“Autonomy from men is autonomy from capital that uses men’s power to discipline us.” —Silvia Federici Happy International Women’s Day! www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...

NEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Chilling essay from Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar:

“In the illegal settlements, we find Israelis who [.] are [.] often young families priced out of Tel Aviv real estate. Similarly, affordability meant that the so-called “Gaza Envelope” was again leading in home purchases in Israel only months after October 7th.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."

“With that kind of access, even a small team can search the entire government for employees whose job titles contain suggestions of wrongthink, or who might resist takeovers or wield bureaucratic tools to slow the pace of change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh

Disturbing genealogy of libertarian white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

⭐ New essay on AES Online! ⭐ "Snapshots of Post-Assad Syria" by Charlotte Al-Khalili @sussexuni.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #AnthroSky Read it here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

*️⃣ *️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣ *️⃣ Featuring articles by Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Gil Hizi, Carole McGranahan, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, & Laura A. Meek, w/eds' note by @llwynn.bsky.social, Susanna Trnka, & @kopyor.bsky.social! Find it here!: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Today, at a hearing in the South Bangkok Criminal Court regarding the unlawful detention of 43 Uyghur men for 11–12 years, I testified as an expert witness. My statement in English is below. The Thai and Uyghur versions will be posted soon.

For the record this story was originally reported by @capitol.press, who is out with another profile of another Venezuelan refugee with no criminal record who has been sent to Guantanamo for having tattoos:

ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Getting Andrea Long Chu to stick a fork in Pamela Paul is the critic version of a Mortal Kombat fatality. nymag.com/intelligence...

Bangladesh: "At least five hospitals run with US funding have suspended operations in the Rohingya camps" "...waste management and landfill activities, managed by a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation, have also been suspended a day after the USAID letter was issued..."

Update from WIRED head @katie-drummond.bsky.social. We're hosting a webinar for subscribers w/ our reporters and editors next Thursday, Feb 13 @ 1pm ET.

The Rohingya community is being devastated by the suspension of USAID. www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-inf...

The Trump administration has tapped Darren Beattie to handle public diplomacy at the State Department. This is an appalling choice for many reasons. One is that Beattie has spent the last few years alternately denying and cheering on China's repression of its #Uyghur community. 1/3

“The stock price of Geo Group, a private prison operator that sells monitoring technology to ICE, has more than doubled since Mr. Trump won [.] Cellebrite’s shares have also nearly doubled in the past six months and Palantir’s shares have risen nearly 80 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...

“The Government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People’s Republic of China [.] warning the group was at real risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment if they are returned.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

48 Uyghurs face immediate deportation from Thailand to China where they will face persecution. If you work in HE or research, we urge you to sign the statement addressed to the Thai authorities asking for the group of detained Uyghur men to be given safe haven. forms.gle/zWw3GbTvvqiu...

This is a horrifying prospect. The deportation of Uyghurs in Thailand to the PRC is such a flagrant breach of the principle of non-refoulement.

Went long on our two-year investigation into the Uyghur refugee crisis and the reporting behind the story. With @nyrolaelima.bsky.social benmauk.substack.com/p/40-the-lon...

Horrific news coming from Thailand of imminent mass deportation of Uyghur migrants to China where they face long term imprisonment. www.change.org/p/the-petiti...

GEO Group on a post-election earnings call: ​“We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement, and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.” inthesetimes.com/article/depo...

WTF. Appalling to see @nytimes.com publish this imperialist drivel. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

Jamal is so close to raising the funds to get his whole family out — almost 90% there. Can you help him over the finish line?

For my first piece of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I spoke with Anita Say Chan on the history of eugenicists corrupting data to be discriminatory–which continues today in Big Tech. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.

Really horrific conditions in this facility where Israel holds Palestinians in detention. This is about retaliatory vengeance, not 'security.'

I found this article ont YES BUT helpful. It's usually is said as if the person to whom it's said is naively uninformed, as in X says, "it's great the prisoner was released"; Y, "yeah, but not all prisoners were released." Lots of yeah but here these days. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

"Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism" by Mingwei Huang is an ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Read the intro for free now: ow.ly/i8kV50T6rlH

For years the U.S. has struggled to convince countries to shun Huawei and other China tech. Now it believes it has a way to do it, offer Nvidia chips in exchange. That's the basis of a new A.I. diplomacy emerging as a last gasp policy from the Biden Admin. Nvidia, caught in the middle, is not happy.

For anyone wanting to know more about Xinjiang/the Uyghur region I have made a starter pack of campaigners, academics and journalists who research and write about the region. It's still very incomplete - I'd be grateful for more suggestions! go.bsky.app/PWzGYxx

Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...

I really recommend taking some time to read the report itself www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

“The two big private prison operators, GEO Group and CoreCivic have rallied 85% and 59% respectively since the beginning of November […] they're rallying particularly hard this time because Trump ran on an agenda of mass deportations.” finance.yahoo.com/news/jim-cra...

“Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family. The official death toll in Gaza is now over 44,000, although experts believe that is a vast undercount of the true figure.”

NEW: A year-long BBC Eye investigation has uncovered that tomato paste produced using forced labour in Xinjiang, western China, is likely being sold in major UK and German supermarkets. Watch the documentary here: youtu.be/dtv_1eafJn4?...

Over the past decade, we have published hundreds of essays. Rather than letting this material rest in our archives, we have decided to draw from it to offer a series of ‘modules’ on key topics. Here's the first one, on internationalist activism and solidarity. 1/

‘Northern frontier culture’ has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. In this piece, an anonymous scholar discusses how this discourse ends up marginalising and deterritorialising one group: ethnic Mongols from the region.

Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publica...