I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Carlo Ginzburg. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Excellent obituary of Carlo Ginzburg by @footymac.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

My latest column, on the dangerous course taken by what is becoming Europe’s war in Ukraine. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Vatican accuses EU of double standards on war. Is UK different? Royal banquet for Trump after initiating illegal wars; annexed Venezuela, threats to Canada, Greenland, Cuba, Panama, Gaza. Sanctions on Russia, none on the US. Silence on Tibet, Uyghurs. Govts pursue economic gains, not ethics.

Great piece on Carlo Ginzburg: ‘Carlo Ginzburg was and remains a historian who knew how to look oppression in its many forms straight in the eye … and describe it with that "tact of words" that Marc Bloch spoke of.’ I like his saying: ‘“there should be a Thucydides Oath … 1/

A good account of the constraints on Burnham by William Davies. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Please sign this petition to stop redundancies at the University of Exeter. c.org/vDp2k4dwxv

Great article by @pschottler.bsky.social on Matc Bloch in the French Resistance and his torture and murder by the Gestapo. academic.oup.com/hwj/article-...

The state persecution of Palestine Action belongs to a Europe-wide story of repression. Tomorrow the rail worker Anasse Kazib & another militant of the far-left group Révolution Permanente stand trial on trumped-up terrorism charges in Paris. Anasse plans to turn it into ‘a trial of the … 1/

RIP Alan Greenspan, by me. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Today, over I-5 in L.A.

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has announced he is running for Labour Leader

@tomashtengely.bsky.social bids an unfold farewell to the pathetic lachrymose Starmer. socialistworker.co.uk/news/a-keirf...

Tariq Ali on the limited significance of Makerfield. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

‘“The key people here are the Parliamentary Labour Party who want to retain their seats at the next election and will look at Andy’s great victory and say ‘He has plenty of flaws . . . but I am more likely to win my seat with him in charge than Keir’,” said one Labour insider.’

‘Andy Burnham positioned himself as a “soft left” alternative to Keir Starmer—but he’s busy reassuring the financial markets that he won’t rock the boat.’

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

The great historian Carlo Ginzburg has died. I didn’t know his father was murdered by the Gestapo. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Whereas the party led by Nigel 'Hitler was right' Farage is just fine and dandy

‘Treasuries are reflecting how uncertain the situation in Iran remains. Equities are in party mode.’

My latest column, on Trump, Musk, and the AI bubble. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

@tomashtengely.bsky.social excellent on Trump’s shaky deal with Iran. socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

Maybe the Daily Mail was right when it called the judges ‘Enemies of the People’: Palestine Action ban is lawful, Court of Appeal rules www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It should be in the textbooks, the judgment, for illustrating how legal outcomes are constructed by judges' selection and characterisation of facts. Stressing the covert, unapologetic, 'violent' nature of Palestine Action in contrast to the 'good' type of direct action that the Sufragettes did.

Excellent David Hockney obituary www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Excellent article by Richard Donnelly on Tommy Robinson’s recalibration of British fascism. isj.org.uk/british-fasc...

A great piece by Paul Krugman deflating - alas only intellectually - the Musk boosterism (not only his, but that of supposedly respectable institutions such as the BBC’s Today programme, which was full of it this morning).

It’s disastrous to keep pitting welfare spending against defense spending. It’s a cheap and lazy way to argue for social spending cuts and the fiscus does not work this way.

What a disaster!

Senegal & Côte d’Ivoire, current and former AFCON champions, won’t have their fans. The loss goes way beyond US profiteering. These beautiful fans really bring it. (Yeah, I know, AFCON final ended in a mess but c’mon) But I don’t feel sorry for hotels that won’t get 3x the normal price for a room

Jonathan Hall should be fired today, if the government is able to do that

‘still-ample stocks and some more reactive producers and consumers look to have left the world better equipped to cope with an oil market disruption than it was. But, of course, that stands as long as inventories last. At some points, even these new shock absorbers will wear out’

Looks like the argument that Trump and Netanyahu have been softening up Iran for a renewed assault is correct. apple.news/ARbBmmGF4RdK...

Après moi, le déluge www.ft.com/content/56ba... Keir Starmer to tell ministers to quit if they back Andy Burnham

Michael Roberts on the detailed plumbing of the AI bubble. thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/a...

My latest column, on the pickle Trump has got himself into with Iran and Israel. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

More evidence of Palantir’s grip on the NHS, facilitated by Mandelson’s defunct company Global Counsel. www.ft.com/content/747e... Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract

After some unknown tiff between dandy supreme Beau Brummell and the Prince of Wales, they met again at a society event in 1813 hosted by Lord Alvanley. The Prince Regent pointedly snubbed Brummell, who responded by asking: 'Alvanley, who's your fat friend?' His days at court were over. #BookWormSat