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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 54m

This sounds alarming! Really glad they're on the case.

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT MAGA Warriors Brooke Rollins, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem unveiled their plan to RECLAIM AMERICA'S HEARTLAND from
Communist China. We sent you their bold new plan DAYS ago but you never
responded - this is a game changer:
READ THEIR PLAN HERE
- Team Scalise

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 4h

Speed too.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 5h

He says “sort of” a lot.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 17h

One of the four fines herbes!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 19h

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Of course. He's preposterous.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Reliably smart analysis from Forrest.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘Markets are less convinced, both of Milei’s performance and of Bessent’s commitment to the bailout. Some are betting the money takes time; and/or that not all of it arrives; and/or that it gets held up, shut down, or blocked by Congress.’

Forrest Hylton on Argentina: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Forrest Hylton | Across the Rio de la Plata

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows it’s in Minnesota!

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Have they really shut down the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report? What absolute lunacy. They're all eugenicists for sure, but I thought their breed was for targeted mortality, not mass scattershot mortality.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

That old mocking definition of hypocrisy as vice paying tribute to virtue is too harsh. It's good if vice feels like it has to pay tribute to virtue.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock, role model for the young, inspiration for the old.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Between Posobiec denouncing Weimar-era antifa and this, it's become permissible to admit to seriously horrible beliefs.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Ah one of the Resigned In Phantasmic Protest caucus opines.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 2d

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is divided between its realists like, Mamdani and AOC, and fundamentalists who disagree over whether or not the DSA should continue to run and win with the Democratic Party. From Harold Meyerson:

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The Rift in American Socialism

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 2d

Great talking to @doughenwood.bsky.social‬ about fissures within Maga on China and how Chinese leaders view global order.

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

fresh audio product:

* Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world
• Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

lbo-news.com/2020/02/28/t...

Taxing the rich revisited

Back in October, I wrote about how taxing the rich, while a nice start, won’t be enough to fund a serious welfare state. That would require taxing the broader population seriously and we need to be…

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

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Taxing the rich is only a start, though it’s a good one

It’s become near-consensus on the social democratic left that you can fund a decent welfare state by taxing the rich and shrinking the military. Sad to say that isn’t true. Those are good things in…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bonus:

— He thinks Republicans should welcome Nick Fuentes
— He thinks the descendants of slaves owe reparations to the descendants of slave owners

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

fresh audio product:

* Jake Werner on Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world
• Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social on the slick but odious William F. Buckley Jr.

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan is incoherent, Springsteen is bombastic. Cash is great.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

How nice for them.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

150% tariff for them.