‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

“ Jeffrey Epstein story makes no sense unless you realize that he was deeply entrenched in the foreign policy elite, a fact that gave him much of the impunity he enjoyed for most of his life” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

What usually gets lost in the focus on what an evil racist James Watson was is just how colossal of a dumbass he was and just how far he set the field back. But @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social kept their eye on the ball.

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

FT researcher job on the economic, climate & geopolitical impacts of militarisation. Exact research focus will depend on the applicant and may also include work on alternative security strategies & military industrial conversion. UK-based. www.common-wealth.org/vacancies/re...

Mein Report vom Verfahren vor dem Verwaltungsgericht gestern

The UK cannot claim ignorance. British-made arms are being found in Sudan, where mass atrocities are unfolding. I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary urging an immediate suspension of all arms exports to the UAE and urgent diplomatic action to stop the violence:

PCHR reports systematic sexual torture of palestinian detainees from Gaza by israeli forces, including rape and psychological humiliation. "These practices are part and parcel of the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Strip." pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

Arrival of US aircraft carrier off Latin America fuels speculation that US could try to overthrow Venezuelan government.

Heute ist der 9. November, Tag der Pogromnacht 1938 und Auftakt für die Vernichtung der Europäischen Juden*Jüdinnen durch die Nazis. Ich möchte vorschlagen, die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Jahr besonders auf die aktuelle Instrumentalisierung und Entwertung politischer Erinnerungsgesten richten. 1/

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Exklusiv | In der Fördergeldaffäre um Ahmad Mansour springt ihm nun die Ethnologin Susanne Schröter publizistisch zur Seite. Sie gibt die neutrale Beobachterin. Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

Alice Walker said, “When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer… Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality… People gathering, people working to change the intolerable.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago? NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Sudanese paramilitary group accused of killing hundreds in North Darfur hospital

“To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data” www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Excellent primer on the war in the Sudan: its origins, the role and connections between various international and external actors, popular resistance and resources on social media accounts to follow to stay informed and act in solidarity www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

If you're not aware of how far the AI sector is being driven by people who are overtly fascistic in goals and expression, and how far their power is being injected directly into the military-industrial state apparatus, it really is time you learned.

Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

Excellent primer on the war in the Sudan: its origins, the role and connections between various international and external actors, popular resistance and resources on social media accounts to follow to stay informed and act in solidarity www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

If we're doing this again, just melt them down next time. Preserving them was the compromise position.

To hell with every last person using the south and Black people expendable for their memes and AI trash. This isn't funny Black people will die and you don't care

In the midst of forced famine and war, we find the efforts of mutual aid groups and resistance organizations in civil society that have made life possible. We talk about the Sudanese Solidarity Collective, which provides a vital conduit of aid to Sudan from its diasporic communities and others.

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Emergency demo for Sudan tomorrow, Wednesday, 6pm-8pm outside Downing Street UN just reviewed evidence this week that demonstrates that UK weapons are used by tUAE-backed RSF militia. Yet UK gov't continues to sell weapons & other military gear to UAE #AllEyesOnSudan

Evidence is now coming to light of UK complicity in a *third* consecutive world leading humanitarian catastrophe. Few countries have a record of complicity in mass murder quite like Britain's. It goes beyond this or that government. It's a structural phenomenon. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Devastating: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head. We can still undo overshoot with much more ambitious action by end of century www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Army chief admits retreat from last stronghold in Darfur as fears grow for the civilians trapped in the city.