Well, well, well: congratulations to El Tri on making it into the round of 16!

This World Cup is a Win for Haiti: Haiti, back at the World Cup after 52 years, was outplayed by Brazil but held its own against Scotland and Morocco. Its diaspora embodied the tournament's joy, resilience, and defiance. By Haitain novelist Isabel Dupuy. Thanks to @equatormag.bsky.social

even if you don't read it until the heat has let up a bit, you should definitely read it, please: eva menasse 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 nothing can stop germany’s moral panic over antisemitism auf deutsch in @republik.ch > www.republik.ch/2026/06/27/b...

The sinister alchemy of the global far-right, where corporate greenwashing, organised crime, and imperial interests combine to choke out climate action. www.equator.org/articles/in-...

"it has to be economic, not environmental. The environment is the consequence; the driver of the problem is economic. So we should have new economic agreements that make the transition possible." www.equator.org/articles/in-...

How Russia’s new generation of political exiles is redefining what it means to lose a homeland. Maria Stepanova Translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale 17.06.2026 www.equator.org/articles/the... >> @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social did you catch this essay?

When Han Ong published “Fixer Chao” in 2001, it was instantly hailed as the definitive send-up of gentrifying Manhattan. Having long fallen out out print, the novel is about to be reissued this year. Read an excerpt:

Colombia just swung violently to the far right. What happens to the world’s most ambitious green agenda now? @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social talks to Susana Muhamad about the fight to save Petro’s climate legacy.

"To live in a place where nothing belongs to you and where anything could happen at any moment: this is a feeling shared by everyone with a Soviet past, though its roots go deeper still" www.equator.org/articles/the...

Maria Stepanova was forced to leave Russia after speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine. In an ambitious new essay, she reflects on how exile and displacement are transforming national identity – and literature – in the 21st century.

cool to see our print launch at @equatormag.bsky.social (my other other gig) covered in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/s...

Salaam Peace Abdullah! It's still happening at Mannenberg www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

On the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, Sazi Bongwe looks again at an iconic photograph from the protests – an image of oppression and resistance that still painfully resonates in South Africa

"Rarely has a World Cup featured so much talent. But in order to survive, the sport must develop antibodies against the political forces threatening to destroy it. The dangers that stalk the game are not found on the field, but in the executive boxes." www.equator.org/articles/no-...

outstanding essay on the current state of Mexico, soccer, and corruption h/t: @equatormag.bsky.social

written in 1951, just as urgent 75 years later... www.equator.org/articles/tho...

"The international press argued, with some justification, that playing at 7,200 feet under the midday sun would be an updated form of the human sacrifice practised by the Aztecs. The project seemed to be designed for heroes accustomed to surviving on little oxygen" www.equator.org/articles/no-...

Equator World Cup 2026 reading: @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the endurance of Palestinian football www.equator.org/articles/wor...

Can't help but draw parallels between Reform, DUP & other bigots fanning the flames of right-wing UK nationalists. Attacking immigrants, in pogroms, rioting & burning by the right-wing fascists of the Indian BJP -- all the way back in 2013 -- doing the very same thing www.equator.org/articles/sce...

At @equatormag.bsky.social, Joe Sacco discusses the experience of having his new book on the Muzaffarnagar riots pulled by Penguin Random House India, as well as how the Muzaffarnagar story has broader relevance for political violence elsewhere.

“Just as the first Leo upheld the dignity of the worker in the age of the steam engine, so the new Leo means to uphold the dignity of the person in the age of the algorithm.” Motherfucker is gonna make me un-lapse. www.equator.org/articles/to-...

More on vile systemic violence and the very cowardice that enables said violence: www.equator.org/articles/sce...

Strongly recommend the Equator podcast. This episode was excellent. Going through all of them at the moment while I draw.

SO GOOD 👏🏽

I taught it last semester and it is a brilliant work.

Penguin Random House India has refused to publish a comic by Joe Sacco on anti-Muslim riots caused by Hindutva leaders' genocidal rhetoric in 2013. The mega publisher would not publish unless the writer modified statements in response to right-wing Hindutva objections.

Interview at EQUATOR on the Pope's superb and much-needed intervention in the AI debates: www.equator.org/articles/to-...

"No algorithm can make war morally acceptable. AI can only make war faster, more opaque and more impersonal. The technology will lower the threshold for the resort to violence." www.equator.org/articles/to-...

Equator is kicking off the World Cup with an essay from Mexico by the legendary Juan Villoro – on the unequal billing of the three host nations, the “cautious attitude” of fans who fear being deprived of a great public spectacle, and the moments of magic to come

“To disarm” AI, the encyclical argues, is to free it “from the mentality of ‘armed’ competition, which today is not limited to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon”. @equatormag.bsky.social #MagnificaHumanitas #AI

Joe Sacco is an absolute master.

Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt

The World Cup is kicking off tomorrow but Palestine will not be there. @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes on football under bombs and occupation. www.equator.org/articles/wor...

For @equatormag.bsky.social, I interviewed Antonio Spadaro (Vatican Undersecretary, papal confidant, and co-author of a book on faith with Martin Scorsese) about the theological and geopolitical stakes of the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. www.equator.org/articles/to-...

The senior Vatican advisor @antoniospadaro.bsky.social talks to @gavjacobson.bsky.social about the Pope’s AI encyclical – which radically critiques both Silicon Valley transhumanism and Trumpism

"Like George Orwell, who saw the war against Hitler as a portal to socialism, Mann had hoped for a worldwide postwar acceptance of a cosmopolitan ethic founded on a rejection of nationalist and capitalist ideologies" www.equator.org/articles/tho...

Congratulations Chandubhai! thewire.in/caste/a-live...

@equatormag.bsky.social is for both people who are curious about the world, and those who wish they were. It is for the politically homeless, the ones seeking a moral oasis among the navel-gazing necropolitics of Western corporate media. It is also for those who'd rather be nomads.

www.equator.org/articles/tho... Two friends pass each other in the Atlantic, one sailing from Europe to New York, the other in the opposite direction. Sighting each other on the high seas, they cry out simultaneously: “Have you gone crazy?”

They feel irrationally trapped by the curse of their grandparents’ generation, and they fear the past might suddenly return and make them guilty all over again – which, ironically, becomes more and more likely as they doggedly try to prevent it www.equator.org/articles/ger...

Football amidst the ruins @mohamhawish.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/wor...

Today we are co-hosting an online event with @jamhoor.org. It’s about Umar Khalid, India’s most prominent political prisoner. Featuring Umar’s partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

A deeply heartbreaking but moving account of Palestinians' relationship to Football by Mohammed Mhawish. If you read anything today, make it this: www.equator.org/articles/wor...

Mohammed R. Mhawish (@mohamhawish.bsky.social) on the meaning of football amid the devastation in Palestine – published in collaboration with @goldengoalmag.bsky.social

“As long as there is football, there is some hope that somehow, someday, ordinary life might be possible again.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social on the World Cup and the perseverance of football culture in Palestine www.equator.org/articles/wor...

the usual fucking suspects doing a fascism. ICYMI: www.equator.org/articles/ger...

Newly published Thomas Mann essay! www.equator.org/articles/tho...

In an unpublished essay from 1949 – translated into English for the first time by @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social and introduced by Pankaj Mishra – Thomas Mann reflects on America’s ‘terrifying moral decline’

This Sunday, with @jamhoor.org, we're hosting an online event about Umar Khalid, India’s most prominent political prisoner Featuring his partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Register for free here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

This Sunday, online. Cohosted by @equatormag.bsky.social & @jamhoor.org