My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...

"[W]e need to limit the growing influence of capital on our increasingly strained democratic institutions; we need to reinvigorate the labor movement as part of a long term aspiration to build workplace democracy." - @mattpolprof.bsky.social for the Institute for Christian Socialism

"Progressives, especially, must recognize that preserving constitutional freedoms depends on winning the fight for economic liberties. Treating them as separate goals will ultimately mean losing out on both." - Caroline Fredrickson for @theatlantic.bsky.social

“…fundamentally I don't think…that there are demonstrably superior people, in the sense that there are people whose lives matter more than others or people whose existence has more cosmic significance than anyone else.” @mattpolprof.bsky.social, with @benburgis.bsky.social for GTAA.

"...left-leaning movements need to develop the social connections and invest in the media infrastructures required to spread compelling counternarratives." Anthony Nadler & Doron Taussig for Los Angeles Review of Books

"The wealthy use their dominant position to set the legislative and regulatory agendas, monopolise public conversation, hold political decision-making hostage by threatening capital flight, and engage in outright corruption." - Colin Bradley, ed. @nigelwarburton.bsky.social for Aeon

“Most of these internet masculinity gurus operate like influencers. Often, the goal is to convert followers into customers.” - Eamon Whalen for @motherjones.bsky.social