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lol I cannot believe people found a way to offer international legal analyses of bad bunny’s super bowl halftime show. can we please enjoy something for just FIVE MINUTES without thinking about IL

Guys I promise we do not need any more opinion pieces arguing that it’s okay to want to be thin

My latest post on Substack tells the story of Plymouth's earliest council housing - some of only 24,000 council homes built before the First World War. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

We have not successfully demonized The Atlantic enough.

This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.

never has the dependence of assholes like this dude on the social reproductive labor of a spouse been encapsulated in such a subtle but direct way

Delaying decent home standards for private renters until 2035 means denying them the most basic standards. It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X

One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex. Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.

“an extraordinary turnaround for an artist who was shunned by much of the art world in her lifetime.”

LOL did she pick this up from celine dumont in season 4 of the morning show?

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned. period.

if I ever send you an email where I dropped the “best” and said only “regards” in the end, know that you just got me really pissed

In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

‘an AI girlfriend was added to the chatbot, allowing users to have sexually explicit conversations and to get her to strip down in the process. … he even posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you,” showing the extent of his pathetic desperation.’ fucking deranged

"The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable. "

happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing. verfassungsblog.de/when-context...

Made a new playlist

US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism

I think this article is fantastic and everyone should read it. bsky.app/profile/pash...

I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?

A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.

getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe

“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here

‘Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’ Michael Wood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Finally someone free speech enough to say, “Yes, but are you being fair to the concentration camp?”

Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.

‘Even the individuals closest to Suleyman had agendas that historians have taken decades to unpack and understand. The danger in sidestepping this work is being blinded by the sources.’ Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

They can now apply a Rwanda policy to nearly all asylum-seekers, what the fuck else do they want?

Episode 48: Elon Musk, Part 2 Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.

question: is dispossessing “immigrants from non-western countries and their descendants” by stigmatizing them racial discrimination or not? court of justice of the eu:

the level of delusion it takes to think that the modern right-wing would never stoop to mocking someone’s death is breathtaking

I’m surrounded by incompetence.