My text about entertainment as a technology of power, on dreams, values, and violence. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/05/c...

The debt crisis is draining money from public services in countries around the 🌍 Dozens of countries in Africa alone spend more on debt than education or healthcare 🎓 💸 🚑 Sign the petition to demand world leaders #CancelDebtChooseHope: debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt

Marcus has huge legal fees after fighting the threat of deportation. Support him here: chuffed.org/project/q9rj...

🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

Happy New Year and all the best for 2026 youtu.be/baMtzda7dWA?...

AOC: it’s about oil and regime change Trump: it’s about oil and regime change Commentariat: AOC is too extreme to be president

I just tried to figure out what is going on with Luigi Mangione. Anyone knows?

Donald Trump is going to annex over 2 million kilometres of European territory. Then what? 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/donald-tru...

Heavy rain and snow has pounded California in recent weeks, causing floods, power outages, mudslides and other disruptions. But the storms have also filled reservoirs and deepened the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, easing drought concerns.

#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his lesser-known works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

she is sooo good

#BBCBreakfast presenter: "There is some debate going on at the moment about whether it really is about drugs or whether it is in fact about oil" Who's debating? Trump has literally told us its about oil.

Sorry but it is.

US attack on Venezuela evokes Monroe Doctrine, laid out in 1823 to cement Washington’s sphere of influence in Americas.

"What we’re witnessing looks less like competition and more like a tripartite division of the world"

Siri, show me a textbook example of a circular argument

Bombing a sovereign nation and kidnapping the President is the behaviour of a cowboy state. The United States’ attack on Venezuela is illegal — and it is utterly shameful that the UK government refuses to condemn this reckless act of war.

Friendly gesture

Great text by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social The Left is losing because it no longer cares to talk about freedom. To win, the Left must once again offer a project of liberation: pragmatic, understandable for all. unherd.com/2026/01/how-...

DiEM25 on the U.S. Regime-Change Military Aggression in Venezuela diem25.org/diem25-conde...

“Debt” by @davidgraeber Opinion | 'The Ezra Klein Show' 2025 Book Recommendations - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

Soviet child's dream: Chaos Computer Club Congress. No bureaucracy, pure poetic technology. Thirty thousand weirdos building a stateless world. This is what we could create ourselves.

Poetic technologies can be dark, brutal, dangerous—and that's fine. Freedom isn't safe. It's unpredictable, uncontrolled, sometimes frightening. 1/

Speaking at #39C3 about the @museumofcare and the @Graeber_social. Most curious to discuss with @pluralistic and @AlastairParvin : what would a university look like where knowledge is treated as uncharted territory—not "take a loan, pay it back forever"? events.ccc.de/congress/202...

Visual Assembly by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social events.ccc.de/congress/202...

the CCC congress - greetings to Adam Curtis

One of the '68 student revolt slogans targeting Lévi-Strauss declared: "Structures don't march in the streets!" Yet structuralism prevailed in the end. We now inhabit a world ruled by authoritarian technocracy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I also love books and often buy books that I don’t read right away. I always end up feeling a bit guilty. Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"Criminalization and repression are not aberrations of climate governance but a core governing strategy.”

The Trump Administration Wants To Change The Endangered Species Act – Here’s What To Know focusingonwildlife.com/news/the-tru...

“This circumstance presents noncitizens … with a choice between two irreparable harms,” wrote the judge.

I am so happy to be at ccc congress. Let me know if anyone else ended up here as well events.ccc.de/en/congress/

Yesterday we were talking with a friend about how different societies organize repression differently. 1/

Preparing for the new year with @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social and @museumofcare.bsky.social davidgraeber.institute/survival-kit...

If every country is in debt, where's the money? youtu.be/Ki8QUa3oVF0?...

Curious Christmas-traditions. I’ll start: France: eating Jesus. (petites meringues tendre en forme de petit Jésus) !?!

Child rapist Jeffrey Epstein appointed former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley and former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers as executors of his will

Stop posting about Chomsky and Epstein. This is distraction, not justice.

I loved what @annpettifor.bsky.social said at the end of the talk about education being the only way we can actually change our society. 1/

We are online. This is the first lecture in the series. Please, post your questions to Radha D’Souza

Netflix buying Warner Bros (Harry Potter, DC, HBO) for $72B. This isn't just a merger—it's the final nail in the coffin of Hollywood as we knew it. Perfect irony: "Squid Game" wrote the obituary before the funeral.

A very important writer: J.G. Ballard. One of his stories is called "The Unit of Care." A terrifying story. But the guy literally retells his own childhood experience as Thomas Hobbes's biography: early trauma that defined his lifelong understanding of war as a permanent state of human existence

New trend reversing social media: secret communities replacing public followers. Small, trusted, closed groups, no followers, just trusted friends—Soviet kitchen style. AI upgrade: bots mimic your voice to satisfy parents/bosses/government while you discuss what matters with real friends.

This Friday Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor at DGI (5 pm London time).

Radha D’Souza will be giving a lecture to the David Graeber Institute on the Ghadar movement. 18th Dec, 6pm London time. youtu.be/l2MFo85eWfA

we are online

About to start Come and see our livestream with Prof Steve Keen and ask your questions in the chat! link to stream: youtu.be/vSpGJOnklwU

'The reality is that there is no "true identity", there is only constant changing of clothes and the inability to match with oneself permanently. Understanding this, how can you justify war..' 'when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying' robert thurman