Oasis stadium jaunt ends (for now), it has been odd seeing how massively they’re loved, and also odd that it is seen as churlish to critique it. For me, they inescapably represent the worst of the 90s, the banterous homophobia, the conservatism. It made life miserable & I struggle to get over that.

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

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The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

If Trump is openly planning to withhold federal funds from New York over anti-Zohran politics, at what point do New Yorkers — who put in far more than they take out — get to stop paying federal taxes? This is now a full blown constitutional crisis.

Portland's history of racism extended to at least one of its most prominent historical anarchists, Henry Addis, who edited, sequentially, two of the city's anarchist newspapers. In 1900, he wrote an attack on Indigenous peoples titled "Savagery and Anarchy", published in Discontent out of Washington

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

Abolish workslop

"Using Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

👋 Giving Bluesky a try, let’s see how it goes. If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇 Happy to share links if you can’t access them.

It‘s my birthday so im asking you to send money to help people out in Gaza www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check. Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

My column from Monday. Auburn University last week fired an undisclosed number of employees over the undisclosed content of a number of Facebook posts. So here are some questions for Auburn’s president about free speech on the Plains, and who is excluded from it.

Anyway it seems like there should be a mass movement to depose Miller just like there was for Musk….

Portland is mostly being portrayed through the lens of Portlandia on social media to mock Trumps full on fascist assault. But its hard not to think of the grand jury summons and ‘anti-terrorist’ crackdowns that happened in the PNW after 9/11.

Trump authorizing federal troops he's sending to Portland to use "full force." He claims ICE facilities are under attack from Antifa terrorists (they're not), and that the troops will defend "war ravaged Portland." This article from the Oregonian page on the situation gives important background.

War ravaged Portland

This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

more support for "we're living in a never-ending 2020" thesis

100.000, according to the organizers

"The many mass protests that have taken place since 2011 have been characterised by an unmistakable need to challenge, overthrow and destroy the prevailing political representations without proposing new ones." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Are violent leftists superseding immigrants as the new scapegoat?

truly cannot believe people are still doing the "trump is making a big deal out of charlie kirk/bolstering ICE/sending troops to portland to distract us from epstein!" horseshit. it's 2020. he is still reacting to 2020. the *state* is reacting to 2020. that's what this is

Guess i need to delete my academia? Is there a good alternative or do i just make a website and post all my work?

Anyone who thinks the long 90s is over hasn’t seen this new Ethan Hawke show!

If we look at the trends of the past few years, this will spread to other states.

On Benjamin and the violence of borders, reposted on the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's death on the border. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/07/bein...

doi.org/10.1177/0309... Adorno and Marx review in Capital and Class

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

From the Trump Terror Memo. Have you ever donated to a left org with a credit card? Get ready. This doesn’t mean they’re coming for you. It means if they want to come for you, you’re already cooked.

speaking of Plessner, check this out www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Helps to put the present state of things in perspective to remember that Aimé Césaire wrote, "The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder" in 1950. 75 years ago! Plus ça change

this is an interview from a paper that has accepted the fact that they're talking to the next mayor

Still need this translated into english.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=op9l...

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Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Is there a list of the amount of people who were fired for doing this?

i feel attacked

as absurd as this is, it also means that any non-US citizen who has vaguely written on marxism, cultural materialism, or social justice issues even most broadly must now fear entering the US. bsky.app/profile/wmur...

Is this all a viral marketing campaign to announce a reunion tour by The Rapture?