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There is no Saturday for you. Go write your book

Courtesy Oreg. Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 48789 Report by W.V. Rinehart, 1879

On this day in 1879, the Wadatika Band of Northern Paiutes arrive at the Yakama reservation for five years of internment and imprisonment.

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Had the lovely experience of watching my Linux distro implode in front of my eyes as I prepared for the next day’s work. Thankfully I recovered all the important stuff like dissertation copies. Really makes one appreciate good instructions and the good will of people on forums.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽

A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.

Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

"Previous attempts to find a source of women’s subordination in in Marx’s theory of value (a 'unitary theory' of sexism and exploitation) have largely resulted in transhistorical theories of household production that are based in biological determinism and presuppose a bourgeois family-household..."

Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely Israel’s defense minister says that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.

BREAKING: Israel’s defense minister says troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.

March is in the books! Thanks to Robin Peterson, Giorgi Kartvelishvili, Giorgi Khasaia, @wilsonj.bsky.social , and Phil A. Neel for sharing your work with us.

Links in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

hey bluesky, I wrote this

www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/02/b...

If you're interested in understanding imperialism, we've got a big piece coming out tomorrow (3/25) we're all excited about.

ICYMI: @wilsonj.bsky.social 's review essay on Streeck's Taking Back Control and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social 's Endgame is still live on our website.

I hope its helpful for others working through our trying times and if anything it sparks conversation on the national question in Marxist circles. I look forward to what people have to say.

I have a new essay with @journalspectre.bsky.social in which I survey two texts that I take as illustrative of our moment in history. Personally this essay was a moment to reflect and think through some problems that have been bugging me for some time now.

Nationalism and Capitalism's Ever-Spiraling Crisis – Spectre Journal Focusing on nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Streeck and Merchant's respective responses to capitalism. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?

This week we have @wilsonj.bsky.social's review essay, focusing on nationalism and Wolfgang Streeck's Taking Back Control ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social's Endgame ( @reaktionbooks.bsky.social , @uchicagopress.bsky.social ).

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Shoutout @magnusz.bsky.social for his review of this book. 2025 will be a Hegel year for sure.

Posting about Starosta on the other site and am astonished how fast bots like posts now… not even three seconds and two bot likes.

The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy [Neiwert, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy

It’s Jan. 6. If you really want to understand what happened four years ago today and why, you should do yourself a favor and buy my book. It’s a heavy lift (450 pages, 980 endnotes) but worth the effort. Not to mention an essential source text.

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Trains halted, FBI involved: Explosive device found on train car in Treasure Valley Trains were not running for five hours as law enforcement worked to safely detonate the IED. A man was arrested.

"Payette (Idaho) man arrested after police find explosive device in railroad car"

Hit the lottery at the bookstore today. Signs and Machines cover is something to behold in person.

I said before, and I will say again, Netflix’s selection of movies is worse than your average neighborhood videostore

Heartbreaking and evil.

Merry Polycrisis w/Jamie Merchant Writer Jamie Merchant joins us for a barn burner on the Christmas eve Adam Tooze substack everyone's talking about. We dig into Tooze's anti-Marxism, his theory of

cruisin for a toozin

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Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza on Christmas Eve.

Israel has been killing Palestinians every day for more than a year.

Every day, Palestinians in Gaza face new and unimaginable horrors and massacres.

The U.S. supports, funds, and is complicit in this genocide.

When capitalists see fascists as the political answer to declining economic growth, it is a literal x-ray into the morally empty pragmatism behind bourgeoise ideology. They will do anything to serve the idea of society!

Omg thanks for finding this! I think you are right though Robbins is a bit more critical of capitalist development across his works so that makes sense why Cox is critiquing him along those lines.

If I find the other reference I will link it.

I haven’t read that one, but will probably soon. Regardless, I have yet to find such a comprehensive text about Eastern Oregon than this one. I think it is also important since it reflects the sentiments of many rural peoples today about land use and history.

I agree. He seems to hold onto an idea of the market as a neutral space. For him, it seems that uninformed or “greedy” people are at fault rather than a social system in which industry develops according to extractive logics. I will need to track down those passages about Colony and Empire.