Ed Wall

Humanitarianism - e-flux

Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025

Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

It still worries me, and my teenage years are far behind!

Yup

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,344 Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

Thank you Shannon! I hope the published version does credit to everyone who read the drafts! ♥️

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

And yes, Aaron and I were in contact over email, but I need to arrange something for early next year :)

Thanks for the shout out Will, nice timing because the link just went live this week www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

All Eyes on the Border Materialized in steel and concrete, patrolled and “performed” by state apparatuses and sensing technologies, the border is charged by the politics of recognition.

We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…

‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers

The theft of public land for their 5th home:“The Waleses are relocating…” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#righttoroam #publicspace

Summer reading pair, with insights on the digital from both Shannon Mattern and Steve Kennedy!

Cover, done!

I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

This is landscape.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London? £6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...

Do you want to talk about rent control? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Coalition of the willing’ agrees key parts of post-ceasefire operations and plans to ‘step up’ support to Ukraine – Europe live UK prime minister accuses Putin of ‘turning his back on peace’ and says allies will offer more support for Ukraine

If there is a “coalition of the willing” supporting Ukraine, is there a “coalition of the unwilling” who have agreed to look away from the destruction of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank?
www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.

@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit

Something else that has been abandoned to the brutality of private equity…

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What does a human rights lawyer have to do to just become a lawyer? Nothing. Just do nothing.

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Stories as old as the hills - but still urgent and relevant: “Power hides by setting us against each other. This is never more true than in the countryside, where the impacts of an extreme concentration of ownership and control...” By @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza Palestinians seeking aid continue to be killed near distribution sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

While all eyes are on Iran… “Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Keir Starmer: Sorry, Mr Blair, but 1441 does not authorise force Keir Starmer: The attorney general has a tricky task in defending the legal basis for war.

Keir Starmer on preemptive wars:
“The mere fact that ____ [fill in the blank] has a capacity to attack at some unspecified time in the future is not enough.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...