#OtD 4 Oct 1939 four Italian immigrant anarchists were arrested in Canada for possession of "subversive" anti-fascist literature and threatened with deportation to fascist Italy: effectively a death sentence. But Emma Goldman helped them get acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

This is absolutely brilliant.

Interesting claim from Dylan Riley: by attacking the politically ‘irrelevant’ civic nodes of academia and NGOs, MAGA could unwittingly unleash a more truly potent Left newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

1982 wurde die Frau, mit der Carola Güldner ihren ersten Sex hatte, deswegen nach Paragraf 151 in der DDR verurteilt. Für die junge Dresdnerin war das traumatisierend, aber auch der Anstoß für ein aktivistisches Leben in der lesbischen Szene Ost-Berlins.

From the videos I’ve seen, it looks like ICE was being pursued by community residents. ICE had been circling the Logan Sq area and threw tear gas to get away.

You couldn’t make this up seriously.

“Sometimes when you make an accusation, it's kind of a confession, Mr. Kennedy.”

Solid finds but I have a feeling that not getting a professorship will be more because such positions don't exist anymore and the academic labour market is in full decay rather than my parents never getting a phd...

Submitted. Fingers crossed and all that. 🤞🎉

RIP Claus Offe 😔 He wrote a lot but this is by far one of the best texts written about trade unions, their structural position and limitations. www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...

Χορωδία κοριτσιών με μαράκες σε θρησκευτική ποίηση; Μάλιστα, και από αυτό. Γραμμένο στη διάρκεια του πολέμου. Olivier Messiaen : Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (Gentet... youtu.be/pdON4zDTpR8?...

"The White House’s ‘move fast and break things’ attack on the Fed hit a roadblock yesterday: the Supreme Court." stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/slow-down-...

Am 30. September 1936 wird im Römerpark in Köln Süd der achtjährige Hans Abraham Ochs von einer Gruppe Hitlerjungen angepöbelt und zusammengeschlagen. Wenig später erliegt er im Israelitischen Krankenhaus den Verletzungen. Bis heute bleibt das Verbrechen ungesühnt.

#OtD 1 Oct 1931 hundreds of tenants of an estate in Neukolln, Berlin, launched a rent strike to pressure their landlord into evicting the SA (Nazi Brownshirts). However, due to many of the tenants being on welfare the strike eventually crumbled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8147...

So they have essentially employed TV reality hosts to tell the US Army to be proud of what the rest of the world has been accusing them of.

This was a fascinating convo and I reckon diaspora folks - and not just members of the Palestinian diaspora - will learn a great deal

A meme for the modern university...

This bizarre 'nostalgia' towards things that never existed by petty tyrants and fascists was already there before AI came and gave expression to their picture-thinking. Here is Paolo Virno from 2002:

An entire generation of dumbs are getting themselves worked up into a fascist frenzy over inaccurate nostalgia videos they know are complete false and it is terrifying hot profoundly strong these feelings are for them despite being very aware it's fake and bullshit.

Immensely helpful post by @toteraltermann.bsky.social for anyone who is looking into submitting an application with the German DFG.

I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?" on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online, in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities. It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series. Everyone welcome. Abstract and registration:

An unbelievable soundtrack for an incredible film youtu.be/Wc4tT-55ZzI

Πάμε για ένα πιανιστικό δίωρο Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Kristoffer Hyldig, p...

Thatcher wasn't "strong". She was a bully. Strength is fleeing a warzone, making it to the UK despite the complete absence of safe routes, and then enduring the vicious border regime imposed by the likes of Mahmood, all through the determination to build a better life for yourself and your family.

Remembering Miles Davis who left us #OTD 1991. #Skyjazz

"cette bande des racailles".

Second day of EAEPE conference in Athens starts with the special session on 15 years since the first Greek bailout, organised by @steffenmurau.bsky.social. First presentation from Steffen & @rikereimer.bsky.social on a joint paper on the balance sheet “monster” research!

Spot on.

