Canceling My Billionaire Donors for Being in the Epstein Cabal Just Further Shrinks the Democratic Tent -my latest for the Searchlight Institute substack

New from me: an interesting tale from Iowa, where anti-establishment populist and serial electoral overperformer JD Scholten is dropping his bid for Senate to back the DSCC pick, relative newcomer Josh Turek. theintercept.com/2025/08/18/j...

it’s kind of funny just how cooked the party is. using diversity loopholes to throw out the election of someone who said we should do something about the olds, while any semblance of a popular economic agenda gets muscled aside by a warmed over neoliberal astroturf project

🎶What can I say except you're welcome, you're welcome🎶 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Corporate support was a cynical marketing ploy to tap into the perceived disposable income of LGBTQ+ Americans," writes @austinahlman.bsky.social.

one of the biggest red flags of this project is the politicians who are being tapped to champion it

NEW: 🚢⚓️ Our transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao has a big, new report out today on why U.S. maritime power declined - and how to effectively revive it. Read the report & his corresponding piece in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

I have an article in the @financialtimes.com today highlighting cloud computing's systemic role in our economies and societies, and the grave dangers of concentrating this critical infrastructure in the hands of a few monopolistic U.S. tech giants. www.ft.com/content/5c93...

It's week 2 of #googlesearch remedies trial. I'll miss the DOJ resting its case this morning but will be back for Google's first witness: Heather Adkins, Google VP of Cybersecurity (part of the session might be closed). 🗞️In the meantime, my recap of week 1: www.techpolicy.press/analyzing-we...

CJL reporter @austinahlman.bsky.social explains why yesterday's ruling against Google's monopoly over digital advertising is a major win for journalism. READ: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/18/c...

I think it is reasonable for the leader of the United Auto Workers to support a tax on foreign car imports

I think blocking people liberally is just fine and probably creates a healthy experience, but the idea of “blocklists” is so insane to me. like what do you mean you are outsourcing the decision about what voices you should and shouldn’t hear from to other people?

I stand by it

Don't love the informal convention that writers on staff at a publication cannot criticize other writers there. Give me a magazine full of writers who all openly hate each other and spit at each other in the hallway

Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row, yet insists it "has turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges" and that "momentum is on our side" to eventually pass one.

need a couple people to drop obscenities and unhinged rants in my mentions once or twice a day for the next few weeks to help ease me into the new platform

so who do I follow on this site to make it feel less like a nonprofit happy hour?

bluesky trial period let’s go