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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again. the.ink/p/watch-zohr...
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WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani on making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC in 2028, how he would fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Welcome to the Trump economy.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said. Is it a crack in the edifice? the.ink/p/watch-do-d...
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WATCH: Do Dems need new leaders? "Fair point," Ro Khanna says
I ask the California congressman about the Trump slump in the markets, why Democrats seem so spineless, how the donor class sabotaged his party, and what his vision for a comeback looks like
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold
A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cancel your Washington Post subscription and join The Ink. We’re made it easy to do here. Support kneepad-free journalism. the.ink/p/bezos-just...
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Bezos just obeyed. We never will
Cancel your Washington Post subscription. Join us instead
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle. If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa. the.ink/p/government...
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Government is a miracle
Why DOGE's attack on "waste" is really an attack on an entire century of progress
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really appreciate viewer feedback
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Not one vote. What are these people doing?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Call it what it is. A hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires. youtu.be/bamSK_gEdUA?...
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Anand Giridharadas: America is living through a hostile takeover by billionaires and bullies
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If only there were a word for this
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires. It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight. Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks. FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/milquetoas...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism: the.ink/p/watch-an-a...
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WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The month of moping ends now. Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth. Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
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WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism
A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis. the.ink/p/free-speec...
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Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis
What explains the confounding Trump-Musk(-Vance) view of "free speech"?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.” We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do. the.ink/p/watch-dem-...
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WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy
In an interview, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a grave warning about the country's most "serious moment" since the Civil War and answered questions about how Democrats must change their ways fast
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
20,000!!!
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us. I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored. FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.” the.ink/p/essay-home...
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us. the.ink/p/essay-home...
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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
Who will stand up for democracy?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice. the.ink/p/surviving-...
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How to survive the abuser-in-chief
The Ink “sees” a therapist to explore the links between narcissism and authoritarianism — and get some advice for the next four years
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true: Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures. the.ink/p/trump-pard...
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Trump pardons…cancer?
As-yet-uncured ailments score a major victory
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
America is an amazing land of innovation. It took something already profoundly dangerous, football, and found a way to add another layer of danger on top. the.ink/p/is-sports-...
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Football, but make it more dangerous
On Super Bowl Sunday, an old pastime intersects with a new epidemic: betting
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is before Gaza, and there is after. Don’t miss this conversation with the brilliant Pankaj Mishra. About the uses and abuses of memory, about the clash of liberation narratives, and so much more. the.ink/p/the-gaza-r...
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The Gaza Riviera and the real estate of memory
In a new book, the writer Pankaj Mishra reveals how two of the great liberation stories of the last century collided in Gaza. The war, he says, has changed the world -- and probably changed you, too
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Everyone is asking: What, practically, can we do? Here is an answer, from Anat Shenker-Osorio. the.ink/p/lessons-fr...
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Enough opining. Get in the streets
Some advice from an expert on what will stop Trump. Plus: a new book on what it means to lose your country to a dictator
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What he proposed was an illegal scheme of ethnic cleansing.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
They are flooding the zone. Do not consent to being flooded. One of these things is not like the others. Musk’s anti-constitutional coup is of supreme importance, because it would unravel the republic itself. We need to focus. And need a media that can name reality. the.ink/p/focus-on-t...
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Focus on the coup
One of these things is not like the others
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We desperately, urgently need a media that isn’t afraid to name this as the evisceration of the federal government. That is what is going on. We cannot only be comfortable using such language when the situation is far away in time or space. It’s happening here. We need to be clear.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s AI condemns Elon Musk’s DC power grab. the.ink/p/riffs-musk...
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RIFFS: Musk's AI opposes Musk's power grab
I asked Grok about the unelected billionaire's attempted administrative coup
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Administrative coup. How else can you describe this insanity? Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article)
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A list of states that want to gut the Fourteenth Amendment, which helped pull us out of slavery.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Collins: He said that Canada is going to be implementing a $1.3 billion border plan, where they talk about reinforcing the border. I should note that's actually something that was announced back in December
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are being governed by a Manosphere podcast.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The fact that Trump backed down from tariffs so easily is a sign that he simply is not used to people actually pushing back against him.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
USAID kind of had this coming. I mean, it did challenge apartheid. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
The makings of an unelected coup
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
BREAKING: Federal judge in D.C. blocks Trump administration from implementing the Office of Management and Budget memo ordering a government-wide freeze on grants and loans as to all current awards. Judge Loren AliKhan also blocks agencies from implementing the order "under a different name."
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is a hilariously out-of-touch analysis from someone whose publication is literally called Inside Philanthropy. Maybe it would help to pull out a little. On the contrary, I find people much more alive to this threat now than I did six years ago.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Really good to see. The Democrats are finally waking up.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
More of this please
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My first book warned that social progress can be psychologically destabilizing. My second said white backlash was a major new political force. My third warned that billionaires were taking all. My fourth warned that the left was growing insular and abandoning persuasion. Glad I’m being listened to!
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I don’t say this lightly. I believe the time has come for Democratic lawmakers to take up pens and write a strongly worded letter.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
As we speak, an unelected billionaire, born in South Africa, is staging an unconstitutional coup in the United States, shutting down an agency that happened to fight the apartheid regime he and his family thrived under as rich whites. Now take a moment and read that again. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
The makings of an unelected coup
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You all, this is all coup activity. Complete and total. Media at all levels needs to be clear on this. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
The makings of an unelected coup
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