She’s here!

Data colonialism in the most literal sense

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

ok I don't think we have appreciated how insane this is: Jamaal Bowman is absolutely shitfaced, Hehdi Hasan is FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE not to laugh, Hasan Piker, an actual Youtuber is also standing there. Put this in the Louvre.

Kind of grimly comforting that Trump hates JD Vance as much as I do.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

John Roberts now faces the ultimate heartbreak: deciding whether to keep polishing Donald Trump's boots or to continue his lifelong romance with America's corporate overlords.

Lina Khan re-emerging after a short absence:

Lina Khan joins Zohran's transition team. Big day for actually existing LPE.

More premeditated killing at sea. The "designated terrorist organization" supposedly operating this vessel is unidentified. The basis for labeling the victims "narco-terrorists" is unspecified. Cloaking lawless killing in the guise of counterterrorism doesn't actually make it counterterrorism.

the corporate media won't silence us. the 'stache is so good.

NEVER FORGET

"I am Muslim, I am a Democratic Socialist and most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of it."

Lander and Mamdani are the new popular front politically and they are both excellent haters culturally and i love this for them.

Zohran opens his victory speech: "As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." Unapologetic. Unafraid.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

my most idiosyncratic theory is that radical feminists tried to do 'political lesbianism' and failed, and, weirdly, 50 years later more and more young women are becoming queer through being left-wing while young men are moving right, which is ironic and weird in all sorts of way.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

To speak of “overcapacity” should be unacceptable in light of the fact that 800 million people still lack basic access to electricity and 2 billion lack access to the means of clean cooking. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Hey if any of you rich people fleeing communism have a nice three bedroom on the park you need someone to look after while you're enjoying NASCAR in Tallahassee hit me up

I am 100% serious in saying that this is a disaster for left-wing politics.

"Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party" Of course they were. www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

There has been-ahem-a lot going on in international law. in this brief chapter, I tried to take stock of the past two years and what they mean for critical IL. TL;DR: the old moves REALLY don't work anymore: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My dad sent me this

I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.

Check out vacancy for Chair in Federalism and Democracy @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social !

All my life I was told I was Jewish, I was stopped by Hasids on the streets asking me to wrap Tefillin, I was invited to Jewish holidays from strangers, etc. The ONLY time I’ve been told I’m NOT a real Jew is when I criticize Israel. Go fuck yourself Alex

The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland

Be the dude barefoot in pajamas yelling at ICE you want to see in the world

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

“Much of legacy media relies on the ‘debate’ itself. It’s not the substance of the debate or even the tangible damage the debate causes in the real world that matters — it is the debate itself that counts.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

reinventing the state using only sovereign citizen logic

Here for the ratio

The amazing @juliadehm.bsky.social and @cristyclark.bsky.social unpacked with/for me Australia's climate targets (using the term loosely) and how they fall short of its international legal obligations: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb.... Spoiler alert: it's not a happy story.

We (collectively) should be funding 100x the PhDs we do now. 1000x? More? The problems are infinite, we could devote so many minds to producing knowledge, and it’s a choice to strip this place to the bones, quash human inquiry, and devote so little for human flourishing

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Academic selfie: lunch with @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social !

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Public and private power are gradually fulfilling the Hayekian dream of an unknowable society

This is insane but I love that Zohran actually looks dashing?

“You didn’t vote for it, you weren’t even asked, but it was decided three years ago – mostly by those the Reserve Bank – that Australia needed an extra 150,000 or so people to be unemployed.” My column on unemployment hitting 4.5% www.theguardian.com/business/gro...