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Victor Shammas

@victorshammas.com

A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

November 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM

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JW Mason

@jwmason.bsky.social

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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Jamie Doucette

@jamiedoucette.bsky.social

Looks like a very considered, detailed, in depth case study. Nice to see urban research about Seoul like this coming out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Property rights and redevelopment: Political subjectivity and the limits of the right to the city in Seoul, South Korea

While the right to the city has been widely invoked as a global slogan for more just and equitable urban futures, its applicability across different p…

www.sciencedirect.com

November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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JW Mason

@jwmason.bsky.social

Here’s a map of the vote on the housing proposals, districts voting Yes in green. (For proposal 2, but 3 and 4 are the same.) What’s noteworthy about it is this: It’s almost identical to a map of districts voting for Mamdani.

November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM

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JW Mason

@jwmason.bsky.social

Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Against Money

A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev. Money is unavoidably fundamental to our daily lives. It lurks behind ...

press.uchicago.edu

September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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Tobita Chow

@tobitac.bsky.social

The Gestapo killed someone and then ofc lied about it

"As Villegas-Gonzalez drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas-Gonzalez’s car." @unraveledpress.com

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What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

unraveledpress.com

September 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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unraveled

@unraveledpress.com

At Pershing and Cicero this morning—

ICE grabbed a couple in front of their kids and left them in the car. Videos are circulating. The children are safely being taken care of now.

More info: instagram.com/p/DOly-gaD_jC

September 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Nick Kodama

@nickkodama.bsky.social

One of the interesting arguments from the book is that in Japan, apologies triggered a domestic backlash from the right that overshadowed any attempts at reconciliation and ended up making things worse.

August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Nick Kodama

@nickkodama.bsky.social

READ THEORY

August 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM

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Tobita Chow

@tobitac.bsky.social

'Alyssa Ayres, a former state department official now at George Washington University, called the deterioration in the US-India relationship “head-spinning”.' www.ft.com/content/bc3a...

US tariffs on India hit 50% as Donald Trump-Narendra Modi ties sour

Additional levies over Russian oil purchases raise rates on New Delhi to among the highest in the world

www.ft.com

August 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Nan Kim

@nan-kim.bsky.social

In light of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's state visit to the US today, check out our latest thematic section in the Sept issue of Critical Asian Studies, "The Martial Law Crisis and Democratic Renewal in South Korea" (now online): www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/toc/rcra20/c...

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August 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

this is why Britain hates Kier Starmer

"Popularism" as a project can be understood narrowly as a very instrumental — some might say cynical — approach to contesting elections. But I think there's often a broader and more deeply misguided vision behind it, a conceit that expert social science, relying on institutions like public polling, can supplant or circumvent or supersede messy, corrupt politics. This is the homonculous theory of democracy. It disdains the partisan and polemic, in favor of scientific rationality. It imagines there's some "truer" procedure that we can measure our democracy against. It's a project fundamentally in denial of the human condition — that we fundamentally cannot know how collectively to act or even how we "want" collectively to act, yet we must nevertheless act, together, in time and in the world. We must grope in the darkness to invent institutions, and then only afterwards see whether they function well or poorly, and do our best to adjust.

Representative democracy requires ideologues, sincere partisans, people genuinely committed to a way of going forward. That renders it possible for elections to constitute a representative body of such partisans to deliberate on affairs of state and make laws. When political parties reshape themselves on the basis of polling, it renders the whole process nonsensical, a kind of infinite regress. It deprives the public of meaningful choice in the name of giving it what it wants.

August 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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lastpositivist.bsky.social

@lastpositivist.bsky.social

There is a very good paper on this

oda.oslomet.no/oda-xmlui/bi...

August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

Bike_pimp88 • 21h ago
10:48
..•
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
04/11/2025
Notice of Termination of Parole
it is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paroled you into the United States for a limited period. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) and 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e), DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice.
If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States - unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here. Any benefits you receive in the United States connected with your parole - such as work authorization — will also terminate. You will be subject to potential criminal prosecution, civil fines, and penalties, and any other lawful options available to the federal government.
DHS encourages you to leave immediately on your own.
You can use the CBP Home mobile app on your phone to make arrangements for your departure. If you are departing the United States via land, you should report your departure once outside the United States via that same app. If you are having trouble reporting your departure via land, visit https://194.cbp.dhs.gov/home for more information about voluntarily reporting your departure.
Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States - the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.
I just got this 5 minutes and I'm not even in the United States or have been for months. I'm in Canada and a Canadian resident. I fly to Vegas tomorrow morning for the weekend and a little concerned? Does this look legit

SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card

[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?

+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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April 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Doug Gordon

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social

Folks, this is why I've been saying we're not going to welcome Trump to The War on Cars. Tariffs are going to hurt the auto industry but they could kill the bike industry.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 8

“It’s difficult to overstate how existential the tariffs are for the bicycle industry. Imports account for 97% of the bikes purchased in the United States, of which 87% come from China, making it ‘one of the most import-dependent industries in the U.S.’” heatmap.news/economy/trum...

Trump’s Tariffs Will Flatten the U.S. Bicycle Industry

Businesses were already bracing for a crash. Then came another 50% tariff on Chinese goods.

heatmap.news

April 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Matthijs

@mccaine.bsky.social

That's what I've been saying - Trump thinks a trade deficit means someone is cheating you. He wants there to be a zero trade balance, because he has no idea what any of these things are. Nobody stops it because his advisors are a cabal of looters and wreckers. bsky.app/profile/benw...

Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 7

The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 6

Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."

April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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sarah jeong

@sarahjeong.bsky.social

ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people
who know it's dumb can't break free

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Apr 6

Deeply weird seeing people try to paint the protests in South Korea as family friendly parties when the one that stopped the original coup featured girls doing karate moves on riot cops and guys in the legislature spraying special forces units with fire extinguishers

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

April 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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JW Mason

@jwmason.bsky.social

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and employee dissent.

February 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Raphael Rashid

@koryodynasty.bsky.social

The scene outside the Constitutional Court is truly disturbing. Yoon supporters are shouting that judges, police, and election officials are *all* Chinese agents. The unhinged conspiracy theories claiming CCP infiltration have reached levels that are both bizarre and frightening.

February 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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Hyunsu Yim

@hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social

Pro-Yoon supporters are taking embracing Americanism to the next level. One guy dressed up as Captain America and stormed into the Human Rights Commission building in Seoul to call for the protection of the impeached President.

www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2...