Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
Read more about #EdgeOfSpaceTime -- and why it's a book that welcomes you, yes you, into the boogie wonderland of our cosmos -- in my newsletter:
news.chanda.science/archive/the-...
Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.
We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...
It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.
i have been re-reading often her 1911 Peace Utopias. The opening question is every time i read it more urgent - WHAT is our task in the question of peace? www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...
Rereading Rosa Luxemburg on militarism and capital for no particular reason today. Eurocentric theorists routinely underplay(ed) the central role colonial expansion and imperial war played in the history of capitalism. She was a rare exception and possibly why I have always loved her.
Cover of the Sep 1969 issue of Soviet journal Ogonek. Photo taken by Zond-8 spacecraft as it circled the Moon. Quote from Lenin: "All the wonders of technology...will become the property of the people, and from now on, human intelligence and genius will never be turned into a means of violence."
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Great article—if you want to know why so many universities, even across oceans, are singing the same tune, look to the consultants selling them the same plans! I like this point that the same-ness distills down to the department and class level too. we all become fungible units.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the logistics of shipping oil and the economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz substack.com/@turbulencep...
Promotional graphic for In These Times January/February 2026, Volume 50, Issue 01. At left is the magazine cover, showing a burning, graffiti-covered car engulfed in flames and smoke. Cover lines include Alberto Toscano on antifascism, Sarah Jaffe on “Capitalism Without Humans,” Sarah Lazare on labor for Gaza, and Mariame Kaba on finding your way. At right is a table of contents listing pieces including “The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza,” “Capitalism Without Humans,” “Antifa Everywhere,” and a feature on anti-LGBTQ policies in Pennsylvania schools.
From strikes for Gaza to organizing against anti-LGBTQ policies & visions beyond capitalist collapse, read work from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @alfatau.bsky.social, @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social & more.
inthesetimes.com/magazine/cap...
Also if you live in NYC, a low lift thing you can do to support adequate funding for our libraries is to make a copy of these half sheets and drop them off in public places in your communities. Also share with co-workers, family members, etc.. drive.google.com/file/d/1Cm2L...
Once a cornerstone of online democracy, the humble hashtag is quietly vanishing — and with it, a little piece of user power, says @etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy.
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#langksy #linguistics #digitalcommunication #digitaldiscourse
anybody familiar with the attitudes of Irish historians, political scientists, and/or theorists? curious what the reputation of Oliver Cromwell is as a historical figure amongst those folks, and whether it's changed much in the last few generations
Still a couple of places left - course starts next week with the interpretation of Césaire's 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.
I noticed recently that cultural institutions have positions/people who call themselves “content editors” and i think i died a bit
I love how some folks are justifying these "content creator" college majors by explaining that "it's not about posting; it's about entrepreneurship" — and that's no better. The ubiquity of entrepreneurship on campus is why 💰 is the pedagogical telos + colleges churn out sociopathic hedge funders
Book Launch #2
April 2 - 12pm Eastern
Join us as we celebrate the new book Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries
Learn more and register: libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resisting-erasure...
#OnThisDay in London radical Black herstory, 1980: Black Women Fighting Back! Three day National Black Women’s conference opens at Tottenham Green Education Centre, N15.
The second national conference organised by the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent
I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for around 0.5C historical warming. But it is very short lived. Unlike CO2 it acts as a "flow" rather than stock pollutant, with impacts based on the rate of emissions rather than cumulative emissions.
Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹
This is what I hope Open Streets will become under @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — more than just places for people to dine outdoors, but true third spaces where anyone is welcome and all people can enjoy time outside, alone or with others, without being required to spend money.
April 6 marks the 100th birthday of the great Randy Weston. We're putting on a free concert in Cambridge, MA on April 12 at 4pm to commemorate him and launch an incredible exhibit drawn from his archives:
bluestoafrica.eventbrite.com
A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...
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I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.
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