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Left Anchor
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A podcast about politics, philosophy, and the left. https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13h
the thing about this coming Saturday is that only a fucking moron would try to physically confront public demonstrations numbering in the millions and if there is one phrase that defines the sitting president
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.
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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 21h
I have a new piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social

“Anti-monopolism as an Ideology of the Left”

responding to @gabrielwinant.bsky.social’s “provocation.”

lpeproject.org/blog/anti-mo...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d
Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

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Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead" The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"
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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 4d
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...
Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor
Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d
If you haven’t read his interview in Jacobin, you should. It’s fantastic.

“Clothing choices are shaped on the moving tectonic plates of politics and economics as well as technology. The technology of the time influences what we can produce and how we dress but also the systems on which we build.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 2d
This shit is straight-up evil.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 3d
Resist fascism, make friends. Build community, check on each other. Party, cook, build ties, and never let them make you too scared to love one another.
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 4d
Unbelievably, Antifa is demanding that "Congress shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech"! These people have gone too far.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4d
i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4d
interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america
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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 4d
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...
Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor
Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...
Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor
Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d
Note: Mamdani leads by double-digit among Black and Hispanic voters, and by 48 percentage points among Asian respondents. White respondents go 39/37 for Cuomo.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d
New Quinnipiac poll of New York City:

Mamdani 46%
Cuomo 33%
Sliwa 15%

(A month ago, it was Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 23%, Sliwa 15%, Adams 12%.)

One obstacle to Cuomo rising much higher: Mamdani's favorability rating is 43/35, but Cuomo's is 37/52.
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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 5d
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 5d
I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠
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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d
"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d
I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”
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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 11d
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12d
longish preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/nordic-soc...
Nordic Socialism - 367 EXCERPT | Left Anchor
Today we have Danish MP Pelle Dragsted on to talk about his book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. We discuss what is distinctive about the Nordic socialist tradition, how much o...
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Left Anchor @leftanchor.bsky.social · 11d
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12d
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @pelledragsted.bsky.social on to discuss his book Nordic Socialism: www.patreon.com/posts/140286...
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 10d
Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11d
The people have all the operational security brilliance of some 6 year olds planning a surprise party.
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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11d
we are currently clean on opsec
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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
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