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Jacob Weisberg

@jacobweisberg.bsky.social
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Reader, Writer, co-founder of Pushkin Industries & Chair of Committee to Protect Journalists

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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How does democracy fail? Not because people wake up one day and decide they prefer authoritarianism. It fails when the people with the power to resist decide the price of resistance is too high. Don’t be one of them. Read my book, out today. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818503/p…
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Profiles in Cowardice by Jacob Weisberg: 9798217062591 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina Brown A devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly...
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
with @jacobweisberg.bsky.social on his terrific new book and why the Trump capitulators keep on capitulating
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Was It Worth It? SCOTUS and Big Law Pay the Price of Cowardice
A taxonomy of cowardice from Big Law to Bezos to Chief Justice John Roberts, and the first signs that courage can be contagious, too.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My forthcoming book is about what happened in America in 2025, when an elected president tried to rule as a dictator. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818503...
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
By presenting judging as pure law untainted by politics, Amy Coney Barrett offers a picture so implausible it makes cynics of us all @mgraber1.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...
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Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography
Amy Coney Barrett’s book, "Listening to the Law," claims the Supreme Court is above politics. Its very existence proves otherwise.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Just finished listening to Season 5 of Michael Lewis' Against the Rules Podcast. It's about sports fandom, and more specifically the modern era of ubiquitious sports gambling and it's one of the best things I've ever heard. 10/10 open.spotify.com/episode/0hvs...
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Episode 1: What’s Wrong with Eric?
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis · Episode
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Nate Weisberg @nateweisberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I spoke with a lawyer from the CFPB to try and get a better sense of what's happening there amidst the DOGE rampage:
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Really interesting (and likely telling) parallel here from @nateweisberg.bsky.social: Donald Trump Is Following the Sam Brownback Playbook washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/28/d...
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Donald Trump Is Following the Sam Brownback Playbook | Washington Monthly
Sam Brownback's radical agenda undermined Kansas's prosperity, decimated vital government services, and put a Democrat in power.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Arsonist blames fireman
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Trump’s Renewed Attacks on Powell Drive Markets Lower and Weaken Dollar
President Trump’s pressure on the Federal Reserve and the uncertainty surrounding his tariff policy continued to jar investors as stocks, bonds, oil and the U.S. dollar all weakened. Gold set another ...
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Heartbreaking story about Trump and Musk causing children to starve to death in Sudan.
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Trump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is the missing explanation for why so many seemingly sane Republicans obey Trump: physical fear of his armed mob. In the Senate, there are many more cowards than cultists. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u... via @NYTimes
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Senator Lisa Murkowski Makes Startling Admission as Trump Wages Retribution Campaign
Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump’s actions.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This entertaining profile of "Baghdad Batya" reminded me of Hoffer's "The True Believer" and the idea that fanatics aren't so much loyal to a particular ideology as they are looking for the emotional fulfillment of belief itself & the high of absolute conviction washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/09/w...
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Who is Batya Ungar-Sargon? | Washington Monthly
A Berkeley-educated leftist who couldn’t bear drinking at a bar with Trump voters is now MAGA’s top defender.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Trump’s peculiar genius is for changing the subject from his latest outrageous idiocy to a new outrageous idiocy.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Is MAGA the repudiation of Reaganism, or its apotheosis? Max Boot's excellent new biography provides evidence on both sides. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Lucky One | Jacob Weisberg
Who was the “real” Reagan behind the carapace of vagueness, self-delusion, and contradiction?
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
February 28, 2025 —a date which will live in infamy—the authority of the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by its own President.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Appalled by the 10-year sentence for Carlos Watson. He was never violent and poses no future threat to society. Six months — or less — would serve the purposes of retribution and deterrence. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/b...
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Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Co-Founder, Is Sentenced to Almost 10 Years in Prison
A federal jury in July found Mr. Watson, who started the digital media company in 2013, guilty of trying to defraud investors and lenders.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The Committee to Protect Journalist is on the hunt for a Chief of Staff. It’s a crucial role at an essential organization. @pressfreedom.bsky.social cpjorg.bamboohr.com/careers/80
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Chief of Staff
Job Title: Chief of Staff Department: Executive Job Family: Leadership Salary: $165K-$185K Office Location: New York  Reports to Title: Chief Executive Officer FLSA Status: Exempt Union Represented: N...
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Predict Murdochs will be suing each other for the next 30 years. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...
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Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust
A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Cheese sculpture: a truly Midwestern art form. Is that supposed to be a chèvre Noguchi in front of the Prudential Building? www.axios.com/local/chicag...
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Aldi's "charcuterie chalet" aims to up your holiday entertainment game
Pop-up features a 20-foot house of salami.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This insults France, rewards a criminal, and gives a sinecure to Trump’s own family. Trifecta! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
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Trump Names Charles Kushner as Pick for Ambassador to France
The announcement elevated Mr. Kushner, the father of President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and the recipient of a presidential pardon at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Market is up today because Trump is naming a Treasury Secretary who is not a sex predator, a conspiracy nut, or a Fox News talking head. But note that his single most qualified pick still falls below the minimum standard of any normal administration.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We’re celebrating upstate
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“CPJ has been studying the authoritarian playbook for silencing the press around the world. In the U.S., as elsewhere, we will follow the facts and remain vigilant. If and when we see parallel moves to curtail the press here, we will challenge them forcefully.” #ipfa @pressfreedom.bsky.social
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