Very happy to see my latest article, “Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism,” in the pages of @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

Mal wieder ein Re-Post dieses tollen Essays von @veronicagago.bsky.social und @williamcallison.bsky.social - auch weil der Text so gut zu Söders neuester Gillamos-Rede zu "Tofu-Terror" passt, dem widerlichen "Unterleib-Interview" und anderen Performances passt. Unbedingte Leseempfehlung!

From the U.S. to Argentina, El Salvador to Ecuador, the wager of the resurgent right is that spectacles of revenge—trolling the zurdos, owning the libs—can mask or compensate for dispossession. How long the wages of cruelty can substitute for real wages remains to be seen.

📹 Verónica Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social, intellectuelle et figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, analyse l’Argentine de Milei comme un laboratoire du néolibéralisme mutant. Face à lui, elle mise sur la potencia feminista : le désir de tout changer. Entretien en ligne 👉 buff.ly/SMQHjdw

Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social recently wrote with Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social, lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard @harvard.edu, about the politics of sacrifice and the radicalization of the international far right in @bostonreview.bsky.social 👉 www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Our interview with Veronica was conducted in Paris on the 1st of April 2025 by philosopher and co-founder of @diagrammes.bsky.social @michelfeher.bsky.social and sociologist @ericfassin.bsky.social for our 4th newsletter. Don't forget to subscribe ! 👉 www.diagrammes.fr/en/page/news...

Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes" Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor. shs.cairn.info/revue-critiq...

[FR👇] 🎙️ @veronicagago.bsky.social, a prominent Argentinian scholar and leading voice of Latin American feminism sees Milei’s Argentina as a lab for mutant neoliberalism. Against it, she invokes la potencia feminista—the desire to change everything. 📹 Full Interview online now buff.ly/Z87zbmN

Les travaux de la politiste Thea Riofrancos portent sur l’extractivisme comme régime politique et économique au Nord comme au Sud. Cet article présente notre entretien avec Thea Riofrancos et dévoile un extrait du chapitre 7/10 : « L'état d'urgence énergétique de Trump ». Par Diagrammes

"A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

New bilingual politically kaleidoscopic online multimedia interview project is about to drop... Follow ahead of next week's launch: ‪@diagrammes-eng.bsky.social‬ + ‪@diagrammes-fr.bsky.social‬

New bilingual politically kaleidoscopic online multimedia interview project is about to drop... Follow ahead of next week's launch: ‪@diagrammes-eng.bsky.social‬ + ‪@diagrammes-fr.bsky.social‬

Incredibly excited to announce that pre-orders for the first issue of The BREAK—DOWN are now live!

A global phenomenon: leaders of the Latin American right describe the project as a “batalla cultural.” But where Gramsci aimed at the capitalist class, their culture war targets progressives and leftists—progres and zurdos, Milei’s favorite epithets. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

This is Donald Trump telling the Supreme Court to fuck off, and it is Trump asserting his authority to kidnap and deport whoever he wants, for any “reason.” This is a serious escalation of his dictatorial project.

"One of the darkest days in American history" is absolutely right.

"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

"Abolish ICE" was the correct take then and it's the correct take now.

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

I think there is a lesson here. Just a year ago, Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg were trying to get a slate of their own candidates elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers (which is, I believe, a step below the Corporation Board). It's very good that they lost. www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/b...

One of these people is my friend and comrade Sheila. She is one of the most principled, relentless and decent humans around. The best of what it means to be a movement lawyer. More here about how to support Sheila and her clinic: www.nwdefendourrights.com

If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.

🚨 Holgersen at Harvard! For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!

🚨 Holgersen at Harvard! For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

Trump fired the TVA board member that was pushing the hardest for transparency in ratemaking. Trump used to be for "draining the swamp." Now, he's apparently for draining the most public-focused public servants we have in government: insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202...

Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

From the United States to Argentina, El Salvador to Ecuador, the wager of the resurgent right is that spectacles of revenge—trolling the zurdos, owning the libs—can mask or even compensate for material dispossession. How long these wages of cruelty will substitute for real wages remains to be seen.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

David Brooks: Jordan B Peterson is the most influential public intellectual in the Western world Jordan B Peterson:

I wish Elon would take a strong dose of psilocybin and spend several hours reading his own tweets. This will be indescribable mental agony, but it will be good for him, and probably good for the entire planet.

MAGA’s deep insecurity about their masculinity expresses itself as a pathological need for psychosexual mastery: open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...

In less than one week, many Americans will no longer be able to apply for Social Security benefits over the phone, setting the stage for disruptions and upheaval. Nearly 6 million seniors live more than 46.6 miles, roundtrip, from a field office, per a new analysis. trib.al/5XSPqyL

A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.

“Amer was shot by Israeli military officers along with two other 15-year-olds from the village…. The ambulance was not allowed to pass the checkpoint for 30 minutes, a denial in medical treatment that ultimately resulted in Amer’s death.“

an incredibly concerning story from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social about the politicization of the U.S. Marshals Service and DOGE's use of the marshals to intimidate judges and other federal agencies www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

I've followed right wing politics for years, read a lot of sci-fi, am a natural pessimist, so you wouldn't think they ever surprise me, but points to Secretary Burgum: officially touting "de-extinction technology" as a reason to stop protecting wildlife