"100 million deportations" is catching on, thanks to the Trump admin advocacy. It reinforces the importance of birthright citizenship. I explain how the 14th amendment was implemented in part to stop ethnic cleansing and how Trump wants to undermine it www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-isnt...

Oh, hey, how's the heterodoxification of CBS News going?

The recent Yale report's ostensive purpose was self examination of elite universities' failure. But dig deeper into what it doesn't say, and it becomes clear that it was really trying to manage optics at a time of regime hostility. By moi at @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

How Do You Do, Fellow Teens?

Absolute clown Martinez turned out to be. The single biggest vulnerability for Portugal entering this WC—arguably its strongest-ever side—is Ronaldo’s inclusion. To suggest he could play next WC is malpractice.

This is like anti-clickbait

This is like anti-clickbait

Florida burned through $1.2 million per day—peaking at $3 milli per day—to run Alligator Alcatraz. Two-thirds of the nearly 1,400 detainees held there were classified by the federal government's own data as noncriminal. My latest for @theunpopulist.net

This is @aaronrosspowell.com's new podcast. Everything he does is worth following and subscribing to (hint: go subscribe to @liberalism.org if you haven't yet). And this new podcast with @uncanonical.net is no different. Give it a listen!

In my ideal future, @liberalcurrents.com @theunpopulist.net @thebulwark.com and other like-minded places command stratospheric numbers. The Bulwark folks are on their way by hitting 1M print subscribers. But this is the media landscape we both need and deserve.

Wow what an amazing product

Wow what an amazing product

“We need to be prepared, given that it’s not hard to see more extreme members and Trump himself pushing something like this between November and January…We should be clear: It would be a coup d’état, an attempt to overthrow constitutional government altogether.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-vra-ru...

Understandable concern about not just the midterms but what comes next, seating the House on Jan 3. It's not as simple as Johnson could refuse members. But there is real potential for mischief or worse. Callais has appreciably increased the danger. So here's what they might try, and how to fight it:

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Here we go. This is brilliant from @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net. Share this widely.

Here we go. This is brilliant from @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net. Share this widely.

If you have to say it’s not a golden calf, it’s clearly a golden calf.

My “this is not a golden calf” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

Man, @gregsargent.bsky.social continues to crush it. Read his latest at @newrepublic.com on how even some Republicans are now running from Trump's ballroom. This is a political opening Democrats cannot afford to squander.

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Our new video roundup includes a clip (by me) on what the lastest Kash Patel saga reveals about Trumpworld; a clip by @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social on Mamdani's grocery store plan; and a clip by @jamellebouie.net on his call for an "imperial Congress." Subscribe to @theunpopulist.net!

How the experience of Chinese immigrants in America helped forge the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship position. Such a fantastic read in @theunpopulist.net

Truly eye-popping piece.

Within minutes of the WHCA shooting, Speaker Johnson, Boebert, Chip Roy, Posobiec, Libs of TikTok and countless other reactionary voices were all pushing the exact same message: build the ballroom. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

Following Saturday's shooting, a coordinated MAGA messaging campaign flooded social media with pathetically performative calls for Trump to get his White House ballroom. My latest for @theunpopulist.net

Incredible things happening at the Substack party

When the next measles outbreak makes it to your hometown, call it “The Joe Rogan Experience.” (new @ms.now column)

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Yeah he would never

Wonder what it was about them 🤔

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Fantastic analysis

Man, this is so good—and morally urgent—from @mattjj89.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net Share this one widely

Wait until you hear about the depravities you can commit in America and still get to be president.

Wait until you hear about the depravities you can commit in America and still get to be president.

Happy Easter!

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Hugely important report in @theunpopulist.net on the abominable desecration of the First Amendment, and trampling on the religious liberty of an already marginalized community, by Texas Republicans.

Kennedy's new vaccine advisory chair is questioning whether the U.S. should still recommend the polio vaccine.

Donald Trump has steered the Republican Party away from free trade and toward economic nationalism and protectionism, creating an unbelievable opening for Democrats, if they are wise enough to take it. Democrats 👏 need to 👏 own 👏 free trade 👏 Send this to your member of Congress.

The most promising potential for a genuine policy issue realignment has been for Dems—across the board including progressives—to unapologetically embrace international free trade. Negatively polarized into it, sure. But the right result and a natural fit going forward even after Trump is gone.

Senator Richard Russell of GA, for whom the Russell Office Building is named and who sat in the senate for nearly 40 years, saw it as his duty to compensate politically for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg The Civil War and its cause - slavery - are never actually far from the US discourse

What even is this? Who even thinks to compare these things?

What’s the coolest name any scholar has ever had? I mean, “Zeno” is just absurdly iconic.

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