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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

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

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

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

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.

slate.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

hell yeah

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Nazi?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 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 · 2h

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 · 2h

Every photo in this article:

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 5h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

instead we're going back to well before that, even in 1900 people knew you had to boil raw milk because of all the cow shit in it, but now thanks to social media brainrot, Shit Milk is the hot new thing

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

remembering how we passed the Pure Food and Drug Act due to a plague of Formadehyde Milk bsky.app/profile/pari...

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 4h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 5h

Elon Musk has personally reinstated this account. No one should feel any obligation to respect Twitter ToS. It's meaningless

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

good LORD

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 4h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

I lived in DC for 8 years, lovely city with great people, except for the small handful of sociopathic careerist ladder-climbers, and about half of them were political reporters. people who'd knife you in the kidney for a "scoop" (first to print a press release) without breaking the robotic grin

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

lol

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

he's a smart guy but also prone to fits of rage that distort his writing imo

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

It has been unspeakably grim to me how much of what gets feted as "pro-enlightenment" advocacy in this country has just been demanding that we indoctrinate students with a narrow range of canonical texts and opinions.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

you are not Galileo. you are not Thomas More. you are not George Carlin. you are Nancy Reagan. enjoy it and shut your god damn flapping potty mouth

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

still it is just galling for this fuckin clown to be working for "The Free Press" when her fake lying ass job boils down to going "BOOKS, THEY'RE READING BOOKS HERE. IN COLLEGE"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

Yglesias of all people had a real insightful post on this 15 years ago, probably because he is prone to the same exact behavior archive.thinkprogress.org/four-reasons...

So that’s that. You can, however, always get more psychological. I was 21 years old and kind of a jerk. Being for the war was a way to simultaneously be a free-thinking dissident in the context of a college campus and also be on the side of the country’s power elite. My observation is that this kind of fake-dissident posture is one that always has a lot of appeal to people. The point is that this wasn’t really a series of erroneous judgments about Iraq, it was a series of erroneous judgments about how to think about the world and who deserves to be taken seriously and under which circumstances.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

yes, yes it is prospect.org/education/20...

Meet the New Conservative Cancel Culture, This Time With Government Informers

Professors who speak wrongthink in class are being summarily fired.

prospect.org

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

is this the lady who went to the Columbia bookstore and posted a breathless vlog flipping out about how students read the Koran

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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