Coming up on The Dean Obeidallah Show: @joesudbay.bsky.social rounds out the week with @msignorile.bsky.social , @dylangyauchl.bsky.social , @rweingarten.bsky.social , and @pamspaulding.bsky.social ! ☎️: 866-997-4748 🔊: siriusxm.us/Dean

In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

The abundance clique has an AI problem. Beyond being funded by Silicon Valley, the ecosystem features an array of tech libertarians, a smattering of technofascism, and no answers for our anti-AI moment. Read @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com! newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has a piece out in @newrepublic.com about why affordability has to include taking on corporate power. "Prosperity is not possible until those who have schemed against the American people are run to ground and held accountable at last." newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Go read my latest in the monthly about affordability politics and why it's deeper than just price levels!

My latest in @theintercept.com, the Epstein files are a case study in our lack of elite accountability. They're also an opportunity to clean house, if we'll take it. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...

I'll be doing a panel about abundance, environmentalism, and community oversight at UC Davis tomorrow! If anyone in the greater Bay Area wants to come say hi, give me a shout! pcl.org/events/2026-...

In our latest installment of Hackwatch, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about companies' "technobabble defense," obscuring underhanded and illegal conduct behind jargon. Our central point: "The rule of law does not have an algorithm exception" revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/the-techno...

If there are no consequences for this, it basically amounts to carte blanche to commit insider trading via strategic data releases. Just saying

All I want for Christmas is an opposition party!

From border czar Tom Homan taking cash in a paper bag to the Trump family’s $5 billion in crypto profits, this is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. Democratic leadership is squandering their chance to stop it. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social: trib.al/7KlBr43

House Democrats are undermining the party's chance to run against Trumpian graft by prioritizing the protection of their own corrupt incumbents. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case for @prospect.org. prospect.org/2025/12/23/h...

As recently as February, Michael Hsu was one of the most powerful regulators of the financial industry Last week, he joined a VC firm whose portfolio is littered with concerning companies that have faced a # of enforcement actions, including some from Hsu’s (now former) employer

Biden's head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu just joined a venture capital firm with several crypto clients that were under legal trouble during the Biden administration. Sheesh. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social: prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...

In today's edition of the Watchdog Weekly newsletter, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about the savage cuts to regulatory agencies that leave Americans more vulnerable to disease, disaster, exploitation, and more. revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/cutting-cr...

Go read my latest!

Larry Summers is stepping back from "public commitments," whatever that means. Good. Now to never let him come back. My latest out today in @theintercept.com ! theintercept.com/2025/11/18/l...

Donald Trump's campaign of corruption is the logical endpoint for decades of elite impunity. Moving past it and restoring the rule of law will require unrigging our political system and restoring accountability. NEW from @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @theintercept.com.

Much like the East Wing, the bank supervision agencies have been demolished. The agencies no longer have the resources or inclination to rigorously enforce the law. More in my latest for @prospect.org. prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...

Bank supervision has been quietly eviscerated since the inauguration. Staffing cuts, regulation rollbacks, weaker standards. In the face of growing risk from asset bubbles, climate change, and more, we're throwing out the tools to ensure a sound banking system 2/2

Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong?? Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2 prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...

Kind of terrifying that apparently Sam Altman thinks "so far, the technology has not produced a really scary giant risk" Causing psychosis + inciting suicide and murder seems scary to me x.com/LuizaJarovsk...

NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame. Our full response in today’s newsletter:

Centrist Democrats have again decided the path to victory is to tack to the right. But their compulsive moderation “reinforces the perception that the Democratic Party stands for nothing.” @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/ocSBbuw

Democrats' version of triangulation is really just about punching left. It's as much running right by rote as it is an actual strategy Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case today in @prospect.org! 🧵 prospect.org/politics/cen...

No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth. Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social! www.thesling.org/the-hollowne...

Public-interest lawsuits are a critical mechanism to defend communities from exploitation. This summer, Memphis showed us why attacks on them from the abundance movement, Trump, and SCOTUS are so dangerous. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social for @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/musk...

New blog: "while supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism." therevolvingdoorproject.org/dont-listen-...

