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Democrats could embrace FDR’s legacy and challenge Trumpism as genuine New Deal populists, or… they could go down this road of revamped Reaganism they are calling “Abundance.” It’s clear what party donors and pundits want.

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Trillions of dollars in tax cuts for Trump and his cronies, but not even $200 million for polio, measles and other vaccines around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/h...

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Media partners are already lining up… to say: nope.

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“even as the economy hums along and the wealthiest prosper as never before, a party calling itself conservative is actively conspiring to cut the sinews of the fiscal state. This isn’t normal. And markets are finally, slowly waking up to this fact.” @adamtooze.bsky.social

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As if these cuts weren’t bad enough… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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I'm no political consultant, but perhaps Democrats should not pin their comeback message around things like an ‘Abundance Happy Hour’ in San Francisco. It's almost like the "abundance" crowd wants to pigeonhole themselves in every stereotype of the liberal coastal elite. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Trump's war on Harvard "is no less dangerous" than the takeovers of the University of Berlin in 1933 and Tsinghua University in 1950, writes historian William C. Kirby—"an attempt to destroy the academic freedoms and institutional autonomy that have been hallmarks of every great modern university."

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This is all magical thinking.

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“Make America Healthy Again” was anti-vax propaganda from quacks like RFK Jr and no self-respecting media outlet should have covered it as any kind of public health “movement.” apnews.com/article/publ...

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I doubt even Armando Iannucci could have imagined a character like this.

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How long until Trump is complaining about “degenerate art” and installing his underlings run the National Portait Gallery and other museums in Washington? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/a...

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“Their goal is to intimidate and break down institutions of higher learning in America because that is where most of the resistance to their authoritarian tendencies is going to come from.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“Architecture is the art of making places, not primarily an art of making things. It’s the art of using buildings and landscape to shape space... The best city is the one with the most livable places.” -Robert Campbell www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/a...

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The Trump administration is trying to negotiate with elite universities to strike a "deal." They're feeling the need for a political win after public opinion is in Harvard's corner (much to their surprise). www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

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“People live in half-ruined buildings, as you see, but despite all of this, when you go to them, they would offer you coffee. I feel like this is what makes Homs or any other Syrian city so special, this sense of hospitality and kindness beyond words.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

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As @jeremyyoude.bsky.social wrote presciently in Democracy in Exile in February, Trump and Musk set about “dismantling decades of American leadership on global health and threatening remarkable progress in fighting infectious diseases around the world.” dawnmena.org/trumps-gutti...

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These Silicon Valley pathologies sold a utopian vision of government “efficiency” that, in reality, just destroyed US foreign aid and much of global health itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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"It'll just die a whimper," Lavingia told Reuters. "So much of the appeal and allure was Elon." He said he expected DOGE staffers to "just stop showing up to work. It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in four months." all of the Silicon Valley pathologies on display at DOGE

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"A record of how the world looks when you are spoken about far more often than you are listened to... a poet who knows language can be both weapon and shield." An urgent, impassioned essay by @ysl.bsky.social on Mohammed El-Kurd's new book—in Democracy in Exile: dawnmena.org/perfect-vict...

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"El-Kurd articulates the painful reality of being punished for speaking out, and yet, never rewarded for being right," @ysl.bsky.social writes in his book review of Mohammed El-Kurd's "Perfect Victims," for DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

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Some good ideas in the book, but I found it slight in the sense that it doesn’t address power in the political economy. See my broader thoughts on that, and the choice Democrats need to make, here: on.ft.com/4dBgARc

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Every sentence here contains at least one obviously false claim

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I also suffer mental anguish from news coverage of Trump, can I sue for millions?

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On the one hand, Trump’s lawsuit is the definition of frivolous and CBS by all accounts would win in court. But on the other, Shari Redstone and co fear Trump could block a merger in which they’d make billions, so they will cede their network’s constitutional rights.

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A sharp critique of “abundance” by @ranaforoohar.bsky.social tucked into this FT newsletter, calling it “a kind of ‘abundance’ liberalism that looks too much like a kinder, gentler supply side economics to me.” In other words, Reaganomics refashioned for the NYT opinion page. on.ft.com/4dAjyWa

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Shocked to discover Democratic voters prefer candidates who take on consolidated corporate power and oligarchy over those focused only on relaxing zoning laws and regulation. But the DNC will probably just listen to the affluent op-ed writers advocating “abundance.” www.axios.com/2025/05/28/d...

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This piece takes Musk's putative pov at face value, assuming that his disillusionment" and inability to "upend bureaucracy" (whatever the that means)was a worthy mission that failed because of "obstacles" rather than recognizing DOGE was a disaster from the outset. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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“America as a hermit republic would if nothing else be predictable in its behaviour. The worst of all worlds is Trump’s US: one that no longer defends its allies with hard power, but subverts and undermines those among them that it finds ideologically wanting.” on.ft.com/3SrnPl0

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“America as a hermit republic would if nothing else be predictable in its behaviour. The worst of all worlds is Trump’s US: one that no longer defends its allies with hard power, but subverts and undermines those among them that it finds ideologically wanting.” on.ft.com/3SrnPl0

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A new decree from the Ministry of Higher Education:

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In his next interview, Tapper will say it wasn’t just worse than Watergate, it was worse than Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, worse than Teapot Dome, worse than Donald Trump’s two impeachment. Anything to juice book sales.

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The Trump/MAGA vision that’s afraid of the future: “America is to be an oil-and-gas country. Let China have its EVs and battery power and renewables. The United States is going to walk away and focus on petroleum, coal and other fossil-fuel sources.” insideevs.com/news/760602/...

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Republican efforts to revoke EV subsidies and scrap California’s gas-guzzler ban will sink the competitiveness of US automakers, says @liamdenning.bsky.social 🎥

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But I thought they were against mandates. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/h...

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“You have to go back Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s to find a US president so willing to do battle with economic reality.” @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d9c7...

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It’s uncanny

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Trump Offers Memorial Day Message to Nation, Touts ‘Great Progress’ in First Months Back in Power

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“Once you’ve conceived the principle that the government has a right to say anything about the internal governance of an academic department at a private research institution, you’ve lost.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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A lede that sounds more like the White House press secretary:

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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

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NYT reporter seems more in awe of Trump’s abuse of power in trying to crush Harvard (“there’s been an audacity and creativity”) than shocked or outraged. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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“I wake up around 7 a.m. each morning to the sound of the water truck arriving. The low rumble of the engine is a sound I have come to rely on in this displaced life.” Yahya al-Masri’s diary from Gaza, a record of daily life under unimaginable conditions. dawnmena.org/a-displaced-...

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NYT reporter seems more in awe of Trump’s abuse of power in trying to crush Harvard (“there’s been an audacity and creativity”) than shocked or outraged. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

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