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I miss blogs.
As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”
As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”
Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost?
When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I miss blogs.
As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”
As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”
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Latest Politics Weekly America is on the Trump movement's confusing attitude to free speech - I speak to @sunraysunray.bsky.social, president of The Nation magazine, which was denounced this week by JD Vance open.spotify.com/episode/4RRu...
What does Donald Trump think free speech means?
open.spotify.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Latest Politics Weekly America is on the Trump movement's confusing attitude to free speech - I speak to @sunraysunray.bsky.social, president of The Nation magazine, which was denounced this week by JD Vance open.spotify.com/episode/4RRu...
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New York: Scandinavia House will host @pelledragsted.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social on 8/5, as part of Pelle's book tour. Details and (free) registration: tinyurl.com/yuefrb2x
Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.
Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New York: Scandinavia House will host @pelledragsted.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social on 8/5, as part of Pelle's book tour. Details and (free) registration: tinyurl.com/yuefrb2x
Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.
Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.
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Good piece by @sunraysunray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on last night's victory for common sense justice. Hits the right tone of cautious optimism and is clear eyed about the road forward.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won | Bhaskar Sunkara
Now the New York mayoral candidate he needs to ensure an electoral win that translates into tangible improvements in people’s lives
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Good piece by @sunraysunray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on last night's victory for common sense justice. Hits the right tone of cautious optimism and is clear eyed about the road forward.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The success of @die-linke.de also gives hope in the US! Sofia Leonidakes from @dielinkebremen.bsky.social talked to @sunraysunray.bsky.social at our joint RLS NYC and @jacobinmag.bsky.social event about the strategy behind it.
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The success of @die-linke.de also gives hope in the US! Sofia Leonidakes from @dielinkebremen.bsky.social talked to @sunraysunray.bsky.social at our joint RLS NYC and @jacobinmag.bsky.social event about the strategy behind it.
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“After attempting and failing to borrow its way out of the crisis, social democracy eventually responded to the charge that social democracy itself was at the root of the economic crisis by wholeheartedly agreeing.”
Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...
Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...
The Age of Class Dealignment
Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.
jacobin.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
“After attempting and failing to borrow its way out of the crisis, social democracy eventually responded to the charge that social democracy itself was at the root of the economic crisis by wholeheartedly agreeing.”
Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...
Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...
Very silly, since I've written extensively on the Marxist understanding of class & this essay is about 150 years of shifts in working-class parties 🧵
1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.
1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.
November 20, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Very silly, since I've written extensively on the Marxist understanding of class & this essay is about 150 years of shifts in working-class parties 🧵
1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.
1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.