Henry Snow
@henrysnow.bsky.social
Labor + naval historian | they/them | political economy, maritime work, ships and shipbuilders | CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26 | currently an adjunct at UConn
words at buttondown.com/anotherway
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"News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend [independent journalists Don] Lemon’s and [Georgia] Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.”
Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.
Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend [independent journalists Don] Lemon’s and [Georgia] Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.”
Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.
Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.
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A thrilling intellectual and economic history of workplace control from the birth of capitalism to the modern tech giants.
Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
Control Science
What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made these rules? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives? From Caribbean plantations in the 17th century to Amazon warehouses today, the ...
www.versobooks.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
A thrilling intellectual and economic history of workplace control from the birth of capitalism to the modern tech giants.
Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
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Very cool new work on congestion pricing - exciting both for the results and the methodology.
As expected, drives into Manhattan grew notably faster following congestion pricing.
But local journeys outside the toll zone also sped up a bit – and there are *lots* of them.
To the researchers’ surprise, those driving outside Manhattan collectively saved 5x more hours than toll payers(!).
But local journeys outside the toll zone also sped up a bit – and there are *lots* of them.
To the researchers’ surprise, those driving outside Manhattan collectively saved 5x more hours than toll payers(!).
January 30, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Very cool new work on congestion pricing - exciting both for the results and the methodology.
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Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Saudi Real Estate Forum
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
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Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
A "general strike" called for on social media, with no theory of victory and no organizing, isn't a general strike. Wildcat strikes need to be even more tightly organized than legal ones, and all labor action needs a theory of victory: what are our demands? Who will concede them? Why?
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
A "general strike" called for on social media, with no theory of victory and no organizing, isn't a general strike. Wildcat strikes need to be even more tightly organized than legal ones, and all labor action needs a theory of victory: what are our demands? Who will concede them? Why?
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For Commonweal, I wrote about the changing relationship between neoliberalism and Christianity-- from Mises's early 20th-century declaration that capitalism could not coexist with "a living Christianity" to the uneasy relationship MAGA has with both
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
Champions of Apathy
Catholic teaching prioritizes people over markets. Neoliberals would rather change the Church than change the economy.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
For Commonweal, I wrote about the changing relationship between neoliberalism and Christianity-- from Mises's early 20th-century declaration that capitalism could not coexist with "a living Christianity" to the uneasy relationship MAGA has with both
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
years ago my father-in-law was like "I trust Powell because he's a Deadhead." he was right
We know Powell is a Deadhead but has anyone ever asked him if he plays D&D.
A: we see signs of the unemployment rate stabilizing. We may be seeing the beginning of the resolution between those two things. The LORE [sickosyes.png] is that when GDP and the labor market data conflict, the labor market data is more reliable.
January 28, 2026 at 8:31 PM
years ago my father-in-law was like "I trust Powell because he's a Deadhead." he was right
A lot of the academic literature on US naval shipbuilding is time specific-- 1922-45, or steam, or colonial... I don't know if I should be doing the sweeping multi-century thing again right away after these two books are done but I probably can't help myself
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM
A lot of the academic literature on US naval shipbuilding is time specific-- 1922-45, or steam, or colonial... I don't know if I should be doing the sweeping multi-century thing again right away after these two books are done but I probably can't help myself
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More: Nobody is sitting here unaware of the possibility of higher productivity. We've been talking about it for five or six years. We are well aware. That's all in our models. If it's a question of better models, bring 'em on, we'll take 'em.
This is all just a brutal demolition of Hassett.
This is all just a brutal demolition of Hassett.
January 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
More: Nobody is sitting here unaware of the possibility of higher productivity. We've been talking about it for five or six years. We are well aware. That's all in our models. If it's a question of better models, bring 'em on, we'll take 'em.
This is all just a brutal demolition of Hassett.
This is all just a brutal demolition of Hassett.
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We are about an hour away from the first Fed meeting of the year. They won't cut and no updated economic projections, so this *should* be pretty boring.
Links below will work @ 2:00p ET
Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Presser (2:30p): www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
Links below will work @ 2:00p ET
Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Presser (2:30p): www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
We are about an hour away from the first Fed meeting of the year. They won't cut and no updated economic projections, so this *should* be pretty boring.
