50% off their anarchism collection now. If you are outraged at the exercise of authority, sick of entrenched hierarchy, and looking for solidarity and modes of living beyond the state-market there is something for you. www.plutobooks.com/anarchist-bo...

Powerful and lucid statement from Edward Said professor emeritus at Columbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A powerful, practical, and even hopeful letter. ‘As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities’ | Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch and Michael Rothberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic:Human Rights for Kids is out including privacy by Lavapuro (ECtHR),climate by (Wewerinke) & power of pacifism (yours truly) Buy it for the little revolutionaries in your life.We’ll need them.Proceeds to unicef @lselaw.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

‘.. positive tipping points: If the EU & China coordinate, it’s enough to shift the balance to clean green alternatives. Despite Trump ..you don’t need everybody, ..only need a fifth to tip to the new alternative .. then everybody else is compelled to follow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’ I suggest this is widely read. At least to get another take. And of note too that her co-authors, senior members of the ethical AI team at Google, lost their jobs at the company shortly after their publication.

Scary, slightly hopeful that there will be effective pushback against this manifestation of governance by greed and narcissism. AI race, like climate change & war, is the end of life & beauty as we know it, so some can get richer. ‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users’ FT

We still have choice, now is the moment to exercise it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A moving and substantively rich set of conversations to mark the many contributions of Martin Scheinin. His former Phd students have also turned out in force at this wonderful Symposium on the Future of Human Rights Law. ❤️ apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVEN...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... Read this piece: ‘The technical field of “AI alignment” – concerned with making sure machines share our goals – needs to broaden its scope to include governments, institutions and society itself.’

FT today lists major corporate and wealthy donors in ‘Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised record-breaking $240mn’. Includes 250k from Treasury Secretary Bessent.

Francoise was a powerhouse, fearless, smart. I remember those years at the UN, how she gave young women, like me, courage to say it like it is without apology. Such a loss to the good fight. Thank you for all you stood for, Francoise. My condolences to all in her wide circle. #francoisehampson

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump and Noem’s threats to eliminate FEMA — a shared, if imperfect, resource for people and communities in crisis — is a very direct manifestation of end times fascism.

US Jewish academics: Not in our Name docs.google.com/document/d/e...

First Bluesky post, must bring attention to the public lecture by Kristin Ross Wed 12 March. Good moment to recall: there is critical mass dedicated to solidarity and postcapitalist praxis. The series is brilliantly curated by the tireless @aycacu.bsky.social register www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...