Daniel Denvir

Listening to the 500th episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social and getting extremely verklempt, I don’t think there’s any other outlet that’s kept me pointed due north like this incredible show. I quite literally grew up with it and do not think I’d be one quarter the organizer I am without it

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

Make some time for this. It's critical to how you'll understand the next decade of energy politics, here in the U.S. and everywhere.

A must-listen!

Just finished reading 👏🙌

Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...

Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...

Can’t wait to go to @thedigradio.bsky.social live tonight. Things might get a little rowdy*

*congenial debates about whether neoliberalism marks a distinct mode of capitalist development or is mostly congruous with earlier eras and forms of accumulation

I think it’s our friend Jeff Brodsky who does all the music! @alexjrlewis.bsky.social ?

I've been replaying this episode and find myself learning something new every time I turn it back on

Strongly recommend this two-parter with @melindacooper.bsky.social

This episode features a very good interview and was very fun to put together 🇧🇷

Would love to at some point just verrrry backlogged

We're building a multi-racial multi-gender multi-generational movement to change the world; the billionaires, the bosses and their allies thought they knocked us out, but really they proved us right.

And we're just getting started.

Haddad deu entrevista pro Denvir no The Dig

I’m enormously proud of what the socialist left in the United States has accomplished over the past decade. We’ve gone from nowhere to everywhere, working to build a majority coalition that can defeat fascist authoritarianism by transforming everyday people’s material conditions.

Reclaim RI co-chair @danieldenvir.bsky.social on
@pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social Ward 2 primary: "Voters chose a progressive, independent, proven leader in @jilld.bsky.social over the false narratives and fear mongering of powerful real estate interests and their ally Mayor Smiley.”

Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister...

New Dig ep w/ Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination/unequal exchange. How the left must navigate contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/braz...

Useful context to keep in mind for today's election in New York City.

Update on previous post: the convo between @alexhan.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social, Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor and @danieldenvir.bsky.social is great indeed.

Great talk on the Battle in Seattle, 25 years later! A bit of a buried history, given the 9/11 demobilization of it all.

Worth your listen to learn how concerns about the WTO, sweatshops, and IMF structural adjustment helped shape and politicize many of the 40 and 50 something lefties in your life.

Graphic from vile site Canary Mission. The take on Mamdani is BS. Mamdani's Media Influencers A cadre of sympathetic media personalities and outlets actively platform Mamdani and reinforce his narratives while ignoring his record of antisemitism and his ties to extremist figures and organizations. This section highlights the journalists and commentators whose coverage, interviews, and social amplification shape his public image and inoculate him from criticism. jacobin jacobin pernocratic Lox Wired COREY ROBIN The Nation AL VARO LOPER DANIEL DENVIR MATIE DRUMMOND The Nation Zeteo MENDI HASAN Democracy Non HADAS THIER Dropsite News Carter Middle East Eye AMY GOODMAN POSCODOKAN MAYSA MUSTAR

Well done to everyone listed. Canary Mission (disgusting Israeli-backed doxxing operation). If CM hates you, you’re doing something correct. Congrats @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Meanwhile Tucker Carlson interviews Fuentes with peak antisemitism. The Right is bonded with antisemites. Don’t be fooled.

long-time fan. best serious left political education around

A group of elected officials and journalists gathered outside a bodega for a press conference. Zohran is at the podium.

In so many ways, the vibrancy of our city can be judged by the health of our bodegas.

That’s why I’m so proud to be in the Bronx this morning to accept the endorsement of the United Bodegas of America.

Daniel Denvir Digs Zohran Mamdani The host of the socialist podcast “The Dig” says that Mamdani has the charisma of Barack Obama, with better politics. But is the left really ready for his mayorship?

It is really hard to overstate how important @thedigradio.bsky.social has been for sharpening the Left's political analysis in recent years.

Subscribe and listen if you don't already!

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this is such a good podcast

The Dig" is not mass entertainment. Episodes are long and unapologetically academic-for listeners who want to "jump into the deep end of left politics," as Denvir puts it. (The Guardian once called him "a socialist Terry Gross.") He has interviewed nearly every star intellectual on the left, as well as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (twice each). The politicians may or may not have time to listen, but their staffers certainly do. "Within my world-leftist organizers, lapsed academics, or political-campaign staff, all of which I am-the show is incredibly influential," Andrew Epstein, Mamdani's creative director, said.

I second this Mamdani team endorsement for @danieldenvir.bsky.social and The Dig podcast from The New Yorker.
Excellent material

Our new issue drops soon!

@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social

Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +

Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on...

New Dig ep w key Global South leaders from Philippines and Uganda, Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga. We trace neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist project to Global South social movement/civil society networks that rose from ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. thedigradio.com/podcast/thir...

And if you are around Providence this Friday, come hear the wonderful @triofrancos.bsky.social talk her new book at Watson:

Daniel Denvir Digs Zohran Mamdani The host of the socialist podcast “The Dig” says that Mamdani has the charisma of Barack Obama, with better politics. But is the left really ready for his mayorship?

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Providence's @danieldenvir.bsky.social calls dealing with some of the stuff that comes with a win by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “the left growing up"

Combine this with what @melindacooper.bsky.social said recently in @thedigradio.bsky.social about a fiscal regime designed to suppress wage growth and inflate asset values through a combination of austerity measures and tax expenditures that operate as hidden public spending to benefit asset-owners.

One of the best pieces of evidence for the total evisceration of any halfway-competent Democratic foreign policy thinking is how quickly the Abraham Accords became a bipartisan consensus cornerstone