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Eye-opening piece: Epstein “was a believer in the Washington Consensus, US military hegemony bolstered in the Middle East by the alliance with Israel, globalization, the privatization of gov functions, STEM-dominated education, & male-centered sexual hedonism—an ethos he took to sickening extremes.”
The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Eye-opening piece: Epstein “was a believer in the Washington Consensus, US military hegemony bolstered in the Middle East by the alliance with Israel, globalization, the privatization of gov functions, STEM-dominated education, & male-centered sexual hedonism—an ethos he took to sickening extremes.”
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How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
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Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.
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Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
Misanthropic Thoughts
What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
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Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality
6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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When is the No CEOs rally?
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
When is the No CEOs rally?
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an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
October 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll
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yeah I'm thinkin it's time to do politics the left way
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
yeah I'm thinkin it's time to do politics the left way
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🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.
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One of the most chilling aspects of fascism is the footsoldiers. For every Stephen Miller or Pete Hegseth in the corridors of power there are thousands of everyday sadists in communities across the country whose inner monster has been empowered and unleashed by the regime.
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One of the most chilling aspects of fascism is the footsoldiers. For every Stephen Miller or Pete Hegseth in the corridors of power there are thousands of everyday sadists in communities across the country whose inner monster has been empowered and unleashed by the regime.
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It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
September 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...
Thea Riofrancos with Ben Tarnoff: Extraction
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September 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...
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desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
deadsimpletech.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now
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There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state.
Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.
Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state.
Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.
Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.
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First read the teaser, THEN READ THE BOOK!
‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
First read the teaser, THEN READ THE BOOK!
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Wow! The people of Italy are taking matters into their own hands. There is a general strike all over the country against Israel's genocide - and Western complicity.
According to journalist @paolomossetti, there are hundreds of demonstrations across the entire country.
According to journalist @paolomossetti, there are hundreds of demonstrations across the entire country.
September 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Wow! The people of Italy are taking matters into their own hands. There is a general strike all over the country against Israel's genocide - and Western complicity.
According to journalist @paolomossetti, there are hundreds of demonstrations across the entire country.
According to journalist @paolomossetti, there are hundreds of demonstrations across the entire country.
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Reading Greg Grandin’s new great book “America América” and I don’t think I knew that Carl Schmitt and Hitler explicitly modeled their “Great Space” claim on the Monroe Doctrine, though it makes sense
September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reading Greg Grandin’s new great book “America América” and I don’t think I knew that Carl Schmitt and Hitler explicitly modeled their “Great Space” claim on the Monroe Doctrine, though it makes sense
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Join Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, Rebecca Karl, and Tariq Ali for an urgent discussion on China's evolving role on the world stage on Saturday, 4 October, at 6.30pm. Tickets are free with registration!
Verso Books: A Global View on China
Please join us for a discussion on the global future of China, with Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, and Rebecca Karl, chaired by Tariq Ali.
www.eventbrite.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Join Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, Rebecca Karl, and Tariq Ali for an urgent discussion on China's evolving role on the world stage on Saturday, 4 October, at 6.30pm. Tickets are free with registration!
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The latest issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is out and I highly recommend it - not only because I wrote one of the articles, but also because the issue asks a key question about impacts from the transition, which we must eliminate and which ones we will have to tolerate.
Introducing Issue #2: Frontiers
In the trade-offs between decarbonization and human and ecological impact, how do we determine which costs are bearable, or inescapable, even necessary—and who gets to make these decisions?
www.break-down.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The latest issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is out and I highly recommend it - not only because I wrote one of the articles, but also because the issue asks a key question about impacts from the transition, which we must eliminate and which ones we will have to tolerate.
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It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.
Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.
Expect to hear a lot more of that.
Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.
Expect to hear a lot more of that.
September 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
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Italian defense minister says Italy is scrambling a naval ship to defend the humanitarian flotilla attacked over night by drones in the Mediterranean, and Israel has been informed. Statement:
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Italian defense minister says Italy is scrambling a naval ship to defend the humanitarian flotilla attacked over night by drones in the Mediterranean, and Israel has been informed. Statement:
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Italy's 24-hour general strike for Palestine, called by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), has shut down schools, railways and retail stores across the country.
September 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Italy's 24-hour general strike for Palestine, called by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), has shut down schools, railways and retail stores across the country.