The fact that Jimmy Carter was so often framed as a human rights hero is pretty wild given how much blood of tortured Salvadorean activists he was directly responsible for. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Artista jamaicano foi um dos principais responsáveis pela difusão do reggae no mundo almapreta.com.br/sessao/cultu...

Wendy Edelberg, former chief economist for the Congressional budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”

Great stuff by @versobooks.bsky.social: Harvey at 90, a series if posts honouring David Harvey's oeuvre in celebration of his 90th birthday. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/h...

Mamdani - Trump meeting: Trump managed to expose how weak the Democratic leadership is. Trump helped highlight the divergence within the mainstream Democrats (and reformers). Trump reaffirmed his supposed "outsider to the system" position to his supporters. He personalized the political interaction

Vai para cadeia vagabundo!

A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

O longo período autoritário do capitalismo liberal

Around two-thirds of voters in Ecuador opposed a measure to allow the return foreign military bases, a result that was widely seen as a surprise. Voters also rejected a separate effort to rewrite the country’s progressive 2008 constitution, which enshrined strong labor and environmental rights.

Maybe you've heard about the Downtown Area Plan Carrboro is considering tomorrow night. I wrote some longish thoughts on why I think it's so important and some communityconversation behind it: dannynowell.substack.com/p/why-im-sto...

What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality? Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism. As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.” www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump wants us to believe that stopping fentanyl “will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes to flourish again,” David Herzberg writes. “As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way.”

What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War apnews.com/article/flor...

Great step.

This country hates children.

Há 50 anos, Angola proclamava sua independência de Portugal, após ser submetida a mais de quatro séculos de domínio colonial. A Guerra de Independência angolana durou 13 anos e teve um alto custo humano. Contamos essa história no @operamundi.bsky.social 1/25 operamundi.uol.com.br/pensar-a-his...

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Well...

📘BOOK REVIEW📘 6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023). READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Braskem's salt mines destabilized the ground in areas of Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, in 2018, damaging buildings and forcing tens of thousands of residents out of their homes. The settlement amount is ridiculous low.

🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30 ⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender' 💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv

Waiting for the Dems to inevitably announce that there’s absolutely nothing whatsoever they can do unless and until you vote for them in 2026.

More and more people these days are interacting with LLMs as legal, psychological, and spiritual confidants. The government should not be able to have access to those thoughts willy nilly. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

This article (in Portuguese) details the work of my dear advisor, Laura de Oliveira Sangiovanni. Among the findings of this work is the information that thousands of Amazonian birds became subjects of a US viral testing project on Brazilian soil during the Cold War. apublica.org/2025/11/aves...

Really good @newyorker.com piece about data centers.

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

Ignore the centrist pundits Zohran’s decisive victory shows the way forward nationwide jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...

If the Allende election teaches us anything, it’s that Zohran should keep an eye on goings on at the US embassy.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

With Dems sweeping in Virginia, Sherrill winning in NJ, Democrats flipping statewide seats in Georgia, and NYC choosing Zohran Mamdani, it sounds that repressive policies and inflation have a high cost in the ballot.

Brazil's CO2 emissions fell by 17%, the second biggest annual reduction in history.

‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’ Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

You spend more time on social media than you intend to, because time flows faster on these platforms, causing you to lose hours in what feels like minutes. This is no accident; it’s a result of a decades-long plot to steal your time. My new essay. www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social...

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper has won this year’s Cundill History Prize.

A first group of international researchers (including US academics) has been selected to move to Germany with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, under an initiative promising them academic freedom. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.

“Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants and citizens, and racially profiling us Latinos for kidnapping and detention. If ever there was a time to stand up to a boss and declare that an injury to one is an injury to all, it’s now,” writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social

Excited to welcome Greg Grandin to UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy on 11/6 to discuss his book America, América: A New History of the New World. @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social will be leading the conversation. karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/america

Coffee, cocoa, and meat matters.

Brazil’s leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed confidence that his country and the United States will reach a trade deal, saying that U.S. President Donald Trump had practically “guaranteed” it during their talks the day before.

La Libertad Avanza wins most votes nationally and in the Buenos Aires province, early results and media tallies show.