Driven by fear of the far right, the EU is losing its compass, whether on migration, climate or Gaza. By undermining its own principles, Europe weakens its global position and risks losing not just dignity but political agency. With @jannikjansen.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

We are here. youtu.be/zYjlZVNFjiI

Next stop, “all those under sixteen years old are now sixteen years old”. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Die Bundesregierung soll künftig per Verordnung die Wehrpflicht wieder einführen können – der Bundestag müsste lediglich zustimmen. Dies ist verfassungswidrig, so WILHELM ACHELPÖHLER. Eine derart wesentliche Entscheidung sei allein Sache des Parlaments. verfassungsblog.de/wehrpflicht-...

Ο Άδωνης θαυμάζει το Ισραήλ και λέει ψέματα για το μονοτονικό sarantakos.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/m...

Ok can someone with US criminal law knowledge explain to me the *legal* way this can be actually implemented? I don’t mean the political rationale behind it but how this can be used in a court.

Wer Antifa kriminalisiert, gibt dem Faschismus freie Bahn. Wir sagen: Antifaschismus ist notwendig, selbstverständlich und unverhandelbar. Wir sind alle Antifa. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/an... alle-antifa.org

Really pleased to have a chapter about Rosa Luxemburg and prefigurative politics in this exciting new book about Ambivalent Activism. Out now! @brisunipress.bsky.social @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-a...

If I were holding Argentine bonds, I would be considering an exit before the election. The unsustainability of this plan points to a restructuring sooner rather than later. The more Argentina’s exposure to the IMF and now the US government grows, the deeper the eventual haircuts for bondholders.

The US is now prepared to underwrite dollar giveaways for the rich in Argentina, this time without any intermediaries. In a sense, that is fairer than using its influence in IMF governance to approve yet another unsustainable programme.

I finally shut down my academia page due to the new terms and conditions and created a homepage instead, where my back catalogue will be available mikkelflohr.com

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Martyrdom, spiritual warfare, Kirk as a 13th disciple - the sacralisation of Kirk is being pushed extremely hard. calls for TPUSA to exist for „eternity“ make this memorial into an eerie mix of a propaganda event, MAGA rally, religious revival and memorial. Now, Stephen Miller goes on stage.

The mainstream media and Ukraine's government have confirmed the approval of an initial $500 million dollar arms package under which other NATO countries will buy weapons from the US to send to Ukraine, meaning more capital for US arms companies to invest in supplying Israel too.

Not sure what you're doing this Sunday night but I am sitting here fascinated/mesmerised by @steffenmurau.bsky.social @rikereimer.bsky.social + research (& interactive instrument!) on the GFC/EZ crisis through the lens of the Monetary Architecture Framework and its balance-sheet based perspective.

Την ίδια στιγμή στη Γαλλία ο κ. Bernard Arnault, δεύτερος πιο πλούσιος άνθρωπος στον κόσμο το 2023 και σταθερά μέσα στη δεκάδα εδώ και χρόνια, ιδιοκτήτης του ομίλου LVMH αλλά και με επιρροή στα μισά γαλλικά ΜΜΕ, θεωρεί ότι η ιδέα του φόρου Zucman (2% στους πολυεκατομμυριούχους)⬇️

There's a thing about Trump's firing Erika McEntarfer at the BLS and attempts to force out Fed chief Jay Powell that wd be funny if the stakes were not so high. If he's right that the BLS is cooking the jobs numbers & in fact the US economy is booming, the Fed is right not to cut interest rates. 1/2

Here, she survived hunger, cold, long days of grueling forced labor in three satellite camps of Neuengamme, Dessauer Ufer and probably Neugraben and Tiefstack. In early April, the SS sent the remaining Jewish women to Bergen Belsen. Hilda was among those infected by typhus and perished in the weeks

Hilda Bergmannová was a fighter. In winter 1942, she went into hiding. A few months later she was caught on a train with false papers and deported to Theresienstadt. From here in December 1943 to the BIIb Family Camp in Birkenau, and in July 1944, with another 600 women to Hamburg.