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@abubanda.bsky.social
that's 'b' as in 'panda'
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As Nas once narrated a bullet, so too does @abubanda.bsky.social narrate the 155mm artillery shell.
lpeproject.org/blog/imperia...
lpeproject.org/blog/imperia...
Imperialism’s Shell Game
While every possible form of pressure should be brought to bear on the Biden administration to cut off the flow of arms to Israel, the prevailing law and policy debate tends to obscure some key…
lpeproject.org
April 30, 2024 at 8:43 PM
As Nas once narrated a bullet, so too does @abubanda.bsky.social narrate the 155mm artillery shell.
lpeproject.org/blog/imperia...
lpeproject.org/blog/imperia...
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Last week, several members of Dylan Saba’s extended family were killed in the bombing of the Saint Porphyrius Church of Gaza. He spoke with Darryl Li about grief and the tectonic shifts underway in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Tectonic Shifts | Dylan Saba
Colonization and imperialism had been exerting pressure within a relatively stable set of relationships. All that changed in the earthquake of Hamas’s October 7 attack.
thebaffler.com
October 27, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Last week, several members of Dylan Saba’s extended family were killed in the bombing of the Saint Porphyrius Church of Gaza. He spoke with Darryl Li about grief and the tectonic shifts underway in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
yeah so that whole migrating to this app thing isn’t really working for me
October 12, 2023 at 1:27 PM
yeah so that whole migrating to this app thing isn’t really working for me
standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west
October 11, 2023 at 1:08 PM
standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west
a lot of useful background and insight in this interview with toufic haddad, including the chilling observation that for the zentity apartheid is just a holding pattern for worse things to come
isj.org.uk/interview-isra…
isj.org.uk/interview-isra…
October 11, 2023 at 12:05 AM
a lot of useful background and insight in this interview with toufic haddad, including the chilling observation that for the zentity apartheid is just a holding pattern for worse things to come
isj.org.uk/interview-isra…
isj.org.uk/interview-isra…
Gallant commanded Israeli forces in Gaza in the 1990s and was the architect of the 2008-2009 onslaught. Gunning to be a three-time loser here.
Yoav Gallant (Israeli defence minister): "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
October 9, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Gallant commanded Israeli forces in Gaza in the 1990s and was the architect of the 2008-2009 onslaught. Gunning to be a three-time loser here.
still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)
October 9, 2023 at 3:57 AM
still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)
wish i could be walking through erez with my friends right now
October 7, 2023 at 1:30 PM
wish i could be walking through erez with my friends right now
finally put my canary mission page to good use
October 4, 2023 at 12:11 AM
finally put my canary mission page to good use
sigh the cycle of abuse continues.
today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.
today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.
October 2, 2023 at 1:02 PM
sigh the cycle of abuse continues.
today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.
today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.
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The IISG (Amsterdam) has just digitized the papers of Mahdi Amel & made them available online. Mahdi Amel was an influential Marxist thinker and prominent member of the Lebanese Communist Party.
#menasky #polisky
hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04...
#menasky #polisky
hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04...
Collection Summary: Mahdi Amel Papers
hdl.handle.net
September 27, 2023 at 8:41 PM
The IISG (Amsterdam) has just digitized the papers of Mahdi Amel & made them available online. Mahdi Amel was an influential Marxist thinker and prominent member of the Lebanese Communist Party.
#menasky #polisky
hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04...
#menasky #polisky
hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04...
Lawsuit against Shotspotter in Chicago clears first major hurdle first-defense.org/s/183-Memora...
October 1, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Lawsuit against Shotspotter in Chicago clears first major hurdle first-defense.org/s/183-Memora...
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This review is sooooo good, and the bit about Devji ("our Thomas Friedman" - ouch) in particular is superb!
A Dying Postcolonialism
By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it’s apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever more vocal and defensive about their…
www.radicalhistoryreview.org
September 26, 2023 at 4:39 PM
This review is sooooo good, and the bit about Devji ("our Thomas Friedman" - ouch) in particular is superb!
