Doug Henwood

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Economic journalist and utility pundit

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This is nuts. This was supposed to be the safe space, the refuge from the mean people on Xitter. Bouie is a smart guy and worth taking seriously. I missed the pile-on, thank god, but it sounds delusional.

Shit, I think Jamelle Bouie quit Bluesky. This sucks. I like him a lot.

How management failed: a review of Dan Davies's The Unaccountability Machine by my good friend Michael Pollak. An lbo-news guest post. lbo-news.com/2024/07/15/w...

Did this nice sweet liberal safe space really drive Jamelle Bouie away?

I've posted links to the nine interviews I did on BtN over the years with the marvelous organizer and writer Jane McAlevey, who died on Sunday lbo-news.com/2024/07/11/j...

fresh audio product: • Richard Seymour discusses the British election • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview excerpt www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Beautiful

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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

The excellent musician Bergsonist interviewed me. I can’t bear to watch myself but you’re welcome to give it a try! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWL...

Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer, Behind The News, Economics, Politics, Journalism)www.youtube.com The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug HenwoodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflowDoug Henwood is a...

fresh audio product: • Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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I love the embrace of a weak, possibly doomed, candidate because the other guy is so much worse—as if being weak and possibly doomed didn’t increase the likelihood of the bad guy winning.

A brokered Democratic convention, with massive protests just outside the convention hall, is Trump's dream scenario. 24 hours later, I'm astounded at how many people claiming to be worried about an authoritarian America under Trump want to create the perfect storm for him to seize power.

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Just remarkable how "old person won't retire" has driven history for the last 15 years. Kennedy not resigning after brain cancer diagnosis -> Scott Brown Feinstein staying on past prime and bungling hearings -> Kavanaugh/Barrett RBG Biden

That we beat Medicaid clip is a disaster. He’s done.

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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’www.nytimes.com Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

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There's been a hiring spree by crypto groups, trying to pitch reporters on how it's this election-changing populist issue. But it's not - the story is that crypto investors have funded a super PAC to elect puppets to Congress. I have rarely gotten so many intelligence-insulting pitches.

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New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

fresh audio product: • Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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HAHAHA the W. E. B. Du Bois chair and Dean of social sciences wants you to know that faculty should be punished for encouraging students to protest www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Faculty Speech Must Have Limits | Opinion | The Harvard Crimsonwww.thecrimson.com Faculty Speech Must Have Limits | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Cartoon tough guy

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Is Mad GOP Lawmakers Aren’t Taking More ‘Action’ Post-Convictionwww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump is pushing Republican lawmakers to take action against Joe Biden and Democrats after his conviction in New York.

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But it’s not a genocide.

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Hello from TPUSA

fresh audio product (slightly belated posting) • Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radicals’ and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Deeper into idiocy

UNC Asheville is going to close its drama, philosophy, religious studies, French, and German depts because financial consultants recommend this. These consultants only count the number of majors, not the number who take and are influenced by courses from depts other than their major. Shame!

He’s right about the conflict. He’s just on the wrong side.

We got some stuff going on today at Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America ‘Can’t Be Compromised’www.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."

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"Only 2% of outer-borough commuters in poverty drive into Lower Manhattan for work, and these 5,000 drivers would have qualified for a discount." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/06/10/n...

NY Governor Hochul’s Decision to Suspend Congestion Pricing is Absurdwww.peoplespolicyproject.org Pausing a highly progressive program at the 11th hour is indefensible.

fresh audio product: • Siddhartha Deb on the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections • Sean Jacobs on the ANC’s poor showing in South Africa’s elections www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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I’m writing a review of DW Gibson’s One Week To Change the World, an oral history of the 1999 Seattle/WTO extravaganza. Does that event mean anything to younger people? And people of all ages, does it have any resonance?

fresh audio product: Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy but we worship it anyway www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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So basically the presidential election comes down to one question: Will being a criminal alienate more potential Republican voters than supporting war crimes will alienate potential Democrat voters? A dying empire led by bad people, indeed.

A pollster characterizes the view of US society held by the young: "A dying empire led by bad people." www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

Threads honcho admits to suppressing political accounts. Not individual posts but entire accounts.