Ted Cruz is trying to exempt AI companies from virtually every federal regulation. The person who would hand out the waivers once worked as Peter Thiel’s chief of staff. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/E2hsVcY

My latest for @TheProspect is out this morning, about Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it would be an end-run around all of federal law for tech firms. Hope folks enjoy! prospect.org/power/2025-0... (Also I had fun with the subheads)

"Throughout the text, there are myriad details that tilt technocracy in favor of Big Tech and deregulation. From the definitions on, the bill is packed with requirements that make the process favor applicants seeking waivers." 4/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

The bill would give the White House director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, currently a former Thiel chief of staff, near total control over a process to grant waivers or modifications to regulations promulgated under nearly any federal law. 3/4

"Big Tech has been pushing, basically, to be exempt from the law" - @economicsecurityproject.org 's Anna Aurilio 2/4

NEW: For @prospect.org our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about Ted Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it could waive nearly all federal regulation for tech companies. 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

On the latest edition of TAP’s Weekly Roundup @ddayen.bsky.social talks with @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and Bryan McMahon about the enormous environmental and economic costs of AI, and what could happen if the AI bubble bursts. trib.al/ZtLdTx1

Recent polling found that only 17% of Americans believe that AI will help the country in the next 20 years. Democrats should align themselves with this popular view. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social‬ and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social‬:

My latest w/ @maxmoranhi.bsky.social is out in @prospect.org today! It's about why Democrats need to vigorously oppose the AI industry. Hope folks find it interesting! prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Democrats must oppose the AI industry. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social lay out the case this morning in a piece for @prospect.org 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

You're hearing it more and more! there's a reason this was in my piece from this morning open.substack.com/pub/revolvin...

In our coverage of this week's abundapalooza, I got the fun job in writing this Hackwatch newsletter! I talk about the good, the bad, and the weird bedfellows, drawing on recent reports from my wonderful colleagues. Hope folks enjoy!

NEW from our @maxmoranhi.bsky.social, @jeffhauser.bsky.social, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social: The tech wonder boys have always been terrible. Democrats shouldn't try to bring them back into the fold revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Interestingly, this was a problem Ezra Klein paid lip service to the next day but didn't really tackle. That column basically sums it up as AI technically doesn't have to be an environmental disaster, making the subtext that the issue isn't AI per se 1/🧵

ICYMI- my latest was out in @commondreams.org on Saturday! There's no path to sustainable AI now. We're "at a fork in the road with two very different options: a political reckoning with Silicon Valley or a rapprochement paid for with environmental havoc." www.commondreams.org/opinion/ai-v...

Before DOGE, there was “blitzscaling:” Silicon Valley’s practice of rapidly growing a business to skirt existing regulations by moving too fast for the law to respond. From @henryburke.bsky.social‬ and @dylangyauchl.bsky.social‬ with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social‬:

With my colleague @henryburke.bsky.social , I wrote for @prospect.org about how Silicon Valley used "blitzscaling" as a blueprint to get away with breaking the law-and what the Trump admin has copied from that approach. 1/2 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

If Democrats are serious about fighting Trump and reversing his war on governance, democracy and history, they need to adapt. The political structures of the past are destined to fail in this moment, they need to create new ones, writes our @maxmoranhi.bsky.social

Student loans are pricier but at least we have higher ed grants. Wait, except the office that gives them out has lost hundreds of employees. Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social on the crisis at the Office of Federal Student Aid: prospect.org/education/20...

NEW: Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has a book review for Dan Wang's Breakneck out in @theslingutah.bsky.social. Give it a read! www.thesling.org/on-the-optim...

My latest is out in @theslingutah.bsky.social ! It's a book review of Dan Wang's Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. First: It's a fantastic book! I often disagree with Tyler Cowen, but I can absolutely get behind his blurb for Wang's book. 1/🧵 www.thesling.org/on-the-optim...

Both DOGE and Abundance fall into the same trap: ignoring externalities in the name of "government efficiency" writes our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @promarket.bsky.social. Sometimes "everything bagel liberalism" isn't inefficient, it's just accounting for the real cost of government policy.