Brian Kettenring
@bkettenring.bsky.social
Co-President, Global Fund for a New Economy
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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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.
washingtonmonthly.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/30/t...
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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
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@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
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This is really exciting. Electrolytic steel presents an opportunity to make clean steel cheaper than traditional steel. The energy transition powers on.
www.latitudemedia.com/news/despite...
www.latitudemedia.com/news/despite...
Despite Trump cuts, green steel startup Boston Metal raised another $51 million
The company is charging ahead with its first project in Brazil.
www.latitudemedia.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is really exciting. Electrolytic steel presents an opportunity to make clean steel cheaper than traditional steel. The energy transition powers on.
www.latitudemedia.com/news/despite...
www.latitudemedia.com/news/despite...
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"“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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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.
Elon's endorsee ran 5 points behind the other statewide Republican candidate. That's an unbelievably negative return on investment.
April 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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.
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
Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com
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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
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
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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
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
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/...
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…
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February 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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/...
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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?"
February 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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?"
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Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.
There are currently FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE signed up for tonight's call.
We choose to fight.
Join us at 8 PM EST to talk about how: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We choose to fight.
Join us at 8 PM EST to talk about how: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
www.mobilize.us
February 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.
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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...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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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
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
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February 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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
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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...
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.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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...
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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!
February 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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!
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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:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
We can have high road economic development or take the low road.
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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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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...
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@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...
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...
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@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...
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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
beyond-neoliberalism.org
beyond-neoliberalism.org
Beyond Neoliberalism Conference
beyond-neoliberalism.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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
beyond-neoliberalism.org
beyond-neoliberalism.org
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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.
www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...
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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.
www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...
🔌💡
January 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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.
www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...
🔌💡
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.
www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...
🔌💡
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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 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.
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.
www.barrons.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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 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.
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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!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So funny and so relatable!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So funny and so relatable!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great move for the US labor movement!
2M SEIU Members 🤝 13M AFL-CIO Members
SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @aflcio.org. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!
SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @aflcio.org. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!
January 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Great move for the US labor movement!
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We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.
January 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.