Brooke Harrington
@ebharrington.bsky.social
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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@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
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Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show
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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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Having to go on 60 Minutes to defend the concept of public funding for scientific research is WILD.
Publicly-funded science has been THE most successful thing produced in the US for 50+ years.
Like, what next: are we going to have to go on television to plead for the value of literacy & numeracy?
Publicly-funded science has been THE most successful thing produced in the US for 50+ years.
Like, what next: are we going to have to go on television to plead for the value of literacy & numeracy?
“We are doing a service for the United States because they’ve identified needs that need to be met,” says Harvard bioengineer Don Ingber, defending federal grants and contracts to universities for scientific and medical research. cbsn.ws/4hRoEiJ
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Having to go on 60 Minutes to defend the concept of public funding for scientific research is WILD.
Publicly-funded science has been THE most successful thing produced in the US for 50+ years.
Like, what next: are we going to have to go on television to plead for the value of literacy & numeracy?
Publicly-funded science has been THE most successful thing produced in the US for 50+ years.
Like, what next: are we going to have to go on television to plead for the value of literacy & numeracy?
Truth. This has been driving me nuts for 25 years, since failson Shrub coasted to victory on being the "share a beer with" guy and so-called progressives started parroting "both parties are the same and we're going to teach them a lesson by not voting"
Its a certain demographic who needed to be "motivated off their couches" to vote. Who "need fighters." Or need "excitement"/ someone they can "share a beer with." Politics is not your personal soap opera or wrestling match. And your lack of political enthusiasm without a side show causes real harm!
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Truth. This has been driving me nuts for 25 years, since failson Shrub coasted to victory on being the "share a beer with" guy and so-called progressives started parroting "both parties are the same and we're going to teach them a lesson by not voting"
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SNAP is a political football, but making sure the USA ate used to be a national security issue: "up to a quarter of draftees called up via the Selective Service Act of 1940 were malnourished and unfit to serve"
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
SNAP is a political football, but making sure the USA ate used to be a national security issue: "up to a quarter of draftees called up via the Selective Service Act of 1940 were malnourished and unfit to serve"
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.
We've been hearing this tired Reagan-era talking point for 45 years: "I don't want to pay for some undeserving stranger's insurance!"
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
Comer: "This is a fake economy. You can't have 1/3 of America receiving some type of free government healthcare and then have another 1/3 that's getting a subsidized rate. That falls on the final 1/3 that's having to pay increased premiums."
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We've been hearing this tired Reagan-era talking point for 45 years: "I don't want to pay for some undeserving stranger's insurance!"
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
You already are, bro. That's how private insurance works, too--you just pay a lot more and get a lot less with the private version.
fraud is when you drive safely & never claim on your auto insurance
Remember that insurance is actually a thing you hope never to use, and then read this critique.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
fraud is when you drive safely & never claim on your auto insurance
Well if it isn't hapless Uncle Billy from "It's A Wonderful Life."
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Well if it isn't hapless Uncle Billy from "It's A Wonderful Life."
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
New Hampshire: "Live free and spineless."
Shaheen: "All those people who oppose this agreement -- staying in a shutdown mode was not getting us anywhere. They need to train their fire on the people who are responsible. That's Trump, Johnson, & the Republicans who have blocked every attempt to get healthcare. We need to be working together."
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New Hampshire: "Live free and spineless."
Q: What does elite class solidarity look like?
A: It looks like a billionaire sports team owner considering naming his team's stadium after a billionaire politician who was just booed for two straight minutes at said stadium.
A: It looks like a billionaire sports team owner considering naming his team's stadium after a billionaire politician who was just booed for two straight minutes at said stadium.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
I assume none of the denafizication experts from postwar Germany are still around, and de-Baathification was a fiasco, but surely there are some central Europeans with experience at tearing down Lenin statues still around who can advise the US at some point in the future.
I assume none of the denafizication experts from postwar Germany are still around, and de-Baathification was a fiasco, but surely there are some central Europeans with experience at tearing down Lenin statues still around who can advise the US at some point in the future.
White House says Washington Commanders stadium bearing Trump’s name would be ‘beautiful’ | CNN Politics
That statement comes after ESPN reported that there have been backchannel talks between the White House and the Washington Commanders ownership group to relay Trump’s desire in having the stadium bear...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Q: What does elite class solidarity look like?
A: It looks like a billionaire sports team owner considering naming his team's stadium after a billionaire politician who was just booed for two straight minutes at said stadium.
A: It looks like a billionaire sports team owner considering naming his team's stadium after a billionaire politician who was just booed for two straight minutes at said stadium.
Cool. I'm sure they'll be happy to give up their nonprofit status and start paying taxes like other political organizations.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Cool. I'm sure they'll be happy to give up their nonprofit status and start paying taxes like other political organizations.
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There is a body under each of these crosses. These American service men gave their lives to save Europe from itself. Now the American government desecrates their memory. It is very painful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There is a body under each of these crosses. These American service men gave their lives to save Europe from itself. Now the American government desecrates their memory. It is very painful.
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My sister is a genius
Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My sister is a genius
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Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.
Look forward to more grand declations about how Europeans must emulate an America whose government is in the sixth week of shutdown and now can't provide safe air travel
✈️ FAA Ops Summary - 09/0300 ✈️
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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“we need to be clear about what is happening here: women are being chased out of public life, by unconstrained hate groups, online trolls and far-right extremism. In one of the world’s strongest democracies, this is becoming the new normal.”
Important read
Important read
In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin
In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin
A leading liberal politician has quit in fear of her physical safety. It is a crushing setback for democracy in one of the world’s most open societies, says journalist Martin Gelin
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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“we need to be clear about what is happening here: women are being chased out of public life, by unconstrained hate groups, online trolls and far-right extremism. In one of the world’s strongest democracies, this is becoming the new normal.”
Important read
Important read
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
It's genuinely weird how words like "ambitious" and "aggressive"--terms of high praise for men!--are used BY women to discipline and punish other women for success in paid work.
When a woman calls other women "ambitious" and "aggressive," it means she's out of bounds on gender norms: "unnatural."
When a woman calls other women "ambitious" and "aggressive," it means she's out of bounds on gender norms: "unnatural."
‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation
‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation
What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchy
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It's genuinely weird how words like "ambitious" and "aggressive"--terms of high praise for men!--are used BY women to discipline and punish other women for success in paid work.
When a woman calls other women "ambitious" and "aggressive," it means she's out of bounds on gender norms: "unnatural."
When a woman calls other women "ambitious" and "aggressive," it means she's out of bounds on gender norms: "unnatural."
Can we all agree that Fleance is the best name in English literature?
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Can we all agree that Fleance is the best name in English literature?
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'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
At the Cenotaph, by Siegfried Sassoon
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit…
Standing bare-headed by the Cenot…
Unostentatious and respectful, the…
He stood, and offered up the follo…
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
malice, evil & stupidity: 3 horsemen of the MAGApocalypse
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
malice, evil & stupidity: 3 horsemen of the MAGApocalypse
77 million American voters:
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
77 million American voters:
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Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Former Chair of the Republican House Freedom Caucus.
What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.