a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Keith Porter, another man killed by ICE. Keith Porter. Alex Pretti. Renee Nicole Good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I have been searching for the people who warned that the government was going to send in jack-booted thugs and black helicopters into our communities and I can’t find them anywhere

Someone wake me up when an IR scholar posts that this is a vindication of R2P and universal jurisdiction

Once again the idyllic America of days gone by is represented by…a slick Hollywood production, a simulacrum of reality that these people cannot distinguish from actual reality. No different than seeing Main Street USA at Disneyworld and asking sincerely “why towns don’t look like this anymore.”

Today marks five years since we lost Lynn Staeheli. My memories of Lynn have an almost surreal quality: someone who walked into my life, changed everything, and then disappeared almost as quickly as she came. I feel grateful that I still get to assign her work to students—she lives on in that way.

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

this is the bad place

sorry is the proposed solution to combatting fascistic parties to....adopt their fascistic policies? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control

damn, this sounds like an amazing thing for a *checks notes* service economy

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

People of means are experiencing a loneliness epidemic

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Congratulations to our colleague, PVC Prof Bhaskar Vira, and the production team on the launch of the powerful new documentary, Embers of Hope: The Fight for Our Future! What an incredible achievement exploring India's environmental journey and innovative solutions. www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

The speed at which we have travelled from Pizzagate to this is… not actually surprising, since these people have never given a shit about sexual violence

I am going to become the joker

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Our collective study on the relationship between Frontex and the university is out now OA in @antipodeonline.bsky.social This work is part of a longer struggle. We hope it will be useful to those fighting the academic-military-industrial complex. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Some of NYC’s most notorious criminals are terrified of Mamdani

Given how much the things can never be better contingent has spent to smear and attack Zohran Mamdani already, this is going to be a historic battle. But I think part of the reason why he is so popular is that he understands that reality and is dedicated to Doing Good Things nonetheless.

Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni: "all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Huge loss and a devastating year for media. Lex and the Teen Vogue team have been coming out with incredible political reporting and analysis, especially on trans issues. I especially enjoyed their recent interview with Gazan journalist Plestia Alaqad. www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Anyone on here watched Lijepa večer, lijep dan/Beautiful evening, beautiful day yet? Saw it at Cambridge Film Festival last night and struggled to sleep afterwards. It felt gratuitous in some ways, which I was not prepared for, and it is always uncomfortable for me to reflect on SFRJ's many flaws.

Reading this made me realise that I can’t even remember when I started checking Setlist.fm. It’s one of those things that feels so obvious once it exists, but only works because of the anonymous labour of its users. An old internet story in the present!

Recession indicator: company owned by a comedy podcaster’s billionaire father collapses after engaging in a concerning amount of “financial innovation.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt. All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜 Families aren't failing. They're being failed. 📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #DebtTrapNation

Seems like the Graham Platner damage has been done: whatever happens next, there is now a prominent example of a Dem being linked to Nazi aesthetics that will be exploited by the right wing media ecosystem to bothsides and justify actual Nazi ideas, like the Young Republicans scandal last week.

So excited to get my hands on Selma Asotić’s book of poems, Say Fire! She is an incredible poet and it is great to see this book, which was widely acclaimed in its original BCS version, released in English.

We are pleased to welcome at @sarah-mills.bsky.social to @camunigeography.bsky.social next week! During her visit, she will be giving an exciting talk on the gamification of citizenship on Monday at 5 PM in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome, we'd love to see you there!

Another day, another Arizona is in the news for a bad reason 🙃

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Ambassadorship to be announced when convenient for the trump admin? He always said New York City was the Tiranë of America.

This left me gasping for air at the end. Magnificent and crushing. Thanks for sharing, @enaselimo.bsky.social

Check this man’s couch cushions for bars of gold, Turkish Airlines tickets, etc

Since it’s not listed on Letterboxd, I have to proselytize for it here: LISTERS (2025) is a birding road trip movie that belongs squarely in the dudes rock 🤘 pantheon. It’s down to earth, frequently hilarious, and packed with beautiful birds. + free to watch on YouTube! slate.com/culture/2025...

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

Isaac please don't put in the newspaper that I loved Henry Kissinger

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

Mehdi Hasan has been standing in front of a Dallas-area megachurch with a walkie talkie for 5 years, waiting for Team Biden to radio in with the go ahead

‘There is a basic dissonance here. You can sell your event as a unifying force, a tool for peace. Or you can allow it to become an advertising space for a regime that has (according to a United Nations commission) committed a genocide. But you can’t do both’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time. Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future. Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below. www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

The privateers promised a miracle: competition, lower bills & better services. Instead we got inefficient monopolies, rising costs & worsening outcomes as ordinary people struggle to afford essentials. The dream of privatisation has turned into the nightmare of Rip-Off Britain.