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Trying to keep elite grifter politicians, journalist, the rest of their class honest or at least letting people know when they are not honest. DMs open for tips. elitegrifters.substack.com elite-grifters-shop.fourthwall.com

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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 8h
They shouldn't quit their day jobs and try to get acting gigs.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 9h
Wajahat Ali on guy who killed 13 and wounded 32 people: "some Republicans will say he's a terrible person. He's a terrorist." Does he think that only some Republicans think somebody with that body count is a terrible person?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 9h
Ro Khanna appeared (again) on Wajahat Ali's show. In this clip, Ali refers to Nidal Hasan as "Nidal Hasan Malik." Malik is his middle name. (Khanna's last name is also misspelled.) Ali also says "don't you want justice for the family," despite there being numerous families of Hasan's victims.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
Wow I hope he bought something nice with all those rubles.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 10h
'[Joe] Rogan then listed his other issues with the Dems, which included “the fact that they haven’t had a primary since 2012.”' Queue the clip of Rogan telling Bari Weiss "I'll probably vote for Bernie" in 2020. In a primary that he now claims didn't happen.
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Joe Rogan Says He's Voting for Bernie
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13h
David Sirota Compares the Likes of Sarah Longwell and Neera Tanden to the Terminator
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David Sirota Compares The Likes of Sarah Longwell and Neera Tanden to the Terminator
Sirota thinks they are “a threat to me, my family, my community, my state, my country, and my world.”
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13h
Emma Vigeland is failing to persuade Lebanese on Hezbollah.
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Two-Thirds of Lebanese Shias Want Hezbollah Disarmed as Survey Finds Openness to Peace With Israel
Lebanese Hezbollah fighters take part in cross-border raids, part of a large-scale military exercise, in Aaramta bordering Israel on May …
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13h
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Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
In 1939, the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13h
Ned Rust and Jacobin didn't disclose that Rust, according to his LinkedIn profile, spent 21 years at Hachette's Little, Brown and Company through 2025 (after working for Frank Luntz). That seems rather relevant to his piece criticizing Hachette and the other Big Five publishing houses.
VP,  Publisher for James Patterson

Little, Brown and Company · Full-time

Feb 2004 - Mar 2025 · 21 yrs 2 mos

New York, New York · On-site

Creator and leader of the award-winning team that built the publishing platform for bestselling author in the world and took a program that was doing two books a year to more than a dozen.

Developed, coordinated and executed the publishing and public relations efforts of the world's bestselling author brand.

Publishers Weekly 3/18/16: It Takes 16 People Working Full Time to Publish All of James Patterson's Books

Twelve years ago, Ned Rust was the lone employee on James Patterson's team at Hachette Book Group (then Time Warner Book Group), working as what was then "radically" (as he put it) called a brand manager. At the time, Patterson was publishing two adult titles a year.

Project Director

Franklin Luntz Research Companies

2002 – 2004

Script writing. Survey research. Focus group research. Dial testing.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13h
The author of a Jacobin piece, Ned Rust, brought up that an Atlantic writer went to Yale. Rust is "a researcher at the Center for Working-Class Politics." According to his LinkedIn profile, they have an English degree from Vassar and a master's degree from NYU. Of course.
Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter J. Ong, and Alexander Luria are name-checked. The tech-happy media and educational industries are decried, and the system that allows kids to spend 4.5 hours a day on social media is called out, but nowhere in the massive piece is any shade thrown at the book publishing industry with whom The Atlantic, for 169 years, has been cozy, and to which the article’s Yale-educated writer likely — as with most staff writers — means to sell manuscripts over the course of a career.Contributors

Ned Rust is a researcher at the Center for Working-Class Politics.Education
Vassar College logo

Vassar College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English

1987 – 1991

Activities and societies: Vice President, Indifference Party

English
New York University logo

New York University

Master of Arts (M.A.)

