new frontiers in the demand for art to directly gratify and intolerance for representation www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/a...

Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph

I don't suppose the SEC might want to look into this?

I wrote about an obscure German contribution to the critique of political economy, for @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed

Some day we'll see the headline and people will cheer in the streets

In which our old friend Sebastian Gorka, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, suggests critics of the Trump administration be charged with "aiding and abetting terrorism": “Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-cou...

Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation.bsky.social) reviews Paul Reitter’s translation of Capital. “The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one,” writes Kunkel. harpers.org/archive/2025...

“The list included a 13-year-old and seven other minors. . . For now the immigrants added are being given supposed dates of death.”

"Trump administration officials have discussed possibly denaturalizing and deporting activists and other individuals whom they label as having committed so-called 'fraud' on their applications for citizenship by subsequently supporting what Team Trump decides are 'pro-terrorist' causes or groups."

fucking monstrous

If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.

Apollinaire's great poem "The Little Car," about feeling an era end, and another begin, from one day day to the next www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/apo...

“Expectations of economic losses stemming from the fires have more than doubled since yesterday to closer to $50 billion,” JPMorgan wrote in a note to clients.’ www.ft.com/content/db2c...

Call me sour, but EVERY mention of this "victory" should acknowledge that it's funded entirely by the profits of ongoing fossil-fuel production. Since the IEA said "no more new oil and gas fields if we are to hit net zero by 2050" in 2021, Norway has issued >150 new production licenses.

“The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden,” What a colossal gaslight that was.

'Private credit funds pose systemic risks to the financial system because of their interrelationship with the regulated banking sector, the opacity of the terms of loans, their illiquid nature, etc. No prizes for guessing where the next financial crisis will emerge' www.ft.com/content/b75b...

Probably the three things I wrote over the past year I'm happiest with are these. 1) Long essay on (de)growth in @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Then we came to the end of another hot and lurid year www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Isn’t this simply true? A world where there is less economic growth _is_ a more zero sum world. We can’t avoid distributional struggles when the pie isn’t growing. The already rich and wealthy have been winning these struggles for 45 years.

As other people have pointed out, every child in Gaza who dies of exposure is a victim of Israel's genocide just as surely as one whom its snipers shoot in the head www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

"The tenacity of the modern publicity apparatus often makes artists’ personalities more familiar than their work, while its pervasiveness obscures the work of those who can’t or won’t be personalities" — Ellen Willis, 1967

just monumental news: union majority at the most important chokepoint over amazon's fast shipping out west. courageous marches on the boss against extreme heat and wildfire smoke helped amazon workers learn their power, and bring more into the fight.

"A month ago, Veen Bosch & Keuning — the largest publisher in the Netherlands — announced plans to experiment with AI translation for a limited number of commercial fiction titles." www.ft.com/content/3dff...

It seems likely to me that deportations will be calibrated to preserve a cheap labor force while making those who remain even more vulnerable to exploitation.

Don’t know when this will be unpaywalled but you should subscribe if you can—and anyway here is a brand-new interview I did for @parisreview with Fredric Jameson, based on several late 2023 Skype sessions www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

I wrote about Paul Valéry and his "Monsieur Teste" for The @NewYorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

'Some 77% of respondents to a survey of US healthcare providers said claims denials were increasing. The survey found the time it takes to be reimbursed for a claim was increasing with 67% of respondents reporting a lengthening of payment times' www.ft.com/content/7967...

'Nickel facilities in Indonesia recorded 101 deaths between 2015 and the first half of 2024. Chinese migrant workers, about 13 per cent of the workforce, have their passports confiscated and movements restricted' www.ft.com/content/5601...

@kunktation.bsky.social has one of the best pieces on the growth debate. EVER. “The degrowthers are right: There needs to be a lot less stuff produced & for anyone w/ the least sense of justice, this means rich countries consuming less & poor countries more.” www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Time for "How to Blow Up a Data Center" www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

‘There really was no excuse not to spend more of our weekends becoming wiser, happier, more sexual beings by way of appropriate doses of mushrooms, MDMA, weed, et cetera’ Fiction by Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation.bsky.social) from Granta 167: Extraction. granta.com/prairie-dogs/

'Residents of Utiel, including the mayor, said that those who died were older people, or those with mobility problems, who had drowned in their own homes.' Climate collapse is and is going to be esp. cruel to older and disabled people www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

It’s the totality, stupid.

'Among the changes the industry expects are the abolition of rules on tailpipe emissions designed to push motorists towards EVs, as well as increased leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and on public lands, and the dilution of protections for endangered species' www.ft.com/content/e663...

The primitive accumulation of followers phase of the Bluesky mode of production.

Democrat elites will take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and see nothing at all—that's one way you know they're vampires

Not afraid of hearing too little about Marxism over here. Somewhat concerned about receiving too little Denver Nuggets analysis

I long ago advocated the socialization of social media and while there were other and, some of them, better arguments than the ones I gave, X/Twitter under Musk's fash-curious private ownership certainly seems to have vindicated the case: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Hello, blue sky www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6Y...