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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For @theslingutah.bsky.social, I reviewed new books from @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @isabellamweber.bsky.social, two of my personal econ policy heroes! The two of them are working to recenter human welfare in economics and just maybe save the discipline from itself.
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It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The Sling
Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And more than a year ago, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the need for Democrats to oppose the AI industry: prospect.org/2025/09/05/2...
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and I warned a month ago: An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment And to be clear: any absolution of legal liability for damages caused would also constitute a bailout. prospect.org/2026/08/13/a...
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An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment - The American Prospect
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NEW: Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes for @theintercept.com about the growing centrist argument against mass political participation.
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Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy
By railing against small-dollar donors and “purity tests,” Third Way and the Abundance Network are empowering the political elite over the rest of us.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social takes a look at Jessica Schumer's move to OpenAI, and what it illustrates about the economics of influence, this morning in @prospect.org.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Check out our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com this morning on how Trump 2.0 has been hard at work decimating the entire financial regulatory regime, shredding 100 years of institution-building and leaving us vulnerable to a financial crash. newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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How Donald Trump Broke the Banks
Trump and his minions are letting Wall Street run wild. What could possibly go wrong?
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
REMINDER that my colleague @dylangyauchl.bsky.social exposed the fact that leaders in the Abundance "movement" bragged that Ballmer was a MASSIVE hidden political funder as well. prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
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New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Conservatives have weaponized the "time tax" to deprive poor Americans of benefits they're entitled to, argues @annielowrey.bsky.social in an important new book. And we're seeing this in real time with the OBBB. My review @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social - washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/25/d...
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Death by a Thousand Papercuts
Annie Lowrey explains how the largely hidden “Time Tax,” built on government parsimony and bureaucratic hurdles, screws the poor.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social is in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social this morning about how the bottleneck in refining is making Big Oil rich -- and bleeding your wallet dry at the pump. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/14/o...
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Booming Oil Profits Show Why Policymakers Can’t “Wait and See” on Gas Prices
The latest data on oil profits and gas prices points to a refining market power problem that will endure even after the Strait reopens.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today in @prospect.org, our @jeffhauser.bsky.social & @dylangyauchl.bsky.social explain why it's time to start thinking about an AI bailout--and realizing why it would be a huge mistake. Every bailout winds up strengthening industry elites who inevitably turn their wealth against progressive causes
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An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment - The American Prospect
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just a reminder: Third Way's entire purpose is to cut the legs out from under progressive organizing to strengthen billionaire control of Democratic politics prospect.org/2026/05/12/t...
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Third Way or the Highway - The American Prospect
The centrist outfit’s latest foray into the culture wars isn’t about a streamer—it’s about entrenching oligarch control of influence and electoral infrastructure.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Third Way going for some hostage negotiating Just stunningly bad coalitional partnership to not hold off until November. vote blue depending on who, i guess
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
NEW: Trump's scheme to sell expedited access to his Truth Social posts for $100,000/month is much worse than you think — and a brazenly corrupt favor to Wall Street. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social takes a closer look for @theintercept.com.
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Trump’s Truth Social API Is a Blatantly Corrupt Favor to Wall Street
By selling early access to his posts on Truth Social, Trump is selling the ability to move markets to anyone willing to pay the price.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Shot, chaser
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Leonard Leo’s fingerprints are all over conservative groups’ latest attempt to secure the fossil fuel industry’s preferred outcome in the upcoming climate liability case before SCOTUS, Suncor v. Boulder. The argument here is a flimsy attempt to distract from Alito's actual conflicts of interest.
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Conservative groups demand Kagan recuse herself from climate case
The groups accuse the Supreme Court justice of endorsing climate science by writing the foreword to a judicial reference manual.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’ve avoided a lot of the Platner discourse because it’s a toxic tarpit, but I think the notion that the lesson here is primarily about either one political faction or something essential about “unvetted” newcomers, sits in some considerable tension with the entire Eric Swalwell experience.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NEW in @prospect.org : Silicon Valley financiers are frothing at the mouth over a startup founded by Kirsten Gillibrand’s fresh-out-of-college son. Last month the company, APEC, was valued at $300 million.
