in April 2025
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
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November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
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Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
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This is why we need a new generation of leaders in Congress. After 40 days of holding firm, with public opinion and momentum on our side, establishment Democrats decided to cave to Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is why we need a new generation of leaders in Congress. After 40 days of holding firm, with public opinion and momentum on our side, establishment Democrats decided to cave to Trump.
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Wrote this three years ago. The football parts held up fine, not that it was hard to predict
Rub some church on it
"If this is found, then I'd rather be lost."
www.jasonkirk.fyi
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Wrote this three years ago. The football parts held up fine, not that it was hard to predict
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you know the behavioral crisis response programs are super effective because of how hard police unions are fighting to kill them. they know it’s going to cut into their funding because their response numbers go down even though they know they’re not equipped for these calls and never will be
Jesus Christ this Cuomo ad that ran during the Army/Air Force game
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
you know the behavioral crisis response programs are super effective because of how hard police unions are fighting to kill them. they know it’s going to cut into their funding because their response numbers go down even though they know they’re not equipped for these calls and never will be
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Thank you Will Bunch
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Thank you Will Bunch
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i really wish people would understand that the crypto bros are bribing their way into fucking us all over with their funny money because they’re desperate for a cash out that the government’s going to give them. even just the ballroom donors are an easy illustration.
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
i really wish people would understand that the crypto bros are bribing their way into fucking us all over with their funny money because they’re desperate for a cash out that the government’s going to give them. even just the ballroom donors are an easy illustration.
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This is awesome!
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is awesome!
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So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
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Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
September 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
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UNC is playing so poorly so quickly that the ESPN crew can’t even get the filler stories in between disasters
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
UNC is playing so poorly so quickly that the ESPN crew can’t even get the filler stories in between disasters
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Democrats have no choice but to match this intensity.
1. Advocate passionately for liberal democracy
2. Publicly promise that lawless fascists will be held accountable once they're out of power.
If you don't, the fascists will proceed until they win. I know this inconvenient for everyone.
1. Advocate passionately for liberal democracy
2. Publicly promise that lawless fascists will be held accountable once they're out of power.
If you don't, the fascists will proceed until they win. I know this inconvenient for everyone.
April 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Democrats have no choice but to match this intensity.
1. Advocate passionately for liberal democracy
2. Publicly promise that lawless fascists will be held accountable once they're out of power.
If you don't, the fascists will proceed until they win. I know this inconvenient for everyone.
1. Advocate passionately for liberal democracy
2. Publicly promise that lawless fascists will be held accountable once they're out of power.
If you don't, the fascists will proceed until they win. I know this inconvenient for everyone.
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Trust me, I don’t like the status quo of the US psychiatric industry any more than you do, but abetting RFK Jr’s eugenicist defunding of community mental health is not going to make anything better. “Listening to patients” must include listening to poor, non-white patients too.
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Trust me, I don’t like the status quo of the US psychiatric industry any more than you do, but abetting RFK Jr’s eugenicist defunding of community mental health is not going to make anything better. “Listening to patients” must include listening to poor, non-white patients too.
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The succession from Mike Krzyzewski to Jon Scheyer has been an evolution, not a revolution.
What happened in Newark on Saturday was carefully planned, considered and, eventually, executed — all with the intention of being in San Antonio in April.
www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
What happened in Newark on Saturday was carefully planned, considered and, eventually, executed — all with the intention of being in San Antonio in April.
www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
How Duke basketball reaching NCAA Final Four validates head coach Jon Scheyer’s plan
The Blue Devils’ trip to San Antonio, after Saturday’s 85-65 win over Alabama, was the product of years of planning to build around Cooper Flagg, and hard-learned lessons.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The succession from Mike Krzyzewski to Jon Scheyer has been an evolution, not a revolution.
What happened in Newark on Saturday was carefully planned, considered and, eventually, executed — all with the intention of being in San Antonio in April.
www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
What happened in Newark on Saturday was carefully planned, considered and, eventually, executed — all with the intention of being in San Antonio in April.
www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
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The Duke Blue Devils are going to the Final Four in Jon Scheyer's third season. This was his 89th win, tying him for the most victories in the first three years of a career in men's D-I history.
Blue Devils didn't even fully click and still rolled. The nation's most talented team, easily.
Blue Devils didn't even fully click and still rolled. The nation's most talented team, easily.
March 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Duke Blue Devils are going to the Final Four in Jon Scheyer's third season. This was his 89th win, tying him for the most victories in the first three years of a career in men's D-I history.
Blue Devils didn't even fully click and still rolled. The nation's most talented team, easily.
Blue Devils didn't even fully click and still rolled. The nation's most talented team, easily.
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No. 1 Duke fan Ken Jeong celebrating the team's win.
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
No. 1 Duke fan Ken Jeong celebrating the team's win.
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No one should say a thing may mean the "end of the Republic" without first suggesting the thing may mean the beginning of a conflict that exceeds electoral politics.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves with defeatism. Millions of Americans are not thrilled about living under a fascist theocracy.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves with defeatism. Millions of Americans are not thrilled about living under a fascist theocracy.
March 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No one should say a thing may mean the "end of the Republic" without first suggesting the thing may mean the beginning of a conflict that exceeds electoral politics.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves with defeatism. Millions of Americans are not thrilled about living under a fascist theocracy.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves with defeatism. Millions of Americans are not thrilled about living under a fascist theocracy.
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"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant
March 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant
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sharing this again because a) surely some of you didn't see it yet and b) there's a youtube of the narration by the incomparable Dion Graham (if you heard The Wager, that's him) www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
How Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring Forged a Friendship While Protesting the Killing of Michael Stewart
In an excerpt from ‘The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York,’ author Elon Green recounts the young artist’s killing at the hands of police and its impact on the art w...
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February 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
sharing this again because a) surely some of you didn't see it yet and b) there's a youtube of the narration by the incomparable Dion Graham (if you heard The Wager, that's him) www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, written in November 2024. The White House has become an island of international oligarchs.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
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Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
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February 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, written in November 2024. The White House has become an island of international oligarchs.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...