Nick Hanauer

Nick Hanauer

@nickhanauer.bsky.social

Entrepreneur, venture capital, civic activist, author.

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Roosevelt Institute
@rooseveltinstitute.org

“Markets are servants, not masters.” Worth reading @nickhanauer.bsky.social’s new op-ed in @wsj.com on building a pro-market economics that delivers broad-based prosperity, and what today’s economic thinking can learn from FDR’s visionary thinking during the New Deal.

wsj.comEssay | America Made Me Very Rich. There’s a Pro-Market Way to Give Back.To defend markets from radicals on the left and the right, it’s time to arm ourselves with a new economics.

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Goldy
@goldy.horsesass.org

From @nickhanauer.bsky.social in the WSJ: "The golden rule of this new economics is inclusion. The more we include a broad swath of Americans as innovators, entrepreneurs, well-paid workers and robust consumers, the faster the loop spins and the more the economy grows."

wsj.comEssay | America Made Me Very Rich. There’s a Pro-Market Way to Give Back.To defend markets from radicals on the left and the right, it’s time to arm ourselves with a new economics.
Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

As soon as these motherfuckers are gone, we are going to tear all this awful shit down.

Anne S Kim@anne-s-kim.bsky.social

Doug Burgum announces the start of construction on the "triumphal arch," despite pending lawsuits, etc. Every DC/VA motorist whose commute will be ruined by this should have standing to sue.

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

This is bullshit. The festival has always been for older people. It’s too expensive and too logistically challenging for the kiddies. Best part of Burning Man is no drunk college kids to deal with.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Burning Man, which draws tens of thousands of attendees to the Nevada desert in search of spiritual enlightenment, creativity and a disconnection from the outside world, is losing appeal, significantly among people in their 20s, according to attendance numbers released this summer.

nyti.msBurning Man Draws an Older, Wealthier Crowd, Data ShowsLast year, just one in ten festivalgoers was in their 20s, according to researchers. A decade ago, the same group represented nearly 30 percent of attendees.
Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

The Republican mind is so pathetically easy to manipulate.

YouGov America@today.yougov.com

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 28-31: Canada 38% of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S., by far the highest level in the past decade yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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Tom Hearden
@followtheh.bsky.social

As someone who did millions in business in the aftermath of 9/11 to help Cantor rise from the ashes and who also personally hosted Howard to speak at our firm, I can't tell you how disgusted I am by who he has become and how he acts and speaks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "If you are gonna mess with the United States of America and its economy and you're right adjacent to our northern border, it was really disrespectful. When you treat Donald Trump disrespectfully, he knows it. And that's what happened. It's just sad the way Canada has treated us."

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

Corporations hate regulation for the same reason robbers hate cops. It makes it harder to steal.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Sam
@samd.bsky.social

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

These people are idiots

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

Honestly, this is just a fucking child’s view of the world. “Send diplomats” no fucking way, damn, that’s crazy, why didn’t anybody think of that before. Minsk II isn’t real and it can’t hurt me

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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social

these guys are just out of control animals

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

This 100%

Randi Mayem Singer@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

Beshear needs to do what Mitch would do in his shoes. The law they made to stop Beshear from appointing a replacement violates the state constitution. Make the friggin' appointment!!! Make them prove he's alive or take you to court (which will prove he's not alive).

wkyt.comGov. Beshear suggests he received information suggesting McConnell ‘passed’ in new interviewThe governor said he received the information from diffrent agencies but did not say which during the July 15 interview.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@qasimrashid.com

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

Grahm Platner is clearly a deeply flawed man. However, his ability to articulate the economic problems ordinary Americans face is second to none. If most democrats sounded like him, there would be about 15 republicans in congress.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

Graham Platner is ending his bid for Senate in Maine, leaving behind a powerful grassroots coalition that may or may not be transferable, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social report:

bit.lyDemocrats Need to Clean Up a Maine-Size MessThe party is getting a redo, but will they blow it?

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Liberal Currents
@liberalcurrents.com

Today, Markets Built For Humans author and serial entrepreneur @nickhanauer.bsky.social talks with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about the origins of neoliberalism, how it broke apart under its own contradictions, and why economic growth depends on strong wages for the middle class.

liberalcurrents.comWhat Was Neoliberalism? (Neon Liberalism #80, with Nick Hanauer)"Neoliberalism" has become an epithet applied to almost everything. And yet it represented a real political movement, one captured governance in America for decades. Join Samantha Hancox-Li and Nick ...
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David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social

The terror spreading across the country this a.m. because in some more progressive corners of the US progressives won elections is telling. The reason the reaction is so over-large is because progressives unlike centrists and the right, are the only group who pose a real threat to established power.

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Arin Dube
@arindube.bsky.social

None of this is written in stone. We have the power to regulate corporations and how technology is used and developed. We forget this too often, to our collective detriment.

Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social

We could have had a very different rollout of LLMs than we actually did. It could have focused on building applications that made life easier for everyday use. Limited but useful. Instead, the buildout was focused on a radical and flawed proposition: that it could replace much of human labor.

Nick Hanauer
@nickhanauer.bsky.social

Great news.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Britain will ban children under 16 from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Threads, Twitch, Kick and Reddit by next spring. Britain follows Australia, which in December became the first country to do so. https://wapo.st/4vTjc51

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paris martineau
@paris.nyc

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

The Associated Press@apnews.com

BREAKING: President Trump taps housing finance director Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.

bit.lyTrump taps housing finance director Pulte as acting director of national intelligence after GabbardPresident Donald Trump has tapped federal housing finance Director Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.