As PBS and mainstream pundits and Democrats call for more money to ICE for "training," here's what's happening in the real world:

Seems like a good day to repost this text that I wrote in 2020.

"Yeah, lads, just drop this at midnight while WW3 is unfolding, and with any luck, Minneapolis will be on fire, or Greenland will have been invaded by the morning, and no one will ever know about the story about why our police force is infested with rapists."

Anna's Archive ran a competition to map all the ISBN's they have archived, and the results are very beautiful annas-archive.li/blog/all-isb...

The Libya protocol

Herman Misset, 1904, Tom (via AT5) 2026. #vondelker

It’s kind of amazing to have lived through large sections of American domestic or foreign policy, from Cambodia to Vietnam to Iraq or El Salvador and still say something like this

‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Former head of the Met police showing typical affinity for numbers that has won them all their due respect.

Finished this today

"Every border implies the violence of its maintenance" Ayesha A. Siddiqi

Thank god Germany used all its resources to crush protesters at Lützerath and Hambach forest so RWE could mine more lignite

In honour of Frank Gehry’s death you should read Saree Makdisi’s paper ‘the architecture of erasure’ which completely transformed how I saw the world www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

This is happening like clockwork and exactly as the activists predicted.

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

Among the other famous names mentioned in the Epstein texts and emails: Tommy Robinson. It’s always the ones you absolutely expect drive.google.com/file/d/1BgrF...

Congratulations to protesters at COP for disrupting the time wasters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

what could possibly go wrong?

Mushroom season is here and it’s beautiful. Autumn is so special.

Watson’s life is a good demonstration that expertise in one area doesn’t make you universally smart or talented. Lacking humility to his degree is one of the worst characteristics a scientist can have

Mamdani's victory is a massive counter example to the Miliband trend of Leftist academic parent -> neoliberal melt child

I hope they make Andrew Cuomo sit of the Kendall Roy sad boy bench when he loses

I hope they make Andrew Cuomo sit of the Kendall Roy sad boy bench when he loses

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

It would be so fascinating to read the prompts they used to generate this.

The difference between aggregate right and left vote is almost 2 to 1. Again, the center right can choose to collaborate with a decimated center left or the far right. Takes like this are way too premature and might well prove completely mistaken.

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

Dutch government will form before Christmas, although it’s still unclear which year

“This was a slaughter, not an operation. They came here to kill,” fumed Cida Santana as she sat on a blood-covered bin liner next to her son’s corpse. #FTP Defund today. Abolish tomorrow.

Really enjoyed this thoughtful commentary on a thorny and under appreciated issue. Great to have someone as incisive as @danielagabor.bsky.social to push back against orthodoxy

This is one of the most incredible political speeches I’ve ever heard "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as every other New Yorker. And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more."

This is a really great analysis. Philosophy is about working through trains of thought and it's always pleasurable to listen to Excited to see where this series goes!

I’ve woken up to insufficient fund warnings from the bank, rent day is on Monday and my UC has been docked. I’ve been subsisting in the grey economy and scraping along but would appreciate some help if you can spare it today. paypal.me/fcknyh

The spycops public inquiry's new hearings will be looking at 1993-2008. Here's our press release, plus info on our protest outside the first day of live hearings, Friday 17 October. Join us to demand truth & justice in St Paul's Churchyard campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/10/06/s...

Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family. ‘Egregious’ police surveillance was sanctioned by government department, mother of Stephen Lawrence tells inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

"Terwijl de man richting de uitgang liep, riep hij nog "Timmermans hoerenkind"." Geen woord over de Hitlergroet.

We strijden tegen fascisme en voor een toekomst voor iedereen

We zullen de beperken van staatsantifascisme zien vandaag

Day two of the conference is underway with great panels on transformative futures and on critical aesthetics 🤩

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.

The ICE agents claiming workers comp for whatever weird cancer these chemical weapons cause in 10 years is going to drive me insane

I once went to a Purim celebration where we read Critiques of Violence aloud and discussed it for about hours. I think we managed something like 4 pages

This is both the most encouraging and most terrifying response anyone could possibly receive about the prospect of trying to summarise Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence for a general audience in a single podcast episode. But I am both an ambitious and insane individual.

Italy’s largest union has announced another general strike on October 3rd in response to the treatment of the Global Sumud flotilla which has put out a statement confirming the “vessels are being illegally intercepted”.