@jayeles.bsky.social
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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From the Epstein files, here is an insane slide from an actual DOJ child sex crimes task force PowerPoint presentation, apparently given sometime last summer after the Maxwell interview www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 8, 2026 at 5:37 AM
From the Epstein files, here is an insane slide from an actual DOJ child sex crimes task force PowerPoint presentation, apparently given sometime last summer after the Maxwell interview www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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“This is what is so remarkable about Chaudhuri’s stories: they center the human, the random, the mundane, the spontaneous.”
Everything Is at Stake | Apoorva Tadepalli
In everything he publishes, Amit Chaudhuri pursues a “poetics of unfinishedness.”
thebaffler.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“This is what is so remarkable about Chaudhuri’s stories: they center the human, the random, the mundane, the spontaneous.”
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Time for some good reviews. I just finished reading this first rate crime thriller by S.A. Cosby. The whole book is a tense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish. And Cosby delivers a masterclass on how to make your readers be VERY afraid of your villains. Surely a limited series is in the works?
February 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Time for some good reviews. I just finished reading this first rate crime thriller by S.A. Cosby. The whole book is a tense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish. And Cosby delivers a masterclass on how to make your readers be VERY afraid of your villains. Surely a limited series is in the works?
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"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo."
www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo."
www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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"The fact that the latest drop of the Epstein files reveals that men in media who were accused of sexual misconduct turned around and enlisted the help of Epstein to fight back has me thinking twice about what 'MeToo has gone too far' really means."
@maris.bsky.social tracks down the publishing world in the Epstein Files: “I don’t recommend doing this; I truly believe it made me physically ill.”
Finding the Publishing World in the Epstein Files
I did not make good use of my time this past weekend. I could have been doing something fulfilling like doomscrolling or playing an inane game on my phone, but instead I became an armchair detectiv…
buff.ly
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
"The fact that the latest drop of the Epstein files reveals that men in media who were accused of sexual misconduct turned around and enlisted the help of Epstein to fight back has me thinking twice about what 'MeToo has gone too far' really means."
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an aaron bastani article in unherd is probably not typically going to be a hit on bluesky but i think he’s basically right that on the evidence of atleast the last ten years we need primaries or we need voting system reform unherd.com/2026/02/the-...
The dark shadow of the Blairites
unherd.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
an aaron bastani article in unherd is probably not typically going to be a hit on bluesky but i think he’s basically right that on the evidence of atleast the last ten years we need primaries or we need voting system reform unherd.com/2026/02/the-...
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People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
On Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and espionage. From my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Written in 2019, published in 2020.
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
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Thrilling to see the publication of a huge chunk of Last War in Albion by @eruditorumpress.com on Alan Moore's masterpiece From Hell, the British equivalent of Kubrick's The Shining, a vast gothic labyrinth striking at the savagery of Western modernity. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...
Chapter Three: The Ordering and Reordering of Data (From Hell)
CW: This post contains multiple graphic images, including Figure 1834, a photograph of a violently dismembered body.
Previously in Last War in Albion: Alan Moore took a big payday cranking out goofy...
www.eruditorumpress.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Thrilling to see the publication of a huge chunk of Last War in Albion by @eruditorumpress.com on Alan Moore's masterpiece From Hell, the British equivalent of Kubrick's The Shining, a vast gothic labyrinth striking at the savagery of Western modernity. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...
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@maxread.info and I talked yesterday about "suicide rightism," Jeffrey Epstein's philosophy of "vulgar enlightenment," and MAGA's chud capitalism www.unpopularfront.news/p/suicide-ri...
Suicide Rightism, Vulgar Enlightenment, and Chud Capitalism
A recording from John Ganz and Max Read's live video
www.unpopularfront.news
February 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM
@maxread.info and I talked yesterday about "suicide rightism," Jeffrey Epstein's philosophy of "vulgar enlightenment," and MAGA's chud capitalism www.unpopularfront.news/p/suicide-ri...
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I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
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If you've ever wanted to read a 7000 word piece on the theatrical short animation industry's final hit character, Pink Panther, today's your lucky day. I watched 100 cartoons, and went long on this Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt series from the '60s and '70s.
The Pink Panther (1964-1977)
More than two months ago, friend and Box Office Gross podcaster Brian Schmid asked me if I had interest in discussing any of the Top 50 Highest Grossing Films of 2006 on the show. I pretty quickly …
strawberrypenguin.ca
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
If you've ever wanted to read a 7000 word piece on the theatrical short animation industry's final hit character, Pink Panther, today's your lucky day. I watched 100 cartoons, and went long on this Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt series from the '60s and '70s.
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Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
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There’s still time for someone to do this to Trump
November 1, 2024 at 8:10 PM
There’s still time for someone to do this to Trump
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I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.
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‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
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Had some thoughts, you can read them in this new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Had some thoughts, you can read them in this new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...
www.thedigradio.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
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Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
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B'Tselem published a new report on Israel's detention facilities, describing them as "a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before".
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
B'Tselem published a new report on Israel's detention facilities, describing them as "a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before".
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org/publications...
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“Analytic philosophy is in fact a tool of neoliberal governmentality”
www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/u...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Analytic philosophy is in fact a tool of neoliberal governmentality”
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