Highlighting the low-cost/on-the-margin nature of moves like helping nudging out Imran Khan is really helpful for bringing home how much of imperialist violence is elites shrugging and being like, "well, this local faction is marginally more obsequious to us than the other so ok do your thing."
It’s time to do a teardown of what a win in US foreign policy looks like — this one revealed by The Intercept as the US greenlighting the ouster of troublesome Pakistani PM Imran Khan.
Anatomy of a U.S. Foreign Policy Win
Ukraine gets weapons. Imran Khan gets dismissed and prosecuted. The only ones who lose are Pakistanis, and since when does the U.S. give a shit about them?
foreverwars.ghost.io
September 22, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Highlighting the low-cost/on-the-margin nature of moves like helping nudging out Imran Khan is really helpful for bringing home how much of imperialist violence is elites shrugging and being like, "well, this local faction is marginally more obsequious to us than the other so ok do your thing."
nothing like ironing dirty clothes while running to work to make you feel like a winner
September 22, 2023 at 1:03 PM
nothing like ironing dirty clothes while running to work to make you feel like a winner
does this count as a non-reformist reform?
September 20, 2023 at 2:17 PM
does this count as a non-reformist reform?
hoping that by the end of today, i will have written at least two paragraphs, that hasan minhaj's entire existence/boom-bust cycle will have been erased from our collective memories, and that the missing fighter jet will still be unaccounted for
September 18, 2023 at 3:13 PM
hoping that by the end of today, i will have written at least two paragraphs, that hasan minhaj's entire existence/boom-bust cycle will have been erased from our collective memories, and that the missing fighter jet will still be unaccounted for
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Good morning Bluesky we ended cash bail in Illinois
September 18, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Good morning Bluesky we ended cash bail in Illinois
Read alongside the recent NYT piece on US buying South Korean arms to free up supplies for Ukraine, fascinating how Washington is using its most militarized client states as the munitions equivalents of offshore bank accounts.
The US helped Pakistan get an IMF loan in exchange for secret arms deal for Ukraine -a situation that also let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail the former Prime Minister. https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/
U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal
The U.S.-brokered IMF loan let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
theintercept.com
September 18, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Read alongside the recent NYT piece on US buying South Korean arms to free up supplies for Ukraine, fascinating how Washington is using its most militarized client states as the munitions equivalents of offshore bank accounts.
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"the prevailing scholarly emphasis on the elimination of the native, at the expense of labor exploitation, not only is an analytical shortcoming but also obscures the link between the political/economic/military violence of the extraction of Palestinian labor-power by different means." So good!
Manifold @uminnpress
The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.
manifold.umn.edu
September 4, 2023 at 11:07 AM
"the prevailing scholarly emphasis on the elimination of the native, at the expense of labor exploitation, not only is an analytical shortcoming but also obscures the link between the political/economic/military violence of the extraction of Palestinian labor-power by different means." So good!
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one of the most pernicious developments of the last 15 years or so is the subscription model for literally everything
August 28, 2023 at 11:22 PM
one of the most pernicious developments of the last 15 years or so is the subscription model for literally everything
this was the first show i loved enough at a weird visceral level to be bummed for days when i read up on how terrible irl one of the actors is
BEEF turns out to be a great show, and so much of it is the confidently nuanced cultural specificity that makes the world its characters inhabit feel so real; that backdrop realism, in turn, makes the spiraling violent possibility feel so absolutely unpredictable and destabilizing and energizing
August 27, 2023 at 2:47 PM
this was the first show i loved enough at a weird visceral level to be bummed for days when i read up on how terrible irl one of the actors is
It’s fair to say this is the *only* useful thing many academics do on social media
I recently saw an academic (no need to name & drag for these purposes) complain that academics use bluesky for the self-promotional purpose of... linking to their own newly-published articles.
Let me throw in my voice & vote on the other side. One of the things I really value about social media 1/
Let me throw in my voice & vote on the other side. One of the things I really value about social media 1/
August 26, 2023 at 3:28 PM
It’s fair to say this is the *only* useful thing many academics do on social media
