The people benefiting from Trump and Israel's war on Iran: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New episode of the @ktbberlin.bsky.social podcast CRITIQUE OF AI - featuring @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @mttpsq.bsky.social and introduced with @robin-c.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

"Categories that once gave structure to financial crisis response—risk, security, recovery, “the market” itself—are becoming increasingly unstable. Risk appears less calculable, volatility continuous+the distinction between breakdown+opportunity difficult to sustain." www.e-flux.com/notes/678348...

A very depressing read on how Greece and Cyprus have become bosom buddies with Israel on arms production, surveillance, military alliances, natural gas, and shipping: thecradle.co/articles/gre...

Had not realized Don Jr was paid advisor to both Kalshi and Polymarket. Playing the odds at a meta level.

While the claim that financial markets could become the motor of the green transition has long been debunked, the article shows that ratings actively delay the repricing of unsustainable assets & make funding costlier to issuers with more sustainable behavior. 2/n

"Love did me in, brother Coppo. It was love all along..." (Incredible show, really)

This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Darband, the backdrop of so many of my favorite childhood memories. Physically sickened by this. Hearing from relatives that the bombing today has been relentless, that every day is worse than the one before, but read mainstream news and you’d barely know how bad it is.

Things the war has wiped out so far: 1)Trump's reputation as an "anti-war" president 2)MAGA as a stable political coalition 3)OpenAI's awful Sora product 4)this once-vaunted integrated regional radar network 5)U.S. hegemony over the Greater Middle East? responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-radars-...

Anton Jäger on the rise of the new right, the dynamics of politicization in contemporary Western societies, and what the current historical moment demands from the left:

Kanno Sugako (1881–1911) Japan's first female anarchist. At fifteen, she was raped. At seventeen, she was sold into marriage. At 29 she was plotting to kill the Emperor & became the first woman executed for Treason. #WomensHistory

As far as I can tell, the "special relationship" between the US and UK boils down to the UK being willing to do genocide and war crimes alongside the US, no questions asked. It is a pact among brutes, for naked imperialist violence, and it should be destroyed forever.

loser of the year -- which is really saying something given the competition from the rest of these failures and freaks

Eddington was a documentary

thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!

"The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose... He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life." — Eugene V. Debs

On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Habermas was always a PoS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Last summer, I published a report from an impact site but the censor called and ordered us to take it down,” the journalist continued. “So now, when I arrive at the scene of a missile impact, almost automatically I document and report only what I know is allowed.” www.972mag.com/israel-media...

Schools and hospitals, children and women are bombed and murdered first. Zionism and imperialism working together for Greater Israel and the colonization of the Middle East for land and natural resources.

Global shipping companies are one of the most under-appreciated actor types in international politics at the moment. "Danish shipping giant Maersk and Swiss-based MSC have taken over operations of two key ports on the Panama Canal after their Hong Kong-based operator was ejected last month"

💥🗳️ Bombshell poll in Hungary: 55–35 lead for Péter Magyar’s TISZA over Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz-KDNP – enough for a supermajority in parliament. The survey was conducted by Medián, widely seen as the country’s most reliable pollster, for @hvghu.bsky.social. Fieldwork: Feb 18–23, 1,000 respondents.

‘During the Vietnam War, heroin was so readily available in Indochina that a New York Times report claimed that between 10 and 15 per cent of lower-ranking enlisted men were addicted.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the connection between war and drugs. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Okay, but I can certainly see why it’s highly inconvenient for some people that the focus is on political corruption

Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...

2. What Epstein wrote to Thiel in 2016 lines up with what he wrote to his business partner Ehud Barak in 2014: “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Social collapse is a business opportunity.

how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

they’re being mean to Ezra Klein, no! no!!

burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called “AI slop” from damaging confidence in the industry’s scientific work." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Instant classic

An Eyewitness Account

Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.

again incredible bravery, people showing up like this when the border cops have shot yet another person

Tucker Carlson interviewed Peter Brimelow this week. For those interested in the latter's arc from financial journalism to immigration restrictionism see the chapter in Hayek's Bastards or the article version here, open access in the Journal of American Studies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council. /1