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This piece looks at power in transnational research spaces — not just through North/South binaries but through class and labour relations.

Uses the Bangladesh Accord to rethink how we study ethics in global capitalism.

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A card reads: "The Naval Academy Removed Books Critical of Racism. Many Defending White Power Remain. Some of the books removed: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou; “Memorializing the Holocaust” by Janet Jacobs; “How to Be Anti-Racist” by Ibram X. Kendi; “The Making of Black Lives Matter” by Christopher J. Lebron. Some of the books that remain: “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler; “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail.

Hundreds of books are now gone from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library, following an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office that led to a purge of books that are critical of racism, but preserved volumes defending white power. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Mahir Polat: “Turkey will find healing through its own children.”

#FreeThemAll

Chelsea loves Saxon like he’s not 90% avoidant attachment and 10% jawline — and somehow brings his soul back online.

Honestly, we all need a Chelsea.

#TheWhiteLotus

Shinichiro Watanabe, MAPPA's Lazarus Anime Streams Extended Prison Break Preview Series debuts next weekend

Shinichiro Watanabe and MAPPA's Lazarus anime streams an extended preview of its prison escape scene before next weekend's premiere!

Some days I feel like the plant that never got to hear Beyoncé in that This Is Us experiment. Still standing, but kinda wilting.

In Trump’s America, Organized Labour Has a Fighting Chance - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung As the Democrats fail to mount an effective opposition, unions are stepping up

“Unions are emerging as one of the few organized forces capable of mounting real resistance to Trumpism.”

FIDH regrets the European Parliament's vote to postpone the application of social & environmental reporting & due diligence rules, including #CSDDD.

Policymakers are turning their back on groundbreaking 🇪🇺 laws to protect people & the environment from corporate abuses.
#NoToOmnibus

Currently reading Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism by Intan Suwandi. Exploring how it connects to EU due diligence efforts — and their often decontextualized take on labour rights.
Anyone else read this?

#ValueChains #LabourRights #CSDDD

Corporate accountability is no longer a vague CSR promise. The EU’s #CSDDD proposes legal duties on companies to address human rights abuses in their supply chains. But:

• Is it enforceable?
• Is the Omnibus clause the new loophole.

I’m drafting a paper on this — ideas welcome.

Absolute.

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