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Nathan Newman

@nathansnewman.bsky.social
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Policy/writer. @thenation @TheProspect @slate @DissentMag @monthly @nydailynews @theweek Teach crim justice/sociology CUNY and other places Writing at nathannewman.substack.com

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 13h
But calling racist Republicans "deplorables" is a political capital crime. Trump engages in regular eugenic racial stereotyping on intelligence and no one in the media seriously calls him out on it.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 17h
Or the headline could be "Putin offers bribes to Trump's negotiators to throw Ukraine under the bus"
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A group formed to attack half the Democratic party base. And one that if you look at their web site promotes no substantive policy of any kind - other than making nice with rightwing Republicans- so their only message is attacking the left. abcnews.com/Politics/dem...
abcnews.com
Democratic mayors in red states launch new group to counter MAGA and far-left extremes
Cleveland Mayor Bibb will lead Blue Cities/Red States, launching next week.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Farmers can't afford diesel because of Iran war Restaurants can't afford salsa because of tariffs Gamers can't afford consoles because of AI demand Never has inflation been more clearly caused directly by a President's public policy
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the endgame of Supreme Court's empowerment of a God-Emperor Presidency, where Trump arbitrarily cuts spending authorized by Congress, then issues checks to selected constituencies, again without Congressional authorization. Core Congressional "power of the purse" is now over.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To put struggles of the Democratic Party in perspective, the Social Democrats - the closest parallel party in Germany - is at 14% support there, with the fascist AfD party at 30% at the traditional conservative Christian Democrats at 18%
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With approval of Paramount takeover of HBOMax, I am sad to report pirate sites now so extensive they "helpfully list movies and TV shows categorized by provider, including HBO Max" Terrible thing if people dropped subscriptions yet could keep watching the shows www.theverge.com/streaming/87...
theverge.com
Everyone is stealing TV
Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People are saying that everyone knows the Manhattan Institute is extremists— but that is not true, centrists kiss up to them all the time. Here is a major Abundance event and look at all the people pal-ing around with a Manhattan Inst director.
ABUNDANCE26
December 10 & 11
Washington, DC
Nicholas Bagley
Professor, University of Michigan
Law School
Matt Clancy
Program Director, Coefficient
Giving
Colani Nottoni
Judge Glock Director of Research, Manhattan
Institute
Derek Kaufman
Founder & CEO, Inclusive
Abundance
Jennifer Pahlka
Author, Recoding America
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This needs to be written into law that any access to mass deployed cameras requires a warrant. Cops shouldnt be able to do with cameras what would not be allowed w human surveillance.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Back in land of "if satirist made up storyline of evil corrupt President, it would be rejected by editors as too over the top"
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Kushner has been supporting a war on behalf of the US while personnalky profiting from arms sales arming Israel as part of that war. Cartoonish levels of corruption
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roberts' mentor William Rehnquist was a rightwing ideologue but was moderately consistent while Roberts and his fellow Justices in both the inconsistency of doctrine and timing of decisions seem overtly partisan & unprincipled. Roberts will be seen as one of the worst Chief Justices by any measure.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornell rape case highlights most crime is NOT by strangers assaulting people on street. For women in particular, it is overwhelmingly people they know - classmates, lovers, husbands - who are perpetrators against them. But police ignore most of that violence www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
nytimes.com
Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Find it fascinating that Ron DeSantis is positioning himself as the anti-AI, anti-crypto and (surprisingly) anti-Flock candidate The 2028 GOP primary is going to be an ideological bloodbath
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is single-handedly responsible for helping destroy the US tourism industry And notable is how Mexican tourists had become critical part of tourism in US- and while cratering like Canada are now the top source of tourists to US bsky.app/profile/sema...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quite an extraordinary chart- reflecting radical impact of Covid on making everyone permanently more stay-at-home oriented. Much of this may be accounted for by more work-from-home time but it's still a radical turn away from personal interaction with others day-to-day bsky.app/profile/ens0...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roughly a quarter of Americans consider themselves to be democratic socialists - more than consider themselves allied with the MAGA movement. Which translates into roughly half of Democrats considering themselves democratic socialists AP-NORC poll apnorc.org/wp-content/u...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just pure bigotry spewing out of his mouth Not that the Supreme Court cares but every trans servicemember kicked out should have a slamdunk legal claim of bias
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Put all government spending in this context- taxpayers are paying wealthy bankers $24 billion every week in interest payments to pay off the national debt exploded under Trump to pay for excessive military spending & reckless tax cuts for the rich
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Left sectarians in Ohio are running a third party campaign that inevitably divides the progressive vote and helps Jon Husted, the Republican appointee to JD Vance’s old seat, defeat Sherrod Brown in the November Senate election /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/sects-and-...