Links below will work @ 2:00p ET
Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Presser (2:30p): www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
Links below will work @ 2:00p ET
Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Presser (2:30p): www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
eternal president franklin delano roosevelt
January 28, 2026 at 7:25 PM
eternal president franklin delano roosevelt
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As innumerable scholars of the law (& history) of money & banking have shown, a) banks, chartered by the govt, *lend out more money than they have*; thus they loan money into existence, essentially (under governmental license) & b) they earn, in essence, a profit from this - interest on those loans
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
As innumerable scholars of the law (& history) of money & banking have shown, a) banks, chartered by the govt, *lend out more money than they have*; thus they loan money into existence, essentially (under governmental license) & b) they earn, in essence, a profit from this - interest on those loans
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MEE cites sources which say that Trump gave Netanyahu a one month deadline to reach a security agreement with Syria— but Netanyahu refuses to budge on the issue of Israeli withdrawal from Mt. Hermon
Trump gives Netanyahu a month for Syria security deal, say sources
The US is increasing pressure on Israel to finalise the agreement, but sources say the Israeli prime minister refuses to shift on his Mount Hermon red line
www.middleeasteye.net
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
MEE cites sources which say that Trump gave Netanyahu a one month deadline to reach a security agreement with Syria— but Netanyahu refuses to budge on the issue of Israeli withdrawal from Mt. Hermon
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I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
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The February issue is here! Feat:
- A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest
- Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy
- @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness
- James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
- A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest
- Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy
- @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness
- James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
January 28, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The February issue is here! Feat:
- A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest
- Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy
- @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness
- James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
- A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest
- Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy
- @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness
- James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
For Commonweal, I wrote about the changing relationship between neoliberalism and Christianity-- from Mises's early 20th-century declaration that capitalism could not coexist with "a living Christianity" to the uneasy relationship MAGA has with both
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
Champions of Apathy
Catholic teaching prioritizes people over markets. Neoliberals would rather change the Church than change the economy.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
For Commonweal, I wrote about the changing relationship between neoliberalism and Christianity-- from Mises's early 20th-century declaration that capitalism could not coexist with "a living Christianity" to the uneasy relationship MAGA has with both
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...
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The 1930s.
"what happens if the USD loses safe harbour status but everyone else doesn't want to put in the work to make an alternative work?"
Once again, I ask how the math of other currencies replacing the dollar is going to go so long as neither 🇪🇺 nor 🇨🇳 is willing to do any of the things required to actually replace the dollar:
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January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The 1930s.
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"Musk, for example, has expressed a desire to 'destroy the woke mind virus.' As Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue in a forthcoming book, it does not require a great logical leap to suspect that he sees Neuralink as part of a way to do so."
Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
"Musk, for example, has expressed a desire to 'destroy the woke mind virus.' As Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue in a forthcoming book, it does not require a great logical leap to suspect that he sees Neuralink as part of a way to do so."
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Here's what you need to know ahead of Tesla's fourth quarter earnings call:
-lol nothing matters
-magic is real, if you believe it in your heart
-knowledge is a burden
-chaos reigns!
-repeated blows to the head can help anyone understand modern markets
-don't stop believing, hold on to that feeling
-lol nothing matters
-magic is real, if you believe it in your heart
-knowledge is a burden
-chaos reigns!
-repeated blows to the head can help anyone understand modern markets
-don't stop believing, hold on to that feeling
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Here's what you need to know ahead of Tesla's fourth quarter earnings call:
-lol nothing matters
-magic is real, if you believe it in your heart
-knowledge is a burden
-chaos reigns!
-repeated blows to the head can help anyone understand modern markets
-don't stop believing, hold on to that feeling
-lol nothing matters
-magic is real, if you believe it in your heart
-knowledge is a burden
-chaos reigns!
-repeated blows to the head can help anyone understand modern markets
-don't stop believing, hold on to that feeling
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“When they say the Second Amendment protects the First, they mean their right to kill non-white people with impunity guards their right to say anything they please without so much as the tiniest social sanction.” www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...
Don't Buy a Gun
Confrontational but nonviolent protest is more effective than the solipsistic comfort of an assault rifle.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 PM
“When they say the Second Amendment protects the First, they mean their right to kill non-white people with impunity guards their right to say anything they please without so much as the tiniest social sanction.” www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...
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“Whatever its value as social history, We the People is highly misleading as legal history and jeopardizes today’s urgent project of preserving our republic and protecting its surviving strands of democracy.” —@tribelaw.bsky.social
Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’? | Laurence H. Tribe
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
www.nybooks.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
“Whatever its value as social history, We the People is highly misleading as legal history and jeopardizes today’s urgent project of preserving our republic and protecting its surviving strands of democracy.” —@tribelaw.bsky.social
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We need something akin to the FDA for tech.
the strongest AI critique is that the tech is widely used and fairly powerful, and therefore a democratic public should own and/or control the means of building and deploying it
if your position is that the tech is worthless, will go away on its own, is inherently bad, etc etc, you are going to die on that hill. there are absolutely bad actors in the space and you are passing over the bad actors to stake a losing position about the code
January 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
We need something akin to the FDA for tech.