I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure? Manuela Zechner outlines a plural politics of affectedess berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o...

The Israeli Knesset advanced two bills to annex the West Bank during JD Vance’s visit to Israel, a move widely condemned as a blow to peace efforts. President Trump reiterated his opposition to annexation, despite rising pressure from Israeli lawmakers.

There’s so much research emphasizing this point yet it has no effect on centrist parties who, with little to offer on bread and butter issues, often want to boost far-right issues to create elections in which they are the only alternative to Fascism. Look at Macron, it doesn’t work for long.

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Last paragraph of Jameson’s postmodernism essay… I’d say this is basically what Hardt & Negri attempted to do

Adam Tooze is on the task of providing the required "an as yet unimagibable mode of representing the world space of multinational capital".

Fairly rock'n'roll way these ladies made sure the garbage was collected in working class neighbourhoods in Chicago in the 1880s and 90s.

Det her er jo vanvittigt. Et dansk folketingsmedlem, der bortføres militært af en fremmed magt i et åbenlyst brud på folkeretten. Hvordan kan vi opretholde almindelige diplomatiske forbindelser med et sådan forbryderisk regime. nyheder.tv2.dk/live/udland/...

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Time to delete our profile pictures and anything else that can be used by AI for identity theft and false accusations.

Det her er en virkelig markant udvikling. Vi har gennem årtier (hvis ikke århundreder) været vant til at løngabet mellem mænd og kvinder bliver snævret ind. Men nu går det den anden vej. Trods al den snak om krise for mænd og maskulinitet, er realiteten at vi stadig er langt fra ligestilling.

Pete Hegseth demands to “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.” Donald Trump demands to use US cities "as training grounds for our military,” claiming “We’re under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy.” Fascism.

His was one of the best analysis/ critique of the postwar Welfare State Capitalism that I have read. Was planning to teach this book this semester. Rest in Peace.

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured. Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

🚨 Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla. Communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed. This is an attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and int'l institutions to demand their immediate safety and release

Live liveatream for some ships in the Flotilla www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... Live reporting: www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...

Check this out - programme in progress and looking more exciting every time - can't wait for these conversations and what comes from there

All eyes on the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social which is faced by a potential naval blockade of 20 unidentified vessels just 3 nautical miles ahead of their fleet. They write: "we will not be intimidated by threats, harassment, or efforts to protect Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza."

Environmental damage is putting European way of life at risk, says report. But why are Europeans not doing much about it? Because it's the "European way of life" that's creating the environmental damage. So the point is not to save it, but to change it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feeling spicy might delete: but removing undocumented people is also gutting the tax base further FYI. I want to be clear: it's an abusive system, I don't think the system should work this way. But you have millions of people paying into the tax system and not collecting.

Friendly reminder that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native born Americans. And that undocumented immigrants partake in very few social services (education mainly for their children) despite paying taxes.

Even when they say what people want to hear *no one trusts or believes them.* That is the problem. Read that again. It’s not a magic mix of issue positions - people’s issue positions change! - it’s political trust.

People respect&believe those who stand for something.Current center left (leadership) in U.S.& U.K. & likely elsewhere doesn’t stand for anything. They slide around based on polls,chasing sentiment that could help shape.They seem feckless&afraid.

The lonelier the work, the more emails needed.

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians. But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians. But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

Investors are backing enough LNG tanker capacity to put the world on track for 4C of warming. This is when we're on track for 3C of warming and aiming for well below 2C. Investors are backing assets that'd be stranded even under the worst climate scenarios. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519373...

Now that it's reasonably clear that the far right podcaster was killed by a fellow fascist, maybe we can turn our attention to the incomparably larger number of political murders that are happening in Gaza with the support of EU and North American governments www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel is systematically destroying every building in Gaza City, erasing communities and making the city unliveable. Hani Mahmoud reports.

2nd time. Because not a single government whose citizens are on those boats has threatened Israel with consequences if they hurt someone. It's just fucking mind blowing

Global labor unions should call for a work stop immediately. Don't let the Italians do this alone

The emergence of a popular European sentiment was always hampered by the EUs elitism and the lack of an external antagonist to the EU. Is Trump's hostility to Europe and the European establishment's feableness enabling the emergence of popular Europeanism?

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

It's not a "plan", dear @theguardian.com . It's ethnic cleansing. It's a crime www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is what dangerous climate change looks like‼️ STOP SUBSIDISING & BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ASAP‼️ STOP APPROVING NEW FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS, AUS‼️

Our free-to-download pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK, is here on the People & Nature site. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/decarbonisin... In it, Tom Ackers argues for wholesale electrification (including district heating & heat pump installation), & a universal programme of deep retrofit

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Increasing temperatures from climate change have led to a 40% reduction in blue whale “songs” in just the past 6 years alone. “It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer. The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from climate change

Sanctions cause significant increases in mortality, especially among infants & young children—an estimated 564,000 excess deaths annually, comparable to civilian & battle deaths from armed conflict. The deadliest are US-led, often explicitly targeting living standards to provoke regime change.

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…

There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.

These theses are dope. I’ve pulled out a few that resonated with the liberation psychology (Freire) and the decolonial analysis (Fanon) that I was reading about yesterday.

I've now unsubscribed from Spotify to avoid my money going into the expansion of automated warfare. If you've already done the same, please let me and others know if you found any good music streaming alternatives 🙏 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

2/2 Extreme heat has become a regular feature of life across the world, but the way it is felt depends on who you are and where you live; with working class people being hit the hardest and taking the longest to recover from its impacts - and that's even if they can recover at all.