A government or a party that has no measure of accountability for failure is not a functional one. In a functional administration, all of these people would be blacklisted for the rest of their careers at the very least, not angling for new jobs.

If we don’t start treating our media system as core democratic infrastructure, we’re in real trouble. Hyper consolidated media conglomerates are accountable to their shareholders, not to the free expression that is the lifeblood of their industry and our democracy. My latest:

Fresh off of providing the intellectual heft to fuel the murderous anti-transgender panic @theatlantic.com is now targeting the whole left. Sick.

Talking about the kind of policy and governance that can truly deliver for people and restore faith in our political system with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - a real pleasure.

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

how is september actually ending tho aasthauprety.substack.com/p/when-septe...

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

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Isn't it crazy that the leader of our country is able to get comedians fired for their jokes? Pic unrelated

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Convenient timing: with a Nexstar merger under FCC review, an ABC affiliate took a throwaway Kimmel line and blew it up. That wasn’t about comedy—it was about flexing power while regulators are watching. www.reuters.com/world/us/dis...

Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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"Trump and his sycophantic gang are depressing confirmation of the most pessimistic economist’s view. But that does not mean that the Democrats should close ranks around technocracy." - @adamtooze.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Nepal has seen a remarkable revolutionary victory rendering a cabal of morally bankrupt corrupt political actors obsolete. Regardless of what comes next, good riddance to bad rubbish! Here’s an explainer I wrote

"The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time." Great thread on our report:

"And now #Nepal, from its present abyss, dreams of a new politics that actually works for the people. Let it not have to see more blood in its striving," writes Himal EIC @romangtm.bsky.social about the #GenZprotests in #Kathmandu

don't think it's a good thing to have a society this highly armed and this unstable

I'm so excited to share the launch of a new collaboration between @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social: The Transition Security Project. TSP will be a home for research, analysis, and new policy thinking at the intersection of climate, economy, & the military industries of the US and UK🧵

New York voters strongly prefer Mamdani's stance on Israel/Palestine over his opponents'. In fact, the gap between Mamdani and Cuomo on this issue, 27 percentage points, is larger than the gap on any other issue polled. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

Newsrooms are demoralizing workers every day. How can we expect the press to save democracy while they engage in censorship instead of practicing democracy in the workplace? prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Update: Nepali police is shooting into the emergency ward of hospitals.

US officials who resigned in protest of the horrific Biden admin Gaza policy are heroes (interviewed here, Tariq Habash, Josh Paul, Stacy Gilbert & others). The top leaders they served under (Blinken, Sullivan), who now wish to to re-write history, are war criminals. Solid piece by Sam Adler-Bell

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

BREAKING: Police in Kathmandu open fire on anti-government protesters, killing at least 8 people and injuring several more, Nepal's media report.

Smart piece; have been waiting for more progressive YIMBYs to start speaking up about some of the uglier sub-tendencies within "Abundance." This does a particularly good job differentiating between pragmatic alliance-building and welcoming actual fascists into your movement.

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There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.

There is no indication that republican leaders or voters even know what current immigration policy looks like. Their views are driven by Breitbart blowups about caravans, Haitians eating cats and MS-13. Change the policy all you want, they'll never give you an ounce of credit for it.

I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

"If you promise hope and change and fail to deliver, there is no way to recover from the consequent sense of popular betrayal, and no way to credibly promise change again." "What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place?" www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

TRUMP: I am deploying the US Marines to establish detention camps in Detroit ELISSA SLOTKIN: President Xi has gotten his hands on all seven chaos emeralds and China will soon achieve its super state

Taxing immigrants more is .... no. But "investing in the necessary state capacity to actually manage high levels of immigration" is KEY! That's the immigration system itself + infrastructure like housing, schools, etc. Actually integrating ppl would move public opinion so much

Are you currently in a humanities graduate degree program, or know someone who is? Are you/they interested in learning about public policy as a post-grad career path? Then check out the new internship program Roosevelt is launching!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's hard to look at the boat attack in the Caribbean, and not see the Israeli rules of engagement getting generalized.

Something extraordinary may be happening is Gaza tonight: As Israel was poised for expanded assault, Hamas apparently took initiative attacking Israeli forces in their positions, possibly inflicting large casualties and taking Israeli prisoners for first time since Oct. 7, 2023.

China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar. @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...

I had a lot of thoughts trying to process the ChatGPT-abetted death of Adam Raine and the mass shooting that left two kids dead. One was that it's little surprise that a society that tolerates mass gun death also tolerates tech companies building products that encourage kids to kill themselves.

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

good bit at the end about how central bank independence as it exists favors financial interests. Trump/consolidating exec power will only make things worse, but for future ref, there are reforms to make the Fed more democratically accountable open.spotify.com/episode/4ewx...