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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas

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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas

@AnandWrites

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Joined March 2009

The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Mar 15, 2024
Some of you are more mad about Fani Willis going on trips with a coworker boyfriend which both of them paid for than you are about Clarence Thomas going on trips that billionaires with business before the Supreme Court paid for.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Mar 15, 2024
She had a consensual love affair. He has been found liable for rape and accused credibly of various nonconsensual assaults and rapes. She is a flawed human being who messed up. He is a fascist charged with racketeering to end American democracy. Hope this perspective helps.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Dec 14, 2023
I was invited to speak to The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council about democracy. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't voice the truth about my host, the Murdochs.
More Perfect Union
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More Perfect Union
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Feb 29, 2024
When people step down or die, there is pressure to speak well of them, to toast their service and longevity in power, and overlook the substance of what they did. I will not be participating in that, because Mitch McConnell disemboweled America.
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The end of Mitch McConnell
His wins, America’s losses
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Oct 20, 2025
I tried to do a public service by teaching @andrewcuomo how to pronounce @ZohranKMamdani’s name. You can’t lead a big, diverse city with Mayflower mouth.
Aaron Rupar
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Aaron Rupar
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Mar 23, 2024
The fallacy guiding Democrats is that you can beat fascism with logic and facts. Democrats are great at speaking about and delivering policies. But they fall short in addressing the spiritual and emotional crises enabling fascism. That must change.
Fascism will not be defeated by logic
From the.ink
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Feb 29, 2024
Bob Mueller was never going to save you. The Supreme Court was never going to save you. The special counsel was never going to save you. Only you, plural you, organizing and voting, have a chance of saving you.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Dec 15, 2023
Three theses from my discussion with @chrislhayes last night about 2024. 1. Tens of millions profess to be as mad as they’ve ever been about Trump, but if we’re honest, we don’t have a national pro-democracy movement commensurate with the threat or with the professed passion.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Jun 25, 2025
David, my friend, just say welcome. Politics is not record collecting. It’s good when people find out about your favorite band.
David Sirota
@davidsirota
Jun 25, 2025
Huge congratulations to the Pod Save Guys, the Abundance Guys and all the Democratic pundits who suddenly discovered Mamdani and started saying nice things about him less than 36 hours ago as soon as the Polymarket odds shifted - this victory is all you guys, great work
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Nov 16, 2023
Heading into 2024, we have one party that is all story and no governing. And another party that is all governing and no story. If Democrats want to win in 2024, they have to let go of the fantasy that policy and economics speak for themselves. There must be a galvanizing story.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Dec 15, 2023
In a nation full of grateful immigrants, Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the most ungrateful immigrant of all: He came, he profited, he served to destroy.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
Dec 14, 2023
Anand Giridharadas was invited to speak at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event, and used the opportunity to lay into the Murdoch empire. "This is an extraordinary newspaper — owned by one of the most destructive men on Earth." - @AnandWrites
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Dec 15, 2023
Replying to @AnandWrites
3. When you dig below the day-to-day issues, this is a country full of anxious, unmoored voters, of every background. To me, the central problem in American politics right now is that the bad guys know how to speak to the psychologically adrift, and the good guys don’t.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Mar 2, 2024
America is a country made of the world, and if you don’t get that, that’s on you.
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The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas
@AnandWrites
Jan 29, 2024
This is the optimistic truth at the heart of politics: a lot of seemingly deep convictions are, in fact, pretty shallow. And if you reframe and help people make different meaning, new possibilities quickly arise.
Hunter📈🌈📊
@StatisticUrban
Jan 29, 2024
Great news! 71% of Americans think the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor" ... but call if you call it "welfare" that number drops to 30%
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