I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

💡 En pleine glorification de l'extrême droite en France d'une campagne de caniveau à Marseille, cette interview relève le niveau et remet du baume au coeur. Merci !

1er épisode de WHAT DO WE WANT ? La députée Delia Ramirez, proche de AOC et Bernie Sanders, sur la résistance à l'autoritarisme, l'avenir du Parti démocrate, et la politique étrangère des 🇺🇸 après Trump. Regardez sur YouTube, il y a des sous-titres en français :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgA...

1er épisode de WHAT DO WE WANT ? La députée Delia Ramirez, proche de AOC et Bernie Sanders, sur la résistance à l'autoritarisme, l'avenir du Parti démocrate, et la politique étrangère des 🇺🇸 après Trump. Regardez sur YouTube, il y a des sous-titres en français :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgA...

First episode of WHAT DO WE WANT is now online! A conversation with Squad member @ramirez.house.gov about fighting for democracy, the working class, and US foreign policy after Trump. Link in bio!

À Saint-Avold, une candidature ouvrière peut-elle faire reculer le RN ? via @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Excited to announce "What Do We Want? Conversations with the International Left." First episode coming on YouTube next week. www.youtube.com/@cstangler

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

A prominent left-wing presidential candidate explicitly stating that working class voters outside of large urban areas are not the priority for a modern left of the 21st century, what could go wrong?

The best critique you'll read in English of Mélenchon's "New France" discourse, which assigns a whole swath of today's French working class to a backwards "Old France."

🗓️ RV ce jeudi 12/02 à 18 h dans notre librairie de quartier #Marseille 13002 avec notre talentueux journaliste marseillais d'adoption dont le dernier livre est (malheureusement) on ne peut plus d'actualité... @colestangler.bsky.social @arenes.fr ⏩ Pour vous y rendre : maps.app.goo.gl/5iCe2Gbpa41f...

"The point is not that what progressives do must never be criticized; the point is that the relentless drive to find fault with both sides equally results in a sense of (false) equivalence among those taking cues from supposedly trustworthy centrists."

In Minneapolis, the sounds of ICE Watch whistles echo the church bells that guided Resistance in occupied France. In my latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I spoke to Minnesotans & WWII historians to explore the lessons of such parallels for the Minneapolis uprising newlinesmag.com/essays/minne...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

See you in the streets Wednesday! (The Vieux Port that is) #iceout #solidaritywithminneapolis

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

This is an elected member of Congress & the GOP saying that he welcomes a war against another nuclear power who is literally our oldest ally & with whom we have a formal treaty military alliance. Congrats again on that National Conversation™️ about which party has moved further from the center 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Tfw you're looking at the "Europe" tour dates for an Americana/rock/folk/country band and it's all Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden. #CometoFranceandSouthernEurope

The great @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on today's general strike in Minneapolis newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Appel à la grève générale à Minneapolis aujourd’hui, de nombreux syndicats soutiennent le mouvement

Just checking in on the extraordinary emergency summit of European leaders underway

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

If you work in the State Department and would like to talk about Greenland, my email is in my bio! Also on Signal.

Si les États-Unis avaient une société démocratique saine, le 25ème amendement de la Constitution aurait été invoqué depuis bien longtemps fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vingt-c...

"I was praying. I was like, God, please help me, I didn't do anything wrong. Why do they do this to me?" www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...

In today’s increasingly inaccessible sports world, the French soccer team Olympique de Marseille shows that another type of fandom is possible, writes @colestangler.bsky.social. Sports fans can organize and win concessions—like affordable tickets. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I'm excited to be speaking at the Night of Ideas in London February 5. Come on out! www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend...

En attendant le match d’aujourd’hui, ça parle de l’OM et ses tendances populaires, pro-immigrant et culture des supporters chez @thenation.com (~hebdo de gauche) [en anglais] #TeamOM

My feature about Olympique de Marseille is up @thenation.com. It's a story about popular culture, immigration, a unique city and the power supporters have when they organize. Feat. @medericgc.bsky.social, François Thomazeau, Marine Pattyn and many others. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Pour contrer un Donald Trump en roue libre, l’Union européenne et le Royaume-Uni disposeraient de nombreux moyens de pression économiques et militaires. Ils préfèrent pour le moment le flatter au moyen d’une « mission » de l’Otan conçue sur mesure pour lui. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Newsroom raids and searches of journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, usually intended to intimidate journalists from reporting and to deter their sources from sharing information with them. We need to make sure these practices aren't normalized here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Our February 2026 issue is here! Featuring @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the "secretary of war," @colestangler.bsky.social on a working class soccer team in France, Vivian Gornick on John Updike's letters, and more! Subscribe to read: subscriptions.thenation.com.

Pascal Praud sur CNews à l'instant : « Les gens en face sont blancs […] ce n’est pas facile pour les policiers. Voilà, ils sont obligés de s’interposer en plus avec des gens de qui ils partagent parfois les convictions et les origines » Ils n'essayent même plus de faire semblant. C'est sidérant.

Sometimes I feel like my whole professional life is just sending emails to people. Sometimes they respond, sometimes they don't. But I keep sending them!

With Mélenchon commemorating François Mitterrand 30 yrs after his death (a reminder that his time in the Socialist Party has had much greater influence on his career than his youthful Trotskyism), I thought I'd reshare my review of his book for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/25/m...

🇫🇷 Le Monde: Concern among French judges as Der Spiegel reports that the Trump administration may consider sanctions against the three judges who sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in prison and five years of ineligibility for misappropriation of public funds (Gift) www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

If the US occupies and annexes Greenland, do you think a Democratic administration would reverse the move? Sincere question

First in @semafor.com: NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

If/when a Democratic president returns, I hope there will be consequences for these acts that are obviously unconstitutional and in violation of international law. Obama admin set a horrible precedent by deciding not to prosecute Bush officials over the many horrors of the War on Terror.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Interesting piece calling for democracy reform and renewal in France that’s directly relevant to US. In both nations, the answer to political dysfunction and public frustration is deeper democracy and enriched citizenship, not strongman rule and ever more concentrated power. #democracy

France’s political crisis is made worse by the hyper-presidential regime of the 5th Republic. For @nytimesoped.bsky.social, I wrote about what a more democratic and representative form of government could look like. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

Early New Year’s resolution: I’m gonna start posting again. Down with self-censorship

Il y a 2 semaines j'ai donné une interview au Figaro sur les 🇺🇸. À un moment la journaliste m'a demandé mon avis sur le « wokisme ». Je lui ai répondu que je ne comprenais pas la question, que c'était un terme fourre-tout utilisé par la droite et qu'il fallait être plus précis. 0 nouvelles depuis 😬

Il n’en a rien dit sur ses réseaux sociaux, mais le ministre chargé de l’Europe Benjamin Haddad était présent hier pour soutenir Nicolas Sarkozy, après ses condamnations dans trois des plus grands scandales de la Ve République : Bismuth (corruption), Bygmalion (financement illégal) et Libye.👇

🇺🇸📖 Comme l’info a fuité sur X, je vous l’annonce ici officiellement : Mon premier ouvrage, « Une Constitution morte : aux origines de la réaction américaine », sortira aux Éditions Amsterdam le 16 janvier 2026 ! 🥳 Présentation ⤵️

La majeure partie de la dette contractée depuis 2018 s'enracine dans l'aide aux communes de Provence. Au détriment de Marseille.