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 · 1h

Elect a rapist, get a government that welcomes more rapists.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

Ham radio! Go-karts! Garage bands!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h

Another unexpected death in the family. People and things are continually being born: their disappearance is the great mystery.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sorry. It sucks. Following for updates on your journey, hoping it contains some pleasant surprises as well.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 20h

Coworkers? I'm not an employee of the Atlantic and never have been. I've never been to their offices--couldn't tell you where those offices might be--nor have I met anyone in person there. I have no "coworkers" at the Atlantic.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 20h

You're trying to portray "puzzled & curious" as "bothered."

I can see why you'd want to do that: it elevates weird behavior into something of significance. Exactly the way MAGAs like to think their bizarre outbursts "trigger the libs."

But it isn't significant. It's just weird.

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

That's such a common rhetorical gambit of the leftbro misogynist that someone actually memed it.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

I have yet to see anyone come to terms with this in print, perhaps because of the vastness of the problem: is there ANYWHERE a woman can go in the United States where she isn't forced to interact with rapists, rape apologists, or systems created by rapists (e.g., Microsoft products)?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. The mere whisper of the Baba Yaga's name brings all the butthurt misogynists to the yard...

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

I'm confident that in your mind, that comment makes perfect sense and is an absolutely devastating takedown.

a man in a top hat says " i hope you enjoy it " to another man

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

Also "I was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Ohio Streets, where ICE recently walked, so clearly that means I am on the side of the fascists."

a man with a beard is smiling with the words it just makes sense below him

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Please save your prayers for someone who needs them. 😘

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

MEA MAXIMA CULPA

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

The message discipline cracks me up: once a month, like clockwork, some leftist drops this sentiment on me using identical phrasing, as if they're passing around a list of Sick Burns. And it's not really a burn. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes for the Atlantic: I'm cool with that association!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

The Bat Signal has been received!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Best part is the message discipline: always identical comments, no variation in phrasing & a clear expectation that "You write for the Atlantic" is a devastating takedown. Maybe they're all huddling in a hovel in Moldova typing from a tattered index card of rage-bait phrases they're passing around.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Listen up: I have been busted. Geniuses of the Left post this exact statement as a gotcha every month, so I must confess: I wrote for @theatlantic.com, making me responsible for every word the magazine ever published. I'm also a mammal & thus responsible for the Late Pleistocene Extinctions. Sorry.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Uh huh. And Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Ergo, they could not have been right about anything.

a cartoon of a man standing in front of a desk with the words okay next please

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Hey @thedesertginger.bsky.social: you follow this person.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

That has always seemed self-evident to me.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

TO THIS DAY they will invoke the name of HRC the way children invoke Baba Yaga. The unexamined yet seething misogyny is just bizarre. Same with their loathing and scapegoating of Elizabeth Warren. Raging mommy issues.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

The White House is just another public good--like the Washington Post and Twitter--that the Broligarchs purchased solely to destroy. To show us they own US.

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23h

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22h

Men of the left are just as misogynist as men of the right. (Cf: Chomsky in the Epstein files.) Feminist writer Andrea Dworkin was calling out leftbros for this 50yrs ago: ready to go to the barricades for the liberation of everyone EXCEPT the gals who washes bros' socks & made bros' sandwiches.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

NOT a Bragodochio! Bring me my smelling salts!

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Use of the term "wine mom" should immediately raise suspicion of bad faith and ratfuckery on the part of whomever is using it.

The project of discrediting and delegitimizing women as political actors is ALWAYS a huge red flag, and is essential to the project that is fascism.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

The project is NEVER finished...it's always a work in progress. That's what jorbo and I were taught in public school. That means that the bad guys come and go, but we--and people like us--keep working on making the dream real, always.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

My public school had us singing Woody Guthrie & Tom Lehrer songs in kindergarten, then I went home to watch Sesame St & Schoolhouse Rock, so of course I believe in the dream that we must make real. I don't know why the young folks think America is a failed consumer product: it's a joint project.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23h

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Reposted by Zen Faulkes, Brooke Harrington

Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 1d

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1d

One of Team Italy's athletes yelled into the camera "Hi Mom" (in Italian), and that's a good boy.

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