Evan Streeby

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

Climate Activist Mikaela Loach: Name Hurricanes After Fossil Fuel Firms Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not ...

Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Corporate Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize To Fuel War Propaganda - Truthdig Mainstream outlets have whitewashed María Corina Machado's record to paint her as a beacon of democracy despite her undemocratic past and unsavory alliances.

www.truthdig.com/articles/cor...

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The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela | MR Online Awarded by the Nobel Committee for advancing a "peaceful transition," U.S. govt-sponsored politician Maria Corina Machado is a veteran coup leader who's called for Israel to invade Venezuela

mronline.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Grammar of Resistance: Rethinking Palestine Beyond Pity and Fear - Monthly Review

monthlyreview.org/articles/the...
Tremendous interview that made me reconsider most of my interpretations of Palestine

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...

‘Graeber is at his most speculative, and engaging, as a theorist-practitioner of fun.’

@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Man can only become man by education. He is merely what education makes of him.
- Kant

It ought to be studied how racism alone allowed JD Vance to convince American Republicans, ostensibly the most pro-hunting group of people in the northern hemisphere, that it was some grievous cultural insult for a black man to kill a goose. (And obviously contextually erroneous as well)

There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

YouTube video by Raul Soto Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity

youtube.com/watch?v=4WwA...

Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

An under-discussed source of U.S. reactionism is the cross-generational idea of eastern Asians (specifically Chinese) as racially inferior, and to see them blossom while WASP culture cannot shed its 18th century anti-intellectualism is too much of a contradiction to comprehend.

YouTube video by ChronoWolf Paws and Effect - AI Destroyed The Digital Artist (live at BLFC 2024)

21st century Luddism is rousing
youtu.be/ddwKHuv8WBs?...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

my big objection to whatever scam silicon valley is running - "ai," "self-driving" cars, stanford university, whatever - isn't so much that they're promising things they can't do but that rubes believe they can and included among the rubes are basically all the people who make important decisions

@adapalmer.bsky.social I love your work, and am excited to read Inventing the Renaissance when it releases. That being said, I’ve been reading some essays on exurbe and was wondering if you’d be able to tell me some philosophers you enjoy. I see lots of Plato and Voltaire, any others?

Something for your saturday night www.onezoom.org

YouTube video by Kris Joseph Tomorrow, and tomorrow -- Ian McKellen analyzes Macbeth speech (1979)

youtube.com/watch?v=zGbZ...

AI:(

Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution | Black Agenda Report It is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation. “Western Marxism has taken a historic distance from the concrete ...

A fantastic article on Western marxists, made all the clearer by my recent experience with leftist orgs.
www.blackagendareport.com/western-marx...

Sagan, the sage? From his 1995 book.

The state of #America

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

Michael Parenti, “Fascism: The False Revolution.” Podcast Episode · YellowParenti · 05/15/2022 · 50m

We all need a little more Parenti in our lives. This one was recorded before I was born - sound familiar?

Comparison Update 2024 One more dot on the graphs for our annual model-observations comparisons updates. Given how extraordinary the last two years have been, there are a few highlights to note. First, we have updated...

Interested in how climate model projections have matched up to reality?

RealClimate: Comparison Update 2024 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

to stay the course, doing what small bit I can to fight back against pseudoscience.