Carter Dougherty
@carterd.bsky.social
I fight Wall Street and monopolies @demandprogress.bsky.social. I also write - bylines in NYT, The Atlantic, WashMonthly et al. I study 🇩🇪 history, disturbingly relevant.
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I am, um, shocked? Well, not really.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I am, um, shocked? Well, not really.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Any verdicts yet on AI for research out there you wanna share?
I'm using Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT, sometimes for the same query ... Gemini is faster but massively hallucinates legal cases etc. that don't exist. ChatGPT is slower, but more accurate.
Thoughts?
I'm using Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT, sometimes for the same query ... Gemini is faster but massively hallucinates legal cases etc. that don't exist. ChatGPT is slower, but more accurate.
Thoughts?
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Any verdicts yet on AI for research out there you wanna share?
I'm using Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT, sometimes for the same query ... Gemini is faster but massively hallucinates legal cases etc. that don't exist. ChatGPT is slower, but more accurate.
Thoughts?
I'm using Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT, sometimes for the same query ... Gemini is faster but massively hallucinates legal cases etc. that don't exist. ChatGPT is slower, but more accurate.
Thoughts?
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It's about restoring Rubio's grifter friends to the palace, the oil thing is the cover story for the rubes and the companies who don't want to produce any more because prices are already in suicidal territory have to be bullied to prop it up
Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
www.politico.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
It's about restoring Rubio's grifter friends to the palace, the oil thing is the cover story for the rubes and the companies who don't want to produce any more because prices are already in suicidal territory have to be bullied to prop it up
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Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
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Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.
I'm trying to get a sense of how many (other) people were invited and then disinvited from US campuses last year. If you have a story to share, please dm. I will keep it confidential – just trying to figure out the scale of this.
January 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.
The RFK/Oz theory of infectious is just the old saw disproven by science, which tells us that it is, in fact, about pathogens, not fortifying oneself.
It's also perilously close to eugenics: "Dead of a preventable disease? You didn't take care of yourself!"
It's also perilously close to eugenics: "Dead of a preventable disease? You didn't take care of yourself!"
Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The RFK/Oz theory of infectious is just the old saw disproven by science, which tells us that it is, in fact, about pathogens, not fortifying oneself.
It's also perilously close to eugenics: "Dead of a preventable disease? You didn't take care of yourself!"
It's also perilously close to eugenics: "Dead of a preventable disease? You didn't take care of yourself!"
Yeah. I'm gonna visit Saigon, too.
Related, I needed to run a printing errand just now and googled for the local “Kinkos,”
I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yeah. I'm gonna visit Saigon, too.
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Biden's head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu just joined a venture capital firm with several crypto clients that were under legal trouble during the Biden administration. Sheesh.
From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door - The American Prospect
Michael Hsu, former OCC head, has joined a VC firm backing crypto and fintech companies.
prospect.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Biden's head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu just joined a venture capital firm with several crypto clients that were under legal trouble during the Biden administration. Sheesh.
From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
This would be a welcome development, but the need for hot takes to turn into brilliant, insightful takes at the speed of light drives such drivel ...
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This would be a welcome development, but the need for hot takes to turn into brilliant, insightful takes at the speed of light drives such drivel ...
Some news: I have a new job. I am now the Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance @demandprogress.bsky.social.
It's a labored title but interesting work. I'm researching, writing, and advocating on issues at the intersection of monopoly power and Wall Street.
It's a labored title but interesting work. I'm researching, writing, and advocating on issues at the intersection of monopoly power and Wall Street.
December 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Some news: I have a new job. I am now the Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance @demandprogress.bsky.social.
It's a labored title but interesting work. I'm researching, writing, and advocating on issues at the intersection of monopoly power and Wall Street.
It's a labored title but interesting work. I'm researching, writing, and advocating on issues at the intersection of monopoly power and Wall Street.
Yes, please
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yes, please
The highlighted phrase here is just a way for The Times to dismiss criticism, not a question anyone is seriously posing.
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The highlighted phrase here is just a way for The Times to dismiss criticism, not a question anyone is seriously posing.
Biden was sooooo OUT OF IT when president!
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Biden was sooooo OUT OF IT when president!
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"I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong," is fantastic: "Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong," is fantastic: "Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
A brilliant, succinct takedown of Jeffries' new slogan.
Hard pass, please, Dems.
Hard pass, please, Dems.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A brilliant, succinct takedown of Jeffries' new slogan.
Hard pass, please, Dems.
Hard pass, please, Dems.
"I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong," is fantastic: "Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong," is fantastic: "Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
But the real fun was had by the illustrator that made Marc Andreessen's head more bullet-like than it already is.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
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@carterd.bsky.social has swears! They've used 89 profanities in their last 1,485 posts.
🥇 "shit" (21 times)
🥈 "ass" (12 times)
🥉 "fuck" (9 times)
🥇 "shit" (21 times)
🥈 "ass" (12 times)
🥉 "fuck" (9 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@carterd.bsky.social has swears! They've used 89 profanities in their last 1,485 posts.
🥇 "shit" (21 times)
🥈 "ass" (12 times)
🥉 "fuck" (9 times)
🥇 "shit" (21 times)
🥈 "ass" (12 times)
🥉 "fuck" (9 times)
@profanity.accountant ... Do tell!
@profanity.accountant well?
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@profanity.accountant ... Do tell!
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Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.
New from me in The Money Trust (aka my Substack):
Why a bank merger frenzy? Why the debate over deposit insurance?
Why a bank merger frenzy? Why the debate over deposit insurance?
The Money Trust Comes for Your Deposits
The bank merger frenzy aimed at consolidating control over your money and how it relates to the current fight over deposit insurance.
moneytrust.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New from me in The Money Trust (aka my Substack):
Why a bank merger frenzy? Why the debate over deposit insurance?
Why a bank merger frenzy? Why the debate over deposit insurance?
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Banks are fighting for your deposits, and they’re buying other banks to get them. With 150 bank mergers just this year, a few mega-banks now hold everyone’s money. From @carterd.bsky.social: trib.al/L31Fvzv
Your Money Means Market Power for Banks - The American Prospect
Deposits are the raw materials with which bankers play, the key to unlocking market power, as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase demonstrate.
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Banks are fighting for your deposits, and they’re buying other banks to get them. With 150 bank mergers just this year, a few mega-banks now hold everyone’s money. From @carterd.bsky.social: trib.al/L31Fvzv
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One of the most pathetic examples of corporate capture I've ever seen.
CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance.
Here's the pledge.
CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance.
Here's the pledge.
files.consumerfinance.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
One of the most pathetic examples of corporate capture I've ever seen.
CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance.
Here's the pledge.
CFPB is requiring bank examiners to read a "humility in supervisions" pledge before any examination begins, basically apologizing for having the temerity to monitor compliance.
Here's the pledge.
Wait, I thought MAGA really wanted to tone things down after Charlie Kirk's murder ...
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wait, I thought MAGA really wanted to tone things down after Charlie Kirk's murder ...
A real outrage. I spoke to Teen Vogue journalists a number of times. Smart, on the ball, serious about my issue (private equity and finance) in a way few were.
Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
www.cjr.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A real outrage. I spoke to Teen Vogue journalists a number of times. Smart, on the ball, serious about my issue (private equity and finance) in a way few were.
How about "political reporter"? Possible modifiers include "Politico, Axios, etc."
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How about "political reporter"? Possible modifiers include "Politico, Axios, etc."