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Jake Romm
@jakeromm.bsky.social
your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer

let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
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Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
Here is a video of my full talk with Dror Dayan about the Hind Rajab Foundation, German complicity in the genocide, and the international legal order at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference this past weekend

[starting around 6:12:00]

www.youtube.com/embed/470xHH...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation

Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
junge Welt – die linke Tageszeitung
Die junge Welt ist eine linke, marxistisch orientierte, überregionale Tageszeitung mit einem hohen Anteil an Hintergrundberichten und umfassenden Analysen
jungewelt.de
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation

Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
junge Welt – die linke Tageszeitung
Die junge Welt ist eine linke, marxistisch orientierte, überregionale Tageszeitung mit einem hohen Anteil an Hintergrundberichten und umfassenden Analysen
jungewelt.de
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be

www.jungewelt.de/artikel/5154...
Genozid in Palästina: Neue Weltordnung der Rechtlosigkeit
Die Hind Rajab Foundation über den Charakter israelischer Kriegsverbrechen, den Kreislauf der Straffreiheit und die Diplomatie der Gewalt. Ein Gespräch mit Jake Romm • Foto: IMAGO/Anadolu Agency
www.jungewelt.de
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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"What we are seeing now from the Trump administration is a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
January 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Seems like a good time to revisit @jakeromm.bsky.social’s piece in @thenation.com from October:
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
proteanmag.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Jake Romm
It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com

A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more.

proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
proteanmag.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
favorite books I read this year 1/2
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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A few days late but:

I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review

www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A few days late but:

I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review

www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Had a good talk with Sam on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast

about Zionism as an Antisemitism, paranoia and false projection, the burgeoning fascist world order, and more.

listen here:

open.spotify.com/episode/5OHa...
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM