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Is Iowa getting purple again? Following Mamdani’s victory last year, Democrats are approaching the state and the broader Midwest with a mix of economic populism and culturally conservative messaging. My dispatch for @TheProspect is out this morning 🗞️
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NEW from me:
I’m back in @TheProspect for @revolvingdoorDC today, making the case for why Democrats should fight to protect and expand the Postal Service. prospect.org/2026/10/07/make…
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AI billionaires are threatening layoffs so big we hit Great Depression levels of unemployment.
You don't have to take my word for it. They say it.
We must fight back.
I'm proposing a first step: taxing AI companies to pay for a jobs program that keep Americans employed.
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This merger is bad for New Yorkers three times over. Thousands of jobs at risk here in the city. Streaming bills going up as competition disappears. And two of America’s most powerful media companies under one roof, deciding what you watch and what you hear.
Today, as Warner Bros. and Paramount shareholders vote, New York City is on record: this merger should be stopped.
Hollywood has organized around blocking the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger. @HaroldMeyerson writes that putting a film treasure up for sale was unwarranted and reveals the eclipse of enterprise capitalism by shareholder capitalism.
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For @TheProspect this week, I wrote about @spiroferrer's stunning new study showing corporate landlords' racially disproportionate eviction patterns in Los Angeles. prospect.org/infrastructure/…
A new study from Urban Geography shows that predatory corporate landlords in L.A. are disproportionately evicting Black residents, writes @mfriedrichnyc.
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And here's a recent piece on the DOJ investigation into UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage business which is apparently now a criminal probe prospect.org/health/2025-03-…
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Here's the story I wrote on ollivant's lawsuit and the industry's struggle to compete with UnitedHealth's vertically integrated death profiteering schemes prospect.org/health/2023-12-…
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Amid the presidential efforts to bully universities, we shouldn't forget about the gubernatorial ones. Here's Ron DeSantis continuing to assert control, this time at Florida International University, from our intern Nic Suarez.
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Here's a great round-up of the current playing field for the private equity industry and its related regulation by @jamesjbaratta in the @TheProspect: Private Equity’s Do-or-Die Moment prospect.org/power/2025-04-2…
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here i make the case for how AOC could use the oversight committee to capture public attention and win back working-class voters.
dems are still uneasy with political theater, but the oversight committee is a stage – they just need to put on a show worth watching.
.@AOC is thinking about running for ranking member on the House Oversight Committee. What can she do in the job? Former House staffer @kirenitynow explains how revitalizing oversight can generate attention and speak to working-class economic concerns (link below):
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Not only that, but rules that prevented the kind of schools that abruptly close or defraud students from operating would also be repealed.
And terms for loan repayment at even decent colleges would be unaffordable and pernicious.
It's a terrible bill:
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Former Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su reports (!) on an email sent to all DOL staff warning of "potential criminal penalties" (!!) for communicating about work operations to the media, on social media, in emails and texts, or even "informal conversation" (!!!)
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ICYMI, the Justice Department told attorneys in its Consumer Protection Branch—which prosecutes elder fraud, servicemember fraud, opioid cases, and much more—that the branch would be disbanding in September. (link in reply)
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With DOJ attorneys inadvertently revealing that the government's case to stop congestion pricing in NYC is doomed to failure, @gurleygg writes about how well the program is working, which will make it harder to stop politically in the future. (link below)
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Good piece from @Jasper_Craven here.
The VA invented physician assistants. They run a scholarship program for them. But they don't hire them in sufficient numbers, often forcing PAs to give back their scholarship money.
It's part of a power struggle inside the agency.
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New from former labor sec @JulieSuLabor. Trump & Musk's brutal campaign to silence public servants has hit a new low—DOL staff are now banned from even informal conversations about agency abuses.
This is authoritarianism in action, via @TheProspect.
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• world-renown researchers being deported
• scientists choosing to leave
• direct cuts to NIH, National Cancer Institute & the CDMRP (a Dept of Defense research program)
• university grant & Medicaid cuts crippling hospitals
Pro-cancer moves!
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The Director of National Intelligence must put out an annual report on corruption in China. This year's version reads practically the same if you replace "CCP" with "GOP." @DRBoguslaw reports:
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Kidnapping is still a crime in all 50 states, and state officials can prosecute it, as @HaroldMeyerson explains:
