Hello again Stress Headache, my constant companion, secret lover

Jordy Cummings reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism for Locust Review. www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...

Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.

Issue 12 is in the mail! With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.

spectrejournal.com/the-greatest... Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.

tempestmag.org/2025/10/elec... Spectre editor Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for Tempest.

October is in the books! Thanks to Abby Cunniff, Tish Turl, Tithi Bhattacharya , @dnbrgr.bsky.social , Dania Rajendra , @andrewosborne.bsky.social , and Laura Fair-Schulz! And thanks to Mithrella Curtis and @empowermentave.bsky.social for continuing our Incarcerated Writers series. Links 👇🏽

ICYMI: @andrewosborne.bsky.social 's analysis of the capitalist dynamics exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein is still live on our website.

Why is my writing process always "write the paper. Figure out what you're doing and delete everything. Write the real paper."

Hey y'all! This Friday we have Laura Fair-Schulz reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism (Revol Press) spectrejournal.com/review-of-ad...

Richard Solomon writing for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social . www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/syr...

I'll just sit in the vet's office for a half hour because my dog is mad at me. It's fine.

Why didn't y'all motherfuckers tell me there was a timer between pitches now? This is lit

soundcloud.com/user-7372679... David Camfield interviewing Alan Wald for Victor's Children

👀 Epstein’s trajectory exemplifies blackmail capitalism—an integral facet of contemporary mode of accumulation, reflecting its coercive & violent logics. For Epstein, far from being merely a lurid detail, the compulsive production of kompromat was structural engine of entire wealth-building scheme

Members of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter are asking you to sign a personalized version of one of the following letters (Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵). Tom is making a formal appeal for his unjust firing at Texas State. Please sign before the appeal's preliminary review on 11/10.

Ugh. This handsome motherfucker pitches too 🙄

My new piece in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and primitive accumulation—analysing how kompromat became the structural engine of his wealth-building scheme, predetermining outcomes and entrenching power relations. spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: Hardwiring Normalization -- Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza's Future Rafeef Ziadah encapsulates the material politics that tie the Abraham Accords to the plans for reconstruction in Gaza, and the continued dispossession of Palestinians. READ NOW

spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst... @andrewosborne.bsky.social analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an exemplar of capitalism violence before, ultimately, making him redundant

"Others may have bought more coal from Colombia than Israel did, but none had a similar fingerprint on the industry’s bloody takeoff." jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

@adamcalo.bsky.social and Maywa Montenegro talking about agroecology and the problems with productivist solutions to hunger on Sustainability Now!

Michael Mann again or GTFO

ICYMI: Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social 's "Israel is the Prison" is still live on our website.

New from me: The notion that Charlie Kirk represented speech “done right” is a smokescreen manufactured specifically to distract from the single greatest attack on free speech in the 21st century. Kirk wasn’t simply offering an opinion, he was right-wing power personified.

People start complaining about mobility problems in their 40s, but I found they're pretty manageable with as little as 2-4 hours of daily stretching

NEW: The Abraham Accords and Sudan's Global Counterrevolution" Bayan Abubakr demonstrates how the Accords "planted the seeds for the global co-optation of Sudan's popular revolution." buff.ly/VfkHeEe

Shoutout to my sister for not losing her shit as i walked around the apartment with airbuds screaming along to Mr. Jones.

ICYMI: Tithi Bhattacharya's response to critiques of the US Palestine Solidarity movement is still live on our website.

www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 11/6 Speak out for Tom Alter!

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youtu.be/-Yt1nLyHMPE?... Alessandra Mezzadri talking at the Social Reproduction Theory Online Lab.

ICYMI - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in South Korea today:

Now that the cone is off, Eloise has decided to make up for lost time by spending the whole day kicking her butt.

Spectre's own Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for @truthout.org .

spectrejournal.com/israel-is-th... Hey y'all! This week we have Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social writing about the Palestinian solidarity movement and the international resistance to carceral Zionism.

Got a championship-level headache today.

Shout out to everyone who wore rally caps at the Roger's Centre tonight. World Series baby

Man look at that table of contents

The Trump administration is investigating Open Society Foundations as part of a broader crackdown on progressive organizing. The DOJ directive to scrutinize OSF cited a conservative think tank's report attacking the fund for donating to Palestinian rights groups. jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-sor...

New mental health development: apparently, I play out DnD sessions in my sleep (complete with character voices). 😬

Congrats Tithi and Sue ( @plutopress.bsky.social ) www.plutobooks.com/product/maki...

Reading Ch.2 out of a philosophy book and its basically just a list of proper names 😴😴😴

Celebrity Traitors is wild because Stephen Fry can quote Sherlock Holmes as if he was a real person and everyone will nod along as if he said something really smart

It's Nacho typical Sunday night!! (We're making nachos)

More like One Pointless Scene after Another, amirite?

For a different leftist response to an established canon, check out Jonathan Brown's piece on Star Wars and Andor: spectrejournal.com/fighting-the...

ICYMI: Tish Turl's piece on class revenge fanfiction is still up on our website:

Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement. spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...