1992 – 1994
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"When [Hasan Piker] is speaking to his audience, he falls into a frat-boy patois laden with generous helpings of profanity. When he is speaking about his show, he employs more sophisticated language and concepts."
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What Hasan Piker Believes
He’s right to complain that a few provocative quotes do not capture his worldview.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There is someone else still talking about Graham Platner and doing it more problematically than Sam Seder. Of course, it is Ana Kasparian.
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Did The Majority Report Need to Talk About Graham Platner Again?
How long in to a rapist’s “journey” does Sam Seder think is a good time to run for the Senate?
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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ana Kasparian claims that Graham Platner was the victim of "phony rape allegations" and then spends a minute ranting about how it must be fake because his alleged victim didn't go to the authorities.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is supposed to be dumb this time because she mixed up the companies Deloitte and presumably DuPont.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yet another example of a core element of Bernie Broism being bad faith attacks on Democrats. The Majority Reports' Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder portray it like Bernie Bro and Republican consultants don't make their money off of ad buys like Democratic consultants do.
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Sam Seder’s Weird Falsehood About Republican Consultants Not Making Shady Money Like Democrats
With friends like this, Democrats don’t need enemies.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here was Hasan Piker appearing to shock his dog Kaya earlier this month.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How long until Mayor Mamdani is being talked about alongside Neera Tanden and Sarah Longwell?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Walla Walla Valley DSA: "We regularly support our local unions, including Starbucks Workers United and our only unionized Starbucks location with flyering, strikes, sip-ins, or marches on the boss." Why not support local businesses instead of a union for a multi-national corporation?
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New Chapter in Walla Walla, Washington - Democratic Left
A rural, wine-producing area is exposed to new ways of thinking as like-minded socialists find each other — and win.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'At one point [Mehdi] Hasan writes that “God gave me no skills or talents in life other than a big mouth, so I decided to monetize it.”'
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Win Every Argument Review: Mehdi Hasan’s Book Indirectly Explains Why Bernie Bros Fail to Persuade
It’s a very Mehdi Hasan-heavy book on debating on and public speaking.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Is live streaming an execution supposed to be a high crime or misdemeanor?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But I'm not surprised that's his conclusion. I worked on his campaign briefly in 2017 (with a younger Zohran Mamdani!) and my experience was that he hired me, didn't listen to any of my advice, and then I guess fired me by just ghosting, which has never happened to me before or since.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
None of the outlets that we noted were still publishing Ross Barkan after the plagiarism allegations came up, but before New York Magazine let him go, have published him again since he was let go.
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News Outlets Still Publishing DSA Journalist Despite Ongoing Plagiarism Investigation
Ross Barkan, whose State Senate campaign was managed by Zohran Mamdani, is still covering him.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ross Barkan got canned by New York Magazine for plagiarism. The Nation, where he claimed he was writing a new column, hasn't published him again since New York Magazine let him go. Who is still publishing him? Jacobin. For this type of content.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's unclear who the market for content form people even worse than the likes of The Majority Report is, but there is one considering their YouTube views.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mayor Mamdani rejects DSA calls for him to fire the NYC police commissioner Jessica Tisch.
NYC police commissioner
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sam Seder’s Weird Falsehood About Republican Consultants Not Making Shady Money Like Democrats
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Sam Seder’s Weird Falsehood About Republican Consultants Not Making Shady Money Like Democrats
With friends like this, Democrats don’t need enemies.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wajahat Ali: "And taking this Delorean back to 2007, what helped Obama when it came to Obama versus Clinton? He didn't support the war on terror." Ali isn't a young person, he should know that Obama had been opposed to the war in Iraq, not the war on terror.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How do you study this/review the data and miss that someone coming in 12 days in is much less than half of 107 days?
