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David Dayen

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Executive editor, @TheProspect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Organized Money podcast, https://t.co/7n78H1Tykt. Tips/pitches: ddayen at prospect dot org.

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  1. David Dayen@ddayen
    Starting today, @TheProspect has removed all programmatic ads, because we believe respecting you as readers rather than monetizing your attention will earn trust. This is how the site looks, with space reserved for stories about ideas, politics & power.
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    From me: Like a man bargaining at the gallows, CVS pre-emptively broke itself up on Election Day, in anticipation of an economic populist revival against corporate power. But the breakup is actually fake.
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    Will Democrats see this shareholder benefit masquerading as corporate reform as proof that no other laws and regulations are needed, or not?
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    Looks like the business world and the stock market are having a tough time right now. I thought all day about what they could do about it. Here's what I came up with: Make something people want to buy
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    RT @CollinsWatch: NEW: In a bitter post-defeat interview with one of her favorite beltway media errand-runners (Carl Hulse of The New York Times) Susan Collins lashes out, putting the blame for her loss squarely on the voters themselves; says Mainers lost sight of what matters. #MEpolitics
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    RT @austinahlman:
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    Eric Levitz @EricLevitz
    Democratic pollster David Shor's take on why AI has become so unpopular
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    Democratic pollster David Shor's take on why AI has become so unpopular
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  8. David Dayen@ddayen
    The resounding victory in Montana to change corporate charters to ban them from political spending may be the most consequential. Combined with a clean sweep on data center initiatives, the lesson is clear: smash the oligarchy.
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    Josh Turek in Iowa was one of several self-described "prairie populists," seeking better outcomes for rural America. Many of them won or pushed their opponents to the brink on Tuesday.
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    Gabrielle Gurley (@gurleygg) was up in Maine for the final leg of the Senate campaign, and she writes about how Troy Jackson finally dispatched Susan Collins.
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    This is that.
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  14. David Dayen@ddayen
    We don't have to wait for the next Congress. Democrats have the leverage to get things done as early as next week, when they return for the lame duck session. Bob Kuttner talked to the people who can make that happen.
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    More here.
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    Good judgment
    Blue Dog Bark @BlueDogBark
    there’s still time for this candidate and the various groups supporting him to realize they whiffed on #CA22 and are becoming useful idiots for national Republicans
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    there’s still time for this candidate and the various groups supporting him to realize they whiffed on #CA22 and are becoming useful idiots for national Republicans
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  18. David Dayen@ddayen
    I would pay lots of cash to get Matt from marketing an hour of TV airtime to present his theory. Explaining that winning isn't winning unless it's a win of a certain margin exudes such smarm & dishonesty that it would be self-refuting. More people should hear this bullshit!
    Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan
    This is the definition of bad faith, sadly. Yglesias reluctantly conceded in his interview with me that it’s not a fair comparison between Michigan and North Carolina - given NC didn’t have AIPAC spending, Islamophobia, presidential interventions, Dem ratfucking, former incumbency, etc - but then he goes just straight back on Twitter, waits for the election, and then reposts the same tired partisan talking point. Sigh.
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  19. Mehdi Hasan✓@mehdirhasan
    This is the definition of bad faith, sadly. Yglesias reluctantly conceded in his interview with me that it’s not a fair comparison between Michigan and North Carolina - given NC didn’t have AIPAC spending, Islamophobia, presidential interventions, Dem ratfucking, former incumbency, etc - but then he goes just straight back on Twitter, waits for the election, and then reposts the same tired partisan talking point. Sigh.
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  20. David Dayen@ddayen
    Great win. One of the problems with fully deploying an anti-corruption message were the loads of compromised Democrats in positions of power. Getting rid of this particularly egregious one makes that easier.
    Angela Gonzales-Torres @Angela4CA
    Los Angeles doesn't belong to AIPAC, Los Angeles doesn’t belong to Crypto or Big AI, Los Angeles doesn’t belong to corporate real estate developers. It belongs to us. Workers deserve more. We deserve real representation and respect and I think it’s time that we get it. Thank you, CA-34!
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  21. Angela Gonzales-Torres✓@Angela4CA
    Los Angeles doesn't belong to AIPAC, Los Angeles doesn’t belong to Crypto or Big AI, Los Angeles doesn’t belong to corporate real estate developers. It belongs to us. Workers deserve more. We deserve real representation and respect and I think it’s time that we get it. Thank you, CA-34!
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    RT @greg16676935420: You could not waterboard it out of me that I had a mole inside my opponent’s campaign and still lost
    Brandon Herrera @TheAKGuy
    Oh yeah, one last thing. One of the people we had inside the @katy4congress campaign might be someone you’d recognize…
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    Oh yeah, one last thing. One of the people we had inside the @katy4congress campaign might be someone you’d recognize…
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  24. David Dayen@ddayen
    Randy Villegas (Trump +2 seat): winning by 32. Katy Padilla Stout (Trump +15 seat): won by 8. Nellie Pou (Trump +1 seat): won by 35. Progressives winning swing seats changes the calculus for who gets listened to in Washington.
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    This is going to be a signature question of the next Congress on how to govern.
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    This is going to be a signature question of the next Congress on how to govern.
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    From me: After winning numerous races in swing seats with a huge spread, Progressive Caucus members are demanding that Democrats deliver tangible results as a means to help those frontliners survive and last in Congress.
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