Such an inspiring book.

Donated and boosting. Please donate if you can. Aside from all the other horrors, all I could think in watching this is how I never could’ve kept my own sweet baby from picking up rubble and eating it.

My colleague Annie with a 🔥🔥🔥 new article out in APSR soon. Go read it!

Turns out you can’t build bananas at all.

morbidly funny that *superannuation*—a synonym for obsolescence—is the system they want to claim will *modernize* social security.

I donated to Eman’s family in Gaza and I ask you to consider doing the same. gofund.me/77751696

Eman sent me this video of her daughter Rahaf coughing because she couldn’t get it to upload- Rahaf has contracted severe bronchitis which is being exasperated by the cold and she could use some help getting proper medicine and warmer clothes for her

“I remember saying I was for a cessation of hostilities in Israel and Palestine. And people said why don’t you say ceasefire? I’m thinking, that’s literally the same thing.” I call BS. He wouldn’t say “ceasefire” b/c the Biden administration nixed it, not overfocus on linguistic precision.

A propos of nothing, “decivilization” is the term Aimé Césaire used in Discourse on Colonialism (1950) to capture the moral effects of colonial domination on the colonizer society.

blueskyroast.com just put me in my place for all time. Just way too on the nose.

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Article 6 “robs countries and communities in the Global South… of the allowances they need to realise their right to grow and develop…those with humongous carbon footprints steal…from the countries and communities that have done the least to cause the climate crisis.” thesun.ng/africa-mbpp-...

grist.org/cop29/carbon... On article 6.4 coming out of #COP29: “Governments now face the real possibility of having created a Paris-sanctioned carbon market that could be worse for people and the planet than the scandal-ridden voluntary carbon markets.”

Here is my second comment on COP: First the Damage, then the Debt. Or: The ecological damage (read: destruction) is mainly done to countries already in massive economic debt, which then becomes even more indebted since most climate financing comes in the form of loans - another cruel feedback loop

“Developing countries pressed for less money to come through “creative accounting,” a catch-all term referring to loans provided through multilateral development banks such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Opportunities have to be *made.* they don’t come from the heavens. I see very little of evidence that Democrats are going to attack this or other attempts to crush labor. Translating “clarity” into political wins requires building a narrative that majorities can envision as an alternative.

A starter pack put together by @laminda.bsky.social (h/t @gregpak.bsky.social ) go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Building a serious anti-imperial movement in the core has never been more pressing. #COP29 predictably shameful from wealthy countries

Latest from Cop29 - Wealthy countries agree to raise climate finance offer to $300bn a year

Safa’ Al Jayoussi, the climate justice lead at Oxfam International, said: “…there is only one option for those grappling with the harshest impacts of climate collapse: trillions, not billions, in public and grants-based finance.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Not only was the draft text on global decarbonization in miserable shape, but negotiators couldn’t even agree about where to place it on the agenda — a dispute akin to arguing over where to park at the grocery store before you even go in and start shopping.” grist.org/internationa...

Yes, but her background is CIA and DOD. This wasn’t exactly unexpected.

Good to be on BlueSky now. Happy to share this review I wrote of @davidtemin.bsky.social's Remapping Sovereignty as well as Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou's Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Thanks to Perspectives on Politics for the invitation to review. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“This has been the worst first week of a Cop in my 15 years attending these summits,” Mohamed Adow, director of the climate thinktank, Power Shift Africa said today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mein Gott this cover goes hard!

I created a pack focusing on critical social, political, & economic theory. go.bsky.app/RfyAjod

My new article up in APSR: “wages for earthwork” From conservation to land-based struggles to agro-ecology, I argue that a much more capacious notion of “green jobs” for the global majority is key to climate justice. No decarbonization without decolonization.

First, spread the word about how the culture at Bluesky is to protect Palestinians and let people know information on their fundraising and how they can verify it which you can find here (it’s also pinned to my profile)

Universities continue to benefit from colonization,” said Sharon Stein, an assistant professor of higher education at the University of British Columbia and a climate researcher. “…the income of the institution is subsidized by this ongoing dispossession.” grist.org/project/equi...

“My people notice very small and important changes in their ecosystem that the rest of the world doesn’t understand. The rest of the world needs huge hurricanes or big floods to think, ‘This is the climate crisis.’ “ grist.org/article/a-qa...

Capital isn’t going to green itself. “Since May 2021, global banks that have committed to net-zero have poured almost $1 trillion into companies pursuing expansion of oil and gas projects that would push the world beyond its survivable limits.” grist.org/accountabili...

At the 16th Conference on biological diversity, the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and the Pit River Nation proposed three national monuments to conserve their traditional territories. Would preserve 1 million acres. grist.org/indigenous/a...

“Leftists who love the nba” I have found my people.

oooh look at my laws look at my military look at all my little guys in matching outfits

I’m just not prepared for the bevy of takes on the relative awfulness of Trump appointments. It’s bad and debating shades of gray doesn’t really help much. slate.com/news-and-pol...

We're delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Political Philosophy, with the same editorial team & editorial board as the old JPP. Send us your new papers & support the fight against private ownership of the means of (intellectual) production! www.openlibhums.org/news/668/

My new article up in APSR: “wages for earthwork” From conservation to land-based struggles to agro-ecology, I argue that a much more capacious notion of “green jobs” for the global majority is key to climate justice. No decarbonization without decolonization.

My new article, a critique of Walter Mignolo’s decolonial theory, is now up open access in Constellations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"“You wrote a book on genocide and you’re still working for the administration: You should resign and speak out,” said Agnieszka Sykes, a global health specialist who told The Washington Post she left her job at USAID late last week." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

You can watch Aziz Rana, Libby Anker, Mark Paul, and me discussing the history and prospects of freedom as an ideal for the Left.

Chief O'Brien, I wish to apologize for my behavior at the Feats of Strength competition. It was not my intention to injure you. Worf

As with many things in nytimes land, the rule is that the more the word “complicated” gets thrown around, the less complicated the issue actually is.

Political theorists! I’m chairing the 2023 best paper award committee for APSA’s Foundations of Political Theory section, with Nina Hagel and Noga Rotem. If you or colleague had a theory paper *accepted* for APSA 2023, please nominate them by emailing me the paper!

Please apply and circulate widely! #polisky #poltheory www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/pt...