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As president of Uruguay, José Mujica expanded personal freedoms and aided a rapid increase in renewable energy—and left behind a country better than he found it. @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social follows his journey from militant to prisoner to head of state.
Free Radicals | Sammy Feldblum
Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.
thebaffler.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
As president of Uruguay, José Mujica expanded personal freedoms and aided a rapid increase in renewable energy—and left behind a country better than he found it. @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social follows his journey from militant to prisoner to head of state.
For @thebaffler.com I wrote about the late Pepe Mujica, one of my favorite guys, in conversation with Noam Chomsky, with some thoughts on degrowth and the Chill Revolution along the way. Please enjoy:
thebaffler.com/latest/free-...
thebaffler.com/latest/free-...
Free Radicals | Sammy Feldblum
Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.
thebaffler.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
For @thebaffler.com I wrote about the late Pepe Mujica, one of my favorite guys, in conversation with Noam Chomsky, with some thoughts on degrowth and the Chill Revolution along the way. Please enjoy:
thebaffler.com/latest/free-...
thebaffler.com/latest/free-...
Had the pleasure of contributing a couple suggestions to @thedialmag.bsky.social's summer reading list, linked below. A dreamy—bad dream-y—novel for the Latam and politics heads; a polemic for the river lovers. Both great.
July 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Had the pleasure of contributing a couple suggestions to @thedialmag.bsky.social's summer reading list, linked below. A dreamy—bad dream-y—novel for the Latam and politics heads; a polemic for the river lovers. Both great.
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This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.
sorry, link: www.yahoo.com/news/america...
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.
New article surveying recent developments in the political ecology of water. I look at legal geographies of water, Indigenous scholarship on relationality, everyday and infrastructural practices of making water, and hydrosocial territories. Hop on in:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Emerging Currents in the Political Ecology of Water
The ravages and disruptions of anthropogenic climate change have sparked renewed interest in water and its social worlds. This review paper examines four key emerging directions in political ecologie...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New article surveying recent developments in the political ecology of water. I look at legal geographies of water, Indigenous scholarship on relationality, everyday and infrastructural practices of making water, and hydrosocial territories. Hop on in:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New article in Geoforum: building from a historical case study of the place of water law in the colonization of New Mexico, I show how recent social movements based around acequia irrigation have refashioned the law to reassert communal control:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Liberal water law against itself: Acequias and legal contestation in New Mexico's South Valley
The passage of New Mexico’s water code of 1907 enshrined water as a publicly owned good distributed to individuals via private use rights. This system…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
New article in Geoforum: building from a historical case study of the place of water law in the colonization of New Mexico, I show how recent social movements based around acequia irrigation have refashioned the law to reassert communal control:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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a must read for all UC workers @ucaft.bsky.social @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social
The author has a post on the LPE Project blog from earlier this month. (I think posted before the Yale Corporation proved his point by disappearing one of his LPE colleagues based on an AI generated smear)
March 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
a must read for all UC workers @ucaft.bsky.social @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social
Trump to the American people:
March 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump to the American people:
Starbucks trabajadores in Chile on huelga, vamos!
March 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Starbucks trabajadores in Chile on huelga, vamos!
As inflation licenses the demolition of the US state, I interviewed historian Margarita Fajardo about structuralist Latin American economic schools of thought offering alternative diagnoses and policy prescriptions. For
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/m...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/m...
Inflation in the World-System | Sammy Feldblum
An interview with Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As inflation licenses the demolition of the US state, I interviewed historian Margarita Fajardo about structuralist Latin American economic schools of thought offering alternative diagnoses and policy prescriptions. For
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/m...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social:
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/m...
Enjoyed sitting down with Margarita Fajardo to talk about the history of dependency theory and think through alternative possible responses to inflation. Lord knows we could use some.
"CEPAL was the 'IMF of the left.' Certain cepalinos like Prebisch would say that such an oppositional approach would actually undermine an understanding of the true social costs of inflation."
New: @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social interviews Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL
New: @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social interviews Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL
Inflation in the World-System | Sammy Feldblum
An interview with Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Enjoyed sitting down with Margarita Fajardo to talk about the history of dependency theory and think through alternative possible responses to inflation. Lord knows we could use some.
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Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party
@geographers.bsky.social!
@geographers.bsky.social!
February 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party
@geographers.bsky.social!
@geographers.bsky.social!
