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Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...

Why Christians Should Be Leftists | Left Anchor

Get more from Left Anchor on Patreon

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

lol bsky.app/profile/jwma...

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 1h

As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B

OpenAI books about $13bn in annual recurring revenue, 70 per cent of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT, which costs $20 for a standard subscription, according to people familiar with the company’s finances.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

"If conflict in any particular theater shows dangerous signs of actually resolving itself, another must be spun up to take its place, much as businesses that hope to survive must replace markets in decline with new ones." www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...

The Internet of Beefs

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

arguably quite a bit worse than anything Charles I did, at least in terms of how things are supposed to work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 1h

Reminds me of the classic joke about the economists who each paid each other $100 to eat a pile of dog shit. Was it for nothing? No, they just increased the GDP by $200.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

read: Vance is also saying Nazi shit in group chats bsky.app/profile/radl...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

there's a simple solution here www.wweek.com/news/schools...

PPS Students Are Flocking to Their School Libraries

This fall, phones went out of sight at Portland Public Schools buildings. And then something unexpected happened.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

"As is often the case in the AI industry, Nvidia came to the rescue, announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Now OpenAI has the money to send to Oracle to build data centers, which Oracle will fill with Nvidia GPUs. So wait—is Nvidia just paying itself?" prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

"where laws aren’t there, the pitchforks must always be. A society that expects laws to substitute for, rather than channel, public outrage, is a society not long for this world in any form worthy of the name." www.interfluidity.com/v2/4013.html

interfluidity » Shame.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

and it seems to have shocked them into action!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

"when people say that it is the job of college professors to keep students engaged but that we can also not ban devices, I want to sigh performatively—how, exactly, am I supposed to keep them hooked when Hollywood can’t keep them hooked?" musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19h

Four months after the last No Kings protests, millions will descend onto the streets again on Saturday to protest Trump’s autocracy and the government shutdown. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

I feel like the legal profession has basically forgotten that one of their core tasks is to prevent situations like this from ending up with the guy being torn limb from limb

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

of course, through the majesty of the law, alex jones has effectively stalled long enough to win anyway. the families who he tortured will end up with a small pile of ashes labeled "Infowars Inc" while Alex keeps doing his thing as Alex Jones Broadcasting, having had plenty of time to shift themoney

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

if there’s anything Nazis are prone to it is internal feuding!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

I liked this piece a lot. bunch of moms going “well I’m going to try my hand at this amateur legal history business, turns out it’s quite easy to prove you at least are full of shit” slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong

What they’ve found directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s conclusions.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

hell yeah

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

Nazi?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

I'm sorry, she doesn't even have terminal cancer, I can't support that

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

it is funny but also makes some sense. racism is going to have obvious appeal to hideous losers who otherwise lack any sense of self worth bsky.app/profile/dark...

Richard @darklighter.bsky.social · 21h

Every photo in this article:

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 21h

Kaepernick is one of the few people who was thoroughly, successfully cancelled, by the NFL and team owners, nearly a decade ago

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Many focusing on the hubristic blasphemy of “we’re saving God”—and fair enough—but also, Kaepernick?

All he did was exercise his 1A right to expression in a calm, quiet, unobtrusive way. And he last played Jan. 1, 2017!

How lacking in real problems that this was ever a grievance, let alone still.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

yeah, it's most young conservatives, but the more institutional affiliation they have the more Nazi they are bsky.app/profile/cmwd...

carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 22h

I wish it were contained to just staffers but anecdotally it seems almost all young conservatives are nazi adjacent at best.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

and I think this is a big part of the story bsky.app/profile/ryan...

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Steven Matheson @stevenmatheson.bsky.social · 22h

Yep. I work in an analytical chemistry lab that routinely tests these types of products via LC/MS/MS. You'd be shocked at the amount of heavy metals in food/packaging.

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