Michael Podhorzer

Are we on the brink of a constitutional crisis? No—we’re already in one, and have been for two decades. Here, I explain how even progressive legal experts have enabled this coup, and how we can start to reclaim our own power to decide constitutional meaning. www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

This is now! Join us for insights into how Lula won in Brazil and what the US can learn from it.

Today @ 1pm EDT @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social will be joined by Pedro Telles, Program Director @ D-Hub, to give us the inside scoop of the historic electoral victory for Lula this week in #Brazil and what we can expect to see next.

Tune in live soon! I'll explain the framework I use for understanding both the Roberts Court term and the midterms.

Today @ 1pm EDT! Join @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social for Meeting the Moment. Livestream here:

Join me live with @thelisagraves.bsky.social - open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Unions are the only major institution that has gained and not lost support since the Great Recession. Yet after Labor Day, the people who write about “the working class” for a living will manage not to say the word “union” out loud again for 364 days. www.contrariannews.org/p/labor-day-...

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Most of Democratic "affordability" messaging is about what things cost. The missing half of that equation is what you make. Unions are the “one neat trick” we have to improve wages, benefits, and more. They're incredibly popular. So why don't Dems talk about unions—or show up for them—much more?

Democrats won’t become the “party of the working class” by finding the right message. Instead, Dems need to stop treating working-class voters as consumers to be marketed to, and start treating them as partners again. www.contrariannews.org/p/labor-day-...

Republicans will face a drubbing in the midterms, and Dem consultants are already mistaking working-class anger at Republicans for working-class attraction to their genius "affordability" messaging. How can Dems build a durable governing coaliation that actually deserves working people's support?

Good article by @mikepod.bsky.social on what Democrats need to do better to earn the support of unions & working people. It’s not just the right thing to do. It’s also good strategy for the party to win. www.contrariannews.org/p/labor-day-...

How can Democrats actually become "the party of the working class" again? New from me at @contrariannews.org : www.contrariannews.org/p/labor-day-...

Watch this "State of the Unions" address from @lizshuler.bsky.social featuring new @aflcio.org polling data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8QK...

Join me today at 1pm ET with special guest @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on “Meeting the Moment” with @anatosaurus.bsky.social! We’ll talk about the midterms and get an insider’s perspective on the media environment. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Join me with @gelliottmorris.com at 1pm ET! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Absolutely thrilled to be interviewing @naomiaklein.bsky.social in a few hours! We will dive deeply into how we got here and how we get out. Join us.

Few thinkers can match @naomiaklein.bsky.social in explaining the disorientation of this moment—how capitalists and authoritarians manufacture chaos, then exploit it to control us. Join me and @anatosaurus.bsky.social live today at 4pm ET/1pm PT: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

This story has flown horrifically under the radar for the last year and a half. www.weekendreading.net/p/the-crimes...

Join me, Anat, and Sarah Mehta right now to discuss this pact, Michigan, and more! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Join me with constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt right now for some great insights on the Declaration of Independence! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

As we lurch toward November, we're going to be getting the same advice dressed up as novelty: beat the opposition by becoming them. An examination of the failures of that approach: open.substack.com/pub/anatosau...

Read this whole thread. The Platner implosion provides occasion to recollect what we learned about Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, our two sexual predator Supreme Court justices. bsky.app/profile/mike...

All of this. And, the additional hubris is assuming they will sail through anyway. That the women will not be believed or that the allegations will not matter -- assuming the public will see the women as these men have and do.

Join me, @anatosaurus.bsky.social (now) and @jiggygero.bsky.social (at 1:30) here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Tomorrow 1pm ET @mikepod.bsky.social & I host convo with your favorite organizer’s, favorite organizer: Doran Schrantz. She helped establish the “Minnesota Miracle” and is now the go-to person across states for getting folks out to confront fascist threats. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

"How did our country get so broken? In short, it broke when the billionaires broke it." I wrote this in October of 2024. It's about to get even worse after the Roberts Court's ruling in NRSC v. FEC. www.weekendreading.net/p/the-john-r...

Join me live now with Esosa Osa: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Under appreciated about NY winners is that they ran better campaigns. They talked to voters & got voters to talk to each other about them. Magnetism 101: if you want people to come to your cause, be attractive. Pollingists can't comprehend or recreate this: donors are their audience.

Join me and @anatosaurus.bsky.social live now with special guest Prentiss Haney: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Vitally important from Ron Brownstein: www.cnn.com/2026/05/24/p...

You won't want to miss this: Join me at 1pm ET for a chat with @rickperlstein.bsky.social! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Great piece from the Roberts OG, @thelisagraves.bsky.social . Truly, she is Roberts's anti-Boswell. If you haven't subscribed to her Substack, what are you waiting for? www.graveinjustice.news/p/the-robert...

Watch this week's Meeting the Moment with @anatosaurus.bsky.social where @mikepod.bsky.social explains how the Callais decision essentially reintroduces the effects of the 3/5 clause. Really important history lesson through the years of Southern voter suppression. Watch Here:

This is in 10 minutes! Join me and Anat for some fresh insights on the Callais ruling: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

When I heard Shaun Ossei-Owusu on the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast recently, I knew I needed to talk to him. His new book exposes the many ways that law school education and the legal profession actually perpetuate the injustices that people become lawyers to try to fix. Many valuable insights here:

I'm live now with Shaun Ossei Owusu, author of "Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System," to talk about the Callais ruling on the VRA: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

ICYMI: For #MayDay, an extremely thorough roundup of research on why unions are good for all of us, not just their members: www.weekendreading.net/p/more-than-...

Today's May Day actions (no school, no work, no shopping) are a way to flex our collective economic power, and a way to build our organizing muscles for bigger actions down the road. www.weekendreading.net/p/tax-day-an...

TODAY: Americans are walking out of school and work to wield our power as workers, consumers, and students. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Find one of the more than 3,000 events planned for May Day: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... #MayDay