Doug Henwood
@doughenwood.bsky.social
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Economic journalist and utility pundit.
http://lbo-news.com
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NYT quote of the day: âIt doesnât really make a difference to me if it is 250. Happy birthday, America, I guess.â âARLENE LEWIS of Newark, telling how the prices of necessities were more on her mind than celebrating the nationâs 250th birthday on Saturday.
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fresh audio product: ⢠Aaron Benanav on what a future socialist society might look like â˘Â Amy Laura Hall, author of Erecting the Pulpit, on muscular Christianity
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Graham Platner's poor showing among noncollege whites makes me wonder if the whole "we need white working class guys and not PMC swells to win the white working class guys" is basically a PMC fantasy.
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IDF Expands Gaza Occupation, Displacing More Palestinians to Less Territory - Gaza News
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06...
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IDF expands Gaza occupation, displacing more Palestinians to less territory
With the movement of concrete barriers and advancing tanks, the IDF is deepening its control in the Strip, forcing residents to evacuate their homes. The UN says dozens of humanitarian facilities and ...
https://www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06-30/ty-article/.premium/idf-deepens-gaza-invasion-and-displaced-palestinians-left-with-nowhere-to-run/0000019f-171e-d0d9-a59f-3f9f83d30000?utm_source=App_Share&utm_medium=iOS_Native
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The security buffers never stop!
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06...
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Nandita Sharma
5 days ago
Oh, wow, like the competition that defines the capitalist system turns capitalists into right fucking assholes? Who would have thought?
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Sergey Brin offloaded his stake in a New York real estate fund for 6 cents on the dollar after its bets on rent-stabilized apartments soured.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sergey Brinâs Steep Loss Highlights New York Landlordsâ Pain
Ballooning costs and strict limits on rent increases have spurred losses for many investors in New York City apartments. Among them: the worldâs third-richest man.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/sergey-brin-s-steep-loss-highlights-new-york-landlords-pain?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
6 days ago
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Centrist/liberal Dems' response to DSA's sweep in NYC reminds me of this passage from Victor Navasky's Naming Names, his book on McCarthyism:
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Is there a good cultural/political history of Long Island?
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Elevating the discourse. NY Rep gov candidate Bruce Blakeman on Brad Lander: âHeâs anti-American, he is antisemitic, even though heâs Jewish. This guy would be a camp guard in a concentration camp if he could. Heâs a disaster. Heâs terribl
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Iâm not a Pete fanâI prefer his father the Gramsci scholarâbut this is grotesque.
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8 days ago
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fresh audio product: ⢠two views from BtN regulars on the USâIran negotiations: Anatol Lieven and Mouin Rabbani
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
10 days ago
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The wackjobs have taken over!
nypost.com/2026/06/24/u...
10 days ago
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Whoâs the winner and whoâs the loser in this duo?
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11 days ago
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Uh, ok.
11 days ago
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Fetterman is distressed. âThe dancing days of the dirtbag left.â
nypost.com/2026/06/24/u...
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Dems stunned after anti-Israel, anti-capitalist socialists sweep NYC primaries: âThe dancing days of the dirtbag leftâ
Democrats were shocked when a trio of anti-Israel, socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept Tuesdayâs New York House Primary races.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/dems-stunned-after-anti-israel-anti-capitalist-socialists-sweep-nyc-primaries-the-dancing-days-of-the-dirtbag-left/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
11 days ago
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RIP Alan Greenspan, by me.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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Requiem for Alan Greenspan the Bubble Master
Greenspan enthusiastically promoted the deregulation that characterized the era of high neoliberalism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/alan-greenspan-obituary-federal-reserve-neoliberalism-financial-bubbles-deregulation/
11 days ago
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Democracy bay-bee.
12 days ago
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As a dirty commie Iâve never liked any of these people but itâs likely that Trumpâs minions will only make them worse.
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12 days ago
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jon ben-menachem
14 days ago
"Expecting me to read books and look up words is discriminatory" is for sure a viewpoint that crops up online, and it's very important to make fun of it every time
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Things are even more dire than I imagined
15 days ago
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brent is Astoriapilled đš
16 days ago
We simply must do popularism by embracing socialism
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The author of this worked for Bloomberg, and before that, for AIPAC for 9 years.
nypost.com/2026/06/18/o...
