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 · 2h

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

Big "Keep Government Hands Off My Medicare!" energy.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

How does LTC D'Ortana reckon he's going to get paid if the IRS doesn't exist to collect taxes anymore?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

This isn't just an attempted anti-immigrant pogrom: it's the extension of Gamergate, in which Extremely Online young white men seek clout from each other by terrorizing women (the majority of adults in daycare centers) for sport.

Mr. Shirley doesn't know how daycares work bc that's icky girl stuff.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

This was only few weeks ago. Note that these messages were described as a "racist chat"--misogyny is so widely normalized that it didn't even get a mention in the headline.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3h

Hey @gregolear.bsky.social : thought you might find it as funny as I do that this gentleman you follow believes he needs to school me on the existence of misogyny across the political spectrum. Next, maybe he'll stoop to teach me finance!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, I think you're on to something. Being a high-profile American who says "the US is no longer fit to live in because of the Trump regime" is an embarrassment to a celebrity-obsessed administration.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe I'm wrong and Clooney really does have significant power to inflict damage on the Trump administration: if so, I wonder why he didn't use it when he was still primarily based in the US.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

No, he should be alone--like Napoleon on St. Helena!--as punishment for defecting.
There's a "bitter ex" vibe to that Moss post.
And the premise is all wrong, imo: there's no reason to think Clooney is essential to defeat MAGA, or that he'd be better able to do so on US soil than in France.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

I'm puzzled by the "to live with rich friends" part. Clooney isn't couch-surfing: he owns a manor house in France, purchased years ago. He also has a house in the UK. Inserting "friends" into this is so odd...I guess it must signify something to Moss that I'm not able to translate correctly.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

This is what comes of electing Mr. Birther Conspiracy as POTUS--twice.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

Also: this give young white guys a pretext to film themselves bravely terrorizing women (the primary adults at daycare centers), which is their preferred clout-scoring activity since Gamergate.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 11h

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy.

(And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Question on my mind: how do we protect our key institutions (including universities and research funding organizations) from further damage so that they can be revived post-Trump?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

"Let's fail some more and make other people pay for it!"
--unofficial model of the Network State Gang

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

HOOOO BOY

this is where I lost it

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

On the contrary, I look to you to invent new and improved cuss words suitable for our current national morass.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Watch out, you're going to be bombarded with job offers from ICE.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

So funny you should say that, because I still think of the undergraduate student at Brown 20+ yrs ago who responded to my reviewing the history of the Irish Potato Famine--in which, as you may know, millions of impoverished farmers starved to death--with 'why didn't they just move?'
Poverty is why.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

For a subset of white guys, hunting as a form of male bonding has been replaced with terrorizing women for sport*--and where better to find a vulnerable group of women than underpaid, under-appreciated childcare workers?

* Gamergate really institutionalized this and social media organized it

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Right. Agreed. I guess that sort of catastrophic financial mismanagement is on my mind these days with Trump threatening once again to fire Jerome Powell for his refusal to juke the economy according to Trump's whims. The value of the US dollar is kinda hanging by a thread these days.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Unless...inflation. Do you remember what happened to Argentina's comfortable middle class abt 25yrs ago? The news was full of images of formerly well-to-do ppl dumpster diving to avoid starvation. Government policy & fiscal mismanagement can undo the best laid plans.
www.deseret.com/2002/6/14/19...

Many in Argentina resort to Dumpster-diving to survive

Jose Perez and his wife Maria have 11 hungry mouths to feed. So they travel each week to Argentina's biggest vegetable market to raid the Dumpsters.

www.deseret.com

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

...which is why you see some white ppl who are literally happy to shorten their own lives as the cost of denying status equality to ppl of color in the US, as exemplified by voting against Medicaid expansion (this is the big finding of the book "Dying of Whiteness").
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Beyond the Wages of Whiteness: Du Bois on the Irrationality of Antiblack Racism

Among W. E. B. Du Bois’s many influences on American social science, his account of compensatory whiteness within the US regime of racial capitalism is particularly significant. In Black Reconstructio...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

W.E.B. DuBois called the status benefit of racism the "wages of whiteness." He got the seed of this crucial idea from founding father of sociology Max Weber, whom he studied with in Germany & who famously argued (against Marx) that status is at least as important to ppl as $--often more important.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Because they're men who have never had to sully their hands or their minds with trivial matters like "securing childcare."

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

The credulity of those voters, after watching Trump lie about *everything* for nearly a decade prior to the 2024 election, is something to be studied.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

No. And this is easily verifiable simply by looking up the relevant federal law: neither Biden nor any other President had any authority to fire a US Postmaster General. That's why Trump appointing DeJoy was such a consummate ratf&ck.
www.federaltimes.com/federal-over...