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In the Shadow of Commodification While capitalism is typically said to commodify everything, much of what makes up our world isn’t commodified at all. It instead appears as a free gift: a social form that describes the condition of…

Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*

The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Border officers detain well-known legal scholar travelling to conference on Palestine | CBC News A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk was detained by 🇨🇦 customs agents and, for four hours, was asked a series of questions about his participation in the conference, his involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and his position on Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.

Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans? Non-stop Islamopbohic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

It’s not just about recognizing class politics, it’s about refashioning class politics to be a critique of capitalism, exploitation, and privatization instead of reactionary, punitive, deficit-minded, equality in suffering bullshit.

Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.

Zeteo has made a searchable database of all new 26,000 files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Despite Trump saying this is a scam with "all arrows pointing to the Democrats," these have a whole lot of Trump in there. In fact, he's mentioned in these more than anyone else.

Take a look for yourself:

If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.

New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...

Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

NYPD Watchdog Chased Off the Job by Cops, the NY Post And more news for your Wednesday.

CCRB chair Dr. Mohammad Khalid has resigned, bullied out of office by a New York Post media campaign orchestrated by the city's largest police union.

More in our Morning Spew: hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-chair-k...

Not a promising sign for future cooperation from the NYPD

ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism

Meet Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre. He’s the US’ latest political prisoner.

His detention is designed to send the message that anything noncitizens post in support of disfavored causes can be labeled a deportable threat to national security.

“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention

This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.

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*political* economy

“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 11/11/2025 · 50m

I have been a longtime critic of legal podcasts. I think many have only worsened our relationship with the law. But this @fivefourpod.bsky.social is the best it’s ever been done. Props to @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for producing an incredibly important pod well worth your time.

Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.

Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.

This is crazy

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this

These guys really think we're stupid.

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

Thanks, John!

Super essay, on Anthony Gregory’s book New Deal Law & Order, by Sandeep Dhaliwal. Topic mentions/nuggets include FDR of course, Homer Cummings, DuBois, lynching, Herbert Wechsler, Justin Miller, Prohibition, Treasury, Jones & Loughlin, Korematsu, 1947 Nat’l Security Act,….
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