Join me live with Esosa Osa of Onyx Impact at 2:30 pm ET! We'll talk about their new report (blackoutreport.org/report/?utm_...) showing over 15,000 instances of the Trump regime suppressing info about Black history, health, education, and economic opportunity. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Unpacking last night's election results and more, with @anatosaurus.bsky.social www.weekendreading.net/p/why-democr...

Mamdani is a Magnetist. And last night showed the credulity chasm is closing. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Tune in at 1pm! We'll talk about last night's election results, what they mean, and what's next, and take your questions.

“Stop conferring symmetry where there is none. Stop calling capture “jurisprudence.” Stop laundering tyranny as “the [ #SCOTUS] decisions.” Name shadowcasters, not the shadows. Then act as if the govt belongs to the people who live under it—because if we don’t, it never will.” @mikepod.bsky.social 🔥

1️⃣ Calling This Court “Supreme” Is Obeying in Advance When will legal and media elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law? Why “Supreme Court Poised to Weaken Voting Rights Act,” when it should be “Republican Justices Appear Poised to Entrench Republican House Control"?

Join me at 1pm ET on Substack Live for an interview with Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman to discuss his essential work on the Constitution and the Supreme Court. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Join @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social again today @ 1pm ET for Meeting the Moment on Substack! Live stream here:

The Roberts Court could use this case to rig Congress in Republicans' favor for at least a generation: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Join me and @anatosaurus.bsky.social at 1pm today! We'll discuss the new Roberts Court term and Anat's vital new piece about why "Pollingism" has failed Democrats and voters (www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...) open.substack.com/live-stream/...

This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

ICYMI, a tour de force guest post at Weekend Reading by @anatosaurus.bsky.social www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Please join me on Substack Live today at 2pm ET with @thelisagraves.bsky.social. Her must-read new book "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights" breaks much new ground on how we got here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Please join me on Substack Live today at 2pm ET with @thelisagraves.bsky.social. Her must-read new book "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights" breaks much new ground on how we got here. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

New at Weekend Reading: What the Kimmel dust-up tells us about the demise of free speech. This incident felt like state censorship—but Kimmel’s suspension and un-suspension were both business decisions. And we almost never notice or object to the ways that censorship has been privatized. 🧵

It’s no accident that authoritarians like Trump attack both public education and the labor movement. Great chat with @rweingarten.bsky.social on why fascists fear teachers: www.weekendreading.net/p/randi-wein...

Today @ 1pm ET - join @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on Substack Live. Join the live chat here:

A geeky deep-dive on opinion research and message testing with @farrahbostic.bsky.social www.weekendreading.net/p/how-to-fix...

And remember: it’s not just corporations, it’s wealth however packaged that drives politics — — unless effectively constrained by law as made by and for ordinary people, not just the wealthy or the elite

New at Weekend Reading: John Dewey warned us: big business casts the shadow we call politics. Today, we ignore the shadow-casters, construing their shadows—politicians and their campaigns—to be the whole story. www.weekendreading.net/p/shadows-an...

Join me on Substack Live at 1pm ET with @farrahbostic.bsky.social open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Get this in your brain. Listening to it for the second time and it just keeps hitting harder. I’m going to pull some clips of @mikepod.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social don’t mind.

This was such a rich and wide-ranging conversation with @ositanwanevu.com about his essential new book—what democracy means, how to make it real, and how to bring back the lost understanding of “economic democracy.” www.weekendreading.net/p/osita-nwan...

"No dollars for dictatorship." @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social this week on Substack Live.

Join me and @anatosaurus.bsky.social on Substack Live at 1pm ET! We'll take your questions and discuss my new Weekend Reading post (publishing momentarily!), how to frame the government shutdown fight, and the latest Robert's Court ruling. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Weekend Reading is back! Today’s post: “Monsters and their Enablers”—on how we got to this moment, why we’re trapped in an interregnum where monsters thrive, and what it will take to chart a new way forward.

Join me and @anatosaurus.bsky.social on Substack Live at 1pm ET! We'll take your questions and discuss my new Weekend Reading post (publishing momentarily!), how to frame the government shutdown fight, and the latest Robert's Court ruling. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Gramsci We have to be part of the birth of a new, better America. And the same leaders who got us here won't be the ones who get us out. www.weekendreading.net/p/a-consumer...

