Doug Henwood
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Economic journalist and utility pundit.
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Why should anyone care what you think? Youāre just another banal plutocrat.
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Thereās no small amount of bullshit involved in investment banking.
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Fun!
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What Trump didn't proclaim yesterday was that "his" battleships will be built by South Korea's largest military contractor Hanwha. "Buy America" my ass.
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Trump says US will work with Korea to build āGolden Fleetā of new Navy warships
The US president unveiled what he called the āTrump classā of ships, saying they would be ā100 timesā more powerful than any battleship built to date
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1236223.html
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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Miners are just props.
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These guys are fighting an opposition that would be happy to see all of them in jail, and they come up with this weak shit.
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4 days ago
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Let the punishment fit the crime
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6 days ago
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fresh audio product: ⢠Thea Riofrancos
@triofrancos.bsky.social
, author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium ⢠Alyssa Battistoni
@alybatt.bsky.social
, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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7 days ago
I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people
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Still some bugs in the system.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fishāand taught us lessons about the future of AI.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?st=4R7BRW&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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We need socialized medicine to get these costs down.
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Privatization and service cuts: Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
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Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA - The American Prospect
Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/18/another-mass-staffing-purge-at-va/
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Well ok but how is this different from the ānow heās gone too farā line weāve heard for years?
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8 days ago
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8 days ago
When youāve lost Matt Walshā¦
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I reviewed yesterday's employment report for Jacobin:
jacobin.com/2025/12/us-e...
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The Economy Is on the Brink
Weāre heading into what could be a rough economic patch with the worst leadership imaginable.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/us-economy-employment-statistics-trump
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AntiPublica
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation
8 days ago
Today, on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we remember the lives lost due to violence. Today is a call to action to continue fighting against the stigma, discrimination, and legislation that fuel this cruel violence. āļø
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I have a Substack account that I've never used, though I think I'm going to start one in early January. Not exactly cutting edge, I know, but there's a dearth of good left economic analysis out there. But I was alarmed to get this notification.
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Things are getting bitchy on the right. Candace Owensās spokesperson responds to Tim Poolās attacks: āFor a man hiding his bald scalp behind a beanie, Tim is exhibiting markedly elevated estrogen levels in his behavior.ā
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She was MAGAās favorite conspiracist. Then she dug into Charlie Kirkās killing.
The right-wing firebrand rose to prominence as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist. Her latest claims have infuriated some of her former allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/16/candace-owens-maga-conspiracy-charlie-kirk/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F4621271%2F694191f81055606afe64cf2a%2F596ce0b8ae7e8a44e7fbed7a%2F14%2F66%2F694191f81055606afe64cf2a
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This doesnāt seem politically promising.
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Say something monstrous and then throw a few more heaps of monstrosity on top just for good measure.
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Endorsed by one of the greatest charlatans in the history of economics. āHighly respected by all!ā
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13 days ago
Robin Ince reveals to last nightās audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Ryan J. Reilly āpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⦠disarrayā
12 days ago
Trump attacks quickly turn to threats:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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13 days ago
always a delight to chat with Doug! This time about the private equity-ization of the Penagon.
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fresh audio product: ⢠Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy ⢠Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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"The executive board of antifa." This would be hilarious if these maniacs didn't have police power.
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A light unto the world
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How are the MAGA loons going to react to this? Rethink or dig in?
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15 days ago
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Rubio's change of the official State Department typeface from (silly) Calibri to (tired) Times may be ridiculous, but also a sign how much these people hate the disabled. Sans serif is easier on the visually impaired, so making accommodation is woke. Eugenicists, all of them.
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16 days ago
ICEās acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity sceneāstripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message āICE WAS HERE.ā The parish priest is refusing, citing he popeās call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
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āICE Was Hereā: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus ā and marked with an āICE was hereā sign ā has triggered cries of āpoliticizing Christmas.ā The parish priest says heās answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/ice-was-here-pope-leo-inspired-nativity?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Heās back on this? Itās un-American
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Great polemic
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RIP the American university system. It had its flaws but it had many more splendors. The yahoos have won.
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Welcome to Dystopia, 2025 model.
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16 days ago
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The lunacy spreads. From a Bloomberg BusinessWeek email:
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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I suppose it should be some consolation that they're all awful to each other too. The right these days is making intra-Trotskyist disputes look like a light rain.
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Pope Leo's remarks on AI delivered yesterday in Rome are remarkably well informed, nuanced, and certain to completely infuriate the tech bros. In sum, he argues that the careful regulation
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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To Participants in the Conference āArtificial Intelligence and Care for Our Common Homeā (5 December 2025)
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE āARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOMEā ORGANIZED BY THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTIFICE FOUNDATION AND THE STRATEGI...
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/december/documents/20251205-conferenza.html
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Thereās much joy in Heaven and on earth when a new billionaire is minted
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fresh audio product: ⢠David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard on the Honduran elections ⢠Elfadil Ibrahim on the Sudanese civil war ⢠Eric Blanc on the lessons of Milwaukeeās decades of āsewer socialismā for Mamdani and Wilson
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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The Manhattan luxury apartment market surged in the month after Zohran Mamdani's election: āThere is no Mamdani effect.ā
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Manhattan Luxury Apartment Market Surges in Month After Mamdaniās Win
Real estate brokers say there has been no slowdown in demand from wealthy buyers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/manhattan-luxury-apartment-sales-up-after-zohran-mamdani-win
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Also: affordability is a hoax.
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22 days ago
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
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London Review of Books
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āTimes have changed since the 1960s. Military force and police repression are unlikely to produce the outcomes the US desires, and may end up strengthening Latin American nationalisms instead.ā Forrest Hylton on the US, Colombia and Venezuela, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Forrest Hylton | Gran Colombia Redux
The US can bomb Venezuelan military and civilian targets from the USS Gerald R. Ford but itās difficult to imagine...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/gran-colombia-redux
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Still happening
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I thought it was a lawless hellhole.
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