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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Cenk Uygur: "And I just want to note for the record, Tucker Carlson, often times, not all the times, but often times, is a much better journalist than anyone at the New York Times, or anyone in mainstream media."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wajahat Ali: "the first half of Kamla's 107 days was very progressive. [...] we've all studied this and now they've done the data when [...] David Plouffe then came on and they had a strategy that no, you have to move to the right." Harris took over on 7/21. Plouffe's role was announced on 8/2.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hasan Piker: "By the way, per the New York Times, these crimes were non-violent drug offenses and robbery.”
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wajahat Ali claiming that Democrats made Hasan Piker toxic and the "right wing then ran on it." Republican ads have clips of Piker talking, not clips of Democrats talking about him. Shamelessness, indeed, Ali.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One of The Vanguard bros claims that Liz Cheney was about to lose her House seat in 2024. She left the House in 2023.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sam Seder gets close to admitting that Hasan Piker is toxic for a general election audience in Michigan in this clip.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This seems like projection on David Sirota's part: "they are for total victory. There is no surrender. There is no compromise. Sometimes they pretend that there is because they feel politically like they they have to but that but they understand the stakes of the battle."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The actual way Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination was to get more votes than other candidates, unless there was something similar to a coup that would have happened.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
David Sirota claims he said this to Bernie Sanders on 2020 race: "You are going to have to rip the nomination out of the cold dead hands of the establishment. They are not going to just give it to you. [...] you are going to have to rip it out of the cold dead hands of the establishment."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
David Sirota says he thinks about a line in The Terminator all the time.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And then Sirota compares the "faction" to the T-800 Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sirota then claims that "faction" "is a threat to me, my family, my community, my state, my country, and my world."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
David Sirota tries to conflate never-Trump Republicans and Neera Tanden.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sam Seder knocks Hasan Piker's popularity.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"With Bernie Bros in the media, they operate in echo chambers where they spend a lot of time having each other on their shows. It doesn’t lead to views being challenged."
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Win Every Argument Review: Mehdi Hasan’s Book Indirectly Explains Why Bernie Bros Fail to Persuade
It’s a very Mehdi Hasan-heavy book on debating on and public speaking.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In July, Kat Abughazaleh posted a conversation she had with the 2024 Penthouse Pet of the Year, who was the Deputy Campaign Manager for the Francesca Hong campaign at the time.
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We Turned a Campaign Office Into a Mutual Aid Hub | KAPOW x Francesca Hong for WI
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Kat Abughazaleh’s Campaign Strategy Failed Again, She is Still Pushing It
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Kat Abughazaleh’s Campaign Strategy Failed Again, She is Still Pushing It
What if your idea of politics not sucking involved creating yet another dark money group/super PAC?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A reminder that influencers are not a replacement for journalists, even ones from The Blaze and the Daily Mail!
@CurrentRevolt
Tony Ortiz (Current Revolt)
@CurrentRevolt
Rhein Amacher, source of the Talarcio audio, says he initially shopped the story to Sara Gonzales of The Blaze and Daily Mail but it didn't pass legal so they declined.

Amacher says he gave it to an influencer instead because they have lower standards than journalists.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"DSA's national program is clear: We must abolish ICE. We demand an end to ICE detention and deportations, the prosecution of federal agents, the free movement of all people, and amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status." So the DSA wants amnesty even for literal terrorists.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You can see the Young DSA chapters statement referring to her as "Zionist billionaire Jessica Tisch" in this post.
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NYC DSA is Accused of Repressing College Campus Palestine Organizing
DSA members come for Mayor Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed told Hasan Piker he was costing him votes, and more from this week.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unlike the Young DSA chapters, the national DSA managed to avoid referring to NYC police commissioner as "Zionist billionaire Jessica Tisch" in this statement. It's unclear what firing her has to do with the DSA wanting ICE out of NYC.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Somehow MAGA was claiming that James Talarico was still in a mental health facility (he was never in!) on Saturday, the day after he reappeared in public. You can't fix this level of stupid.
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MAGA’s Talarico Mental Breakdown Conspiracy Implodes—Instantly
The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?
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