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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have Yotam Maron on talk about his book on Occupy Wall Street and his subsequent 15 years of experience in leftist organizing: www.leftanchor.com/e/occupy-wal...

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Republicans, they're not like us.

Every clip I see about Bauza is so heartbreaking, he seems like such an amazing dude. Also, we gotta bring back using voice actors for animated shows and not just celebrities looking for an easy buck.

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

"Put another way, VAR ‘sees’ the game with a degree of sensitivity and perspective that the humans on the pitch—including the referees—aren’t capable of accessing in real time." profspur.substack.com/p/against-var

aw man this sucks. RIP apnews.com/article/eric...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

boy this El Nino is sure hitting. massive floods in the Southwest in *October* www.durangoherald.com/articles/new...

"It’s difficult to overstate how much billionaires dominate Republican campaign funding. We’re talking about a few dozen families and, at the highest tier, a small handful of men." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/three...

60,000 workers. god damn www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

ending of Valiant Hearts: The Great War

"More broadly this fits with a standard Netanyahu strategy which is essentially: the results of my policies are dire and I’m the only one who can protect us in such a dire situation." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-bri...

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

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🚨🚨New version of our student debt cancellation paper is out.🚨🚨 Using a nationally representative credit panel, we follow borrowers whose federal loans were canceled in 2021–2024 for up to four years. Cancellation raised homeownership, credit scores, and credit access. 1/20

"Both top-shelf reporting and top officials in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, have said that Musk made this decision on his own. That would be treason. The traditional way to figure out the truth of such a matter is with a trial." prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

I cannot believe that Eric Bauza has passed away, at age 46. We’d just talked about his life and his voices and his son. A shattering loss

ICYMI our report from Maine on Troy Jackson and AOC's pitch to young voters. prospect.org/2026/10/23/m...

Love this story from Larkin Cleland & Madhumita Dutta about Ohio residents in a rural area who have to decide whether to take a payout & escape the crush of data centers built up around them. The man profiting from the land underneath those data centers is... Les Wexner. prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

they’re squalling about this because it was a very accurate and pretty funny insult

I grew up around here, this is crazy www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

I guess this is just never going away, awesome

North America Schengen Zone is politically implausible at present but a basically guaranteed massive win on the merits of

underrated aspect of AOC is (unlike Gottheimer, Manchin, Sinema et al) that she is a pretty dogged party loyalist. a 21st century Robert Wagner

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

I think very specifically it cannot be the case that the president can pardon people *in advance* for crimes of which they have not yet been convicted. That's not a pardon power, that's lawlessness.

just unlocked our latest @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep www.leftanchor.com/e/trump-is-g...

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treason, treason everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

"When the University of Chicago’s Institute for Climate & Sustainable Growth polled Americans in 2025 on climate solutions, for example, it found that only 38 percent were willing to pay a single dollar more per month for the sake of sustainability." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-anti-pop...