#OnThisDay in London educational history, 1968: students occupy Hornsey Art College. wp.me/p74yfw-uI

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

hell freezes over, the FT opens the door to nationalization

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

I'm engaged in a research project. I'm about 18 months in and I just read yesterday that at its peak the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense sold/distributed 140,000 copies of its newspaper a week...

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...

One of our greatest Black writers, Henry Dumas, was a victim of murder by cop on this day in the 60s. His work is beautiful & sacred. If only he'd lived to gift us more. Check out his mindblowing short stories. And pay homage!

neben den neuen Repressionen gegen die Opposition wurde per Mitternachtsdekret die Istanbuler Bilgi-Universität geschlossen, eine der letzten relativ unabhängigen akademischen Institutionen mit über 20.000 Studierenden bianet.org/haber/istanb...

‼️ *EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO* 🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Parliament Square 📆 Saturday 23 May 2026 ⏰ 11AM 🚝 Nearest tube Westminster (step free access) Join us tomorrow, Saturday 23 May at 11AM in Parliament Square. Bring sunscreen, water and your rage! *One struggle, one fight* ✊🏳️‍⚧️

I can’t be there for pure practically geographical reasons, but I’m bringing my rage, my t-shirt, and my joy wherever I go today. Sending good vibes and gratitude for being there to all of you, dear comrades! 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷

Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.

I'm going to wait a bit to announce more re: book tour events in the fall/winter, but "Building Postcarbon Futures" is on its way to the printer and I've never more proud of anything I've worked on than this. linktr.ee/billyfleming

I’m honoured beyond words. An in-person colloquium on my first book Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. About the organizers and the event and a link to registration. www.yorku.ca/events/monst...

Get the book Camonghne wrote this in! It’s an incredible book!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671601...

another incredible text by Mohamad Nahleh - can't recommend his "purging of a wretched empire" enough averyreview.com/issues/71/pu...

I had to stop so many times while reading this to rewire my brain. Like (*spoilers*) here is the 1977 Army contest "Name That Bird," through which Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak is assimilated by his oppressors, his name inscribed in the Black Hawk helicopter, returned through the Arabic translation...

Yes 💯

«I invite you, young ­organizer, to embrace uncertainty as a terrain of glorious possibility. Let this uncertainty ground you rather than make you fearful.»

“Yvette Cooper wrote Palestine Action article despite CPS warning it could affect trial” There’s a term for that - “contempt of court”. The article was packed full of lies and exaggerations about Palestine Action to try and justify her unlawful ban. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

By which I mean it makes more sense to understand this as a rich man’s privilege than through a prism of relations between the arts and sciences.

In 1964, Brazil’s military leaders carried out a coup against a moderate social democratic president, establishing a dictatorship that would rule Brazil for the next two decades. For Issue No. 10, we spoke to two former resistance fighters about their experiences. hammerandhope.org/article/afro...

This is a beautiful, deeply important writing by Dr. Christina Sharpe that I wanted to reshare today. yalereview.org/article/chri... 💐 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

TIL that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now enrolls one of every six children in the US to receive a new book in the mail every month from birth to age five (60 books each) @arl.org

On this day 35 years ago (May 14, 1991), we released our sophomore album “De La Soul Is Dead” featuring “Oodles of O’s”, “Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey), “A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays””, “Keepin’ The Faith” and more. Happy 35th De La Soul Is Dead 🪴🌼🪦 Listen: delasoul.lnk.to/DeLaSoulIsDead

From Abatina (fickleness) to Zinnia (thoughts of absent friends), and from Absence (wormwood) to Zest (Lemon), the marvellous Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857) pairs up hundreds of flowers with hundreds of emotions: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.

why all book blurbs read as if they are written by ai these days? do i need a bullet list of what the book does?

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 1

Happy birthday, Sylvia Wynter!

“On the ground in Gaza there is no trace of any effort to rebuild, nor have humanitarian conditions improved.”

Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them. Read the full story on The Key: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...

Can psychoanalysis adapt to the needs of a changing world? From the Clinic to the Streets is Lara Sheehi’s plan to seize the means of psychoanalysis and turn the couch into a tool in service of the revolution PRE-ORDER NOW: www.plutobooks.com/product/from...

What the Israeli drone sounds like over Beirut today Via @justinsalhani.bsky.social

A beautiful celebration of 81 years since the liberation of Zagreb by the victorious antifascist fighters, marked by the traditional lighting of bonfires We honor their legacy but we also commit to fighting for a just and free world for all.

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

I was looking for an old thread in which I was chatting with folks about the virtues of methodological promiscuity, and I happened upon this old billhead from my great grandfather's general store :)

habibi. hero. drug eyal weizman today at the launch of ungrounding - his brilliant new book. ending on return as the condition of liberation. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463141...

Just 7 days until release! Continuing my countdown of highlights, I want to talk a little about political economist Thomas Cooper. In the 1780s he was an enemy of slavery in Britain. Within a few decades he would become an agent of it in America. www.versobooks.com/products/312...

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

Love this, wish the reason for the commission were different

There were things about reading I did not understand, like the connection between my eyes and your page. -- Renee Gladman, _TOAF_

(I, too, like Foucault, but aren't people tired of writing about him and others like him the world is wide and interesting write about other people, think beyond your limiting geohistories take up Ambedkar think with Andaiye Nyerere the intellectual Zarina Patel so many thinkers)

For more on the mall as cultural symbol and spatial index of political-economic dynamics: Alexandra Lange and Victor Gruen :)

This tiny show is fantastic — and it’s up through May 24! This work (which constituted the foundation of my old dept at TNS) was so prescient, and it offers models of public pedagogy and media activism that are still useful today!

Finally made my way to get the first edition of this jewel ✨ It’s (of course) second handed but in great shape and I’m so excited for reading it in printed matter después de releer el pdf endlessly, «a collection of cables, esoesses, conjurations and fusile missiles» in words of Toni Cade Bambara.