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JSW
@wilsonj.bsky.social
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PHD candidate at University of Washington. Writing about political economy, critical theory, and rhetoric. retweet= reading list
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JSW @wilsonj.bsky.social · Mar 18
I have a new essay with @journalspectre.bsky.social in which I survey two texts that I take as illustrative of our moment in history. Personally this essay was a moment to reflect and think through some problems that have been bugging me for some time now.
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽
kmunro-econ.bsky.social Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 13d
NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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jathansadowski.com
Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · May 15
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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routhier.bsky.social
"Previous attempts to find a source of women’s subordination in in Marx’s theory of value (a 'unitary theory' of sexism and exploitation) have largely resulted in transhistorical theories of household production that are based in biological determinism and presuppose a bourgeois family-household..."
April 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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BREAKING: Israel’s defense minister says troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.
Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely
Israel’s defense minister says that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
March is in the books! Thanks to Robin Peterson, Giorgi Kartvelishvili, Giorgi Khasaia, @wilsonj.bsky.social , and Phil A. Neel for sharing your work with us.

Links in the thread 👇🏽 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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nhold.bsky.social
hey bluesky, I wrote this

www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/02/b...
Bernie’s Memory Needs a Tune Up
Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about this. At the same time, Sanders
www.counterpunch.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
If you're interested in understanding imperialism, we've got a big piece coming out tomorrow (3/25) we're all excited about.
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
ICYMI: @wilsonj.bsky.social 's review essay on Streeck's Taking Back Control and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social 's Endgame is still live on our website.
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
wilsonj.bsky.social
I have a new essay with @journalspectre.bsky.social in which I survey two texts that I take as illustrative of our moment in history. Personally this essay was a moment to reflect and think through some problems that have been bugging me for some time now.
March 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
This week we have @wilsonj.bsky.social's review essay, focusing on nationalism and Wolfgang Streeck's Taking Back Control ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social's Endgame ( @reaktionbooks.bsky.social , @uchicagopress.bsky.social ).

spectrejournal.com/nationalism-...
Nationalism and Capitalism's Ever-Spiraling Crisis – Spectre Journal
Focusing on nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Streeck and Merchant's respective responses to capitalism. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
spectrejournal.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
wilsonj.bsky.social
Shoutout @magnusz.bsky.social for his review of this book. 2025 will be a Hegel year for sure.
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
wilsonj.bsky.social
Posting about Starosta on the other site and am astonished how fast bots like posts now… not even three seconds and two bot likes.
January 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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davidneiwert.bsky.social
It’s Jan. 6. If you really want to understand what happened four years ago today and why, you should do yourself a favor and buy my book. It’s a heavy lift (450 pages, 980 endnotes) but worth the effort. Not to mention an essential source text.

www.amazon.com/Age-Insurrec...
The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy [Neiwert, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
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January 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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bigbash.bsky.social
"Payette (Idaho) man arrested after police find explosive device in railroad car"
Trains halted, FBI involved: Explosive device found on train car in Treasure Valley
Trains were not running for five hours as law enforcement worked to safely detonate the IED. A man was arrested.
www.idahostatesman.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
wilsonj.bsky.social
Hit the lottery at the bookstore today. Signs and Machines cover is something to behold in person.
January 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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jasonread.bsky.social
I said before, and I will say again, Netflix’s selection of movies is worse than your average neighborhood videostore
willmckinley.bsky.social Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Jan 1
THE STING (1973) is now the oldest American narrative film on Netflix — one of only 5 released before 1980 on the largest subscription streaming service in the U.S.

#Streaming #FilmSky
January 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Heartbreaking and evil.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Dec 29
Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments.

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
December 31, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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jamiemerchant.bsky.social

cruisin for a toozin

soundcloud.com/poddamnameri...
Merry Polycrisis w/Jamie Merchant
Writer Jamie Merchant joins us for a barn burner on the Christmas eve Adam Tooze substack everyone's talking about. We dig into Tooze's anti-Marxism, his theory of
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December 29, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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mondoweiss.net
Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza on Christmas Eve.

Israel has been killing Palestinians every day for more than a year.

Every day, Palestinians in Gaza face new and unimaginable horrors and massacres.

The U.S. supports, funds, and is complicit in this genocide.
December 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
wilsonj.bsky.social
When capitalists see fascists as the political answer to declining economic growth, it is a literal x-ray into the morally empty pragmatism behind bourgeoise ideology. They will do anything to serve the idea of society!
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Dec 21
The AfD is controversial even among other European far-right parties because many of its leaders are not shy about expressing Nazi sympathies.

And Elon Musk is straight up applauding them, calling the party Germany’s last, best hope.
Elon Musk applauds the German neo-Nazi party
After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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leftcoastreads.bsky.social
I recently read The Other Oregon by Thomas R. Cox, which analyzes the history of the Eastern part of the state. This region is in the rain shadow of the Cascades, so it's much drier. It's also more rural and conservative. The economy has historically been based on natural resource extraction 💙📚
December 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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bunkum.us
driving around michigan, i'm often wondering what they grow around here, so i made a little app. works for all the lower 48 states.

observablehq.com/@fgregg/what...
map of the lower 48 states showing hte midwestern and great-plains corn belt map of michigan showing sugar beets acreage in the thumb map of where cherries are grown in michigan, on west coast of the state.
December 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM