Important to emphasize: while the realities depicted in this article are grim, the trans political prisoners are also building community. They do have real support both behind bars and outside. This is part of a long history of U.S. political prisoners organizing. People resist. Always.

I think one of the most important things to do as a researcher is to continually read very widely, far outside your core areas. This will make you better understand the areas you do actually work on.

"“totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination of society, which operates through the manipulation of needs [in ways] compatible with a “pluralism” of parties, newspapers, “countervailing powers”" - Marcuse 1964

One of the statistics Reform recently used to claim that London isn't safe under Sadiq Khan is that "over 100 phones" are stolen a year there lol.

A really nuanced, helpful discussion. Good for understanding the SWP but also just for understanding how horrifically purportedly radical or progressive orgs can and do still react to complaint: the mental gymnastics involved, the abuses of power over job roles, cult-like dynamics, etc.

Probably the most important thing about the increasingly reliance on AI owned by fascist billionaires, is that this reliance will help those owners by causing mass unemployment, in turn leading to further support for the fascist politics and parties that those same billionaires fund and support.

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Not just where you live but also wherever you visit imo.

an eyewitness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting told me the victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave" before an ICE agent fired multiple shots "right into, it seemed like, her face" www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

"[U.S.] Fascism...feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and doors will be kicked down in the night and machine-gun fire and buckshot become the medium of exchange...We must rip away its mask." - George Jackson, 1971

The shift from Venezuala to threatening Greenland despite it being part of NATO is reminiscient of Césaire's 1950 analysis fascism as an imperial boomerang effect, where colonial practices of domination return to be used near the imperial core. This could happen with what's being done in Gaza, too.

Good to see some gay sorcerer representation in Stranger Things. There is not enough gay sorcerer representation on tv imo.

I'm excited to share that our paper is published! Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging With @drstevenkapp.bsky.social and Charlotte Morris. #AutResearch 🌈🎓 #Narratives #Trans #LGBTQIA #Belonging journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The alan partridge of authoritarian centrism. He will be remembered mainly for crushing the labour left, bootlicking trump, and paving the way for fascism in Britain.

Terrible situation other ways too. You increasingly get professional award winners who know the right people and the tricks for how to repeatedly get funding; they create feudal academic fifedoms that demand loyalty; they then produce dull research due to how totalitarian and nepotistic they are.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

The Imperialists will not stop until they're stopped. There is no norm or law which can tame total impunity. Impunity has no conscience. It has no need of one. The only way to stop them is ultimately for the apparatuses of impunity to be broken and their commanders' power nullified.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Finally listening to @davidveevers.bsky.social's book The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire. Learning a lot and enjoying it immensely, would highly recommend.

Signing my emails off "with the warmth of collectivism" from now on

Specifically this edition of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals.

Now Available for preorder - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods The definitive history of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory

Our cats seem to think that the baby moniter is a tiny cat tv we've bought specifically for them to watch.

Watched an in depth interview with Gabriel Rockhill and his analysis seems far more nuanced than the impression I got from both critics and defenders. Will probably read his book at some point, it sounds interesting (although surely lots to disagree with).

"Let them eat biscuits!" From John Foot's Blood and Power

Saw a recent viral video that is very clearly a summary of my book, except that the person who made the video doesn't cite the book and presents it all as their own argument. Have decided it's best to take this as a compliment.

Finished up my 2025 by reading Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social I've been tentatively pulling together ideas of what antieugenicism looks like as an active ideological practice (like antifascism, antiracism, anticapitalism), and this book sparked so so many thoughts and notes.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

The image of CIA officers reading through and trying to understand Frankfurt School writers to see if they're worth funding is quite funny to me.

No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?

Excellent read (as always) from @shaneburley.bsky.social "The mainstream right depends on the most fringe parts of the radicals. Both the party and the Nazis are significant—and both demand a response" spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...

This is good from Alana Lentin. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Me cooking up new ideas for 2026.

Possibly the most interesting revelation about Farage's school days is that he was a prefect. There is no way he could dismiss that level of dedication to fascism as mere banter.

My marketing strategy for my next book is to ourage the world scouting movement to such an extent they have to wheel our their official historians to attempt to refute my chapter on boy scout fascism.

I have found I really like being a parent, it feels like such a huge honour and privilege. I would like to have a second child but don't have the money or job security. Still, to have one is a really wonderous thing.

Not suprised that an academic anarchist is in bed with corrupt people and institutions but I am suprised to hear that so many people hero worshiped chomsky. I agreed with him more often than not but he was just a guy who commented on the news a lot, and may even be the first very online leftist.

There were lots of angry reviews of this book. I found it helpful and at times funny.

Transphobes are authoritarians who want nothing more than forced deference. This is out of the precise same playbook.

Something i have learned from having a baby is that the primary function of books is for chewing, not for reading.

Wishing all my neurodivergent and trans comrades a very successful social contagion this Christmas.

me getting ready to tell people i've just met at a nice party that medieval torture devices and methods were largely inventions by the victorians because they wanted to appear more refined than people centuries ago

I do think that was the right move of Bill Clinton to just be like yo, I'm cooked anyway so let all the files out. Probably one of the most moral actions he's taken in his evil life.

The way trans activists are routinely demonised in the UK is really wild. You can engage the most basic of democratic, nonviolent forms of protest and transphobes respond as if the world is collapsing and trans activists are to blame. There is no form of trans activism that is acceptable to them.

Our first cat, Meno, captured here on the day he discovered Marx and Engels and subsequently tried to overthrow us

The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.

Honored to make some "Best of 2025" lists this month! Huge thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for giving *How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University* a home.