On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Thinking more about how the West’s humanitarian aid, esp. “food security & livelihoods”, was set up in war-torn countries in large part to create conditions for capitalist expansion. Now many are experiencing the alienation, displacement, & culture death that comes w/ economic “formalization”

Diversity, community, revolutionary culture, artisan donuts, mad hoards of pigeons—Glasgow is home for this former Northern Californian/New Yorker ❤️

These are my @sgsah.bsky.social photo competition submissions, despite not being anything close to a photographer. Gorgeous ride from Cumbrae to Arran yesterday aboard the Waverly; after a huge dolphin pod sighting we arrived back at Millport to a pipe band 🥹

Though have to say, Picking up industrial remains (glass, concrete, piping..) across the way from a decommissioned nuclear plant feels…ominous? But correct for Scotland’s post-industrial/late capitalist crisis

Kicking off another SGSAH residential with some beachcombing ❤️ @sgsah.bsky.social

The truth revealed below. Yes, AI will have societal benefits. But left unchecked, the downside will drown the upside. CEOs are going to lay off millions of workers and then use the savings to supersize the concentration of wealth and economic power.

Someone today referred to the fight over USAID as "do we help the right people or do we help the white people" and god damn that's still in my head

I love this phenomenon of registered Republicans doing research in search of truth, uncovering networks of political pay offs & accidentally ending up socialists. More of this! ❤️

My hopes!

The mainstream media narrative is neoliberal capitalism—not socialism, not conservatism, not classical liberalism. News media won’t expose system failure due to misled austerity AND it won’t overtly support racism—it’ll protect a “middle” open market+mass/margina. labor+private property at all costs

No but it’s actually crazy how this country 🇬🇧 has been led to believe immigrants, and not the wholesale severing of economic ties with its biggest trade partner(s) 🇪🇺, is the reason for the fiscal crisis gahhhh

Go Kate!!!

So we may not have won the local by-election in the 'traditional' sense 😅​ but we did incredibly well, and due to our phenomenal team, the bestest of candidates in Q, and for the party's future, it feels like a victory 🌱​💚​ THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has been involved @qmanivannan.bsky.social

Wake up call for the DNC: Stop ignoring us, start embracing progressive politics, and move the damn needle

“Tax cuts will lead to more jobs!!!”

Thanks to the lovely folks (and cohort mates <3) at E-IR for having me on their #BISA2025 Day 2 recap! In case you’re interested in hearing my ramblings on the evolution of political economy of conflict research, this one’s for you: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/19/e...

At #BISA2025, my first academic conference as a PhD student. Feeling inspired by just how many of the neocolonial, “rational” walls of the discipline have fallen in the last years & grateful for others’ work that now allows me to unabashedly study/criticize capitalist transformation in war settings

She may look asleep but I’m sure she’s planning her rise to fame and fortune, mom’s PhD salary isn’t cutting it

Out canvassing again this morning for the dear @qmanivannan.bsky.social! Loving talking to people and getting my roots in the grass, finally. If you like workers’ and tenants’ rights, #VoteScottishGreens! 💚

I am begging fellow Californians to take this as a wakeup call - we must act, really act, to fight fascism and authoritarianism. Call your senators and reps, donate to grassroots orgs, talk to friends & family, and protest protest protest

Today I’m extremely proud of my home state ⭐️🐻❤️

I was feeling torn on the flotilla. I generally don’t like flashy media stunts above the gritty everyday resistance work of protest and boycott. But hey if you’re going to do something flashy, putting your life on the line and getting worldwide visibility is one hell of a way to do it. #Madleen

Scenes from the @standrewsir.bsky.social PhD writing retreat. Oh what a treat to learn and write in this countryside. Now on to that lit review redraft…

Things I have learned from my first official semester teaching: -Need to make student nameplates to avoid late-semester embarrassment -Whiteboard erasers unilaterally suck (shark tank opp?) -Jokes really don’t always land and ego will be wounded -Watching someone learn is genuinely hope-inspiring

FYI heaven looks like this:

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

Abhorrent, first reply sums it up

Pieces that touched me at the lovely #GoMA today. Loved the way this museum focused as much on stories and artists as it did on the art. 💙

Pretty certain this is true

My new favorite page on here ⬇️

Annual Progress Review ✅ First chapter draft ✅ Now to move from political settlements to thinking with Quijano, Mignolo, Escobar and the likes. It’s no surprise that many direct calls for corporate accountability in academic work emerge from Latin America, a home for decolonial thought.

Gone fishin’

Let’s be clear: If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free. That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.

+55°F/13°C in St Andrews means we hold class outside. Makes discussing war meddling and foreign policy making just a bit easier 😅

Clocked

Some peace of mind 🥹

“A rerun of Tory austerity by making poor people poorer isn't what Labour should be about. Instead, the government should explore raising extra funds from wealthy corporations and individuals”