All throughout his campaign, Mamdani skillfully redirected any question back to the struggle of working-class New Yorkers to afford to live in the city they helped build. Mamdani also deftly linked the affordability crisis to the issue of corruption by the wealthy and powerful.
Ruling that the regime violated the First Amendment when they pushed tech companies to silence speech they didn’t like, the judge issued a preliminary injunction which blocks any more government coercion of tech companies to remove ICE-trackers.
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Ruling that the regime violated the First Amendment when they pushed tech companies to silence speech they didn’t like, the judge issued a preliminary injunction which blocks any more government coercion of tech companies to remove ICE-trackers.
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At best, the fog of war causes many to lose sight of where they are and what their priorities should be. At worst — when the judgment of the commander-in-chief isn’t trusted — the fog is impenetrable. I fear that’s where we are now. robertreich.substack.com/p/why-no-one...
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud. prospect.org/2026/04/21/a...
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud. prospect.org/2026/04/21/t...
Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty. prospect.org
Some MAGA followers are apologizing and doubting the orange menace lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/i-cannot-w...
So, in a grassroots, non-partisan rebellion against such ideological bullstuff, a majority coalition of ranchers, environmentalists, local sheriffs, native Americans, and just folks have momentarily stalled the scheme.
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Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/this-isnt-...
Lynn Parramore and Alissa Quart wrote an excellent article for The New Republic on (so-called) AI in the workforce. Its headline reads, “For White-Collar Workers, AI Also Stands for “‘Apocalyptic Insecurity.’” www.zerohourreport.com/p/for-worker...
After an internet troll found a Tweet Pope Leo retweeted in 2018 in condemnation of Trump’s policy of caging children, Donald Trump responded “Not good!!!” www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-atta...
Are these right-wing ideologues suddenly principled defenders of conservative values? Not a chance. They’re all just hucksters who sense a good business opportunity. These fake outrage artists are even using Trump’s playbook to do it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
At the end of the day, a human body covering 21 kilometers in 57 minutes remains one of the most remarkable things our species produces. A machine doesn’t change the beauty of that effort. It’s like saying a car is faster than a cheetah.
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At the end of the day, a human body covering 21 kilometers in 57 minutes remains one of the most remarkable things our species produces. A machine doesn’t change the beauty of that effort. It’s like saying a car is faster than a cheetah.
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Research from MIT shows that for every robot added per 1,000 workers in the U.S., wages fall and the number of people with jobs drops. The question of who actually benefits from this “progress” is usually the last one anyone asks. The scale of the gap is also hard to ignore.
...the Democratic Party’s broader problem today. The path forward isn’t hidden; it’s right there on the chalkboard. But nobody with actual authority is willing to do the uncomfortable thing fixing it requires...a prescription doesn’t do any good if the doctor is too afraid to sign the paper.
...with the June 2nd primary closing in, California is crossing that line. At least one candidate needs to step aside for the good of the team. Newsom has the standing to say so. The party has the standing to say so. Neither is doing it. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
...with the June 2nd primary closing in, California is crossing that line. At least one candidate needs to step aside for the good of the team. Newsom has the standing to say so. The party has the standing to say so. Neither is doing it. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
[Steyer] told a reporter he hasn’t followed Governor Newsom’s record “closely enough to give him a grade.” Imagine walking into a locker room and telling your teammates you haven’t bothered to watch the game film. You’d lose the respect of the room before you even laced up your sneakers.
The game tape shows exactly what’s happening on the floor, and no coach in America gets to point at the first-quarter stats and call the final score a win. The polls are just there to tell the rest of us how long it’ll take for the “prophets” to realize the show is finally over.
You can’t just keep pointing at the scoreboard from last year and pretend the current game doesn’t count...If you’re staring at a $6 carton of eggs, you won’t be comforted by an op-ed from a pollster who couldn’t even get a Hungarian election right. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
You can’t just keep pointing at the scoreboard from last year and pretend the current game doesn’t count...If you’re staring at a $6 carton of eggs, you won’t be comforted by an op-ed from a pollster who couldn’t even get a Hungarian election right. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
So, the next time you feel like the system is broken, remember the fine print. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: it’s listening to the people who are speaking. The rest is just silence. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
So, the next time you feel like the system is broken, remember the fine print. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: it’s listening to the people who are speaking. The rest is just silence. open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...
At the end of the day, democracy is a heavy stone that a whole community has to push uphill. If half the people let go because they’re tired, that stone doesn’t stop where it is. It starts rolling backward.
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At the end of the day, democracy is a heavy stone that a whole community has to push uphill. If half the people let go because they’re tired, that stone doesn’t stop where it is. It starts rolling backward.
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Participation isn’t just about the big presidential elections every four years. It’s the school boards, the zoning commissions, the local primaries. That’s where the “majority who participate” actually build the world we live in... open.substack.com/pub/kareem/p...