Alexi the Greek
@alexios.bsky.social
Co-host of Left Anchor, a podcast about politics, philosophy, and the Left (sponsored by The American Prospect).
Moonlights as Associate Professor of Political Science.
Moonlights as Associate Professor of Political Science.
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I feel safer already
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
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November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I feel safer already
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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
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November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
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ICYMI
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Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
Today we have economics professor Marshall Steinbaum on to talk about the potential fall of Larry Summers due to his association with Jeffrey Epstein, and what it reveals about the culture of the econ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
ICYMI
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have @marbleliberal.bsky.social on to talk about the 30 years' war, including the disturbing similarities to our own time: www.leftanchor.com/e/why-the-th...
Why the Thirty Years’ War Matters - 374 | Left Anchor
Today we have Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels on to talk about his book The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War. It is something of an obscure conflict th...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have @marbleliberal.bsky.social on to talk about the 30 years' war, including the disturbing similarities to our own time: www.leftanchor.com/e/why-the-th...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
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So @alexvitale.bsky.social, who wrote THE END OF POLICING (which I cite heavily in my forthcoming book THE OVERSEER CLASS), has been tapped to join Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team to work on “community safety issues.”
This is an extremely promising development.
This is an extremely promising development.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So @alexvitale.bsky.social, who wrote THE END OF POLICING (which I cite heavily in my forthcoming book THE OVERSEER CLASS), has been tapped to join Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team to work on “community safety issues.”
This is an extremely promising development.
This is an extremely promising development.
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ICYMI
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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this is why people very far into the upper middle class should support building out a proper welfare state like @reprashida.govpeeps.us proposed the other day. you'd pay just a little for a tremendous amount of material security www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
this is why people very far into the upper middle class should support building out a proper welfare state like @reprashida.govpeeps.us proposed the other day. you'd pay just a little for a tremendous amount of material security www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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yeah, this too. people can be objectively swimming in material abundance, and still be one turn of bad luck away from bankruptcy and destitution bsky.app/profile/flee...
I think some people are confusing "poverty line" with "at what level of wealth/income do you need to be at to not get totally screwed by a health event or a major accident?" and the answer in the US is "very, very high"
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
yeah, this too. people can be objectively swimming in material abundance, and still be one turn of bad luck away from bankruptcy and destitution bsky.app/profile/flee...
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childcare for instance is the second one. parents fund it out of pocket, meaning it's insanely expensive (bc of rising wages over time), but only for a couple years. it should instead be funded by everyone like K-12, spread the burden as wide as possible
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
childcare for instance is the second one. parents fund it out of pocket, meaning it's insanely expensive (bc of rising wages over time), but only for a couple years. it should instead be funded by everyone like K-12, spread the burden as wide as possible
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yeah, this is much better. and it clarifies the problem he's talking about, which is not really about poverty as such, but that routine expenses are either wildly overpriced or poorly financed
United Way has a pretty decent annual report they put out showing the cost of actually living
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Pennsylvania | UnitedForALICE
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah, this is much better. and it clarifies the problem he's talking about, which is not really about poverty as such, but that routine expenses are either wildly overpriced or poorly financed
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As someone fairly plugged into overseas political commentary, it's so bewildering to hear journalists around the world plainly state that Starmer is a fucking disaster driving both his party and the country into the ground, then turn back to UK media, where his 13% approval is an eternal mystery.
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As someone fairly plugged into overseas political commentary, it's so bewildering to hear journalists around the world plainly state that Starmer is a fucking disaster driving both his party and the country into the ground, then turn back to UK media, where his 13% approval is an eternal mystery.
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i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.
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Very glad to have been on @leftanchor.bsky.social to discuss l’Affaire Summers and the grotesquerie of “progressive” economic policy types covering for him & retaliating against his accusers to forward their own careers/garner his approval. #econsky
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
Get more from Left Anchor on Patreon
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November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Very glad to have been on @leftanchor.bsky.social to discuss l’Affaire Summers and the grotesquerie of “progressive” economic policy types covering for him & retaliating against his accusers to forward their own careers/garner his approval. #econsky
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preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/summers-ep...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
Today we have economics professor Marshall Steinbaum on to talk about the potential fall of Larry Summers due to his association with Jeffrey Epstein, and what it reveals about the culture of the econ...
www.leftanchor.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
preview here! www.leftanchor.com/e/summers-ep...
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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When you're a star, Trump lets you socialism
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
When you're a star, Trump lets you socialism
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I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings.
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
"I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."
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HOME RUN
Like whatever you think of Mamdani as an actual future mayor or conceptual national Dem, the kid has the fucking juice on camera
My prediction is that he’s going to charm Trump to such an extent they have to spend a few days cleaning that up, and makes Vance look like a dipshit
My prediction is that he’s going to charm Trump to such an extent they have to spend a few days cleaning that up, and makes Vance look like a dipshit
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
HOME RUN