David Temin
@davidtemin.bsky.social
Author, Professor, mostly Dad || interests: political theory, Indigenous politics, intellectual history, global enviro justice, conservation, development, decolonization || book: REMAPPING SOVEREIGNTY (2023) || Currently writing: WAGES FOR EARTHWORK
Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
Abolition is the reform
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Abolition is the reform
Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945:
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945:
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
Guatemala - 1954
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Guatemala - 1954
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.
January 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.
The US is a rogue state. The US has always been a rogue state.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
The US is a rogue state. The US has always been a rogue state.
In the immortal words of Hugo Chavez, “Eres un donkey, Mr. Danger.”
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
In the immortal words of Hugo Chavez, “Eres un donkey, Mr. Danger.”
Imperial war, again
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Imperial war, again
The resonances with personal elder care experience are sooooo familiar.
Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The resonances with personal elder care experience are sooooo familiar.
Gotta enjoy one more ridiculous Adams administration folly on the way out the door.
January 1, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Gotta enjoy one more ridiculous Adams administration folly on the way out the door.
You will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
Every white academic grievance article is like “I didn’t get hired because I’m white and also unrelatedly I refused to apply and also unrelatedly I was later found to have made up the central claim of my research from thin air”
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every white academic grievance article is like “I didn’t get hired because I’m white and also unrelatedly I refused to apply and also unrelatedly I was later found to have made up the central claim of my research from thin air”
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5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...
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Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
If this isn’t a winning frame I’m not sure what is.
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If this isn’t a winning frame I’m not sure what is.
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I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
I was thrilled to contribute an essay to this special issue of JLSO on anti-imperialism and ecological modernity. It’s one of the more robustly cohesive special issues you’ll see anywhere, with awesome editing and introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and Nemanja Lukic.
I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I was thrilled to contribute an essay to this special issue of JLSO on anti-imperialism and ecological modernity. It’s one of the more robustly cohesive special issues you’ll see anywhere, with awesome editing and introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and Nemanja Lukic.
If you are (or know) a graduate student @umich.edu interested in empire, colonialism, and decolonization, I'm teaching a seminar on these topics this coming winter entitled Postcolonial Political Theory. I'm excited to teach a whole new slate of new work by some amazing scholars.
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you are (or know) a graduate student @umich.edu interested in empire, colonialism, and decolonization, I'm teaching a seminar on these topics this coming winter entitled Postcolonial Political Theory. I'm excited to teach a whole new slate of new work by some amazing scholars.
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
What is fascinating and delulu here is the effort to re-animate the corpse of a unified pro-Israel American Jewish constituency that is already gone. It’s too late for that; the condescension of course won’t win anyone back into what was the imperial consensus on Israel.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
What is fascinating and delulu here is the effort to re-animate the corpse of a unified pro-Israel American Jewish constituency that is already gone. It’s too late for that; the condescension of course won’t win anyone back into what was the imperial consensus on Israel.
A lot like Reagan, just not in the way you might think
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A lot like Reagan, just not in the way you might think
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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