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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our idea of citizenship in the Western Hemisphere is really special and you don't really get that until you try to integrate somewhere else. One more thing about this guy: he loves Michigan as much as I do AND he knows other places. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe? The Senate nominee talks about his view for the future of the Democratic Party. open.spotify.com/episode/4PXj... youtu.be/f7MVyjL-rbk?...
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“The debate over A.I. safety tends to focus on the precise probability that A.I.s will kill us all. I don’t find that helpful. What I think we should focus on is something more straightforward, something nearer at hand: loss of human control over A.I.”
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I. (Gift Article)
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump vs. the Bond Market Robin Wigglesworth from the Financial Times explains everything you need to know about the Trump administration’s meddling with the bond market. open.spotify.com/episode/1ts2... youtu.be/1TfGBoQVgGc?...
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What the Heck Is Going On in the Bond Market? | The Ezra Klein Show
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
While not quite the political thesis of the piece, this insight hits hard for me: “I find that much time spent on any of these platforms shapes me in ways I don’t want to be shaped. All of these platforms create a feeling of being informed and connected that is fundamentally false.”
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Opinion | Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did (Gift Article)
Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; people on the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Great @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social episode with @hlntnr.bsky.social on the recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and the challenges and avenues for controlling AI more broadly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=locK...
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The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
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Opinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)
The finest trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Most of Trump's information comes from Natalie Harp, who’s known as the human printer, and from people who know that he wants a constant supply of positive reinforcement. And his aides are afraid of giving him bad news." @maggiehaberman85.bsky.social in conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Opinion | How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman (Gift Article)
The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Americans Need to Understand About China Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister of Australia, on how the Chinese president thinks. open.spotify.com/episode/4Lg5... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)
Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks.
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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i’m late to it but absolutely loved this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social conversation w/ gary shteyngart on searching for meaning in a dystopian and uncertain world. what is the point of life if we can’t figure out how to maximize our own happiness? open.spotify.com/episode/0XCM...
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I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Opinion | The Presidential Cage Match We Needed Is the One We Never Got
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
That's a pretty good summary of what is frankly a ridiculous story going around, including here on bsky. Peter Thiel is frankly ideologically repugnant, but co-hosting a mini-conference isn't a conspiracy or one of his crimes, and it's fine that e.g. Elizabeth Blackburn attended
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
On Dialog.
Enough people have asked me about the Peter Thiel-Dialog story that I think it's worth saying what it is, or at least what I saw it to be. So:

–Dialog is a conference. I went once in 2018 and once in 2022. No one ever asked me to keep it or my presence a secret.

–My understanding was Thiel was one of its founders but no longer involved by the time I went. I never saw or talked to him in connection with Dialog. 

–Nor did I see the other names I’ve heard mentioned, like Ted Cruz or Elon Musk or Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Jared Kushner. Dialog was not sold to me as a bunch of big names, which is part of why I went. I don’t need to go to a conference to hear what Ted Cruz thinks.

–You could be a Dialog member, but I wasn’t. I don’t think joining got you much except guaranteed invitations to future Dialogs. There were occasional dinners and webinars, but I never went to one. I would not have described it as a secret or a society. 

–The panels were largely self-organized, so people would propose panels and hold them. I went to one on being a working parent and another on whether crypto had any real use cases and another on how to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. You’d usually have 8 or 10 people in a room. It was all very TED-talk adjacent.

–In 2018, I found it very optimistic, with an idealistic hacker-ish vibe. In 2022, I found the conversations and vibe more curdled and resentful. I didn’t enjoy it, and I didn’t go back. (That did prove a pretty good signal of where tech’s politics were going though, maybe I should’ve paid more attention.)
–That said, Dialog was a pretty ideologically diverse crowd. I met some people there who were *extremely* far left and far right. I met some real eccentrics and weirdos. I appreciated that about it.

– I’m a journalist, I go to lots of things in the hopes of getting to know people, hearing new ideas, finding podcast guests, etc.

–Being at something does not mean I endorse it, or everyone at it, or everyone who organized or founded it. I try to go to things where I don’t share the politics and perspectives of the crowd, for obvious reasons.

–I am surprised how credulous some people have been on this story. You have to believe some weird things about the world to believe Julián Castro and Peter Thiel are somehow engaged in a common project. Secret societies, I imagine, need a lot of trust to function, but the people being named here do not trust each other and do not have aligned agendas. 
 
