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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 20h

*Community colleges unite students across class and race—something elite universities only pretend to do. Preserving and expanding them may be key to repairing our divided nation*

by William Bruno
filed 08 October 2025 in Education

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...

The Community College Is One of America’s Greatest Achievements—And It Needs Our Help

Community colleges unite students across class and race—something elite universities only pretend to do. Preserving and expanding them may be key to repairing our divided nation.

www.currentaffairs.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 20h

*A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish*

by Nathan J. Robinson
filed 08 October 2025 in Editor’s Notes

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ris...

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All

A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish.

www.currentaffairs.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 21h

... And *more* alcohol 🥃

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 21h

*For this week's edition of The Prospect Weekly Roundup, American Prospect executive editor @ddayen.bsky.social talks with Sam Seder about the ongoing government shutdown and the backlash to Democratic gerontocracy*

(Dayen begins at the 27 minute mark)

Oct 10, 2025

www.youtube.com/live/d-EtvIj...

The Prospect's Weekly Roundup x The Majority Report | October 10, 2025

YouTube video by The American Prospect

www.youtube.com

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 23h

*AI is poised to play a more volatile role than ever before in America’s next federal election in 2026. We can already see how different groups of political actors are approaching AI*

by Nathan Sanders and @schneier.com
October 10, 2025

prospect.org/power/2025-1...

AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America

Here’s what to expect in the midterm elections.

prospect.org

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

Political operatives are rapidly adopting AI to use in campaigns. What was a novelty in 2024 will be ubiquitous in 2026. Bruce Schneier and Nathan Schneider go through the innovations.
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America

Here’s what to expect in the midterm elections.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

... So obviously it didn't stay that way. Not because of anything wrong with the movie. Great movie.
But a biopic about one of the worst people alive can't be one of the best films ever made.
More to the point, it became less enjoyable as it went on as the subject became more who we've come to know

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. I've watched the first six minutes and forty seconds of "The Apprentice" and so far it's the best movie I've ever seen

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 1d

This 👇

geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Research has found that when left-wing parties embrace anti-immigration politics, they lose vote share and empower the far right. Keir Starmer has attempted to outflank Nigel Farage’s Reform party to the right, and earned himself a 69 percent disapproval rating*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else angrier than usual today for no obvious reason (same shitty world)?
This piece might make you even angrier, if that's what you're looking for.

*Mamdani and AOC seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it*

by Harold Meyerson
October 9, 2025

prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The Rift in American Socialism

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

prospect.org

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rajg @rgourdouze.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/gera... Every freaking time these moderates pull us to the right, the voting base shrinks.

geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Research has found that when left-wing parties embrace anti-immigration politics, they lose vote share and empower the far right. Keir Starmer has attempted to outflank Nigel Farage’s Reform party to the right, and earned himself a 69 percent disapproval rating*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Pivoting to the right didn’t work in 2024. It won't work now*

by @dylangyauchl.bsky.social
October 9, 2025

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

The Good Guys team needs new ownership, new management, a new coach, and a new starting lineup

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

You're right about genocide, but the author's point here is about the difference between Biden's 2020 campaign and what came after. The author agrees with you about Gaza, as is clear throughout the article

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*In 2024 Harris ran a moderate campaign:
She boasted about gun ownership, pandered to cryptocurrency, promised to secure the border and deploy more police, campaigned with Liz Cheney.
Not as conservative as Clinton, but it was a triangulate-y campaign. It did not work*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*If Harris’s moderate campaign has been memory-holed by the experts of 2025, Biden’s campaign of 2020 has also been forgotten. His abominable later record on Gaza notwithstanding, he ran on a massive welfare state buildout, full employment, and “at least three” genders*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*It is clear that centrist Democrats are much more concerned with shutting down the left than providing a good-faith case that moderation wins. The fact that they largely ignore Harris’s Clintonite campaign is proof of that*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Centrists played into the right’s hands with Gaza protests, joining with conservatives to tar universities as radicalizing, anti-free speech cesspools of antisemitism. That falsehood is now the justification for Trump and Vance’s war on higher education*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Research has found that when left-wing parties embrace anti-immigration politics, they lose vote share and empower the far right. Keir Starmer has attempted to outflank Nigel Farage’s Reform party to the right, and earned himself a 69 percent disapproval rating*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Biden was first Dem president in decades to cut a genuine deal with his party’s progressive wing (until he threw it away on Gaza). The result was a productive working relationship that would've gotten a lot more done if he hadn’t been repeatedly betrayed by centrists*

prospect.org/politics/cen...

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*If these first nine months of his administration are any indication, Trump won’t rest so long as there is a single MAGA voter left employed. It’s hard to imagine a more effective way to strangle red state economies over the long term*

prospect.org/politics/don...

Donald Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead

The president told MAGA voters exactly what he was going to do in 2024. Now he is doing it.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

Doing things carefully is good advice, but I'd say the biggest thing is to keep pushing Dems in a social democratic direction. Swing voters need something to vote *for,* not just against. The base needs the same thing to turn out.
Neoliberalism got us into this mess. It won't get us out

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

Soundly defeating them next year is absolutely necessary, but that will only be a beginning. And there is much that must be done before then, including...

bsky.app/profile/gera...

geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Bharat Ramamurti has a helpful rundown of what Democrats have to really get in order to pass a funding package*

bharatramamurti.substack.com/p/what-democ...

What Democrats Must Get Out of the Government Shutdown

How Dems can force the GOP to honor the deals they strike

bharatramamurti.substack.com

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*If Democrats don’t demand Trump honor any budget deal, they will lose the war even if they win the battle*

By @ddayen.bsky.social
Oct 9, 2025

prospect.org/politics/202...

As Shutdown Wears On, Trump’s Getting Blamed

But if Democrats don’t demand that he honor any budget deal, they will lose the war even if they win the battle.

prospect.org

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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 1d

*Bharat Ramamurti has a helpful rundown of what Democrats have to really get in order to pass a funding package*

bharatramamurti.substack.com/p/what-democ...

What Democrats Must Get Out of the Government Shutdown

How Dems can force the GOP to honor the deals they strike

bharatramamurti.substack.com

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