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@provokedeconomy.bsky.social

Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa https://provokedeconomy.net/

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Fabian Muniesa, 2024, Paranoid Finance, Polity Press.

Fabian Muniesa, 2024, Paranoid Finance, Polity Press.

"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

23.04.2025 10:52 — 👍 36    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1
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La guerre chimique française en Algérie, par Christophe Lafaye L'historien fait la synthèse de ses recherches sur un crime de guerre français en Algérie longtemps occulté, dont certaines traces archivistiques restent interdites.

L'historien fait la synthèse de ses recherches sur un crime de guerre français en Algérie longtemps occulté, dont certaines traces archivistiques restent interdites. histoirecoloniale.net/la-guerre-ch...

05.10.2025 07:19 — 👍 113    🔁 72    💬 2    📌 1
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Députés RN, élus LR, groupuscules d’extrême droite : enquête sur l’IFP, l’école des fafs Depuis vingt ans, l’Institut de formation politique prétend former les prochains cadres de la droite française. Des documents internes consultés par «Libé» montrent que cette droite est surtout très e...

Députés RN, élus LR, groupuscules d’extrême droite : Libé a pu mettre la main sur des documents internes à l’IFP, l'école des fafs qui ratisse large et jette de ponts entre les extrêmes droites.
[coprod @mmace.bsky.social]
www.liberation.fr/politique/de...

05.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 81    🔁 65    💬 0    📌 1
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Israel sigue bombardeando Gaza pese a negociaciones, con al menos 10 muertos esta noche - EFE Los bombardeos y ataques de artillería continuaron en la Franja de Gaza a pesar de las inminentes negociaciones para un alto el fuego.

Israel sigue bombardeando Gaza pese a las negociaciones, con al menos 10 muertos esta noche.

efe.com/mundo/israel...

05.10.2025 06:48 — 👍 3    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 3
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For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

05.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 2003    🔁 841    💬 45    📌 71
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Former OpenAI Employee Horrified by How ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis The former OpenAI safety researcher had grim findings about how the company is handling these delusional spirals.

"Believe me when I say: the things that ChatGPT has been telling users are probably worse than you think."

05.10.2025 06:57 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

04.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 17382    🔁 7342    💬 466    📌 304
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Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

04.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 40    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 6
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Peloton Announces Pivot to AI, Jacks Up Price The once favored in-home fitness company is putting pedal to the metal to carve out their own lane in the AI race.

Predictable.

04.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE and ISP are chatting at the fence.

04.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 288    🔁 54    💬 5    📌 9

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04.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine The populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has won the Czech Republic parliamentary elections, preliminary results show, but fallen short of the overall majority. This win marks a political comeback for Babiš, who was prime minister from 2017 to 2021. He is expected to put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and towards Hungary and Slovakia, who have taken a pro-Russian path. Continue reading...

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

04.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 39    🔁 34    💬 26    📌 17
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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

04.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 27    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
Pundit Bro Doom Loop

MAINSTREAM "LIBERAL" PUNDITS ACHIEVE PROFESSIONAL RESPECTABILITY BY REACHING OUT TO THE FAR RIGHT…

Two male pundits talking:

I'M SO OPEN-MINDED, I SHALL INVITE YOU ON MY PODCAST AND BANTER WITH YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA!


...THUS ALLOWING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS TO LAUNDER WHITE NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY INTO THE MAINSTREAM

WHY YES, MY FELLOW GENTLEBRO, YOU MAY INTERVIEW ME AND LEND CREDIBILITY TO MY MUSINGS ON THE IQS OF BLACK WOMEN AND THE THEFT OF THE 2020 ELECTION!


PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ARE REPULSED

I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BASIC STANDARDS?


PUNDITS THEN DUNK ON PROGRESSIVES AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES

THEY'RE SO RUDE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH REAL AMERICANS!

NOW YOU'RE TALKING!


