Sara Eckel
@saraeckel.bsky.social
Author of IT'S NOT YOU. Bylines: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, Psychology Today, Publishers Weekly. More at: saraeckel.substack.com.
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If you want to help small businesses this holiday season, the best thing you can do for them is pay in cash. Credit card companies charge stores around 2 or 3% per transaction. When you pay in cash, Chase Bank and BoA don't get that cut—the merchant gets everything.
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you want to help small businesses this holiday season, the best thing you can do for them is pay in cash. Credit card companies charge stores around 2 or 3% per transaction. When you pay in cash, Chase Bank and BoA don't get that cut—the merchant gets everything.
If you want to help small businesses this holiday season, the best thing you can do for them is pay in cash. Credit card companies charge stores around 2 or 3% per transaction. When you pay in cash, Chase Bank and BoA don't get that cut—the merchant gets everything.
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you want to help small businesses this holiday season, the best thing you can do for them is pay in cash. Credit card companies charge stores around 2 or 3% per transaction. When you pay in cash, Chase Bank and BoA don't get that cut—the merchant gets everything.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
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It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
Really smart and thorough analysis of why Democrats get branded as elites and Republicans don’t.
👌💯‼️https://thebaffler.com/latest/one-elite-two-elites-red-elite-blue-elite-baker
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Really smart and thorough analysis of why Democrats get branded as elites and Republicans don’t.
It’s incredibly frustrating that Trump recognizes the power of popular Democrats more than Democrats.
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It’s incredibly frustrating that Trump recognizes the power of popular Democrats more than Democrats.
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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Dude waltzed in there with the same playbook EVERY FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE uses to effortlessly flatter this guy into submission. He's an immense political talent but it's also NOT THAT HARD.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Dude waltzed in there with the same playbook EVERY FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE uses to effortlessly flatter this guy into submission. He's an immense political talent but it's also NOT THAT HARD.
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The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
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Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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Imagine what this number will look like when health insurance premiums go through the roof and countless people will have no coverage.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Imagine what this number will look like when health insurance premiums go through the roof and countless people will have no coverage.
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It’s time for new, bolder leadership that will fight fascism, not roll over for it.
@schumer.senate.gov step aside.
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @fwwnewyork.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov step aside.
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @fwwnewyork.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s time for new, bolder leadership that will fight fascism, not roll over for it.
@schumer.senate.gov step aside.
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @fwwnewyork.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov step aside.
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @fwwnewyork.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
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Let’s fight for a Democratic Party that will actually fight for us: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Let’s fight for a Democratic Party that will actually fight for us: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Helpful tracker!
UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Helpful tracker!
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections