Omedi Ochieng

There is not a single population in the world more weird about aging than USians.

‘Ousting Maduro? Trump is the biggest chance we’ve ever had’ The US insists regime change is not its goal, but Venezuela’s true election winner — who has just been awarded the Nobel peace prize — senses an opportunity

The atrophy of liberal institutions has taken a precipitous turn in the racial capitalocene, but we have the Nobel Foundation to thank for reminding us that liberalism has always been morally grotesque www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

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Tired: Imperial boomerang

Wired: Habeas viscus boomerang

In a spirited discussion of Afropessimism in my grad class today, it occurred to me that some critical theories are born with a parallax view, some achieve a parallax view, and some have a parallax view thrust upon them.

Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact Now we have a chance for collective action

It is a sign of the times that the Black bourgeoisie (Danielle Allen, Van Jones, Hakeem Jeffries) who have long taken the hysterical performance of neurosis as the most bankable career path to power and wealth are now confirmed psychotics therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated “No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.

We should never, ever forgive Israel. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...

Sending strength; thinking of y’all 💔💔💔

Oh, I’m so saddened to hear this, Kelsey. Sending our deepest condolences.

mmmhh… How is AI, deepfakes, and the incorrigible lying by the ruling class transforming ocularcentrism?

Literally nobody:

Me, thinking about Expressivism: “I can fix him.”

Academic colleagues planning on inviting their Israeli friends for visiting professor sinecures ought to start by reading this incisive letter by Alireza Doostdar, "Are Palestinian Scholars Our Colleagues? Boycott and the Material Limits of Friendship.” savageminds.org/2016/05/12/a...

Ross Douthat in the pages of NLR, Michael Clune chopping it up in Ordinary Unhappiness, a magazine called Jacobin rending its garments for Charlie Kirk….

Forget “morbid symptoms,” it's a full-blown death rattle.

“in fascist society, white supremacy makes it possible for the English professor to sic the secret police on their colleagues in the morning, offer congressional testimony to génocidaires in the afternoon, and sit down for a podcast interview in the evening."

Episode 116: Writing Panic feat. Michael Clune | Ordinary Unhappiness Get more from Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon

Listening to Michael Clune being interviewed in Ordinary Unhappiness and its dawning on me that that Marx's utopian lines in the German Ideology have come true, only for fascists www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Sometimes it is too much to bear, but then some radical scholar and writer has borne this before, someone is bearing it now as well. We are never truly alone and I think the academy is a great place to forget that.

Perversion is the modality in which nihilism is lived.

Professional Myrmidon Class (PMC)

Tapping this sign as I watch what’s happening to the Corbyn/Sultana Party

My local coffee shop was playing Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler” and this postcolonial African is indignant at such a brazen act of cultural appropriation.

A Document of Complicity | Sarah Khatry and April Zhu April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.

Last March, I and other editors at Guernica resigned over the publication of an essay by an Israeli writer about treading the line of empathy.

The ensuing criticism—'condemn even empathy?'—pushed my ex-colleague and I to re-interrogate the piece's shortcomings.
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Defeat the Police – Spectre Journal Omedi Ochieng discusses the police's role as a counterinsurgent force, and the impact this has on how radical movements can meaningfully pursue police abolition.

Defeat the police spectrejournal.com/defeat-the-p...

The thing about electoralism in the United States is that it can’t even manage to fail better. It’s always just the same sordid, abject, preemptive capitulation

The Great "I Kept My Mouth Shut While Democrats Sponsored Genocide in '23-'24 But Now That My Israeli Colleague Has Posted A Self-Exculpatory Anti-Netanyahu Post, I Will Repost It On Facebook" Show

I hate this timeline because it can’t even give us an entertaining deus ex machina

Jared Polis, the Colorado governor and a Democrat, is an RFK, Jr. devotee.

Observed elementary kids playing outside during recess in 95° weather. The U.S. is treating debility and potential mass fatalities from climate change pretty much the way you’d expect an empire of mass school shootings would.

Some news for those tracking the decline of empire. According to the Chicago Manual of Style’s 18th edition, when a colon introduces one or more complete sentences, the first word that follows the colon should be capitalized.

If electoral politics has a use, it will hinge on politicos who can demonstrate the perversity of normal politics.