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Jon Wiener
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The Nation podcast 'Start Making Sense" host; co-author with Mike Davis, 'Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"; KPFK podcast host, "Living in the USA"
Bhaskar Sunkara imagines future New York City neighborhood assemblies as "a mix of the top sparking the bottom and the bottom informing the top" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA @sunraysunray.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @nycdsatech.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
New York City's fist socialist mayor: How should we understand the constraints Mamdani faces, without accepting those constraints? Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social comments – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @nycdsatech.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mamdani's Socialism—and Us: "When times get tough, capitalists will ask for deregulatory rollbacks. They’ll ask for weaker unions" and why the state will have to oblige — Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Brain injuries among football players: "Not only has ESPN not covered it, but you can’t even barely find an AP story. And when they have covered it... they don’t even mention CTE or concussions." Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Football and Concussions: "you really are watching people destroy each other’s brains for entertainment. And then, there’s the blue tent, so nobody gets too squeamish about what they’re seeing"—Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"We want a society in which ordinary working-class people have more control over their workplaces, and live in a deeper, richer democracy at the political level too." – Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When the NFL sounds like cigarette executives: “There’s no connection between cigarettes and cancer”: “There’s no connection between the NFL and CTE.” Dave Zirin
@edgeofsports.bsky.social reports – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“The goal of socialism is everything”: Bhaskar Sunkara in his keynote address at @socialists.nyc conference – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM
How the NFL is dealing—and NOT dealing—with brain injuries among football players— and how the media is making it worse —Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social reports – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Zohran Mamdani takes office in 4 weeks as the first socialist mayor of New York City. How should we understand the constraints he faces, without accepting those constraints? Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
On calling out the NFL when it sounds like cigarette executives: “There’s no connection between cigarettes and cancer”: “There’s no connection between the NFL and CTE.” —Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social reports – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Mayor Mamdani: Bhaskar Sunkara imagines future New York City neighborhood assemblies as "a mix of the top sparking the bottom and the bottom informing the top" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA @sunraysunray.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
How the NFL's blue tent for concussions is a way of presenting a "highly commodified spectacle of violence where the actual effects of the game itself are kept out of view as much as possible" —Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Mamdani’s Socialism—and Us: "The old line goes something like 'the only thing worse than being exploited by capital under capitalism is not being exploited by capital under capitalism'"– Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/3MBVhFA
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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All in for Aftyn Behn #TN07
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's Cyber Monday & the last day of the "We Ain't Buying it" #HomeDepot #Target & #Amazon boycott – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org
Find out more here: weaintbuyingit.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Organic, regenerative school lunches could be made affordable by establishing direct relationships between schools and local farmers: Alice Waters explains how in "A School Lunch Revolution" – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze @penguinpress.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
How eating at school should be a slow, communal, and educational experience, teaching democracy and social skills at the table: Alice Waters explains in "A School Lunch Revolution" – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze @penguinpress.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This Cyber Monday, join @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org & others in the “We Ain’t Buying It” boycott of #HomeDepot #Target & #Amazon – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Last day of the boycott on #HomeDepot #Target & #Amazon – is TODAY – “We Ain’t Buying It” is sponsored by @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org & others – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Eating is an everyday experience, and the decisions we make about what we eat have daily consequences, and those daily consequences can change the world.” – Alice Waters in "A School Lunch Revolution" – and on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A School Lunch Revolution: "I just know that we need to support the farmers who are taking care of the land for us, for our health and the health of the planet" – Alice Waters on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
“We Ain’t Buying It” – @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org & others called for a boycott of #HomeDepot #Target & #Amazon from Thanksgiving, Black Friday to Cyber Monday – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A Boycott on #HomeDepot #Target & #Amazon thru Cyber Monday – sponsored by @indivisible.org @workingfamilies.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org & others – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4oih4ze
Find out more here: weaintbuyingit.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
On Trump's excommunication of Marjorie "Traitor" Greene from MAGA, and his same-day praise of Zohran Mamdani – Harold Meyerson @prospect.org comments on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/3XUuSVU
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM