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Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...

Why Christians Should Be Leftists | Left Anchor

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

hitherto I had believed, based on my experience with American evangelicals, that Jesus was concerned solely with preventing abortion, proving the universe is 4000 years old, and accumulating large quantities of money

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

I've been reading up on this Jesus fellow and by gum he's got some piping hot takes regarding moneychangers and their presence in temples

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

lol arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Musk’s X posts on ketamine, Putin spur release of his security clearances

Conditions of Elon Musk’s top-secret clearances may soon be exposed.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

right

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

that's completely what it is, and I agree. though I do try to keep an eye on it as I find it less viscerally repellant than shortform video, the streaming incentives are atrocious

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

check out @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's excellent essay here: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

I do appreciate a completely out of left field batshit take. keeps things fresh around here

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

I take it back. Hasan is bad, cast him into the sea

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

not talking about Republicans being the villain. I'm talking about him funding the government or Dems trying to get GOP healthcare cuts reversed

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

I dunno, pretty hard to verify that imo, it's on screen for like 3 seconds. and I don't see duct tape anywhere

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

yeah, it's real telling. tons of people, a lot of them frankly very racist Zionists, are on watch 24/7 to nail him for whatever they can think up

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

lot of people who scream about Chuck Schumer being a feckless wimp end up in the same place re: bailing out Republicans from the consequences of their behavior

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

I don't see him claiming it to be any brand or model in particular

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

I've seen some pretty bad takes from him on occasion but it's just undeniable that there is a giant galaxy of haters, particularly Israel partisans, who are waiting for anything they can whip up a frenzy about

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

based on what

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

great company

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

streamer discourse is near uniformly ridiculous, but it does appear that Hasan Piker did not shock his dog youtu.be/XZU2qy3CRk0...

What actually happened.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

"Under Biden, America was at least going to get a piece of the high-tech industries of the future. Trump is just handing them all to China on a silver platter, destroying the next generation of jobs for MAGA regions, while also taking their health insurance and hospitals."

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.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

the "popularist, let's do Clintonism again" people seem to have forgotten that Harris ran that kind of campaign and it didn't 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.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

h/t for the headline bsky.app/profile/loui...

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

"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." 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.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h

If these first nine months are any indication, Donald 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, writes @ryanlcooper.com:
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.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

"The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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