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David Sankey @davidsankey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This piece charting Neuhaus's trajectory and his cozy relationship with Buckley was just excellent.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
thank you so much David! was such a great time chatting last week!
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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great piece in @commonwealmagazine.org on a young Richard John Neuhaus - before the dark times, before First Things...
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Christian Radical
Over the course of his life, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus surrendered grassroots political organizing for the company of the powerful.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
thanks so much for reading!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/06/2026
‘Tribalism in sport can be as ugly as any other form of tribalism, but fanbases are more welcoming than some other kinds of imagined community: unlike nation states, their doors are open to all who wish to enter.’ Arvin Alaigh on how the Knicks are uniting NYC. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Arvin Alaigh | Knicks in Five?
I’m following the NBA Finals thousands of miles from midtown Manhattan. In my North London flat, I set the alarm for 1...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/06/2026
‘New York City is riding high. Fat Joe, the Bronx rapper, has called it “the greatest unification of the city since 9/11”. Legions of casual Knicks supporters are now dedicated fans; those of us who were already devotees have become entirely possessed.’ Arvin Alaigh: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Arvin Alaigh | Knicks in Five?
I’m following the NBA Finals thousands of miles from midtown Manhattan. In my North London flat, I set the alarm for 1...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/06/2026
‘However briefly and superficially, the city’s infinitely fissiparous social, political and cultural spheres have, for now, cohered – millions watching together, cheering for an end to the Knicks’ half-century of humiliation.’ Arvin Alaigh on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Arvin Alaigh | Knicks in Five?
I’m following the NBA Finals thousands of miles from midtown Manhattan. In my North London flat, I set the alarm for 1...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/03/2026
‘Although the NBA is a corporate entity that epitomises the runaway glut of hyper-capitalism (billionaire owners, multimillionaire players), it is strictly regulated to ensure competitive practice.’ @arvinalaigh.bsky.social on salary cap loopholes in the NBA. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Arvin Alaigh | Inside Basketball
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team from...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/03/2026
‘NBA teams have made for fruitful investments: in 2000, the most valuable team in the league was valued at $395 million; as of early 2025, the average NBA team was worth about $4.6 billion.’ @arvinalaigh.bsky.social on salary cap loopholes in the NBA, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Arvin Alaigh | Inside Basketball
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team from...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/03/2026
‘The legacy sports media don’t see allegations of fraud as part of their remit, which tends to be restricted to such topics as player performance, roster melodramas and coaching strategy.’ Arvin Alaigh on salary cap loopholes in the NBA, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Arvin Alaigh | Inside Basketball
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team from...
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Wrote for @thenation.com about how catastrophic the Iran war could be for Israel's grip on US politics—and why this is a moment to be seized for anyone who wants the US-Israel alliance to end. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Iran War Could Be Catastrophic for the US-Israel Alliance. Good.
As Israel’s role in pushing the war with Iran comes into ever sharper focus, it's up to us to turn outrage into change.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
link here! and special thanks to editor extraordinaire @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for working some magic to get this into form 🙏🏽 www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Primary Win That Stunned Democrats Everywhere
Analilia Mejia’s upset victory in New Jersey offers invaluable insights about the past and present of liberal politics in America.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
went long on #NJ11 for @thenation.com! always a pleasure to write about my sweet New Jersey—read for a wild story involving NJ Dem party politics; a history of 'The Resistance'; AIPAC own goals; ICE terror; and so much more
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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🇺🇸 Todos hemos visto los vídeos de Mamdani, pero su éxito se debe a una estrategia digital que va más allá de las redes sociales, como explica muy bien este artículo de @arvinalaigh.bsky.social en @dissentmag.bsky.social que he traducido para @elsaltodiario.com. www.elsaltodiario.com/redes-social...
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La maquinaria digital de Mamdani
El éxito del programa de Mamdani dependerá de una ambiciosa estrategia digital que va más allá de sus buenos resultados en redes sociales.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance. Read @arvinalaigh.bsky.social on online organizing: dissentmagazine.org/article/mamd...
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Mamdani’s Digital Machine - Dissent Magazine
The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Mamdani’s Digital Machine - Dissent Magazine
The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
for the new issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social, I wrote about Mamdani's approach to digital organizing -- I try to demystify what goes into a digital electoral program! give it a lil read and let me know what you think
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.  

