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Carter Dougherty

@carterd.bsky.social
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I fight Wall Street and monopolies @demandprogress.bsky.social. I also write - bylines in NYT, The Atlantic, WashMonthly et al. I study 🇩🇪 history, disturbingly relevant. 🤟🏼 👩‍🦰 👧🏼 👦🏼 + friends, 🏃‍♂️ in Takoma Park, MD. Warning: #DadJokes

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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We must embrace the antimonopoly spirit that has animated American debates about finance for more than 250 years.” This article lays out how Dodd-Frank failed, and why antimonopoly thinking can animate a response the next time Wall Street crashes the economy. 1/17
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A fantastic 🧵 from Carter. I don’t know a lot about the world of finance, but I have spent my career thinking about good governance, & am acutely aware of the importance of systemic incentives. Trying to regulate an industry rooted in incentives misaligned with the public interest will always fail.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Twas fun ... A tale of corporate power and an antimonopoly fight!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This will be a big dilemma in 2027:
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We must embrace the antimonopoly spirit that has animated American debates about finance for more than 250 years.” This article lays out how Dodd-Frank failed, and why antimonopoly thinking can animate a response the next time Wall Street crashes the economy. 1/17
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can think of a few Hollywood unions that would run point on this effort.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Let's also credit a progressively worse level of Trump corruption that all but forced the Dems to make tougher demands on ethics.
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Demand Progress @demandprogress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Demand Progress, @econliberties.bsky.social, @consumerreports.org & @smallbizmajority.bsky.social asked the courts to stop the Visa-Mastercard duopoly that works with megabanks to keep the costs of credit cards high. Judges are not allowed to rewrite the Sherman Act!
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Demand Progress Education Fund
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@404media.co is a national treasure! Keep it up!
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TFW you direct the Federal Reserve to, you know, stand up to Wall Street and the Fed says: "Nah." prospect.org/2026/09/03/f...
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The Lawless Fed - The American Prospect
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TFW you direct the Federal Reserve to, you know, stand up to Wall Street and the Fed says: "Nah." prospect.org/2026/09/03/f...
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The Lawless Fed - The American Prospect
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This one is just too good ... Labor Sec nominee pitches lower cost labor to come to America and go on welfare ...
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I guess even ICE can make one right decision.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This column is really weird. Author can't seem to get her arms around the problem that so-called moderates have little compelling to offer because they won't criticize corporate power. So they try to hijack age as their issue. And it don't fly. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | What Ever Happened to the Young, Exciting Moderate Democrats?
Seth Moulton is trying to lead the next generation of Democratic leaders — and has been for a while.
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Inequality.org @inequality.org · 21/08/2026
Excellent analysis by @carterd.bsky.social of @demandprogress.bsky.social
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Really disgraceful stuff.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What does it say about how opinion gatekeepers have gone about their work if a prized colleague can take his wares from the most coveted real-estate in opinion journalism to the Weiss-Ellison project, and slot in perfectly? www.offmessage.net/p/60-minutes...
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Propaganda With Better Manners Is Still Propaganda
The new 60 Minutes will tip the scales for conservatives; ironically, many mainstream news outlets already do the same thing, less intentionally.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's gone almost entirely under the radar but the Trump administration is readying a bailout of landlords. They want to settle a challenge to the 2020 eviction moratorium by handing over billions of dollars, disproportionately to real estate investment groups. Zachary Groz reports.
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Trump’s Planned Landlord Bailout Would Funnel Billions to Private Equity - The American Prospect
A Justice Department settlement for the COVID eviction moratorium won’t just go to mom-and-pop owners.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
PIK stands for Payment in Kind. It's really just forbearance. Yikes.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My book is in here! "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life on Howard Zinn." Out next week! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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10 books to read in August: new releases from Jill Lepore, Claudia Rankin and more
The acclaimed novelist Téa Obreht’s sweeping 'Sunrise,' James M. Scott’s propulsive World War II history 'Empire of Ashes' and Jill Lepore’s 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' are among this...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Think of Trump as a boil — an infected pustule on the giant ass of the American system. The boil would have become infected eventually because of deeper flaws in how the system has evolved. Let me introduce you to the first piece of why our system is failing: Jamie Dimon.
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A Realist's Guide to the American System
Part 1: Dimon and the enshittification of everything
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
$1,200 a year. That's what card swipe fees cost the average household — baked into the price of nearly everything, even if you pay cash. A bipartisan bill would fix it. Wall Street spent ~$200M to stop it, per new @demandprogress.bsky.social report. Who's paying & who's protecting it? 🧵
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
$1,200 a year. That's what card swipe fees cost the average household — baked into the price of nearly everything, even if you pay cash. A bipartisan bill would fix it. Wall Street spent ~$200M to stop it, per new @demandprogress.bsky.social report. Who's paying & who's protecting it? 🧵
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A senator who is leaving the Senate, too. Not a whiff of courage about him. Then again, Tillis made his political bones in NC politics by denying people the right to vote.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
neither canadian leaders nor the canadian people will ever trust the united states again and they absolutely shouldn’t
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026
one of those coincidences that seems too good to be true but it is!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/07/2026
We commemorate the 250th anniversary of this nation by carrying on the American tradition of dissent. Challenging those in power is woven into the very fabric of our nation.
Blue graphic with white text reading "dissent is patriotic" and red columns with white stars on the right and left sides
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Any suggestions for a good general history of Mexico, particularly the modern era? Traveling there, always like to read up. Thanks!
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let's break up the Visa-Mastercard duopoly! www.thesling.org/visa-and-mas...
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Visa and Mastercard: The Original Gangsters of Electronic Collusion - The Sling
Pending legislation would force Visa and Mastercard to compete for merchant business and crack the cartel they’ve formed with banks.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Love the subtext.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I got polled by some sleazy outfit that was testing attack lines against @mayor.nyc.gov ZM Anyone know the source?
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Something something quiet part out loud
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I got polled by some sleazy outfit that was testing attack lines against @mayor.nyc.gov ZM Anyone know the source?
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Journalists: choose your fighter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/05/2026
impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Regardless of the reason Republicans backed down, no one should underestimate the significance of Republicans’ failure to remove the only Black congressman from a state infamous for leading secession from the Union in 1860.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We should have ALL become court reformers the day McConnell succeeded in stealing a Supreme Court seat.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"peanuts" ... Any Germans out their old enough to remember this one?
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"This rhetoric about taxing the rich is the first step American society can make towards taming our oligarchs because it represents collective understanding of what needs to be done to preserve our democracy." moneytrust.substack.com/p/we-are-bei...
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ruthlessly on point
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It all comes back to the demands of reactionary America that we all enforce THEIR rules
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is not an ad! It's a warning about the impact of premium credit cards on small businesses and consumers Hat tip @protectborrowers.bsky.social indebt.substack.com/p/mega-bank-...
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My kids are 20 and 17 and I could not imagine their growing up with these kinds of restrictions ... My son was roaming the streets, a mile away even, by 12 years old at the latest.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This admonition has been true for YEARS, folks.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oh my god NO not the norms
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Current FCC rules prohibit foreign investors from owning >25% of company that holds US broadcast licenses. However, foreign investors (mostly Gulf funds) expected to indirectly own nearly 50% of Paramount equity post-WB deal. And Paramount now asking FCC to approve "up to 100%" foreign ownership
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