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Darializa Avila Chevalier and the far-left DSA are snubbing the minorities they claim to represent
Darializa Avila Chevalier and the Democratic Socialists of America are hoping to expand their influence in New Yorkâs primaries next week, but theyâve got a big problem: They donât seemâŚ
https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/opinion/darializa-avila-chevalier-and-the-far-left-dsa-are-snubbing-the-minorities-they-claim-to-represent/
16 days ago
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Eli Valley
16 days ago
Trump is the most loathsome mobster in American politics who should die in a sewer, also every Democrat condemning his ONE GOOD DECISION â ending his horrific, criminal war of choice â should be run out of public life forever.
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fresh audio product: ⢠Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, on how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder ⢠Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public, on how the social and political shape our sexual lives (and vice versa)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
17 days ago
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The Postâs âprobably gayâ obsession is weird.
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17 days ago
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DSA made them do it.
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17 days ago
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Trump celebrates Pride.
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18 days ago
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Walter Olson
18 days ago
At NR, Noah Rothman seems confident that the recently uncovered (alleged) UFC drone attack plot is part of "a new wave of politically motivated leftist violence" whose motives are as "plain as day." Is that so? /1
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An Epochal Mass Casualty Attack Targeting âCapitalist Elitesâ Thwarted | National Review
If the current domestic threat matrix was dominated by the prospect of right-of-center terrorism, weâd never hear the end of it.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/an-epochal-mass-casualty-attack-targeting-capitalist-elites-thwarted/
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These people are mad
19 days ago
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Today in dystopia, an ongoing series.
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20 days ago
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Pure dystopia. Bloomberg:
22 days ago
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fresh audio product: ⢠J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of Against Money, explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems ⢠Moira Weigel explains why the right hates Theory
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
23 days ago
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What an ignoramus
23 days ago
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Canât connect to Facebook so I checked Downdetector and itâs down too. Civilizational collapse!
23 days ago
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RoseMarie
23 days ago
Traffic to far-right websites has crashed over the past year as Donald Trump has grown increasingly unpopular, a new report revealed. TheRighting, a news outlet focusing on conservative media, found that the 20 most popular right-wing news websitesâ(cont.) đ§ľ
www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-ne...
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Far-Right News Websites Are Suffering Due to Unpopular Trump
Even the presidentâs favorite social media website saw a decline in visits.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-news-websites-are-suffering-due-to-unpopular-trump/
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huh what?
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25 days ago
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This guy is evil
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Molly White
27 days ago
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. Theyâve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.
influence.citationneeded.news
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
https://influence.citationneeded.news/
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Edward Luce
27 days ago
Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.
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Absolute madness
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29 days ago
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Pure dystopia
about 1 month ago
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Oh please. Enough with the childish cooties anxiety
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about 1 month ago
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Same UMass Lowell poll: Platner, 48%, Collins, 43% for incumbent Women, Platner +19; men, Collins +9
www.uml.edu/Research/pub...
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Center for Public Opinion Polls | Research
https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-opinion/polls/default.aspx
about 1 month ago
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UMass Lowell poll of Maine: 72% of respondents oppose the construction of an artificial intelligence data center in their community. But I read on the internet that this is an unpopular position.
www.uml.edu/Research/pub...
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Center for Public Opinion Polls | Research
https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-opinion/polls/default.aspx
about 1 month ago
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You never had it so good, chumps.
about 1 month ago
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Bored with the Iran war, like Trump says he is? Tariffs are back!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Proposes New Levies of at Least 10% to Rebuild Tariff Wall
The US is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners in President Donald Trumpâs biggest move to rebuild his protectionist wall since his earlier levies were struck down...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/us-proposes-broad-tariffs-of-at-least-10-citing-forced-labor
about 1 month ago
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Phil Lewis
about 1 month ago
The building that houses the agency responsible for containing the spread of invasive pests in the United States has a bed bug infestation
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The Federal Governmentâs Insect-Defense Agency Is Infested With Bed Bugs
The department sent staff home twice, but has declined to do so a third time after the insects returned.
https://www.notus.org/policy/usda-bed-bugs-infestation
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Ed Luce on the Dems: "The party has an ingrained habit of postponing serious thought until after the next election, which, like tomorrow, never comes."
www.ft.com/content/d6b1...
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Why young America is trending socialist
Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z
https://www.ft.com/content/d6b1adcc-a614-4af8-8aa4-56d5c39a42a0
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