Thanks to our comrades at @plutopress.bsky.social for donating some incredible books for crowdfunder rewards! Less than a week to go for those who to help bring a radical bookshop to Newcastle! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

This should be a national scandal. But won’t be. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

New post on neurodiversity politics in a post-liberal age. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

We are currently reading the very short but seriously fabulous introduction to neurodiversity from @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @suereviews.bsky.social! This is such a well-written academic intro to neurodiversity studies. An authoritative and essential read. Highly recommended it to everyone!

I just finished reading this today, highly recommended it for anyone.

Books from Below is at 50%! We have released a new meme to mark the occasion. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Of course you cannot usually say this in academia when someone asks you that. Thankfully there are other things I can say that are also true, such as that i enjoy learning and education, etc.

Someone asked why i went into academia and it made me think about my brother. We were poor and he was schizophrenic. He died in 2017 due to government austerity. I was far away doing a phd, partly in the hope i could one day earn enough to look after him properly. But then he died before i finished.

Are you wealthy and drunkenly scrolling? If so this is the perfect time to donate a large sum of money to help open Newcastle's first radical bookshop in decades! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Really good critical analysis of Joanna Moncrieff's work and politics by Jesse Meadows. open.substack.com/pub/sluggish...

Full fascism tends to arise after national humiliation. One reason Trump is useful for Amercian fascists is that he causes national humiliation.

Our collective trying to bring a radical bookshop to Newcastle is £33 away from 50%! Help us get past the half way mark if you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

By “just war theory” the Trump administration means that the state just wages war, no government services or programs, just war—abroad and ultimately on its own people. I think that this might be the source of some of the confusion.

Thought i had started going bald last year as my hair began fairly suddenly falling out, but then when I moved out of an unbearable working environment it stopped and grew back. A reminder of how much control senior management in workplaces can have over the body even in the bourgeois office.

Reading this currently - highly recommended!! Short and to the point and full of diligent research and great thoughts

Everyone who can, should fund this crowdfunder so you can make my dream a reality (purchasing a book on Marxism from a radical bookshop and then reading it whilst drinking at @donzokobeer.bsky.social) www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

If we can open we mean to do much more of this kind of thing!

13 days!!

🚨New article🚨 What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy? This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’' 1/ shorturl.at/jptiu

I’m a bit further in an it’s brilliant. I’m potentially teaching a neurodiversity module for a London uni in September… really tempted to set this as the textbook! Fantastic work :)

If we work together, we can make nice things. Please support Robert and the rest of the team in helping them reach their goal!

How Newcastle will look if we can open Books From Below. Please donate if you can!

A lot of people still learn their most reactionary or bigoted political views from their parents, so never underestimate how important difficult political conversations with family members are. The impact could span generations.

I spoke to a handful of organizers from across the country about where they're finding hope as we continue the struggle for disability justice into the second year of Trump 2.0. If you're feeling overwhelmed and looking for direction, I hope you'll find it here ❤️‍🩹

The loss of radical bookshops does not just stifle the spread of radical ideas. What replaces these spaces is isolation. by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social

I wrote for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social about why radical bookshops are so vital for the left. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Why we need radical bookshops more than ever www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... Rob (@drrobertchapman.bsky.social) from the Books from Bellow collective makes the argument for the necessity of radical bookshops in this moment. Support Books from Below here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Almost finished this 700 page beast and cannot recommend it highly enough.

Great project to open a radical bookshop in Newcastle. We all know what crucial spaces these are for education, community and organising - I hope to see this open before too long!

We are getting there but a fair to go still. Help us get to 50% before we enter the final two weeks! We need a space like this in Newcastle! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

It looks like Netanyahu lost today the only European city break destination he could visit without being arrested for war crimes.

Incredible news about Hungary and a blow for the far right globally!

Depressing to see a lot of left social media accounts uncritically sharing tucker carlson interviews recently, without even caveating his far right politics. I get that its rare to have well known american journalists calling out the genocide etc. But allying with him will backfire.

Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @suereviews.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro... This is SO good! Love that it talks about the normalcy paradigm and neurodiversity-lite!

This is very much worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...

Excellent investigation from @bylinetimes.bsky.social You cannot have a healthy democracy when billionaires can fund media and research institutions to do their reactionary bidding, while their public counterparts are run down This is an oligarchy at best bylinetimes.com/2026/04/07/j...

Anyone read any good critiques of RFK Jr and Make America Healthy Again? Share them here if so!

Films like the Matrix predicted a shared artificial reality. What we are getting is if anything worse because it's so highly atomised and individualised. The algorythmic manufacturing of more and more specific desires to fit each person places collectively revolutionary desire further out of reach.

It's time Newcastle had a radical bookshop again! Support the crowd funder if you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Good morning comrades. Our radical bookshop fund is now at 40%! But we still have a long way to go so please do donate if you mean to. And if you're unable to donate, please share it with any friends who might. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Stigma aside, when someone i know comes out as trans, its exciting. For it means I can begin to get to know a whole new aspect of them that will contine to emerge and grow, adding new depth and layers to our relationship. Its a joyous thing, stigma aside.

All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.

sometimes student evaluations are so hurtful

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

I like the term ‘normalcy paradigm’ in Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, (Chapman, Fletcher-Watson). Some neurodisabilities arise due to the toxic effects of modern warfare where the cause is pathological colonialism/imperialism. /

Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.

I think at some point a people basically has a moral duty to overthrow or at least bring down their government.

Our crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 40 years is still going strong! You can support us by donating here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... There’s plenty of rewards for donating! It would really help us out if you shares this post widely!

I've written a brief post about our new book, why its important to me, and what we hope to achieve with it. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits