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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 6h

One of the four fines herbes!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 8h

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 14h

Of course. He's preposterous.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 14h

Reliably smart analysis from Forrest.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14h

‘Markets are less convinced, both of Milei’s performance and of Bessent’s commitment to the bailout. Some are betting the money takes time; and/or that not all of it arrives; and/or that it gets held up, shut down, or blocked by Congress.’

Forrest Hylton on Argentina: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone knows it’s in Minnesota!

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 17h

Have they really shut down the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report? What absolute lunacy. They're all eugenicists for sure, but I thought their breed was for targeted mortality, not mass scattershot mortality.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 18h

That old mocking definition of hypocrisy as vice paying tribute to virtue is too harsh. It's good if vice feels like it has to pay tribute to virtue.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 18h

Kid Rock, role model for the young, inspiration for the old.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 18h

Between Posobiec denouncing Weimar-era antifa and this, it's become permissible to admit to seriously horrible beliefs.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Ah one of the Resigned In Phantasmic Protest caucus opines.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 1d

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is divided between its realists like, Mamdani and AOC, and fundamentalists who disagree over whether or not the DSA should continue to run and win with the Democratic Party. From Harold Meyerson:

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The Rift in American Socialism

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 1d

Great talking to @doughenwood.bsky.social‬ about fissures within Maga on China and how Chinese leaders view global order.

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

fresh audio product:

* Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world
• Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

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Taxing the rich revisited

Back in October, I wrote about how taxing the rich, while a nice start, won’t be enough to fund a serious welfare state. That would require taxing the broader population seriously and we need to be…

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

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Taxing the rich is only a start, though it’s a good one

It’s become near-consensus on the social democratic left that you can fund a decent welfare state by taxing the rich and shrinking the military. Sad to say that isn’t true. Those are good things in…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bonus:

— He thinks Republicans should welcome Nick Fuentes
— He thinks the descendants of slaves owe reparations to the descendants of slave owners

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

fresh audio product:

* Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world
• Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan is incoherent, Springsteen is bombastic. Cash is great.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

How nice for them.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

150% tariff for them.

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Nagham Zbeedat in Ha’aretz

For Palestinians, the Relief of the Gaza Cease-fire Belongs to Others - Haaretz Today www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

When I texted a man from Gaza to congratulate him on the cease-fire, he replied, "Congratulations to you. You'll put your mind at peace with our news now!' His words cut through the noise - a reminder that for many Palestinians, even relief has become something that belongs to others.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Reagan's diary, August 12, 1982

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Met with the news the Israelis delivered the most devastating bomb & artillery attack on W. Beirut lasting 14 hours. Habib cabled- desperate-has basic agreement from all parties but cant arrange details of P.L.0. withdrawal because of the barrage. King Fahd
called begging me to do something. I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did-I was angry. I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symool of his war was becoming a picture of a 7 month old baby with it's arms blown off. He told me he had ordered the bombing stopped-I asked about the artillery fire. He claimed the P.L.O. had started that & Israeli forces had taken casualties. End of call. Twenty mins. later he called to tell me he'd ordered an end to the barrage and plead for our continued friendship. Spent rest of day meeting with Congressmen on Tax bill.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Spare me Trump being celebrated as a peacemaker. The war on Gaza could have been ended at any time in the last two years with a US president telling Netanyahu to "stop the holocaust," as Reagan ordered Begin in 1982.

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