jill weiss
@jillweiss.bsky.social
"My identifying features are rapture and despair." -Wisława Szymborska
"Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies and illusions." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition
The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies and illusions." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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Samedi matin.
January 10, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Samedi matin.
“This is just the beginning of solidarity. We are going to fight together until there is nothing left in this world to win.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
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January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“This is just the beginning of solidarity. We are going to fight together until there is nothing left in this world to win.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"This is not a reason to oppose it, since it would be an improvement on the present state of things. But “affordability” achieved by these means is a superficial solution to a much deeper problem." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
At What Cost? | Marilynne Robinson
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"This is not a reason to oppose it, since it would be an improvement on the present state of things. But “affordability” achieved by these means is a superficial solution to a much deeper problem." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
can i just say that grok tried to convince me this was jerome powell in the box 😜 merry xmas everybody!
this was a great episode!
Merry Christmas from Rosa, @ppfideas.bsky.social team & me 😍! In the latest episode of the podcast, David & I discuss von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" & the life and politics of “the most brilliant intellect of all the scientific heirs of Marx and Engels Marx and Engels", as Franz Mehring put it.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this was a great episode!
my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds
new today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...
Our Monstrous Ideas • EQUATOR
In these two essays, newly translated for Equator, the Italian writer articulates a powerful moral vision of what it means to belong, and to whom we owe our compassion
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December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds
"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
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December 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense." jfc this old story again?! 🤨 www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
it never ends 🤨
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
it never ends 🤨
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25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic.
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Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems
A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
25 years of official but false cover for glyphosate and Roundup. Criminal and tragic.
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usrtk.org/pesticides/l...
Let’s go!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Let’s go!
"With the neoliberal consensus fracturing, we may be able to think beyond its constraints, to envision new ways of organizing our economic life. ...we can ask ourselves new questions: How can we organize an economy that lets all Americans flourish?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"With the neoliberal consensus fracturing, we may be able to think beyond its constraints, to envision new ways of organizing our economic life. ...we can ask ourselves new questions: How can we organize an economy that lets all Americans flourish?" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
“a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Ireland’s New President Boldly Opposes Austerity, Militarism, and the Genocide in Gaza
Catherine Connolly, an independent leftist, won a landslide victory with the promise to serve as “a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.”
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October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“a moral compass in a world increasingly driven by profit and spectacle.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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August 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group.
NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A draft version of the assessment was made public last year and drew objections from an industry trade group.
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What happens when you get to the end of things? Physicist John Wheeler devoted his life to this question, in the end leaving behind not an answer, but an idea more profound than the thought that sparked it. www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler...
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What happens when you get to the end of things? Physicist John Wheeler devoted his life to this question, in the end leaving behind not an answer, but an idea more profound than the thought that sparked it. www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler...
let's do this
The only hope of uniting this country is in our shared hatred of health insurance companies. We should lean into that.
September 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
let's do this
Matt FTW! Let’s go! www.patreon.com/posts/137050...
Solo Matt on Cash Welfare Argument | The Bruenigs
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August 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Matt FTW! Let’s go! www.patreon.com/posts/137050...
this was a great episode!
17th LOST PROPHETS just dropped—Elias Crim and I talk with historian @dlondonwortel.bsky.social about his new book about alternative visions of urban prosperity. Cameo appearances from Lost Prophets Jane Jacobs, Paul Goodman, and others: www.lostprophets.org/p/17-daniel-...
#17. Daniel Wortel-London on Alternative Visions of Urban Prosperity
A conversation about the folly of cities banking on billionaires.
www.lostprophets.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
this was a great episode!
good job everybody! www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-d...
AG Platkin, DEP Commissioner LaTourette: Landmark Settlement with DuPont Valued at Over $2 Billion | New Jersey Office of Attorney General
Latest Major Environmental Victory Is Third in Two Years
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August 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
good job everybody! www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-d...
"Everyone seems to think they can dictate the future of Palestine without Palestinians. But we will be the ones to determine the manner in which we seek liberation and what we do with that freedom." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham
Western countries are rushing to recognize Palestine not to stop genocide but to solve a political problem. They're offering colonial lies dressed up as liberation.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Everyone seems to think they can dictate the future of Palestine without Palestinians. But we will be the ones to determine the manner in which we seek liberation and what we do with that freedom." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"The massacre of 7 October did, however, lay bare the illusion that Israel could continue to subjugate the Palestinians without provoking a response – the illusion that lay at the heart of the never-ending ‘peace process’." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
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July 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"The massacre of 7 October did, however, lay bare the illusion that Israel could continue to subjugate the Palestinians without provoking a response – the illusion that lay at the heart of the never-ending ‘peace process’." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
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July 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...