Upcoming book on ecology and evolution of Amazonian fishes, edited by @gymnotus.bsky.social and Roberto Reis. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Happy Black History Month! Check out some great reads to celebrate, from the University of Nevada Press. #UniversityOfNevadaPress #BlackHistoryMonth #BookRec

Trump’s fixation on the Kennedy Center echoes Erdogan’s obsession with the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) — a modernist landmark and a symbol of the secular republic founded by Atatürk. In 2008, Erdoğan shut the AKM under the pretext of “renovation” and what followed was a ++

disturbingly plausible

if an insurrectionist can be president in direct contradiction to the plain text of the 14th amendment, then a Ugandan can be president in direct contradiction of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. I mean, he was natural born, and he's a citizen. works for me

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5S... #langsky

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I wrote this review of @tgpeterson.bsky.social's excellent book on how the French dirty war in Algeria gave us today's counterinsurgency warfare

This type of moral creativity is why I subscribe to @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/musi...

Hundreds rally against immigrant detention in New Mexico sourcenm.com/2026/01/26/h...

"After decades of presenting Egypt’s past for the international tourist market (‘Welcome to our seventh millennium,’ was an enduring Tourism Authority strapline), el-Sisi has reimagined pharaonic culture to convey Egyptian prowess to domestic audiences too."

This is probably where my dogged optimism for the new Syrian state dies jacobin.com/2026/01/roja...

I saw this movie in December and cried. Such a beautiful and moving piece of art. Definitely a movie for people with adult movie tastes jacobin.com/2026/01/test...

لن أقف ابدً من التدهش بصغر العالم البشري حتى في الستينات. شوف حجم القاهرة في ١٩٦٨

On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @versobooks.bsky.social

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

إخفاء هذه الأجزاء من التاريخ كان له دور أساسي في تشكيل مفاهيم الهوية الوطنية والمواطنة. في الكويت، على سبيل المثال، أدى هذا التغييب إلى تقليل أهمية الفئات الاجتماعية التي ساهمت في بناء البلاد قبل ظهور النفط، مثل العمال المهاجرين والطبقات العاملة. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46337

see Tutunamayanlar lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

this reviewer says Marty Supreme doesn't make sense because it can't explain why women characters fall for Marty's charm, but that is exactly how our society treats sociopaths - we all should know better but nevertheless can't help but be captivated jacobin.com/2026/01/mart...

Much of US foreign policy can now be read as an attempt to manage decline through ambiguity and threats. jacobin.com/2026/01/us-t...

Who the fuck is Parson Brown?

"However accidental its historical genesis, Jordan has become a crucible of knowledge about how power and geopolitics operate in the region." @seanyom.bsky.social in Hidden Cities on how tiny Jordan helps explain the entire Middle East: www.hidden-cities.com/p/why-tiny-j...

this is perfect

God the 2000s were dark

William Bronk

Rodents, whose evolution separated from humans some 80 million years ago, make poor models for medical testing. Do lab mice, held in stressful, unnatural conditions, make even worse models? Seems likely .... phys.org/news/2025-12...

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why do we learn about perfectly competitive markets in economic classes when so much of the US economy is structured by sectoral oligopies?

OK Computer is a Christmas album

not only is this book sick, I love the irony of listening to an ai voice of Gwenyth Paltrow read it to me on Speechify www.versobooks.com/products/303...

A little bored by the novel so far but really love the concept www.ft.com/content/7c07...

Stealworkers

“I considered transferring out of U.T., because if my professors are unable to teach me, and I’m not able to have candid conversations to get a proper education, what am I here for?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

All I want for Christmas is the “Marxism is omnipotent because it’s true” Lenin quote shahada t-shirt sun1-24.userapi.com/impg/lMMg-1t...

How elated I am to write about the great Googoosh, a star I've admired all my life. Her stunning new memoir is honest and charmingly modest. Let me know what you think! www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

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Kitsune no Yomeiri: The day that foxes have their wedding ceremony Sanbaine: A sudden evening storm that occurs so quickly, one has no time to make even three bundles of rice 20 Japanese Words for Rain: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/20-japanese-...

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

"Syrians finally have a chance to redefine our relationship to power, to imagine a presidency that isn’t a throne... Why do Syrians keep returning to the patterns of dictatorship we bled to escape?" Loubna Mrie on freeing Syria and Syrians from the reflexes and fears of the long Assad era:

We rewatched “Lost in Translation” for the first time in 20 years and it’s crazy how much I originally mistook what is clearly romantic interest as paternal camaraderie just because Bill Murray didn’t immediately and overtly go after Scarlett. Crazy how far norms have shifted for the better

Bourgeois cultural decadence destroying itself according to its own inner logic, I only consume proletarian culture so I shall not shed a single tear www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...