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.  
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.  

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
thank you for the kind words!
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
i attended netroots nation earlier this summer, and wrote about it for @thebaffler.com - check it out! thebaffler.com/latest/by-th...
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By the Netroots | Arvin Alaigh
At Netroots Nation, an activist vanguard sits uncomfortably alongside those amenable to the status quo of the Democratic Party.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 24/09/2025
Who is Netroots Nation for anymore? Activists? Democratic Party advocates? Arvin Alaigh visits the 2025 conference for answers.
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By the Netroots | Arvin Alaigh
At Netroots Nation, an activist vanguard sits uncomfortably alongside those amenable to the status quo of the Democratic Party.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 13/05/2025
Arvin Alaigh: The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza. www.commonwealmagazine.org/resistance-r...
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Resistance Reexamined
The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
yeah... you can say i'll be on here a lil more :P
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
twitter is great bc every day your algorithm is constantly force-feeding you race war bait, incomprehensible quasi-schizophrenic promoted tweets, crypto scams, and fight videos... all without even asking :-)
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Can you see what’s happening in LA? 5 straight days, 1,000+ students, at least 8 schools across the city & county… Encourage the young people in your life to take action! Help them organize & mobilize their schools & classmates. Shut it all down!
Los Angeles protests over ICE raids enter 5th day
tudents protest Trump's immigration policy
Students in Van Nuys walked out of school to protest President Trump's immigration policy.

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Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies took over LA for the fifth day on Thursday.
Students were seen holding signs and flags outside the city of LA's finance building in Van Nuys.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 05/02/2025
I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government? If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Loud and clear brother🗣️
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It's all love blue sky fam.. but twitter is a lot better rn :/
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New bad thing just dropped: Tech bros buying/donating surveillance gear to police departments, skipping public, elected official input and scrutiny on how it will be used. techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/b...
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Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio | TechCrunch
When Skydio, a young maker of drones in San Mateo, California, sent a customer proposal in 2023 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, its chief
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 27/08/2024
Contemporary antiwar protesters—smeared by journalists, beaten by police, rebuked by the public—will one day be seen as prophetic. At least, that’s what happened to the Berrigan brothers, two radical priests who stood up against the Vietnam War.
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The Fracture of Good Order | Arvin Alaigh
It’s never a fair fight when the institutions that determine the acceptable bounds of dissent are the same ones conducting or enabling mass slaughter.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Sorry blue sky Fam ... twitter is much more fun right now :/
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Rory Masterson @rorymasterson.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Larry Johnson admonishment, Hugo Chávez praise. Walton forever.
A collection of Bill Walton quotes on basketball from FreeDarko’s “The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History.”
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Blue sky
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Logged into blue sky just to upvote this.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 12/04/2024
New Jersey's ballot design has given incumbents and friends of the political machine an unfair advantage for years. Arvin Alaigh joined me to talk about why those days may be behind us, paving the way for more progressive and insurgent challengers: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-268-tak...
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Ep. 268: Taking On The NJ Machine ft. Arvin Alaigh
Party control and influence over New Jersey ballots could be coming to an end.
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arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Blue sky
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 18/04/2024
​​Democrats have decided to be tough on immigration—which is to say, they’ve capitulated to the right. As Arvin Alaigh writes, it’s a losing strategy.
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Crossing Over | Arvin Alaigh
Democrats have cribbed hardline rhetoric on immigration from their friends across the aisle. It’s a losing strategy.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 08/02/2024
With few exceptions, the Democratic Party marches in lockstep behind President Biden when it comes to Israel’s bloody campaign in Gaza. Pro-Israel donors are spending big this election cycle to keep it that way.
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AIPAC of Lies | Arvin Alaigh
The pro-Israel lobby wants to eliminate dissent among politicians on the question of Israel. They’re prepared to spend big on the 2024 election.
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