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Gramsci We have to be part of the birth of a new, better America. And the same leaders who got us here won't be the ones who get us out. www.weekendreading.net/p/a-consumer...

"People have to be inspired to go out and vote...as a hell no... and as a clap back." @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on Weekend Reading this week.

Missing here is the reality that mainstream media—and even many “progressive” Substacks—largely ignore union voices. Then their own disregard becomes evidence that there’s nothing to regard. If a tree falls in the forest but no one has the forest beat or takes forestry seriously, would anyone know?

For all the hand-wringing over Democrats losing "the working class," union members actually shifted toward Harris in 2024. And beyond voting, unions are the one institution equipped to channel our collective will to resist authoritarianism into collective action to stop it.

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

For all the hand-wringing over Democrats losing "the working class," union members actually shifted toward Harris in 2024. And beyond voting, unions are the one institution equipped to channel our collective will to resist authoritarianism into collective action to stop it.

"If you'd like to know who has taken your money - here's a hint: it's the people with all the money." @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on Weekend Reading. #Unions #LaborDay

Unions are our best and most proven defense against oligarchy and authoritarianism—which is why the Trump regime is trying to take labor rights back to the 1920s. I discussed this and more with @anatosaurus.bsky.social www.weekendreading.net/p/labor-day-...

Today @ 4pm ET join @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on Substack LIVE to hear their thoughts on the latest fascist power grabs by the Trump regime, and, in anticipation of Labor Day, the role of labor unions and working people in fighting back. Live stream here:

"The only way to stop a bully is to face them and make clear WE draw the line. That's why California voters are taking power into our own hands to ensure that our elections allow the will of the people to prevail." @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on #WeekendReading

Here's an old writeup of the point I made on @talkingfeds.bsky.social about redistricting. Why does Texas even have 5 more seats to gerrymander? Because earlier gerrymandering focused on making it almost impossible to vote out MAGA insurrectionists: www.weekendreading.net/p/you-cant-g...

@mikepod.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social are great for understanding the D.C. occupation, particularly on not falling for Trump's canard that this is all about crime. 9/ www.weekendreading.net/p/the-maga-r...

Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Here you have it, an ALL NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social w/ a stellar roundtable of @mikepod.bsky.social, @stuartpstevens.bsky.social & @jacobweisberg.bsky.social. Trump’s pretextual invasion of DC; gerrymandering wars in TX & CA; & an overall analysis of what ails the Dems. Link at bit.ly/CheckpointTF

Americans should seize the opportunity on Labor Day to join union members and leaders (who have been front and center in fighting authoritarianism) to protest peacefully.There are few more effective ways to show the bully-in-chief who still holds power contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-cri...

In “Checkpoint D.C.,” @mikepod.bsky.social, @stuartpstevens.bsky.social, & @jacobweisberg.bsky.social join Harry to take on Trump’s occupation of DC and CA. We then move to the TX and CA gerrymander wars and pan out for a general critique of what Dems sh be doing now. Link at bit.ly/CheckpointTF

Today at 1pm ET join @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social on Substack LIVE for a chat on the latest in American politics, including the MAGA regime's plans for taking over our elections. Live stream here:

It’s not a “distraction” when Trump deploys military and feds against DC—it’s part of MAGA’s fascist project. We must act as if we believe this is true, because it is, and because doing otherwise makes it impossible to think strategically about how to fight back. With @anatosaurus.bsky.social

"Today the most dangerous place in D.C. is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @mikepod.bsky.social talking this week about the MAGA regime's hostile takeover attempt of D.C.

"That is a little different than gerrymandering state X or state Y in 1973 ... just because something has happened before in America doesn't mean when Donald Trump does it right now, it's okay." Watch @perrybaconjr.bsky.social discuss this moment with strategist Michael Podhorzer. trib.al/Gl41LWy

I talked to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social, one of the sharpest analysts of American politics out there, about why so many institutions are failing to reckon with the current authoritarian moment, and how we should think about it instead. www.weekendreading.net/p/wer-live-w...