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Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps - The American Prospect
DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
NEW: Today, @thenation.com published a story from our very own @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @juliepitta.bsky.social, President of @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social, about leaked documents from the Abundance Network's plan to take over the Democratic Party.
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An Abundance of Influence
A group of YIMBY Big Tech donors took over San Francisco politics. Now they’re setting their sights on the rest of the country.
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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In this News Brief, "Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support," we talk to @dylangyauchl.bsky.social about her recent report on the obscene amounts of money going into pushing Abundance and the PR hurdles the latest neoliberalism rebrand is facing.
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News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support
In this news brief, we catch up with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project, to discuss Abundance's PR problems, why this latest neoliberalism rebrand isn't catching on an
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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Coming up on The Dean Obeidallah Show: @joesudbay.bsky.social rounds out the week with @msignorile.bsky.social , @dylangyauchl.bsky.social , @rweingarten.bsky.social , and @pamspaulding.bsky.social ! ☎️: 866-997-4748 🔊: siriusxm.us/Dean
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
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New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement - The American Prospect
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The abundance clique has an AI problem. Beyond being funded by Silicon Valley, the ecosystem features an array of tech libertarians, a smattering of technofascism, and no answers for our anti-AI moment. Read @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com! newrepublic.com/article/2064...
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The Abundance Gang Has a Big AI Problem
The faddish political movement’s ties to industry figures may help attract funding, but it comes with a political cost.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has a piece out in @newrepublic.com about why affordability has to include taking on corporate power. "Prosperity is not possible until those who have schemed against the American people are run to ground and held accountable at last." newrepublic.com/article/2064...
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We Can’t Address Affordability Without Tackling Corporate Power
Concentrated economic influence is making us increasingly powerless—and angry.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Go read my latest in the monthly about affordability politics and why it's deeper than just price levels!
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My latest in @theintercept.com, the Epstein files are a case study in our lack of elite accountability. They're also an opportunity to clean house, if we'll take it. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...
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Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn't Care Less
Each new document drop makes clear that elites operate with impunity. It's high time to banish Epstein associates from public life.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'll be doing a panel about abundance, environmentalism, and community oversight at UC Davis tomorrow! If anyone in the greater Bay Area wants to come say hi, give me a shout! pcl.org/events/2026-...
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2026 Environmental Assembly – PLANNING AND CONSERVATION LEAGUE
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
In our latest installment of Hackwatch, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about companies' "technobabble defense," obscuring underhanded and illegal conduct behind jargon. Our central point: "The rule of law does not have an algorithm exception" revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/the-techno...
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The Technobabble Defense
How companies cry “innovation” to defend their lawbreaking
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If there are no consequences for this, it basically amounts to carte blanche to commit insider trading via strategic data releases. Just saying
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
All I want for Christmas is an opposition party!
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/12/2025
From border czar Tom Homan taking cash in a paper bag to the Trump family’s $5 billion in crypto profits, this is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. Democratic leadership is squandering their chance to stop it. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social: trib.al/7KlBr43
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House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption - The American Prospect
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
House Democrats are undermining the party's chance to run against Trumpian graft by prioritizing the protection of their own corrupt incumbents. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case for @prospect.org. prospect.org/2025/12/23/h...
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House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption - The American Prospect
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
As recently as February, Michael Hsu was one of the most powerful regulators of the financial industry Last week, he joined a VC firm whose portfolio is littered with concerning companies that have faced a # of enforcement actions, including some from Hsu’s (now former) employer
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Biden's head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu just joined a venture capital firm with several crypto clients that were under legal trouble during the Biden administration. Sheesh. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social: prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
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Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door - The American Prospect
Michael Hsu, former OCC head, has joined a VC firm backing crypto and fintech companies.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In today's edition of the Watchdog Weekly newsletter, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about the savage cuts to regulatory agencies that leave Americans more vulnerable to disease, disaster, exploitation, and more. revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/cutting-cr...
