ZSW

(Assuming Red-billed Oxpecker, if you’re still in South Africa. Yellow-billed is further north, I think.)

You’re right, I’m wrong. Better at bird ID than bovine ID

That’s a Cape Buffalo, not a wildebeest, FWIW

Oxpeckers!

Steven is referencing my unpublished but still infamous creperie thesis of university based gentrification efforts

Never

Common Cuckoo in Riverhead, NY, only the fourth record of this Eurasian species in the lower 48 states.

I once saw Michael Imperioli on my great uncle’s block on the UWS. It was Halloween night and my then 1 and a half year old daughter was walking around in an incredible Chick (as in baby bird) costume that my partner made from scratch.

There is an old-world cuckoo sp. (Probably Common Cuckoo) in eastern Long Island and I have to be at work at 8:30 tomorrow. Abolish work.

Whoa

E35 - Return to the 36 Enclosures Podcast Episode · Minor Compositions · 08/05/2025 · 2h 1m

Interesting conversation between Stefano Harney and Stevphen Shukaitis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

I’m sure part of it is some kind of libidinal attachment/arrested development/nostalgia for ΔΚΕ parties, but I think it’s at least as much a concerted strategy premised on securing control of the ideological state apparatus and its role in social reproduction.

Looks like it!

Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front

Andrew Ross on the Israeli carceral state’s role in the ongoing genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3331-racial-fictions?srsltid=AfmBOookeDnbTHFnV-NLFUlhSwjuoMDu-YqNwpMbCl5Dom5QPZPhBNpX

Wait, there’s a new Hazel Carby book coming out next month?

Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:

1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE

2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.

Few things cringier than when someone who does not know how W.E.B. Du Bois pronounced his surname attempts to correct people who are pronouncing it accurately.

Bard College reply-allcalypse over whether instructions on how to deal with a bear encounter on campus pertain only to “campsites” or to campus as well

Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report <article data-history-node-id="430029" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestinian Authority (PA)&nbsp;was not invited to participate in the Gaza Peace Summit which will be held in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, a source told al-Araby al-Jadeed.</p> <p>An unnamed senior Palestinian official told the news&nbsp;site that&nbsp;Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not respond to a request by the PA to&nbsp;"reaffirm that the Palestinian leadership remains the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people".</p> <p>According to the source, the PA were not invited as it was not included in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.</p> <p>Some 20 countries are set to attend Monday's summit, which will be co-chaired by Trump and Sisi.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report

“District Attorney Bernie Cantorna dismissed the murder charge, saying a retrial would be both impossible and unjust”. Being picked up by ICE before he even gets home for a tiny taste of freedom? That’s entirely possible it seems. Outrageous indeed

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

The Bought Press

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism, New York: Metropolitan Books. 2023.

I would really like to post here more than the other place, but the inability to do so privately makes that problematic, especially in light of the ongoing use of social media by Zionist groups and the far right to target activists, organizers, and scholars.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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I’m sorry that this is happening, Mark. Please let us know if there is anything we can do on our end.