Jay McInerney has Lunch with the @financialtimes.com “I had this persona created around me: coke-snorting, model-chasing man about town. But it was fun.” But? www.ft.com/content/ce0f...

Couldn’t happen to a nicer fake currency

This man is a disgrace

China surpasses US approval ratings globally, says Gallup. But I thought we've never been so respected! news.gallup.com/poll/707945/...

fresh audio product: • Gabriel Hetland on what’s been happening in Venezuela since the kidnapping of Maduro • David Griscom @davidgriscom.bsky.social, author of The Myth of Red Texas, on that state’s forgotten radical history www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

"We have to take care of one thing—military protection."

You and your idiot boss caused the problem!

This makes no sense from any perspective.

Axios asking the hard questions: "Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man."

Measured relative to GDP, Trump in one year has added three times as much to federal debt as Biden did in four.

Utterly vile law.

Yikes. Let’s see if this provokes a lot of anguish about Islamophobia and anti-Pal bigotry.

After all these years I still don't understand what this man is so angry about.

Who says our best days are behind us?

Of course the @nypost.com pushed this nonsense

What does an energy crisis look like? In Cuba: waking up at 3am to cook before the power cuts. But that’s only part of the story. Helen Yaffe breaks down sanctions, resilience, and the bigger picture on Behind the News. Listen @ kpfa.org #KPFA #Cuba @doughenwood.bsky.social

I remember Nuclear Suicide Vest's first album.

fresh audio product: • Mouin Rabbani on the Iran war and its many complications • Helen Yaffe on Trump’s oil embargo on Cuba—its effects and how Cubans are reacting www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

So many chapters in the Book of Winning: Trump at highest disapproval rating ever, according to Fox News (!). www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Via Bloomberg Politics: Alex Young, the former head of MI6: “The reality is that the US underestimated the task and I think as of about two weeks ago lost the initiative to Iran,” the British ex-spy chief said in an Economist podcast this week.

"We bought it, we paid for it, it's ours." - Reagan on the Panama Canal "We invaded it, we stole it, it's ours." - Trump & Co.

I'd forgotten the PPI, the DLC's think tank, still exists. It's high comedy that they have a Project on Center-Left Renewal, given 1) how dead that formation is, and 2) how it contributed to Trumpism. Funny it's run by a former Starmer adviser. www.progressivepolicy.org/project/proj...

What if it’s considered rather than blithe?

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'We Warned About It': Doctors Are Leaving Israel in Growing Numbers - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I mean why stop there? Once they've established a new border, there will be new threats and then the border will have to be moved further north, and then…

This is a real estate trade pub. No "Mamdani effect" on NYC luxury market.

Lunacy

Guy belongs in a straitjacket

the opposition party had more to say about Robert Mueller than the Iran War this weekend

Ignorance on the march

So tired of winning www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

Nick Gillespie recalls a "devastating" 2009 critique of Cesar Chavez at @doughenwood.bsky.social's old Left Business Observer, as well as a 1997 Reason cover story on the UFW's finances.

Join us on April 7 in NYC for a panel discussion on Paul Heideman's "Rogue Elephant". He will be joined in conversation by Kim Philips-Fein, @doughenwood.bsky.social, and Anand Gopal. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/r...

It’s going to be fun to watch Bessent and the Team of Morons manage a financial crisis.

Gracious as always

A map of more vs. less civilized states.

Ugh. The Spectator’s “Cockburn”: “Norris was a close ally…Mike Huckabee, who he endorsed for president in the 2016 campaign. In a tribute, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘a great friend of Israel and a close personal friend.’”

I hear you, but headlines like this have a jinxed history.

fresh audio product: • Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes • Natalie Y. Moore on the effects of federal layoffs on black women www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

To “what do you do what then sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow” should be added “when the oil don’t flow."

Apparently this was written, though not posted, before ZM’s fabulous St Patrick’s Day video. Perhaps an update would be in order? Mamdani Stumbles Over the Irish Question www.thenation.com/article/poli...

How are wind and solar looking now, you fossil-heads?

The DOGE assholes saved no money and did a lot of damage to good programs and workers’ lives. And now they want to blow $200 billion on this lunacy?

Why is @damagemag.bsky.social setting one segment of the working class against another? “White collar” workers are mostly working class too. "Let's Not Confuse Labor's Problems with White-Collar AI Doomerism"

So @socialists.nyc is out with a ballot for the Antiwar Working Group. 19 candidates, all suffering traumatic surname loss. And their endorsers are suffering the same malady. So you can’t vet any of these people unless you know them. How insider-y.

Some publicists want to put me on the beauty beat! "Hi Doug, Just following up in case you missed this. Experts at Harley Street Hair Clinic break down the most popular hairstyles that are actually harming your hair."

Excellent conversation between historian Nikhil Pal Singh and @doughenwood.bsky.social about Trumpism, "tying together the domestic and foreign policy strands of the regime into a single domain of impunity" Singh calls "Homeland Empire.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Big if true