@daskabital.bsky.social
had tried to keep my bsky feed relatively US free, and this week highlighted why. as soon as I followed a few (3!! it was only 3!!) more folks my entire damn feed is the US. gah! 😂
October 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
had tried to keep my bsky feed relatively US free, and this week highlighted why. as soon as I followed a few (3!! it was only 3!!) more folks my entire damn feed is the US. gah! 😂
this is an appropriately horrible, beautiful, piece. please read it, especially as the machine goes into overdrive. thisweekinpalestine.com/the-wounded-... thank you, Dr Reem Abu Hweij.
The Wounded Healers of Palestine
thisweekinpalestine.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
this is an appropriately horrible, beautiful, piece. please read it, especially as the machine goes into overdrive. thisweekinpalestine.com/the-wounded-... thank you, Dr Reem Abu Hweij.
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
Excellent session. Part 1 - which I think is less than 10 mins long - is also great. Cory Doctorow is also a great representative of why reading/writing/*thinking* (who knew) and having the terminology to describe tech phenomena, is so important and powerful. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/c...
“Enshittification” Author Cory Doctorow on Technofeudalism, “Bottom-Up Resistance” Apps & Mo
Watch Part 2 of our interview with Cory Doctorow, writer and tech activist, whose new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, is out this week.
www.democracynow.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excellent session. Part 1 - which I think is less than 10 mins long - is also great. Cory Doctorow is also a great representative of why reading/writing/*thinking* (who knew) and having the terminology to describe tech phenomena, is so important and powerful. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/c...
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Such a pleasure to join @imarajones.bsky.social on @translash.org to talk about the history of anti-queer and trans surveillance
This week on TransLash Podcast, @imarajones.bsky.social sits down with @kredburn.bsky.social and @ziembavision.bsky.social to discuss the DHS rolling back limitations on surveillance based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
🎧 Listen now: linktr.ee/translashmedia
🎧 Listen now: linktr.ee/translashmedia
September 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Such a pleasure to join @imarajones.bsky.social on @translash.org to talk about the history of anti-queer and trans surveillance
"The left _cannot_ be a historical re-enactment society." (YES!) Appreciated this podcast (even I am not particularly "Lenin-curious" heh...)
the latest Heart Reacts is up, a particularly tender one for me. we do a bit of an update on "Your Party" but mostly focus on a question about how to care and be cared for in a privatized world www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 29: Let the People who Love You Love You | Heart Reacts
Get more from Heart Reacts on Patreon
www.patreon.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"The left _cannot_ be a historical re-enactment society." (YES!) Appreciated this podcast (even I am not particularly "Lenin-curious" heh...)
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
I cannot stop laughing at the UK Labour Party's proposed requirement that foreigners "volunteer" -- and this is coming from someone who (bc of immense privilege) "volunteered" (tbh no quotes) for 10-25 hours/week each of the 11 years I lived in the US. these purity tests are SO HILARIOUS I cannot.
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I cannot stop laughing at the UK Labour Party's proposed requirement that foreigners "volunteer" -- and this is coming from someone who (bc of immense privilege) "volunteered" (tbh no quotes) for 10-25 hours/week each of the 11 years I lived in the US. these purity tests are SO HILARIOUS I cannot.
Great piece on @techpolicypress.bsky.social by Nandita Shivakumar on algorithms, labour, and workers' rights. (With a little reminder thrown in about the challenges of accessing ILO reports that will affect people's rights...) www.techpolicy.press/the-ilo-deba...
October 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Great piece on @techpolicypress.bsky.social by Nandita Shivakumar on algorithms, labour, and workers' rights. (With a little reminder thrown in about the challenges of accessing ILO reports that will affect people's rights...) www.techpolicy.press/the-ilo-deba...
Super interesting interview from this summer based on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on international climate change obligations. This summer was such a personal blur that I missed it. In the face of all that has happened and is happening politically, it's sometimes hard to stay positive about +
[Interview] ICJ climate opinion puts 'final nail in coffin' of states' excuses, experts argue
@Thurgga Vigneswaran - People demonstrating at the International Court of Justice in The Hague prior to the Court's Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change - 23 July 2025
www.asser.nl
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Super interesting interview from this summer based on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on international climate change obligations. This summer was such a personal blur that I missed it. In the face of all that has happened and is happening politically, it's sometimes hard to stay positive about +
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as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.