So that’s what I saw at Dialog. I’ll just end by saying it’s a weird experience to have a conference you haven’t thought about for years become the center of a new conspiracy theory.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am nine years sober and smoke free. But quitting meat has bested me at every turn. However the “cult of efficiency” gives me greater impetus to keep trying.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Opinion | What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right. open.spotify.com/episode/1yu0... youtu.be/YK1aj39y55k?...
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The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. How Trump Supercharges America’s Risks The political risk analyst @ianbremmer.com argues that the greatest driver of risk in the world right now is President Trump. open.spotify.com/episode/2o7Y... youtu.be/syl9OLNSm4k?...
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Why America Is Its Own Biggest Geopolitical Risk | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
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Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Great episode on the power of cooperation and stories, liberalism, the risks and benefits of AI and more. I really like Harari's liberty-equality-fraternity test for political systems.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This article is so good. And so overdue.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion The best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Nexus” discusses the core delusions deranging our politics. open.spotify.com/episode/6mYi... youtu.be/9NCxS__rtAo?...
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Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. One in eight American adults is taking GLP-1s. What does that mean for how we relate to our food, bodies and one another? With Julia Belluz, co-author of the book “Food Intelligence". open.spotify.com/episode/7o8i... youtu.be/T_JKQt4mp5I?...
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GLP-1s Are a Lot Weirder Than Anyone Thought | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Opinion | Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I told @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social that Israel has become even more dependent on US, not less - and this isn't likely to change given expansionist agenda beyond 67 borders and strategy of having military upper hand in region of half a billion by a state of 10 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
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Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer. open.spotify.com/episode/3Jjy... youtu.be/mX5U5DNUfBc?...
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Why Jeff Bezos’s Tax Rate Is Lower Than Yours | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. open.spotify.com/episode/5GcZ... youtu.be/UPCvEHtBSp0?...
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Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One State Reality’ | The Ezra Klein Show
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Excellent episode with two of my favourite public intellectuals on why the civilisation being destroyed is actually the US.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War open.spotify.com/episode/15An... youtu.be/b5hU0VHM1-M?...
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The Moral Cost of Trump’s War | The Ezra Klein Show
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Fascinating @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast episode with @michaelpollan.bsky.social on the current state of research into and theories about consciousness. youtu.be/hYrgLn7pWp8?...
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The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Is Iran Winning? With Suzanne Maloney, director of the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy program. open.spotify.com/episode/3lFO... youtu.be/nUhi5b8aj7U?...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
“I have been exploring the deepening relationship so many people have with their A.I.s. The protean nature of these systems mean they are never just one thing, but among the many things they are is the one McLuhan warned of: an extension of our self in a material that is not our self.” #AIEthics
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I Saw Something New in San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
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Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Happens if 20 Percent of the World’s Oil Disappears? With energy policy expert Jason Bordoff. open.spotify.com/episode/1TRZ... youtu.be/EEhIfksDzsY?...
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We’re all living in the Mirror World now. Great interview and a reminder of how prescient Doppelgänger was.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Explaining the constitution, to a former Trump national security adviser.
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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🚨 👉 The showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic is a window into how unprepared we are for the questions we are already facing. In July, Anthropic signed a deal with the Pentagon to integrate Claude, its A.I. system, into the military’s operations.👈 @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Future We Feared Is Already Here www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...
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Opinion | The Future We Feared Is Already Here
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Why The Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic open.spotify.com/episode/6obz... youtu.be/xc97F2CFBOY?...
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Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @rhodesben.bsky.social discusses why Trump waged war on Iran — and why his predecessors didn’t dare to. open.spotify.com/episode/2hFe... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This week's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents. open.spotify.com/episode/6aeT... youtu.be/lIJelwO8yHQ?...
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How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...
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Opinion | What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered and that the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display. open.spotify.com/episode/0PZe... youtu.be/eBnQ6qxoMr8?...
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What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elite Worlds Work | The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet.
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Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
since reading her book a few years ago, i think about Priya Parker’s work nearly once a week. an instruction manual that goes far beyond antidotes for your social life—it’s about our political and spiritual lives too. this episode with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social made my heart and brain light up.
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David Fogel @davidfogel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Really great chat about the importance of “other” in our lives. We need to hang out with friends, others, share space more - for our overall health. That’s what bump n grind is about.
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Christian Hindemith @ludichris.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1/6 I’ve listened to a lot of Ezra Klein, but his recent conversation with Priya Parker might be one of his very best. It’s about something we almost never treat as political, even though it’s the core of politics: how we gather, host and live together. The very nucleus of politics.
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Narako @narako.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This episode is such a relief from the relentless news cycle but also incredibly timely because it reaffirms the power of real-world human interactions and teaches us how to train that muscle
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