Gaucho Marx
@primarymediation.bsky.social
"Good evening, my dove. Haven't you got a kiss for the Gaucho Bakunin?"
"You look more like a Gaucho Marx."
"You look more like a Gaucho Marx."
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I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...
Father Knows Best
Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism
– Charlotte Shane
www.bookforum.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...
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Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves.
Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!
act.progressive.international/flotilla/
Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!
act.progressive.international/flotilla/
Nuestra América Flotilla
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
act.progressive.international
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves.
Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!
act.progressive.international/flotilla/
Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!
act.progressive.international/flotilla/
What a song carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/track/little...
Little Flame (digital single), by Carsie Blanton
track by Carsie Blanton
carsieblanton.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
What a song carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/track/little...
Doomer scolds rejoice!
Adorno moment: The import of Threads as a criticism of cold war politics is that it presents its endpoint as utterly hopeless! If you put hope into it, the critical role of the artwork dissolves. Given that this will defo be presented as an analogy for climate change, this will simply be propaganda.
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Doomer scolds rejoice!
The Kristin Ross quote at the end is right on and The Commune Form is a terrific book.
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The Kristin Ross quote at the end is right on and The Commune Form is a terrific book.
Anyone published a book with UChicago Press that I should buy? I got some money to burn
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Anyone published a book with UChicago Press that I should buy? I got some money to burn
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February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This essay comes at you like a torrent. America, that polluted river with its promise of fresh water www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
This essay comes at you like a torrent. America, that polluted river with its promise of fresh water www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This search for an “empowered landscape” this long walk through time and space is beautiful. We can be in the world but the world needs to be a place to be in. How many places are like London that can preserve a psychogeography like this?
“I left London for New York eighteen years ago. For a long time I didn’t miss it. Recently I have found myself thinking about it more often, and sometimes even dreaming about it.”
@harikunzru.bsky.social on a drift through an old city.
@harikunzru.bsky.social on a drift through an old city.
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This search for an “empowered landscape” this long walk through time and space is beautiful. We can be in the world but the world needs to be a place to be in. How many places are like London that can preserve a psychogeography like this?
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What a love letter to London.
“I left London for New York eighteen years ago. For a long time I didn’t miss it. Recently I have found myself thinking about it more often, and sometimes even dreaming about it.”
@harikunzru.bsky.social on a drift through an old city.
@harikunzru.bsky.social on a drift through an old city.
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM
What a love letter to London.
This @evgenymorozov.bsky.social essay is sharp as hell www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-so...
The Socialist Charcuterie Board - The Ideas Letter
Taking issue with Benanav’s institutional vision of a democratic political economy of technology, Morozov argues that generative AI exposes a deeper problem that socialism has yet to solve: how to…
www.theideasletter.org
February 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This @evgenymorozov.bsky.social essay is sharp as hell www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-so...
Happy International Clash Day ya clowns
February 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Happy International Clash Day ya clowns
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One of my favorite datasets depicts waterways of San Francisco before colonialism drained and paved over many of them. Turns out one of the "lakes" was a copy of a copy of a copy etc etc of an ink spill on a Spanish chart from the 1700s that propagated all the way into a modern .geojson file.
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
One of my favorite datasets depicts waterways of San Francisco before colonialism drained and paved over many of them. Turns out one of the "lakes" was a copy of a copy of a copy etc etc of an ink spill on a Spanish chart from the 1700s that propagated all the way into a modern .geojson file.
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
I really wish the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast were better. The relentless swinging at the worst versions of leftism is so off-putting. Constantly castigating “the Left” for not doing it right
January 29, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I really wish the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast were better. The relentless swinging at the worst versions of leftism is so off-putting. Constantly castigating “the Left” for not doing it right
Another good day to recall that the American Sociological Association once gave David Brooks an award
January 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Another good day to recall that the American Sociological Association once gave David Brooks an award
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You might enjoy my little essay on Greatness in Art in the age of AI, AKA, "Sinners is Great, actually, but greatness doesn't exist, also." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sinners-one-...
Talking Greatness to Death
Sinners is WAY too much movie, a level of movie one might even say filmmakers are proscribed from producing. Period drama about race AND vampire slasher? A genre movie with Ideas? In this economy?
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:42 AM
You might enjoy my little essay on Greatness in Art in the age of AI, AKA, "Sinners is Great, actually, but greatness doesn't exist, also." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sinners-one-...
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LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN
1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning.
ICE also in Riverside
ICE also in Riverside
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 PM
LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN
Unfortunately for these losers there is no left they can get mass support, or at least apathy, for attacking. It just looks like beating up on weak people. There’s no red menace.
“Journalist” for prominent “conservative” media outlet tells readers to gird their loins for future “punishments” of their political opponents, then tweets out a link to a song called “Kill ‘em all.”
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Unfortunately for these losers there is no left they can get mass support, or at least apathy, for attacking. It just looks like beating up on weak people. There’s no red menace.
Nancy Pelosi's guy voted yes. Dem leadership had to sign off on this shit, right? Rotten party
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Nancy Pelosi's guy voted yes. Dem leadership had to sign off on this shit, right? Rotten party
Amongst all this shit, people still posting that some leftists (there are never examples) aren't posting correctly
January 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Amongst all this shit, people still posting that some leftists (there are never examples) aren't posting correctly
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Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.
Link below and anyone can sign:
Link below and anyone can sign:
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.
Link below and anyone can sign:
Link below and anyone can sign:
It’s Ministry for the Future time
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
It’s Ministry for the Future time