When Rebels Win now has a cover! Thanks to the @cornellupress.bsky.social team for work on the design. It's out December 15, & available to preorder. Please get in touch if you're interested in having me talk about the book in a seminar series or a class! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

A lot of people talking about whether Bluesky has “the juice.” More importantly, it has the baklava, and the baklava wants to know what everyone is posting about

Some data in this Conversation piece by Don Leonard on housing cost burden theconversation.com/trump-voters...

Umberto Eco was clear about that three decades ago theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

The Guardian bringing a healthy dose of perspective

Hello, it is me, the 6 (or maybe 9) legged brown sheep that may have been crossbred with a cow

Just remember

Ah Boston, where even the plainclothes officer in his Red Sox hoodie has to throw on riot gear to arrest students peacefully protesting

Was not expecting this recruitment poster for the movement against Getulio Vargas's dictatorship in 1932 Brazil that makes Vargas look astoundingly similar to Bert from Sesame Street (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%C3%...)

Folks with undergrads interested in Latin American studies: UCSB's Latin American & Iberian Studies program is having an info session on Dec 12 (12pm Pacific) for its interdisciplinary MA program (applications are due by January 10th). More info and link in the flyer or in alt text. latinsky

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Excellent column by Adam Shatz at the LRB on Hamas, Gaza, Israel, and colonial and decolonizing violence, with an important discussion of Fanon and the Algerian experience
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nicaraguan political cartoonist @pxmolina.bsky.social with a great new movie poster for the feuding former Gr*yz*one "journalists" united by their love for propping up supposedly anti-imperialist dictators, but torn apart by their love of money confidencial.digital/pxmolina/his...