had tried to keep my bsky feed relatively US free, and this week highlighted why. as soon as I followed a few (3!! it was only 3!!) more folks my entire damn feed is the US. gah! 😂

this is an appropriately horrible, beautiful, piece. please read it, especially as the machine goes into overdrive. thisweekinpalestine.com/the-wounded-... thank you, Dr Reem Abu Hweij.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Excellent session. Part 1 - which I think is less than 10 mins long - is also great. Cory Doctorow is also a great representative of why reading/writing/*thinking* (who knew) and having the terminology to describe tech phenomena, is so important and powerful. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/c...

Such a pleasure to join @imarajones.bsky.social on @translash.org to talk about the history of anti-queer and trans surveillance

"The left _cannot_ be a historical re-enactment society." (YES!) Appreciated this podcast (even I am not particularly "Lenin-curious" heh...)

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

I cannot stop laughing at the UK Labour Party's proposed requirement that foreigners "volunteer" -- and this is coming from someone who (bc of immense privilege) "volunteered" (tbh no quotes) for 10-25 hours/week each of the 11 years I lived in the US. these purity tests are SO HILARIOUS I cannot.

Great piece on @techpolicypress.bsky.social by Nandita Shivakumar on algorithms, labour, and workers' rights. (With a little reminder thrown in about the challenges of accessing ILO reports that will affect people's rights...) www.techpolicy.press/the-ilo-deba...

Super interesting interview from this summer based on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on international climate change obligations. This summer was such a personal blur that I missed it. In the face of all that has happened and is happening politically, it's sometimes hard to stay positive about +

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion

the history will continue until morale improves

Turned out the end of history was the neoliberals killing it.

I'm sorry, WHAT?! ( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )

feeling really crappy about the state of affairs, and thinking abt * the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators * the healing work friends have done, internally * worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS +

Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there. Klein keeps swerving.

Part of what this reveals is what US labor has been arguing since the late 19th C. At will employment impedes political democracy. If u can lose ur livelihood for ur (non violent & non harassing) beliefs, then being an engaged citizen is all but impossible. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

"While workers have been hit with the biggest fall in real wages and living standards in generations, corporations have racked up hundreds of billions in profits."

the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

I see this perspective periodically from "moderates" and it is...baffling to me. Yes, there are dogmatic people on all parts of the political spectrum who are uninterested in engagement. But this is neither a "progressive" position nor what most organizers and activists are doing, by definition?

Love this concept but also can someone please bestow on me whatever fast-(non-fiction)-reading prowess John Munro has?!

We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing. 🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...

‘Training a large language model like ChatGPT has a carbon footprint about 17 times greater than that of a person in one year.’ How can we justify unnecessarily shoehorning this monstrous tech into spaces where it is not necessary? All so techbros can make trillions?

It works for the US, and my biggest lesson from the last five months of observing the UK and Europe is they love to learn from the (worst parts of) the US, so this tracks.