Israel had a bad week in Europe. Does it herald a wider shift in EU relations? With Orbán gone and Meloni distancing herself, EU sanctions on trade and settlers are looking more likely

"forthcoming talks between Israel and Lebanon are likely to restrain any immediate EU action, because many European countries are wary of disrupting delicate negotiations."

Can't see how EU action could "disrupt talks" more than Israel blowing up entire villages.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Free Markets and Fixed Natures How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

Congratulations to @quinnslobodian.com for winning the 2025
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Hayek‘s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right!

Read an excerpt from the book here:

Amen.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

so if i have this correctly:

we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export

we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years

and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran

masterful gambit

Migrant workers bear brunt of Middle East war.

In a region home to more than 35 million migrant workers, mostly from South Asia, many of those killed have been foreign labourers filling the lowest-paid roles in Gulf economies
u.afp.com/SLPa

May he d!e in a f!re asap

It's hard to even know what to say. Everything feels so stupid.

Lord have mercy, I guess.

I guess balkanization is the goal. And hurting China.

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that:
1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul;
2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.

The ratchet clicks tighter. EHRC have concluded their regulatory action which was started by the hard right Tory party as basically a witch hunt on trans inclusive policies in any public sector or charity body with a tip line to report bodies promoting trans inclusive use of single sex spaces.

Learning From the UAW’s National Organizing Push If the labor movement hopes to survive, it must find ways to organize in the private sector at scale. The UAW’s national push to organize higher ed, and its recent union drives at Volkswagen and Merce...

"UAW’s higher ed organizers have developed an organizing model so effective+efficient that over the 24 month period 2022-24 they successfully ran 24 campaigns that organized over 30,000 in which workers collectively voted on average for their union by a margin of 92%."

jacobin.com/2026/02/uaw-...

So, das lebt auch:

Mapping forced displacements and settler attacks by Israel in the West Bank Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.

Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.

Liberal capitalist elites, as in "the bougeoisie" or "dominant class", have enabled fascism historically and are doing it again today. Why would you expect capitalist ruling classes to fight fascism in times of capitalist crisis?

Okay, ja, aber wann verstehen bürgerliche Antifas endlich, dass der VS nicht die Verfassung schützt. Viele wissen es, aber wollen es nicht glauben?

The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.

"The ICE/CBP mob is Donald Trump’s Sturmabteilung. This is his squadristi. Violent thugs beating and murdering leftists and disfavored minorities has always been core to fascism."

Lies You Will Be Told • Ill Will Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

illwill.com/lies

Bring the heat—melt the ICE! JOIN US FOR A WEEK OF ACTION Feb 25th - March 1: Organizers in Minneapolis & St. Paul invite you to join a week of resistance against the ongoing ICE occupation on the ground in Minnesota. More at melttheicemn.com

GOALS OF THIS WEEK OF ACTION: Vastly increase capacity for daily rapid response and ICE-watch efforts locally. Stage massive protests that politically and economically disrupt ICE (and, importantly, secondary targets that partner with ICE). Teach and replicate Minnesota's effective anti-ICE and neighborhood organizing tactics across the country. JOIN US FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH

WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR: ICE Out of MN Now Release All Detainees Statewide Eviction Moratorium Drop All Charges Against ICE Resisters Amnesty for All immigrants Abolish ICE, DHS, and the Police

Organizers in the Twin Cities are inviting you to participate in a week of action from February 25 to March 1.

Come help with local ICE watch and rapid response efforts—and learn from them! Join in efforts targeting complicit politicians and corporations!

melttheicemn.com

Bring the heat—melt ICE!

#CrushICE #PackHeat #Fuck12

Stock up!

#CrushICE #PackHeat

Porträt Søren Mau, Foto von Daniel Hjorth. Auf dem Bild steht der Titel seines Theorie-Bandes bei Dietz Berlin: »Stummer Zwang. Eine marxistische Analyse der ökonomischen Macht im Kapitalismus«

“Mute Compulsion deserves all the praise it has received” (Trey Taylor) 🎊 Zur Feier der frz. Ausgabe von »Stummer Zwang« kommt @sorenmau.bsky.social am 11.02. nach Berlin: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/mute-c.... Buch der Stunde zur ökonomischen Macht im Kapitalismus: dietzberlin.de/stummer-zwang

Mail day (which one shouId I read first?)

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

Fischer an die Ostfront jetzt.

I was at the peaceful Union-led protest earlier today in Portland. ICE shot munitions into an apartment window above our heads and glass rained down all around. They also gassed tons of families protesting with their kids, completely unprovoked and without warning.

Lies You Will Be Told • Ill Will Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

illwill.com/lies