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BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.

Watching the 60 Minutes CECOT segment feels somehow transgressive to me. Very disturbing report on human rights violations. Check it out here, in full broadcast quality, courtesy of @yasharali.bsky.social

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Tyranny Is Downstream From the Economy While the causes of modern authoritarianism have been hotly debated, studies increasingly point to income inequality as the prime culprit.

I reviewed Susan Stokes's new book, The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies, for Washington Monthly. This is an important book b/c it explains the connection between economic inequality and the rise of authoritarianism.

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@bkettenring.bsky.social, Co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy, stresses the importance of organizing and communicating with communities, as well as developing a policy agenda with and in those communities. bit.ly/4p94eoV

#BookSky

Despite Trump cuts, green steel startup Boston Metal raised another $51 million The company is charging ahead with its first project in Brazil.

This is really exciting. Electrolytic steel presents an opportunity to make clean steel cheaper than traditional steel. The energy transition powers on.
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university"

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Elon's involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race cost his candidate around 5% of the vote--even though he spent $25 million dollars on his behalf.

Elon's endorsee ran 5 points behind the other statewide Republican candidate. That's an unbelievably negative return on investment.

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Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy.

Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

The Global Fund for a New Economy on LinkedIn: The Global Fund for a New Economy is pleased to announce our new… The Global Fund for a New Economy is pleased to announce our new Co-President, Dr. Adriana Abdenur. Adriana joins Co-President Brian Kettenring in leading our…

I'm thrilled to share that I've been joined in leading the Global Fund for a New Economy by Dr. Adriana Abdenur. Please join me in welcoming Adriana to the team, LinkedIn announcement here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Schatz to reporters before his remarks on Musk's breaching the Treasury payment system: "Imagine yourself a foreign correspondent. How would you cover this if this were in South America or Central America or Sub-Saharan Africa? How would the coverage change?"

Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target.

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter [Conger, Kate, Mac, Ryan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Alas, reading Character Limit now is an important tool for understanding the current moment. Without that book I would have assumed much of what I am hearing today was exaggerated. But it is scary similar to Musk path at Twitter. www.amazon.com/Character-Li... @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

We can have high road economic development or take the low road.

Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.

President Trump fired 17 inspectors general, the internal watchdogs who monitor federal agencies, on Friday night, capping a week of dramatic shake-ups of the federal bureaucracy with a focus on loyalty to the president. (NYT confirming WashPost) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Developmental Tracks | Phenomenal World Recent years have seen an astonishing resurgence of industrial policy as a legislative agenda and topic for lively debate. Thanks in large part to the waning political fortunes of neoliberalism, delib...

@phenomenalworld.bsky.social has established itself as an indispensable and vibrant forum for fresh thinking in political economy. Delighted to step into this conversation again with a contribution on railroads & the history of industrial policy in the U.S.: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dev...

Really excited to participate in this conference "Pathways to a new economy and politics," put together by @glgerstle.bsky.social and @maggor.bsky.social in Cambridge next May
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A bar chart with four bars, one per country (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania) and account of products on the x-axis that shows for five clean tech value chains in how many value chain components the four countries have export strengths.

What's the EU pivot to industrial policy got in store for Eastern EU member states?

In the EU Regular Economic Report with contributions from many teams across the World Bank, we study how trade & firm data allows revealing existing strengths in clean tech.

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Dozens Of German Universities Turn Back On X Accounts Dozens of German universities said on Friday they would no longer use social network X -- owned by the world's richest man, Elon Musk -- citing ethical concerns.

NEW: Over 60 German & Austrian universities have announced today they are quitting X/Twitter.

The backlash against Musk is growing after he endorsed Germany’s Far Right.

Germany’s Feberal Court of Justice has also quit the platform, as well as top German football clubs & labour unions.

The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, tells a story about his grandfather when he first got a cell phone.

So funny and so relatable!

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Great move for the US labor movement!

A burned down house

We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.

Republicans on NC Supreme Court block certification of Dem justice's victory The Court’s GOP majority could be laying the groundwork to overturn the election.

Five alarm fire in North Carolina, where right-wing GOP majority on State Supreme Court just blocked certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory & appears to be laying groundwork to overturn the election www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ready for DogMan!

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
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