Brooke Harrington

@ebharrington.bsky.social

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Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
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Elisabeth Brooke Harrington is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Jan 23

Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
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Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1m

In the US, we call it "locker room talk:" the coinage of a certain Slovenian immigrant.

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'Locker room talk' defense was Melania Trump's idea, Michael Cohen testifies

Michael Cohen testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Monday, saying Trump told him it was Melania who came up with the infamous “locker room talk” defense.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 40m

The Hungarian model is: make your country into a giant wealth extraction machine.

Squeeze out all the value the populace & public goods can provide, then funnel the proceeds to the dictator, his family & cronies.

It's the public equivalent to what private equity did to ToysRUs & Red Lobster.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 9h

It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 49m

"Skandalakis Kills Scandal for POTUS"

If television writers proposed this name for this character in this situation, they'd probably be fired as hacks slinging clichés.

Forbes @forbes.com · 17h

Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis urged the judge to dismiss the case.

Georgia Prosecutor Kills 2020 Election Case Against Trump

Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis urged the judge to dismiss the case.

www.forbes.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 57m

Switzerland has been neutered as a secrecy jurisdiction for decades, thanks to the US essentially threatening war almost 20 years ago, to "persuade" the Swiss to divulge the deets on US tax evaders.

Tons of $ fled CH & went to Singapore, also now the US itself.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not aware of Switzerland being an attractive destination for human trafficking, sexual abuse or unethical experiments on humans; much harder to get away with those activities in Continental Europe, in a centuries-old democracy, than in small island states with weak post-colonial governments.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

Have you shown them this? It might be the ultimate "how to deal with a screaming authority figure in your profession" film.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

P.S.: What makes offshore attractive to men who don't want to pay their taxes AND men who want to rape women/girls is light regulation.
Offshore centers protect the property and contract rights of the powerful, without imposing corresponding obligations.
The law is selectively suspended for them.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

appreciate you for the excellent deployment of "obstreperous"

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

That's the inspired poetry of it: the collision of words we don't expect to see together, ever, and yet it works.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking of penning a longer piece on the many practical & ideological overlaps btw the men who use offshore finance & those who casually destroy the lives of women & girls through sexual crimes. My thesis is that the two behaviors are symptoms of the same character pathology.
Should I write abt it?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

No coincidence that Epstein bought himself a Rape Island in the Caribbean--not far from the tax haven islands ppl like him & his clients use to rip off the rest of us by making us pay their share of the costs of society as well as our own.

Broligarchs even use offshore to conduct human experiments

PBS headline about Peter Thiel using offshore to conduct unethical human experiments, without the consent of the host country and in violation of US human safety regulations.

Snippet from Scientific American article on Thiel's offshore human experiments.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

The Venn diagram of men engaged in financial misconduct (from tax evasion to reckless speculation with public money) and men engaged in sexual misconduct (from sexually harassing female colleagues to rape and pedophilia) is amazingly close to being a single giant circle.

Offshore facilitates both.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

A reason we learned nothing from the GFC is that Larry Summers--lately of the Epstein Files--shut down uppity women like Elizabeth Warren who saw the crash coming years in advance & tried to stop it.

A small grp of men have been wreaking destruction on our world for decades & were REWARDED for it.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

We learned ~nothing from the Global Financial Crisis

The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?

New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash

on.ft.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

I can't remember the last time a Bluesky post sent me to the dictionary--maybe never?--so I must thank you for introducing me to the word "benthic," and congratulate you on the poetry of "benthic courtesan to power."

a man and a woman wearing gloves are standing next to each other in front of a building .

ALT: a man and a woman wearing gloves are standing next to each other in front of a building .

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

But even that doesn't explain the Competitive Self-Debasement Olympics. The flamboyant betrayals of self. I get the sense that sort of thing was really celebrated among older generations, to an extent that's difficult for me as a younger person to understand fully: it just seems extremely wack.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

I see this more among women of my mother's age--Silent Generation--as well as the next cohort, the Boomers. To an extent that's surprising, especially since many of them have had major public accomplishments and high profile careers, these women use male approval as the main measure of their worth.

Reposted by Brooke Harrington

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

We learned ~nothing from the Global Financial Crisis

The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?

New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash

on.ft.com

Reposted by Mark D. White, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards , and 6 more Mark D. White, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards, Tom Griffin, Michael Jones‐Correa, Kate Starbird, Brooke Harrington, Simon Lester, Christina Pagel

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says

www.nytimes.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h

Manson groupies, Bundy groupies...I don't get it, but there's some glitch that makes truly evil men irresistible to some women.
Those guys are like the Durian fruit of humanity: utterly repulsive to the vast majority of us, but inspiring passionate loyalty and intense devotion in a weird minority.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Andrew L. Jackson, Greg Linden , and 2 more Steve Peers, Andrew L. Jackson, Greg Linden, Brooke Harrington, Richard M. Carpiano

Popehat of Serious Proportion @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h

I think of this often, and it has been the subject of many a deep philosophical discussion with my kid, to whom I passed the Foo-Foo Lore.
Also: how should we understand the winking complicity of the Good Fairy?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h

Inshallah, we get to see this scenario played out between Trump and the reporter he recently called "Piggy."

Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 20h

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Reposted by Brooke Harrington

Forbes @forbes.com · 17h

Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis urged the judge to dismiss the case.

Georgia Prosecutor Kills 2020 Election Case Against Trump

Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis urged the judge to dismiss the case.

www.forbes.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Gerald Friedman, Brooke Harrington

Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 20h

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“But there is another timebomb about to explode and it will if there is no accountability or justice for the Epstein victims.”

If Epstein’s victims don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Millions of sexual violent survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injustice

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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 20h

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Pale Piggy Pink

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Dersh serving up a Sartre look:

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Dollars to donuts Leavitt's brother had his ex detained by ICE in order to win a custody battle over their 11-year-old son.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

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