Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Rock over London, rock on Chicago
WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
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Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Endgame
A new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics. Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced ...
press.uchicago.edu
If you’re tired of the Democrats’ feckless failures and their vapid attempts to blame woke or w/e, and are looking for a critical history of the present that goes far back into the twentieth century to explain how we got into this mess, I got you
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Hollywood is COOKED
I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI
I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI
February 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Hollywood is COOKED
I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI
I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI
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It’s been more than a year since the Chicago Sun-Times started tracking the monthly price of 35 common grocery items at Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Target and Walmart.
The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.
The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.
Grocery prices in Chicago have climbed double digits in the last year despite Trump's vow to lower them
chicago.suntimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
It’s been more than a year since the Chicago Sun-Times started tracking the monthly price of 35 common grocery items at Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Target and Walmart.
The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.
The verdict? What went up mostly didn’t come down.
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The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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One thing from cultural history that greatly warms my heart is Philip K. Dick watching the French premiere of Star Wars and becoming passionately convinced that George Lucas had semi-consciously channeled the liberatory revelations of the gnostic Godhead:
runkbaset.blogspot.com/2009/06/phil...
runkbaset.blogspot.com/2009/06/phil...
September 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
One thing from cultural history that greatly warms my heart is Philip K. Dick watching the French premiere of Star Wars and becoming passionately convinced that George Lucas had semi-consciously channeled the liberatory revelations of the gnostic Godhead:
runkbaset.blogspot.com/2009/06/phil...
runkbaset.blogspot.com/2009/06/phil...
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For anyone wondering what Greg Bovino has been up to lately…
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
For anyone wondering what Greg Bovino has been up to lately…
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"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
Against The Border Power
As I’ve mentioned while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it as something like slavery and...
buttondown.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
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ICE agent yelling "I just quit my job!!!" with great excitement. via r/EyesOnICE
February 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
ICE agent yelling "I just quit my job!!!" with great excitement. via r/EyesOnICE
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The young are for Takaichi. I think that's really the story.
February 8, 2026 at 12:28 PM
The young are for Takaichi. I think that's really the story.
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Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
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@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
January 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
this after a week of chaos and panic, extremely normal economy
The Dow industrials hit 50000 for the first time, the latest milestone in a yearslong run on.wsj.com/3ZmbthE
Dow Jones Industrial Average Hits 50000 for First Time
The blue-chip index’s climb comes as the U.S. economy has muscled past its rich peers and snapped up investment the world over.
on.wsj.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:36 PM
this after a week of chaos and panic, extremely normal economy
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I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
truthout.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
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"If you work on culture, you have to recognize that you will always be working in an area of displacement. There's always something decentered about the medium of culture, about language and signification, which escapes the attempt to link it directly+immediately w other structures."
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"If you work on culture, you have to recognize that you will always be working in an area of displacement. There's always something decentered about the medium of culture, about language and signification, which escapes the attempt to link it directly+immediately w other structures."
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall
"'More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails, means less officers on the street doing criminal operations,' Homan said."
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/t...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/t...
Trump admin to withdraw 700 federal officers from Minnesota: Homan
The Trump administration will draw down about 25% of its law enforcement officers from Minnesota on Wednesday, border czar Tom Homan said.
www.cnbc.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"'More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails, means less officers on the street doing criminal operations,' Homan said."
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/t...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/t...
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Really cool that while we have a national panic about teenagers on phone too much, phone is also causing pensioners to build car bombs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Ulez bomber: the retired electrician who turned bomb-making extremist
Shy 63-year-old’s decision to blow up London traffic camera linked to online conspiracy theories and Islamophobia
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Really cool that while we have a national panic about teenagers on phone too much, phone is also causing pensioners to build car bombs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
stone cold classic & and one of the best conspiracy flicks of all time imo
I had never seen Three Days of the Condor and it was wild. Aside from seeing New York in the ‘70s, it was quaint that you could have a plot where revealing government corruption and a CIA oil plot might actually bring down US empire www.bangbangpod.com/p/three-days...
Three Days of the Condor (1975) w/ Matt Duss | Ep. 58
Van and Lyle are joined by returning guest Matt Duss—former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders and current executive vice president at the Center for International Policy—to revisit Sydn...
www.bangbangpod.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
stone cold classic & and one of the best conspiracy flicks of all time imo
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I just read this article, "Misperceptions of the Border" by Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah. I think it's fantastic and everyone should read it.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
February 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I just read this article, "Misperceptions of the Border" by Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah. I think it's fantastic and everyone should read it.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
Heinz, it’s Americas favorite ketchup
Rock on, Chicago!
February 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Heinz, it’s Americas favorite ketchup
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Rock on, Chicago!
October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Rock on, Chicago!
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A Big Mac has twenty-six grams of fat
A Quarter-Pounder has twenty-eight grams of fat
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock on London
Rock on Chicago
Wheaties, breakfast of champions
@wesleywillis.bsky.social
A Quarter-Pounder has twenty-eight grams of fat
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock on London
Rock on Chicago
Wheaties, breakfast of champions
@wesleywillis.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A Big Mac has twenty-six grams of fat
A Quarter-Pounder has twenty-eight grams of fat
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock on London
Rock on Chicago
Wheaties, breakfast of champions
@wesleywillis.bsky.social
A Quarter-Pounder has twenty-eight grams of fat
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's
Rock on London
Rock on Chicago
Wheaties, breakfast of champions
@wesleywillis.bsky.social
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ILC Chicago is excited to present its first self-defense workshop. This will be an intro to the basics of hand-to-hand self-defense, with a focus on finding your stance, learning basic strikes and defensive techniques, and responding to real life encounters. Details & RSVP: forms.gle/2RYxu45Rsjye...
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
ILC Chicago is excited to present its first self-defense workshop. This will be an intro to the basics of hand-to-hand self-defense, with a focus on finding your stance, learning basic strikes and defensive techniques, and responding to real life encounters. Details & RSVP: forms.gle/2RYxu45Rsjye...
