David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Only half joking: Is he spiraling out of control?

I am thinking about that Harper’s Magazine letter on cancel culture and its esteemed signatories. They are very quiet now.

QAD-Barış Meydanı ile barış ve ekonomi üzerine konuştuk: youtu.be/i1IoX3ZYve0?...

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower" NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it: foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

#biamag | XXIV. Dokufest’e buyurmaz mısınız? ✍ Murat Türker, 24. Dokufest’te Türkiye’den katılan yapımları ve festivalin öne çıkan filmlerini yazdı. bianet.org/yazi/xxiv-do...

Coming from a denialist culture, I have a sense that once perpetrators begin to produce too many explanations as to what is going on is not a genocide, it is a sign that the process has already reached its highest stage.

Dr. Nisan Alıcı ile Kürt Meselesi, Direniş ve Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti Üzerine “Barış inşa sürecini mevcut eşitsizliklerin ve güç ilişkilerinin dönüştürülmesi için bir fırsat olarak görmek mümkün.” qad.institute/index.php/dr...

Xavier Universitesinden akademisyen Dr. Nazan Bedirhanoğlu: “Barış Müzakerelerinin Başarısız Olması, Statükodan Daha Kötü Sonuçlar Doğurabilir” qad.institute/index.php/ba...

Here’s the short intervention I delivered for the roundtable. Two main threads of the roundtable were on death drive and free association, but there were many other connections.

Barselona Otonom Üniversitesi Barış Kültürü Okulu’nun kurucularından ve eski yöneticilerinden  Vicenç Fisas: "PKK’nin silahsızlanma süreci başladı ama buna eşlik edecek kurumlar hazır değil." qad.institute/index.php/vi...

This is happening on July 19th: "The Communists Believe..." For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

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This is happening on July 19th: "The Communists Believe..." For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

I hope it’s become evident that corporate news will partner with fascists to attack the Left because literally our history is the story of how the wealth class use their political and media organs to ensure all Leftists are demonized and crushed. That’s the whole ballgame.

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

NYTimes, how low can you go?

Ghouls.

Turkey’s political prisoner, Osman Kavala: 2.800 days behind bars. In solitary confinement.

New paper, collecting materials. Part I: The proposition of post-capitalist feudalism

NYTimes meltdown is remarkable.

Whatever reservations one may have of Democratic Socialists (their reformism, electoralism, tailism, etc), Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy is a major win & opportunity for them. I cant think of a more high profile and strategic gain under the rise of *liberal fascism* than the municipal control of NYC.

He's been doing this for YEARS and not in front of cameras. That's why it comes off as authentic because it's true to what he's been doing all along.

25-point polling error across the board for the first round of voting.

"İmamoğlu’nun tutukluluğu korkunç bir yanlış, Öcalan’ın hâlâ hapiste olması son derece mantıksız" İngiltere İşçi Partisi’nin eski lideri Jeremy Corbyn, bianet'e konuştu. bianet.org/haber/imamog...

O kadar çok şeye karşı mücadele veriyoruz ki… Neye sahip çıkacağımızı şaşırdık…

Among other things, this immigration policy aims at destroying the communitarian core of the working classes—not only by the divide-and-rule along racial and ethnic lines (scapegoating the nonwhite others) but also by sowing fear, disruption and atomization among the migrant communities.

I don’t find MAGA anti-war posturing believable. They may initially oppose but eventually when the US bombs begins to be dropped will fall in line with Trump and will serve to bring MAGA base with them. I will be very surprised if they don’t.

6/6 books: Solidarity. The Past, Present, and Future of a World-changing Idea by @lhh.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social from @haymarketbooks.org. I loved this book for many reasons, (authors were all working on these books at the same time)- and their tagline is in the description of our book.

Capitalist classes seem divided. Merchant capital and corporations that have outsourced production are hurting. The rule of law may not be indispensable, but predictability/stability are crucial. But if Erdoğan could survive for this long with a much more vulnerable economy, it bodes well for Trump.

Or, has the capitalist classes decided that the rule of law is not necessary, foreign talent will still be coerced into docility, and science & innovation will still be financed through military build up (1 Trillion in the current budget)? The fragile & quasi-socdem/left neoliberal program is dead.

Between AI & Trump, we are watching a swift destruction of higher education in the USA. But neoliberal university administrations paved the way. It seems that the capitalist classes decided that bourgeois democracy is no more necessary for the reproduction of the rule of capital.

This assumes that the Democratic Party machine has the capacity to practice solidarity.

“Le discours capitaliste : la valeur de la force de travail dans les liens sociaux” Yahya Madra & Ceren Özselçuk Traduit de l’anglais par Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (Reach out for a copy of the English version) shs.cairn.info/revue-actuel...

David Lynch fighting the ways of Hollywood in the thick of it. youtu.be/-AHUEON7Fb8?...

“Le discours capitaliste : la valeur de la force de travail dans les liens sociaux” Yahya Madra & Ceren Özselçuk Traduit de l’anglais par Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (Reach out for a copy of the English version) shs.cairn.info/revue-actuel...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder, former pro-Kurdish DEM Party MP, filmmaker and prominent peace activist, has passed away at 62 after 18 days in intensive care. A key figure in peace talks between the Turkish state and the Kurdish movement, he died from multi-organ failure following emergency surgery. 🕯️🖤🌹

İstanbul Geri Dönüşüm İşçileri Derneği.

Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Türkiye’nin çağdaş sanat sahnesine dijital teknolojileri taşıyan öncü sanatçı Teoman Madra, 94 yaşında hayata veda etti. Deneysel fotoğraf, ses ve ışık enstalasyonlarıyla sanat dünyasında iz bırakan Madra, unutulmaz bir miras bıraktı. www.ksha.com.tr/dijital-sana...

Türkiye'nin dijital sanat öncülerinden Teoman Madra, 93 yaşında hayatını kaybetti. Sanat dünyasında derin bir iz bırakan Madra'nın vefatı, sanat camiasında büyük bir üzüntüyle karşılandı. Haberin devamı için : yedy.net/232-teoman-m...

Dijital teknolojiyi sanatında kullanan ilk Türk sanatçılardan Teoman Madra, 93 yaşında hayatını kaybetti. Video, ses ve ışık enstalasyonlarıyla deneysel sanatın öncüsüydü. artdogistanbul.com/teoman-madra...

Every leap authoritarianism took in Turkey in the last decade significantly changed the political landscape in favour of the ruling elites. This time, things might not be moving in the same direction, and Ankara appears rather paralysed.

🔴 Fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen gözaltına alındı 👉 “Halkı kin ve düşmanlığa tahrik” suçlamasıyla gözaltına alınan Germen’in dosyasına gizlilik kararı getirildi.

Yes, let's not lose sight of this. It's true e.g. that that people's 401(k)s lost value in this particular market crash. The bigger problem is that this s a terrible way to provide for old-age security in the first place.

Son bir kaç gündür TR’den oldukça büyük bir göç var bsky’a. Herkese hoşgeldiniz.

John Jay student Conor Smyth on the economic effects of mass deportations.