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Pioneering Payback The potential of the Oregon Journalism Protection Act.

If passed, the Oregon Journalism Protection Act would be the first law of its kind in the United States, forcing Big Tech to compensate press organizations for a portion of the value that news generates on platforms, by Lauren Watson. www.cjr.org/analysis/ore...

The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025) How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Henri Simon Dossier - Endnotes

*now online*

Henri Simon - une personne aimant 1922-2024

a new dossier with articles by Henri Simon, Jeanne Neton, Lola Miesseroff, Paul Mattick, Jackie Reuss, and Roland Simon

endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/hen...

A Prison the Size of the State, A Police to Control the World Two new books examine how colonial logic has long been embedded within US carceral systems.

New at PB, @marisollebron.bsky.social reviews two new books on the transnational, colonial, and imperial dimensions of the US carceral state: Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory” (@thenewpress.bsky.social) and @jgo34’s “Policing Empires” (@OxUniPress.bsky.social).

YouTube video by Critical & Visual Studies BA - Pratt Institute Kristin Ross. "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form" - Critical and Visual Studies Symposium

A recent talk by Kristin Ross at the Pratt Institute, focusing on her newly translated book, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso, 2024) @versobooks.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVEn...

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution” | Los Angeles Review of Books Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.”...

“Cooper argues that private family wealth has become the preferred form in the United States, supported by a tax regime that is ‘so regressive it must be considered an instrument of wealth generation in the hands of the rich.’”

lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ta...

The Education Factory By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

New essay on how higher ed got so broken www.thenation.com/article/cult...

As to what happened, we’re still working on finding out. Many have wondered if one story or another was responsible, highlighting our coverage of the Marion newspaper raid or state government. Coincidentally, the removals happened the same day we published a column from Dave Kendall that is critical of Facebook’s decision to reject certain types of advertising: “When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future.” When we attempted to share the column on Facebook this morning — shortly after 8 a.m. — the link was summarily rejected. After a second attempt at posting, we instead simply linked to our website with advice to find the story there. Within the next half-hour, every post linking to our site was gone. For reference, we have published more than 6,000 news stories, briefs and opinion columns since Kansas Reflector’s founding in 2020.

Wow. Meta has blocked all links to the Kansas Reflector—the nonprofit newsroom that broke the story of the Marion County Record police raid—likely because they published a column this morning criticizing the platform's censorship of climate change-related ads.

kansasreflector.com/2024/04/04/f...

Congrats to the 2023 BTC guests who are finalists for the NBCC awards! Listen to them here:
Christina Sharpe: tinhouse.com/podcast/chri...
Charif Shanahan: tinhouse.com/podcast/char...
Naomi Klein: tinhouse.com/podcast/naom...
Matthew Zapruder: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

A bird with a mottled back and yellow breast stands against a foreground of grasses

Western meadowlark 🪶

📷 Patterson Pass

Cover art for the first edition of Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’

I’m ecstatic to announce the acquisition of the original cover illustration art for the first edition of Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ for the Eaton Collection!

The item will be featured on @NPR and other local news sites, and will come to the library next month!

United Arab Emirates acknowledges mass trial of prisoners previously reported during COP28 The United Arab Emirates has acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents as it hosted the United Nations COP28 climate talks last month.

UAE mass trial of 84 dissidents.

‘Among those likely charged is Ahmed Mansoor, the recipient of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in 2015. Mansoor repeatedly drew the ire of authorities in the UAE by calling for a free press and democratic freedoms.’

apnews.com/article/uae-...

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Local Forests Are Failing To Produce The Next Generation Of Trees Forests are failing to regenerate, which could lead to "widespread forest loss" in the region in the coming decades.

"Matthews authored a study earlier this year, published in the journal Ecological Applications, looking at forest regeneration in 39 national parks up and down the East Coast...Out of the 39 parks, 27 were classified as in imminent or probable failure...of regeneration"

dcist.com/story/23/12/...

RIP Toni Negri

There Can Be No Critique - Boston Review Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Is Capitalism Terminally Ill? A debate between Seth Ackerman and Aaron Benanav on the prognosis for capitalism: Is it experiencing the kind of long-run stagnation that many Marxists have long regarded as its destiny? And what does...

The transcript of my interview with Seth Ackerman and Aaron Benanav on whether capitalism is in terminal crisis or just looking a little peaked is up on the Jacobin website:

jacobin.com/2023/10/stag...