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He's bombing small boats in the coasts of (left wing) Venezuela under the pretext they're trafficking drugs, but just pardoned former (far right) Honduran president, Juan O. Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for creating “a cocaine superhighway to the United States.”

D.C. shooting suspect worked with CIA-backed units in Afghanistan, officials say The gunman who shot and critically injured two National Guard members is an Afghan who worked with CIA-backed military units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the agency said.

relatedly:

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NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.

An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.

And now it's being reported now as if it were a scoop; a very surprising fact. Unabashed racisms has always been at the very heart of his politics.

BBC headline: Paul Doyle pleads guilty to Liverpool parade crash that injured more than 130

He admits "causing grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, wounding with intent and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm", while "victims include two babies and six other children". But it's still a "crash" and not an "attack", because whiteness.

Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account

The Max Planck Institute says over 100,000 have been killed and life expectancy slashed for Palestinians as a result of the Israeli genocide.

Why is the Guardian publishing articles about the "scoop" that Farage "was" a Hitler admirer in his youth?

In what fucking parallel universe is that piece of news surprising?

What would truly be surprising is if he didn’t admire Hitler, not only back then, but today.

Well, not surprising I guess 🤪

What's worse? The podcast episode or the book?

Bankrolling pedagogies of cruelty.

White Power Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

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Another year in which we have snow in November.

The previous years, this has been followed by temperatures of around 12°C in mid-January, in the Alps!

Labour's politics of hatred know no limit.

#animal #video

I do sometimes feel resentment at the fact that so many of us have been beating the drum about US policing and fascism for decades to no avail.

#SPEP2025 Join Lambert Zuidervaart, author of ADORNO, HEIDEGGER, AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, today at 2:30 for a book critics panel.

He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.

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The CfP for the next #Crossroads in #CulturalStudies conference -which will, for the first time, be held in Latin America (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)- is out! I'm proud to be part of the scientific committee. Have a look at the beautiful website, submit your proposal, and share!

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« Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l'État » En septembre 1974, lors d’une manifestation à Londres, Stuart Hall prononça un discours en soutien à son camarade caraïbéen Walter Rodney, un intellectuel du Guyana alors persécuté par les (…)

"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l’État/When we are all enemies of the state." I worked with translator Nathalie Prévost to publish the French translation of Stuart Hall's 1974 speech on Walter Rodney in @afriquexxi.bsky.social. afriquexxi.info/Quand-nous-s...

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize. 25 days left to enter. Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society. Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’. Submissions due by November 3, 2025. Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.

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Excellent issue this one here, @thenation.com. I received it this week & read it yesterday. Unfortunately, there is a huge printing error. The last page of @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece on W.F. Buckley Jr (p. 80) is missing, while the last of Lalami's (p. 82) is printed twice. Really a pity.

Nativists? You mean white settlers (ergo non-native) descendants?

Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely

Il pourrait même s'inspirer de l'idée 😵‍💫

BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

Holy shit.

Instead of sanctioning Israel, the West is retreating into the fantasy of a 'virtual state' Western leaders offering recognition of Palestine instead of consequences as Gaza is obliterated is symbolism, not sovereignty

…a state that exists only on paper, that must be approved by its occupier, is not a state. It’s a lie and recognition without action is not diplomacy - it’s complicity…. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/inst...

We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.

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Weaponised aid is not aid Stop the siege of Gaza

The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime and must be stopped immediately.

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