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I’ve seen too many higher ed folks wave away the threat to our universities. We need to understand what is coming and get organized right now to fight back. Join your union, form a union, join your AAUP chapter, talk to your colleagues. Do it now @ucaft.bsky.social
leaving this here:
"The bill, known as SB 1, would also establish post-tenure reviews, ban strikes by full-time faculty, and require colleges to publish a syllabus with the instructor’s professional qualifications and contact information for every class."
www.highereddive.com/news/ohio-se...
"The bill, known as SB 1, would also establish post-tenure reviews, ban strikes by full-time faculty, and require colleges to publish a syllabus with the instructor’s professional qualifications and contact information for every class."
www.highereddive.com/news/ohio-se...
Ohio Senate passes bill to ban DEI and faculty strikes at public colleges
The legislation would also establish post-tenure reviews and require all instructors to share their contact information and syllabi publicly.
www.highereddive.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I’ve seen too many higher ed folks wave away the threat to our universities. We need to understand what is coming and get organized right now to fight back. Join your union, form a union, join your AAUP chapter, talk to your colleagues. Do it now @ucaft.bsky.social
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The most nakedly corrupt shit we’ve ever seen
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
wired.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The most nakedly corrupt shit we’ve ever seen
Reading the news
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reading the news
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An illuminating and well-written story that touches on themes much bigger than Chile.
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
An illuminating and well-written story that touches on themes much bigger than Chile.
Reposted by Sammy Feldblum
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
January 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What happens when the left takes power with a seeming revolutionary mandate—to change the constitution and bury neoliberalism—but the new constitution fails, and they're stuck running the same old state? How should critics of the state approach governing? It's a fascinating moment in Chile
Can an activist revolutionize government from the inside? In Chile, a group of leftwing leaders came to power in the last half decade hoping to solve the country’s water justice issues and to revolutionize its economy, @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
January 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What happens when the left takes power with a seeming revolutionary mandate—to change the constitution and bury neoliberalism—but the new constitution fails, and they're stuck running the same old state? How should critics of the state approach governing? It's a fascinating moment in Chile
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Can an activist revolutionize government from the inside? In Chile, a group of leftwing leaders came to power in the last half decade hoping to solve the country’s water justice issues and to revolutionize its economy, @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
January 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Can an activist revolutionize government from the inside? In Chile, a group of leftwing leaders came to power in the last half decade hoping to solve the country’s water justice issues and to revolutionize its economy, @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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Hey you 🫵 don’t forget to follow my brother👇
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
January 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey you 🫵 don’t forget to follow my brother👇
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The Dial
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
www.thedial.world
January 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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This month marks the 25th anniversary of Walking Home, my @indyweek.bsky.social series about Loves Creek Hispanic Baptist Mission. I wanted to write about North Carolina's new immigrants in an immersive, respectful, cultural competent way, and spent eight months at the church before publishing.
Walking Home - Barry Yeoman
In the Triangle’s Hispanic heart, a Baptist mission learns the joys and trials of building a community. Photos by M.J. Sharp. Originally published as a two-part series in Indy Week. (Click here for Pa...
barryyeoman.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Walking Home, my @indyweek.bsky.social series about Loves Creek Hispanic Baptist Mission. I wanted to write about North Carolina's new immigrants in an immersive, respectful, cultural competent way, and spent eight months at the church before publishing.
A little rundown of my year in writing, as I try to get up to speed on This Site. This year I wrote about universities, and about Chile, but pretty much everything touched on Palestine to some degree. How could it not? A thread of most of it:
December 13, 2024 at 10:17 PM
A little rundown of my year in writing, as I try to get up to speed on This Site. This year I wrote about universities, and about Chile, but pretty much everything touched on Palestine to some degree. How could it not? A thread of most of it:
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"The election of a new slate of DNC officers is an opportunity to change the course of the Democratic Party and to center its purpose and messaging around the economic and social needs of working people. It’s time to stop doing business as usual."
aflcio.org/press/releas...
aflcio.org/press/releas...
Labor Movement Principles for a Worker-Centered DNC | AFL-CIO
The following is a statement from Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO:
aflcio.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:03 PM
"The election of a new slate of DNC officers is an opportunity to change the course of the Democratic Party and to center its purpose and messaging around the economic and social needs of working people. It’s time to stop doing business as usual."
aflcio.org/press/releas...
aflcio.org/press/releas...