RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere
Would love to see a tracker that has "lives lost" and the financial cost together, so both are shown at once.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Remember when the Suez Canal was closed due to a ship getting stuck and how prices escalated cause of that? So it’s that but much worse
ICYMI:
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have Jase Short on to talk about Iran: www.patreon.com/posts/trumps...
"We're marching through the world."
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.
Likelihood of any president in the future apologizing for us obliterating an entire school of children?
well well well if it isn't the consequences of someone's own actions (w @dell.bsky.social )
The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran mark a dramatic escalation of Trump’s belligerent foreign policy.
Essential reading from the BR archive on the folly of regime change, with Alexander B. Downes, Greg Grandin, Neta C. Crawford, @alexshams.bsky.social, @tparsi.bsky.social, Aslı Ü. Bâli & Aziz Rana:
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
a better world is possible prospect.org/2022/11/30/b...
Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.
I think states will regret weakening the taboo on heads of states not being targets during war
UPDATE: The death toll has now reached 57.
Children.
America, if you are waking up, the Epstein regime has just murdered 24 girls in their elementary school in Iran.
NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran.
In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack.
So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera].
The US has just committed a war crime.
(🎥 Ary Jeay)
I was skeptical but Mamdani has really done a number on Trump
characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we are zooming out to try and get a better look at the Jeffrey Epstein story, given all the emails we've seen. how did *this guy* end up as a linchpin of the global elite? www.leftanchor.com/e/the-epstei...
as a human who sometimes has to pee i would like more public toilets
The solution to public urination is housing and public toilets and this is obvious if you understand the people you are talking about are human beings.
you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this
Look, the states are willing to help calculate what’s owed!