September 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
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The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion
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the history will continue until morale improves
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
the history will continue until morale improves
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Turned out the end of history was the neoliberals killing it.
September 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Turned out the end of history was the neoliberals killing it.
I'm sorry, WHAT?!
( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )
( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )
Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’
english.elpais.com/culture/2022...
english.elpais.com/culture/2022...
Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’
The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...
english.elpais.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm sorry, WHAT?!
( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )
( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )
feeling really crappy about the state of affairs, and thinking abt
* the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators
* the healing work friends have done, internally
* worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS
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* the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators
* the healing work friends have done, internally
* worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS
+
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
feeling really crappy about the state of affairs, and thinking abt
* the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators
* the healing work friends have done, internally
* worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS
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* the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators
* the healing work friends have done, internally
* worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS
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Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve
there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.
Klein keeps swerving.
there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.
Klein keeps swerving.
September 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve
there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.
Klein keeps swerving.
there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.
Klein keeps swerving.
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Part of what this reveals is what US labor has been arguing since the late 19th C. At will employment impedes political democracy. If u can lose ur livelihood for ur (non violent & non harassing) beliefs, then being an engaged citizen is all but impossible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Part of what this reveals is what US labor has been arguing since the late 19th C. At will employment impedes political democracy. If u can lose ur livelihood for ur (non violent & non harassing) beliefs, then being an engaged citizen is all but impossible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
"While workers have been hit with the biggest fall in real wages and living standards in generations, corporations have racked up hundreds of billions in profits."
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"While workers have been hit with the biggest fall in real wages and living standards in generations, corporations have racked up hundreds of billions in profits."
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the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
www.netzeropolicylab.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
I see this perspective periodically from "moderates" and it is...baffling to me. Yes, there are dogmatic people on all parts of the political spectrum who are uninterested in engagement. But this is neither a "progressive" position nor what most organizers and activists are doing, by definition?
Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I see this perspective periodically from "moderates" and it is...baffling to me. Yes, there are dogmatic people on all parts of the political spectrum who are uninterested in engagement. But this is neither a "progressive" position nor what most organizers and activists are doing, by definition?
Love this concept but also can someone please bestow on me whatever fast-(non-fiction)-reading prowess John Munro has?!
In 2017 I started taking photos of books I've been reading: to keep a kind of record for myself and to celebrate books, authors, ideas, and pedestrian interaction with one's surroundings.
August 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Love this concept but also can someone please bestow on me whatever fast-(non-fiction)-reading prowess John Munro has?!
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We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing.
🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...
🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing.
🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...
🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...
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‘Training a large language model like ChatGPT has a carbon footprint about 17 times greater than that of a person in one year.’
How can we justify unnecessarily shoehorning this monstrous tech into spaces where it is not necessary? All so techbros can make trillions?
How can we justify unnecessarily shoehorning this monstrous tech into spaces where it is not necessary? All so techbros can make trillions?
idk gang we COULD be spending billions hand over fist to like actually improve the health and education and nutrition and and housing and safety of actual human children but no! that's wasteful lol better build more computer programs that fundamentally cannot ever do shit, because of how thet are
July 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
‘Training a large language model like ChatGPT has a carbon footprint about 17 times greater than that of a person in one year.’
How can we justify unnecessarily shoehorning this monstrous tech into spaces where it is not necessary? All so techbros can make trillions?
How can we justify unnecessarily shoehorning this monstrous tech into spaces where it is not necessary? All so techbros can make trillions?
It works for the US, and my biggest lesson from the last five months of observing the UK and Europe is they love to learn from the (worst parts of) the US, so this tracks.
She's perfected what will probably be future European immigration policy.
Lots of immigrants (because they're needed) combined with a lot of cruelty to a small number of them to keep xenophobic voters happy.
Lots of immigrants (because they're needed) combined with a lot of cruelty to a small number of them to keep xenophobic voters happy.
July 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It works for the US, and my biggest lesson from the last five months of observing the UK and Europe is they love to learn from the (worst parts of) the US, so this tracks.