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Sects and a Few DSA Idiots Trying to Keep the Senate Republican by Running Third Party in Ohio
The insanity of the left being conscientious objectors in the war to oust the MAGA GOP
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honestly, this video by Mamdani is proving incredibly useful since it is outing the actual antisemites on the left. Anyone reacting with hostility to a pretty banal announcement of an anti-bias panel should generally be ejected from all progressive political circles.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great. When Dems get power, auto-enroll every person into Medicaid or Obamacare, into EITC and Family Tax Credits, into Food Stamps and auto-register everyone eligible to vote - since apparently the federal govt is now taking over voter registration rules.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honestly, these six Justices should just be sent to the Hague for collaboraring with torture
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmidt better never mention this outside the Senate since this is as clear a case of malice aforethought and reckless disregard for the truth as you get. He has immunity for saying it in committee but any reference to it at a press event should get a multi million dollar defamation lawsuit.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith prosecuting Trump once again in the court of public opinion. The GOP kangaroo court hearing he is speaking at is a good example of the assault on the rule of law he is talking about.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump sighs with relief. At least no oil refinery was hurt in the explosions
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blue states mandate a living wage and guaranteed health care for working people - while red states have gutted health care and let employers pay poverty wages. That is the political divide.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
75% of prime working-age women (ages 25 to 54) participate in paid labor force So this is an idiotic take; yes many women stay home especially for some early years after birth, but many need child care at some point - and many more would use it if affordable child care was available.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Credit to Andy Burnham's government for rejecting Starmer's coddling of Israel with straight up denunciation of its war crimes.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Israel is a safe haven only for some Jews? Kind of pisses away the last shred of justification for the country's existence.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty much summarizes how elite students are treated except when their activities offend wealthy donors to a university
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Literally cancel culture - but the rightwing culture warriors will applaud this censorship of an athlete
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Business leaders should start by making a better case that they are not partisan- avoiding making statements on political issues of the day or contributing to partisan political campaigns. Business has become too tied to the partisan objectives of one political party" ...No pundits actually say
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He says this in Kentucky - while Dems in liberal states are throwing trans kids under the bus to pacify bigots. Even if you want to acknowledge it's a complicated issue, you lead with this- any approach is based on compassion and empathy and maximum inclusion.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Essentially, every time problem gambler loses big, DraftKings rewards them with a dopamine hit of a reward - status, free swag, whatever - all to keep psychologically reinforcing their addictive behavior. Legalized drug dealing where people overdosing on gambling are being rewarded by their dealer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is corporate dictatorship censoring criticism of that oligarchy. Nationalize social media and subject it to First Amendment constraints. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The anti-socialist class is largely a criminal class afraid that their crime spree will come to an end
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Incredible picture of top two government leaders in the world deciding breaking bread with the top tech oligarchs is the image they want to project
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI companies are being paid a percentage of the money that the government saves when health care is denied. "For every denied request, CMS will determine what the regional benchmark cost for that care would have been and then pay the company 25 percent." arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is not an antitrust condition- but a hostage return. "The settlement...prevents Paramount from leaving the state or otherwise selling its film and TV production lots in Southern California." Judge should be questioning this "agreement" as based on coercion nor law. thedesk.net/2026/09/judg...
thedesk.net
Judge hits pause on settlement between states, Paramount over Warner Bros acquisition
A federal judge declined to approve a settlement between Paramount and 12 state attorneys general over its acquisition of Warner Bros, saying she needs more time to deliberate on the matter.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These are the malignant incompetent people grabbing people off the street and shipping them to random dictatorships around the world - yet they don't know who is and who isn't actually a citizen.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is just pure news clips, no commentary. And it's devastating for Collins.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blue wave comes to Florida Dem candidates in dead heat in both governor and US Senate races in Sunshine State- a sign of how bad things are getting for GOP nationwide www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/y...
actionnewsjax.com
‘You’re in a dogfight’: New poll suggests three major statewide races in Florida are virtually tied
Three major statewide races are virtually tied; that’s the finding of a new poll that looked at the Florida Governor, U.S. Senate, and State Attorney General races.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even if some Dems are too queasy to knock the building down, they will have to violate safety codes and force guests to pee on themselves to operate it, apparently.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How anyone can even think of promoting Newsom as a Dem nominee in 2028 is beyond me at this point. Demanding he retain the option to arrest and extradite doctors serving transgender patients reflects a Trump-like worship of executive power aside from the anti-trans policy.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From this account Collins should be in jail- and Trump stopped the prosecution, meaning he owns her. Arranging hidden donations via shell companies shows criminal mindset like nothing else for a politician. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New York City is the crime fighting capital of the nation under Mamdani- always the euphemisms "labor enforcement action" not crackdown on employer criminal activity. www.huffpost.com/entry/doorda...
huffpost.com
Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This message by Mamdani to many on the left is critical. Proactive reforms are not wimpy or counterrevolutionary or incrementalist - but are ideological weapons to defuse the psychological manipulation used by the Right to undermine more radical politics.
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