Habermas was wrong about a lot but I've come to think that he was right about the revolutions 1989 being defined by a 'lack of ideas that are either innovative or orientated towards the future' and the implications this had (and still have) for the left newleftreview.org/issues/i183/...

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

Why didnt they just ask chat gpt

Glasman did a PhD at one of the most prestigious institutes in the world, and had a relatively successful academic career before he went into politics. He will have worn lanyards probably hundreds of times. Whether he knows it or not, hes just engaging in past-self disavowal.

A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.

Its doubly galling because Starmer and Labour have (and not without reason) spent years insisting Reform curious voters should be respected and taken seriously. Then with the Greens they're all "LOL you've been taken in by those nutters, U morons, don't be daft." Its playground level ignorance.

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

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the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

In a Debordian sense Arsenal are now entering a phase of real subsumption: the representative plane (scorelines) is colonising the 'real' underpinning mechanics of human life (xG)

It would of course be preferable to a Reform government, but I am quivering at the prospect of the discourse surrounding a UK Ampelkoalition

Matt Goodwin has one kid. That's entirely his business, choice, and life circumstances could be involved. It just boggles my mind how many "WE NEED TO UP THE BIRTHRATE NOW!!" internet pilled guys - it's always guys - are at a 0/1 kid below replacement rate situation themselves.

Me, wondering if I will live to see the Stabi again

The Berlin State Library (Berlin's equivalent of the BL), is closing for renovation for ELEVEN years. Given the track record of Berlin infrastructure projects, it will likely be longer.

What on earth

more people lived in the Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire – all crammed into an area a third of the size but the 1950s "law of environmental limitation” held that lowland rainforests, with thin soils, simply could not support large advanced societies…

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reacting to news that the ocean freighting industry is woke now

NEW: the worst people in the world want you to believe that the gilt market has developed a wounded attachment to Andy Burnham

'Roughly 13,300 people received severance pay from this sample of the sector alone – well above the 10,000 predicted by experts. This is in addition to 9,290 and 6,960 in the two previous years – almost 30,000 in total.' This number will rise: many universities have not yet posted their data. 2/2

'Of the 90 accounts made public thus far, the sector spent £303.3 million on compensation for loss of office. This was up from £177.9 million among the same institutions the year before, a 71 per cent increase and almost triple the £110.1 million in 2022-23.' 1/2

We're in the world, not against it.

Fascinating study in how to narrate events without causality, intentionality, context or meaning (already perfected with respect to actions of the IDF). This is the BF Skinner school of journalism

In @adamtooze.bsky.social's recent episode on Lenin he quotes him as arguing that the envisaged German revolution that would follow the Russian one would be 'two chickens from the same egg' - has anyone got any idea where this comes from? Have never come across it and can't find it anywhere

Intrigued by the idea that there isn't really any usable oil in Venezuela and that this whole operation is essentially a simulacrum of the 'unipolar moment'

R.I.P. Rosa von Praunheim, one of the greatest to ever do it

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Not sure the superhero-themed bookshelf background is doing the job this guy obviously thinks it is

This already exists in the form of an endless cascade of emails from funding bodies that rejected your applications and are now requesting feedback

7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?

“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is” is such a good, probably epoch defining line

Extremely depressing read, and fair play, its a depressing topic. But not sure I've encountered an author as predisposed to extreme pessimism as Runciman Are we doomed? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Trying to get my head round why anyone would think this response solves, rather than exacerbates the problem

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

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Leopold von Ranke was granted four years of research leave two years after taking his position at the University of Berlin in 1825. This is how you support ECRs folks

Anyone who makes this claim should be asked if they would follow it through to its ultimate conclusion: would you recommend that your children stay at home and consult chat GPT for 3 years instead of going to university?

Es mag ja nicht viele belastbare Erkenntnisse in der Sozialwissenschaft geben. Aber dass "Destruktion durch Kopieren und/oder Kooperation" nicht funktioniert -- das ist eine. Und doch hat noch jede europäische Mitte-Rechts-Partei gemeint, es besser zu wissen.

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Incredible ending to this FT article on EU plans to give Deripaska assets to Raiffeisen:

It's the second anniversary of my discovery of THAT picture of Benedict Anderson.

The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism is blaming wealthy Jewish donors for funding political violence in the US.

im hearing he was a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics