New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again. the.ink/p/watch-zohr...
WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani on making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC in 2028, how he would fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again
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I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said. Is it a crack in the edifice? the.ink/p/watch-do-d...
WATCH: Do Dems need new leaders? "Fair point," Ro Khanna says
I ask the California congressman about the Trump slump in the markets, why Democrats seem so spineless, how the donor class sabotaged his party, and what his vision for a comeback looks like
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Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?
Senator Amy Klobuchar@klobuchar.senate.gov · last yr.It’s not cute to accidentally cancel Ebola prevention — a virus with a 50% fatality rate. It’s even less acceptable when it turns out you didn’t “restore” the prevention for Ebola like you claimed.
Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold
A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.
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Cancel your Washington Post subscription and join The Ink. We’re made it easy to do here. Support kneepad-free journalism. the.ink/p/bezos-just...
Bezos just obeyed. We never will
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I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.
Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle. If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa. the.ink/p/government...
Government is a miracle
Why DOGE's attack on "waste" is really an attack on an entire century of progress
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Call it what it is. A hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires. youtu.be/bamSK_gEdUA?...
Anand Giridharadas: America is living through a hostile takeover by billionaires and bullies
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Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine
America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires. It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight. Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks. FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/milquetoas...
Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism: the.ink/p/watch-an-a...
WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
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The month of moping ends now. Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth. Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
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No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis. the.ink/p/free-speec...
Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis
What explains the confounding Trump-Musk(-Vance) view of "free speech"?
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New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.” We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do. the.ink/p/watch-dem-...
WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy
In an interview, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a grave warning about the country's most "serious moment" since the Civil War and answered questions about how Democrats must change their ways fast
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20,000!!!
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · last yr.This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: 20,000 new potential candidates since Election Day. RFS alum fighting to build more housing + lower utility costs. So much good stuff I could barely squeeze it into on email. Seriously. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us. I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored. FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...
I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.” the.ink/p/essay-home...
ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
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It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us. the.ink/p/essay-home...
ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
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The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice. the.ink/p/surviving-...
How to survive the abuser-in-chief
The Ink “sees” a therapist to explore the links between narcissism and authoritarianism — and get some advice for the next four years
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Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true: Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures. the.ink/p/trump-pard...
Trump pardons…cancer?
As-yet-uncured ailments score a major victory
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
America is an amazing land of innovation. It took something already profoundly dangerous, football, and found a way to add another layer of danger on top. the.ink/p/is-sports-...
Football, but make it more dangerous
On Super Bowl Sunday, an old pastime intersects with a new epidemic: betting
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There is before Gaza, and there is after. Don’t miss this conversation with the brilliant Pankaj Mishra. About the uses and abuses of memory, about the clash of liberation narratives, and so much more. the.ink/p/the-gaza-r...
The Gaza Riviera and the real estate of memory
In a new book, the writer Pankaj Mishra reveals how two of the great liberation stories of the last century collided in Gaza. The war, he says, has changed the world -- and probably changed you, too
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Everyone is asking: What, practically, can we do? Here is an answer, from Anat Shenker-Osorio. the.ink/p/lessons-fr...
Enough opining. Get in the streets
Some advice from an expert on what will stop Trump. Plus: a new book on what it means to lose your country to a dictator
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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.
