David Dayen
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So Sean Duffy branded his own World Cup scarfs that were given out at a FIFA event in Washington this week. But if you look at the tag... yep, they're made in Poland.
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
So Sean Duffy branded his own World Cup scarfs that were given out at a FIFA event in Washington this week. But if you look at the tag... yep, they're made in Poland.
It's a copycat league and Steyer is doing the poll-tested thing, but it shouldn't take this long for campaign folks to recognize that climate change *is* an affordability issue.
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Tom Steyer’s climate pivot signals new playbook for Dems
The billionaire environmental activist is leaning hard into economic populism.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It's a copycat league and Steyer is doing the poll-tested thing, but it shouldn't take this long for campaign folks to recognize that climate change *is* an affordability issue.
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“There is no Mamdani effect. The idea that people would flee New York was overblown. The numbers just aren’t bearing that out.”
Oh
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Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdani’s Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“There is no Mamdani effect. The idea that people would flee New York was overblown. The numbers just aren’t bearing that out.”
Oh
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Patel is a real throwback to the petty self-enrichment of a Scott Pruitt in Trump's first term, it's refreshing and quaint in a way
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
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Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
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Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Patel is a real throwback to the petty self-enrichment of a Scott Pruitt in Trump's first term, it's refreshing and quaint in a way
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lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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“If you want to understand why things have gotten so expensive, you need to understand middlemen, and why they may have too much power.” @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social sheds light on the companies sitting between sellers and consumers, and getting rich while doing it.
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Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“If you want to understand why things have gotten so expensive, you need to understand middlemen, and why they may have too much power.” @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social sheds light on the companies sitting between sellers and consumers, and getting rich while doing it.
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I hope you check out the pieces in our affordability series, we are really proud of them.
You can see them all here (and if you want them on paper, subscribe to our magazine at
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You can see them all here (and if you want them on paper, subscribe to our magazine at
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Dec 2025 Issue - The American Prospect
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December 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I hope you check out the pieces in our affordability series, we are really proud of them.
You can see them all here (and if you want them on paper, subscribe to our magazine at
prospect.org/donate!)
You can see them all here (and if you want them on paper, subscribe to our magazine at
prospect.org/donate!)
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For the first time in a decade, no hurricanes made landfall in the US this year. However, we won’t always be this lucky, and when the next disaster hits, a FEMA gutted by Trump will not be equipped to respond. From Kenny Stancil:
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Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For the first time in a decade, no hurricanes made landfall in the US this year. However, we won’t always be this lucky, and when the next disaster hits, a FEMA gutted by Trump will not be equipped to respond. From Kenny Stancil:
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@franifio.bsky.social is breaking up with capitalism. "After years of promising to change, swearing that you’re working on it, your behavior has only gotten worse. You are toxic."
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A Breakup Letter to Capitalism - The American Prospect
I’m just not that into you.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@franifio.bsky.social is breaking up with capitalism. "After years of promising to change, swearing that you’re working on it, your behavior has only gotten worse. You are toxic."
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To close our affordability series, I wrote about captive pricing.
If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you.
But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable.
If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you.
But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable.
Trapped at the Concession Stand - The American Prospect
Captive pricing follows when customers have no choices. Policymakers can do something about it.
prospect.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
To close our affordability series, I wrote about captive pricing.
If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you.
But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable.
If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you.
But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable.
One Senator can't be wrong!
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December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One Senator can't be wrong!
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This Netflix merger proposal with Warner Bros/HBO is really terrible. The Trump administration may do the right thing for the wrong reason, by trying to stage-manage a team-up with Paramount. The real question is, why can't Warner Bros. just make good stuff and show it at a profit?
Netflix Aims for Entertainment Domination - The American Prospect
Fewer streaming options, or a streaming landscape where two of the three largest outlets have the same corporate parent, likely means a continuation of the price hikes that we’re already seeing.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This Netflix merger proposal with Warner Bros/HBO is really terrible. The Trump administration may do the right thing for the wrong reason, by trying to stage-manage a team-up with Paramount. The real question is, why can't Warner Bros. just make good stuff and show it at a profit?