©2025 Jen Sorensen

Pundit Bro Doom Loop MAINSTREAM "LIBERAL" PUNDITS ACHIEVE PROFESSIONAL RESPECTABILITY BY REACHING OUT TO THE FAR RIGHT… Two male pundits talking: I'M SO OPEN-MINDED, I SHALL INVITE YOU ON MY PODCAST AND BANTER WITH YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA! ...THUS ALLOWING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS TO LAUNDER WHITE NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY INTO THE MAINSTREAM WHY YES, MY FELLOW GENTLEBRO, YOU MAY INTERVIEW ME AND LEND CREDIBILITY TO MY MUSINGS ON THE IQS OF BLACK WOMEN AND THE THEFT OF THE 2020 ELECTION! PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ARE REPULSED I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BASIC STANDARDS? PUNDITS THEN DUNK ON PROGRESSIVES AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES THEY'RE SO RUDE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH REAL AMERICANS! NOW YOU'RE TALKING! ©2025 Jen Sorensen

Latest comic on liberal pundits being cozy with extremist commentators who would have been considered beyond the pale just a few years ago

04.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 209    🔁 58    💬 4    📌 4
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Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

04.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 3585    🔁 1743    💬 173    📌 165
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The return of Alan Partridge | The Observer Steve Coogan’s tragicomic alter ego is back – and ‘bravely’ looking at his mental health. Plus: Ozzy Osbourne’s last days

The return of Alan Partridge trib.al/nni4EQ5

04.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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04.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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C'était en des "temps très anciens, les téléphones étaient encore reliés à la terre »...
LA GRANDE AFFABULATION à l' Opéra Comique ...
Un spectacle Benjamin Lazar et Geoffroy Jourdain avec la Maitrise Populaire.
A voir sur @francetvculture.bsky.social -> www.france.tv/spectacles-e...

30.09.2025 07:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

30.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 58    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 4
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Thrilled to see this review of EXTRACTION by @scottwstern.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com. A very thorough essay that situates the book in broader debates about mining, the energy transition, the history of global capitalism, and the possible green futures ahead www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

02.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

22.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 26    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

01.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 68    🔁 34    💬 1    📌 6
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The Problem With Bluesky dot com

04.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 79    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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À l’Assemblée, les macronistes en marchepied du RN Les députés d’extrême droite Sébastien Chenu et Hélène Laporte sont élus à la vice-présidence du bureau : le fruit d’un accord avec le « socle commun ».

Dans le deal des macronistes avec l'extrême droite, le RN n'a pas proposé de candidat à la commission des affaires économiques. Histoire que le candidat du socle commun emporte toutes les voix…

04.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
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« Les autocrates africains assimilent la démocratie au colonialisme pour masquer leurs propres échecs » Prétendre que seul un régime fort peut assurer le développement contredit la réalité : aucun autocrate africain ne peut se vanter d’une telle performance, explique, dans sa chronique, Philippe Bernard, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

« Les autocrates africains assimilent la démocratie au colonialisme pour masquer leurs propres échecs »

04.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A Madagascar, le président, Andry Rajoelina, incrimine « les robots et les forces des ténèbres » pour expliquer la colère de la génération Z Alors que les manifestations contre la vie chère et les coupures d’eau et d’électricité sont d’une ampleur inédite, le président malgache a attribué la colère de la jeunesse, vendredi, à une « manipulation de masse » orchestrée depuis l’étranger.

A Madagascar, le président, Andry Rajoelina, incrimine « les robots et les forces des ténèbres » pour expliquer la colère de la génération Z

04.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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A leaked document confirms the EU is still backing deterrence efforts, even though they know this money goes to human rights abusers. The EU has been funding Libyan militias for a long time. Just days ago, they fired on our Sea-Watch 5. Read more here: https://euobserver.com/migration/areb944fcf

01.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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⚫️ 12 years ago, 368 people lost their lives in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa.

Preventable deaths at sea have not stopped. 25,470 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014.

We must not forget.

03.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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🟥 Hoy se cumplen 10 años de un día que, ojalá, solo hubiera sido una horrible pesadilla de la que despertar. Pero no fue así.

El 3 de octubre de 2015, sufrimos el ataque más mortífero que se ha perpetrado contra una de nuestras instalaciones. 

[Hilo]

03.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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🟥 Tras ver cómo mataban a su madre, fue violada 🟥 

La violencia sexual en Darfur debe terminar.

#HablemosdeSudán

👉 https://www.msf.es/noticia/ver-mataban-su-madre-fue-violada-la-violencia-sexual-darfur-debe-terminar

📷 Desplazados en los alrededores de Tawila, Darfur © Jérôme Tubiana

03.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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