YouTube video by DiEM25 The Empire Strikes Back: Trump, Venezuela and ICE — with Yanis Varoufakis and Arnaud Bertrand

Arnaud Bertrand and I unpacked what just happened in Venezuela, why it matters far beyond Latin America, and what we can do when “might makes right” is being sold as the New Order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6my...

China already left – so what is Trump’s Greenland gambit about? - Swedish National China Centre What’s really driving Trump's interest in Greenland, and where does China fit into the discussion?

Denmark completely bowed down to Trump years ago when it came to kicking out Chinese investments in Greenland. They let Trump expand US military activity in Greenland. Now what exactly do they have to say to prevent Trump from taking Greenland when they repeatedly gave him what he wanted?

Happy new year

Falling empires do not behave well. #trump

Aftershock: The War on Terror

Good podcast about how the legal and tech machinery created in the US after 9/11 enables the horrors in the US under Trump. The continuities boggle one's mind www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Indonesia remains in the West the largest, least noticed part of humanity

Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.

Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
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Nicki is exactly who many of us thought she was

End of history, anthro, and soc majors at New School ⚰️

Marking essays in the age of chatbots is just gross.

The NSS is like a version of the Eisenhower Doctrine written by the KKK. A commitment to intervene aggressively abroad (especially in Europe) to uphold white supremacy and foreclose the emergence of multi-ethnic democracy. Its a declaration of political race war from a gang of white supremacists.

Eye-opening piece: Epstein “was a believer in the Washington Consensus, US military hegemony bolstered in the Middle East by the alliance with Israel, globalization, the privatization of gov functions, STEM-dominated education, & male-centered sexual hedonism—an ethos he took to sickening extremes.”

How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.

Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office

Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

Misanthropic Thoughts What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...

Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.

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From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality 6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE

Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

When is the No CEOs rally?

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

yeah I'm thinkin it's time to do politics the left way

🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.

One of the most chilling aspects of fascism is the footsoldiers. For every Stephen Miller or Pete Hegseth in the corridors of power there are thousands of everyday sadists in communities across the country whose inner monster has been empowered and unleashed by the regime.

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Coming March 2026

Thea Riofrancos with Ben Tarnoff: Extraction

If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now

Confirmed: Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors.

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There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state.

Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

First read the teaser, THEN READ THE BOOK!