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Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR My decision to quit politics at 31

So honored to join @equatormag.bsky.social , born as a response to the horror in Palestine and inspired by a need to bring back meaning and hope amid today’s nihilism. 💪 I open with a personal piece about my last year in politics. Hope you’ll find it worth reading.

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Murder House • Articles • EQUATOR The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society

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A small teaser of what I’ve been working on for the last little while.

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A small teaser of what I’ve been working on for the last little while.

@equatormag.bsky.social is finally out in the world.

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So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.

This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

"Who in the future is going to listen to a Jewish perspective on environmentalism or social justice when the bodies that espouse them did not speak up when thousands of people were being starved to death in the name of Jewish safety and security?"

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

“What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? | Defector In June, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the wetlands of the Big Cypress Nature Reserve, west of Miami and just ...

Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? - defector.com/why-do-fasci...

Incredible

War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

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NEW ARTICLE:

Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social

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Want to thank @shaneburley.bsky.social and @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social for interviewing me regarding my forthcoming book on the American Jewish left(s) and anti-Zionism.

This is, of course, a highly visible political dispute between two of the country’s most powerful men, as well as a highly entertaining reality TV-style feud between two celebrities with a knack for attention-getting stunts. But I want to underline that this is more than just another example of the ongoing and near-complete convergence between “electoral politics” and “television entertainment.” It is also an example of the ongoing convergence between “electoral politics” and “forum drama,” driven by the overwhelming mediation of politics by various message board-like social-media platforms. In this case, Musk has, consciously or not, stepped into the (astonishingly familiar despite its specificity) role of “overworked forum admin whose offline substance abuse and desperation to be liked by other posters has driven him to madness,” while Trump assumed (a long time ago, if we’re being honest) the stock role of “eccentric but predictable message-board regular whose strange obsessions and unique formal style have turned him into a kind of valued cult Character despite his obvious mental deficiencies.” (I would argue that his decade-plus performance in this role is as important to understanding Trump’s media presence as his status as “reality-TV star”; I would also say the fact that we elected a message-board eccentric to the presidency is both (1) a world-historical tragedy and (2) about what you might expect from a politics structured as a forum.)

this week's newsletter: trump vs. musk as forum drama maxread.substack.com/p/admin-is-c...

Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).

“his thought had a kind of archaic substantiality. He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius”. Raymond Geuss on Alasdair MacIntyre newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.

‘Referring to Zionism as “machine-gun Judaism,” Zukerman linked the Jewish state to both gangsterism and militarism in a single image’. @blbalthaser.bsky.social on American Jewish dissent from Zionism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.

‘Referring to Zionism as “machine-gun Judaism,” Zukerman linked the Jewish state to both gangsterism and militarism in a single image’. @blbalthaser.bsky.social on American Jewish dissent from Zionism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Indeed. Miéville actually pressed Anderson on this in the Q&A following original lecture and he was pretty evasive (think you can also detect this diagonalist drift in the pages of the NLR).

Letters page of LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...