favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...

favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...

favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai... This by comrade @jakeromm.bsky.social is first thing that came to mind

favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...

"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant" Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended! proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Hello Romm-heads, here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:

Hello Romm-heads, here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:

It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more. proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

favorite books I read this year 1/2

A few days late but: I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...

VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

A few days late but: I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...

Had a good talk with Sam on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast about Zionism as an Antisemitism, paranoia and false projection, the burgeoning fascist world order, and more. listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OHa...

New episode of Popular Cradle pod: “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law” I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?

While at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit earlier this year, I talked with @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and Soraya Shockley for the Popular Cradle podcast about the Hind Rajab Foundation's work and the promise and purpose of law. link below

turk mode

someone should give me a column....

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Yesterday, the U.S. rep of The @hindrajabfoundation.be, Jake Romm, presented at the final session of the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul — a people’s tribunal of scholars, legal experts, civil society, activists, and students to create a record of and pass popular judgement on Israel's genocide in Gaza.

always cool seeing things in print

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

What a review. “The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “

Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28. Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com

Lmao

this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism. @jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023. strangematters.coop/chasing-home...

Rand Paul, confirmed Romm Head reason.com/2025/10/08/t...

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp." Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Further evidence that this supposed legal justification for lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is baseless backfilling: 1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked. 2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

reposting for the weekend I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

+ featuring contributions from @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @literaryhub.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @jakeromm.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social @inverting-vision.bsky.social +

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

reposting for the weekend I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency

“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”

Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing

"Every image carries with it the shadow of catastrophe; every image carries with it the calamity of history—look here." Extraordinary essay. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

"there are no victims in hell, only devils"

The transition from the liberal international order created after 1945, that was violated de facto by the USA, to the contorted linguistic and legal justifications for violations from the Great War on Terror, to its abandonment by Trump. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Essential reading from @jakeromm.bsky.social 👇

SCOOP: Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict” “The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.” theintercept.com/2025/10/02/v...