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Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Go read my latest!
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Larry Summers is stepping back from "public commitments," whatever that means. Good. Now to never let him come back. My latest out today in @theintercept.com ! theintercept.com/2025/11/18/l...
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Don't Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society
While Larry Summers’s “association” with Jeffrey Epstein was already known, this newest batch of emails reveals their relationship ran deep.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Donald Trump's campaign of corruption is the logical endpoint for decades of elite impunity. Moving past it and restoring the rule of law will require unrigging our political system and restoring accountability. NEW from @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @theintercept.com.
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Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Much like the East Wing, the bank supervision agencies have been demolished. The agencies no longer have the resources or inclination to rigorously enforce the law. More in my latest for @prospect.org. prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...
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Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect
Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Bank supervision has been quietly eviscerated since the inauguration. Staffing cuts, regulation rollbacks, weaker standards. In the face of growing risk from asset bubbles, climate change, and more, we're throwing out the tools to ensure a sound banking system 2/2
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong?? Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2 prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...
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Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect
Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Kind of terrifying that apparently Sam Altman thinks "so far, the technology has not produced a really scary giant risk" Causing psychosis + inciting suicide and murder seems scary to me x.com/LuizaJarovsk...
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on X: "🚨 SHOCKING: Sam Altman says he "expects some really bad stuff to happen," but it doesn't seem to bother him much. [HINT: OpenAI's legal department is probably FUMING over his comments; make sure to save this clip]: This is a clip from Sam Altman's podcast interview with a16z, a https://t.co/Cj6pMYTfAo" / X
🚨 SHOCKING: Sam Altman says he "expects some really bad stuff to happen," but it doesn't seem to bother him much. [HINT: OpenAI's legal department is probably FUMING over his comments; make sure to save this clip]: This is a clip from Sam Altman's podcast interview with a16z, a https://t.co/Cj6pMYTfAo
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame. Our full response in today’s newsletter:
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Big Business Will Not Save Us
Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 09/10/2025
Centrist Democrats have again decided the path to victory is to tack to the right. But their compulsive moderation “reinforces the perception that the Democratic Party stands for nothing.” @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/ocSBbuw
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Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Democrats' version of triangulation is really just about punching left. It's as much running right by rote as it is an actual strategy Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case today in @prospect.org! 🧵 prospect.org/politics/cen...
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Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth. Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social! www.thesling.org/the-hollowne...
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The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective - The Sling
While degrowth as a framework has been around for a while, its extremely limited presence in the zeitgeist is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern progressives are not anti-growth; they simply recog...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Public-interest lawsuits are a critical mechanism to defend communities from exploitation. This summer, Memphis showed us why attacks on them from the abundance movement, Trump, and SCOTUS are so dangerous. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social for @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/musk...
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Musk's xAI Is Showing Us Exactly Why We Need Public Interest Lawsuits | Common Dreams
When powerful corporations are able to completely circumvent basic democratic accountability, public interest lawsuits are a final backstop to protect the community’s well-being.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New blog: "while supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism." therevolvingdoorproject.org/dont-listen-...
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Don’t Listen to Ezra Klein- Annul the BigTech & Democrats Marriage | Revolving Door Project
While supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2025
Ted Cruz is trying to exempt AI companies from virtually every federal regulation. The person who would hand out the waivers once worked as Peter Thiel’s chief of staff. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/E2hsVcY
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Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
My latest for @TheProspect is out this morning, about Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it would be an end-run around all of federal law for tech firms. Hope folks enjoy! prospect.org/power/2025-0... (Also I had fun with the subheads)
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Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
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