We wrap our affordability series with a look at the hidden economic culprits of the cost of living crisis: middlemen. They sit in between transactions and take their profit, raising costs for everyone else. And their interventions can even turn deadly. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports:
Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
prospect.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We wrap our affordability series with a look at the hidden economic culprits of the cost of living crisis: middlemen. They sit in between transactions and take their profit, raising costs for everyone else. And their interventions can even turn deadly. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports:
Keeping WBD out of Paramount's hands is good.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Netflix has won the bidding war to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery.
The sale is not yet finalized, as the U.S. Department of Justice could also interfere due to anti-trust concerns.
(Source: www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...)
The sale is not yet finalized, as the U.S. Department of Justice could also interfere due to anti-trust concerns.
(Source: www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...)
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Keeping WBD out of Paramount's hands is good.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Putting it in Netflix's is still unlawful consolidation though. This is the #1 streamer merging with #3.
State enforcers should speak up.
Hey great event for DC folks happening soon at the Prospect offices with @jamellebouie.net and @mkazin.bsky.social for Paul Starr's new book American Contradiction. From 5-7pm today. www.eventbrite.com/e/american-c...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey great event for DC folks happening soon at the Prospect offices with @jamellebouie.net and @mkazin.bsky.social for Paul Starr's new book American Contradiction. From 5-7pm today. www.eventbrite.com/e/american-c...
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In a state where 84% of people believe their elected officials are corrupt, New Jersey’s junior senator is fighting to regain public trust. @ddayen.bsky.social reports:
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Andy Kim vs. the Machine—Again - The American Prospect
The New Jersey senator is opposing his own party’s efforts to defang anti-corruption measures. In an interview, he depicted the fight as critical to regaining public trust.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In a state where 84% of people believe their elected officials are corrupt, New Jersey’s junior senator is fighting to regain public trust. @ddayen.bsky.social reports:
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The first strike was also a war crime
This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The first strike was also a war crime
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This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.
Move over, "Eric Adams is the future of the Democratic Party," we have a new winner for wrong takes: UK Labour as a model for how to win in the post-Trump world
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Move over, "Eric Adams is the future of the Democratic Party," we have a new winner for wrong takes: UK Labour as a model for how to win in the post-Trump world
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can we get them down to 0
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
can we get them down to 0
The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
Losing India’s Guardian Angels - The American Prospect
USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money and support is gone.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.
An almost comically corrupt hearing in the NJ legislature featured @andykimnj.bsky.social waiting 5+ hours to talk for 3 minutes against a Democratic-led bill that would defang an independent watchdog.
I talked to Sen. Kim about challenging his own party and building an anti-corruption movement.
I talked to Sen. Kim about challenging his own party and building an anti-corruption movement.
Andy Kim vs. the Machine—Again - The American Prospect
Thanksgiving is a time of unexpected holiday travel, but Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) had no idea that he would spend Monday sitting in Trenton. He rearranged his schedule to testify against a bill that would...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
An almost comically corrupt hearing in the NJ legislature featured @andykimnj.bsky.social waiting 5+ hours to talk for 3 minutes against a Democratic-led bill that would defang an independent watchdog.
I talked to Sen. Kim about challenging his own party and building an anti-corruption movement.
I talked to Sen. Kim about challenging his own party and building an anti-corruption movement.
The affordability crisis is hitting Black women the hardest as their unemployment rates rise. Naomi Bethune charts the impact on maternal health, and the forced downgrade in lifestyle choices.
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To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed - The American Prospect
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The affordability crisis is hitting Black women the hardest as their unemployment rates rise. Naomi Bethune charts the impact on maternal health, and the forced downgrade in lifestyle choices.
prospect.org/2025/12/04/b...
prospect.org/2025/12/04/b...
The latest in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: climate change.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.
The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The latest in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: climate change.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.
Insane on several levels, 1/5 of their Texas gerrymander was to beat Cuellar, and Republicans just recruited a top-flight candidate to do it!
Quite the passage from NOTUS about Trump's pardon of Henry Cuellar. "Wow." mailchi.mp/notus/secret...
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Insane on several levels, 1/5 of their Texas gerrymander was to beat Cuellar, and Republicans just recruited a top-flight candidate to do it!