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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 23h

If you told me that Marjorie Taylor Greene and John Fetterman did a Freaky Friday, I woudl be zero percent surprised

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 1d

Looking to platform more progressive/populist community and grassroots activists in my newsletter, Progress Report.

If you fit the bill or are inspired by work someone is doing, please reach out!

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 3d

Paramount just paid $150 million for a publication with 1.5 million subscribers, which is about 37% of the total that we have at More Perfect Union.

If it's all about merit and reporting relevance, why didn't David Ellison call us?

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 4d

Excited for Bari Weiss because it shows that you don't have to suck up to billionaires or coddle those in power to succeed in this world

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 4d

It’s disgustingly hot outside and fall in New York is all we really have left

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Local Solutions Support Center @thelssc.bsky.social · 10d

When states restrict the rights of local govs & cede authority to the federal government, they open the door to abuses of power across policy areas. Read @jordanz.bsky.social's interview with LSSC’s Katie Belanger on the dangers of abusive preemption efforts. www.progressreport.news/p/how-states...

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 13d

I was at that Gotham Awards ceremony 😖

Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 13d

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 14d

Pete Hegseth is doing a reverse intervention on himself, summoning all the generals in his life to one place without explaining why

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 18d

This place is the app equivalent of vegetables

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 19d

“The smartest strategy for Democrats is to do exclusively things that do not inconvenience me personally or cost my patrons any money.”

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 19d

Ezra Klein praises Charlie Kirk and then urged an embrace anti-abortion candidates, so obviously he should be the intellectual leader of the Democratic Party and chief strategist of the resistance to fascism.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 22d

ABC’s over the air broadcast is irrelevant. The FCC has no real control over its ability to disseminate its programming. Disney capitulated because it hates regulation and conservative corporate interests control local media

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 22d

The corporate and institutional surrender to these second-rate clowns and charlatans has been breathtaking. The grooming of generations of bottom line-obsessed cowards and a sociopathic Supreme Court have done us in. The fascists will not ever stop.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 24d

Robert Redford could have been content being an Oscar-winning artist and all-time handsome guy, but instead spent the second half of his life rescuing American independent cinema, building the nation’s best film festival, and nurturing generations of young filmmakers. RIP king.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 26d

The days following Charlie Kirk’s murder renewed an exhausting cycle: liberal elites fall over themselves to praise a bigot who fucking hated them and the right uses it to persecute speech and the people that liberals are supposed to care about.

It’s that very sense of grievance that has animated almost every policy pursued by this second Trump administration, both officially and otherwise: the efforts to rewrite history in the Smithsonian museums and school curriculums; the war on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public and private settings, under the pretense that they are discriminatory by acknowledging race; the gestapo roundups and deportations of immigrants, predicated on the idea that they are taking American jobs and diluting the culture.

Turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr is not simply mourning the loss of a likeminded colleague or a way to ensure his legacy lives on within the conservative movement. His death is being used as a cudgel to silence opposition and further dismantle the cultural infrastructure — schools, nonprofits, federal workers — that undergirds a permanent resistance to right-wing fascism. Shifting these institutions is exactly what Kirk sought out to do by building his right-wing campus infrastructure, and the Trump administration and its allies are using both formal power and mob rule to further that project. It also mainstreams his bigotry and embeds it in the culture

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 28d

National moment of silence for the leader of the Hitler Youth

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 28d

You can rue a murder without allowing somebody to become a martyr.

Charlie Kirk was a reactionary demagogue who devoted his life to recruiting young people into a movement driven by hate, greed, and deceit.

Kirk's murder is a tragedy, as was his work. www.progressreport.news/p/mourn-him-...

Mourn him, but don't let him become a martyr

Charlie Kirk's murder is tragic. The right is already weaponizing it.

www.progressreport.news

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Remember when Joe Biden and most Democrats refused to even entertain the idea of expanding the Supreme Court?

Remember when Dick Durbin refused to investigate the corrupt right-wing justices?

These maniacs are working with total impunity and fascism is the result.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 8

Breaking news: The Supreme Court says President Donald Trump can resume immigration raids in the L.A. area for now, overturning a ruling that found race-based targeting.

Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area

The raid sparked major protests in Southern California. President Donald Trump deployed troops from the California National Guard and Marines in response.

wapo.st

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Edwin Diaz never in doubt

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Eric Adams is either dropping out of the mayoral race or announcing that he's also running for governor

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm going to see Pulp next week

Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Bari Weiss has continuously benefited from DEI as practiced by billionaire white men who can’t stand being criticized or questioned. She's a grifter, a pseudo-heterodox sellout, profiting off others’ pain.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Donald Trump should definitely interfere in the NYC mayoral race on behalf of Andrew Cuomo, that'll be a hit with voters here. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...

Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race

www.nytimes.com

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Aug 31

FYI New Yorkers

Group hug on September 14th at 3pm in Central Park

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · Aug 30

Everything fucking sucks, so Trump is probably just recovering from de-aging surgery and is now biologically 38 years old

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