Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait. Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Context includes firms such as Microsoft whining that they won’t recoup their hundreds of billions of AI investment because non-tech firms aren’t adopting AI sufficiently

Probably my favorite part of researching KING OF THE NORTH was discovering all the work Dr. King did with gang members in Chicago--how much he saw their potential for leadership & how much they respected him (even if they didn't always agree). A King for our times: hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

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📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - Nikhil Pal Singh on Donald Trump's 'Homeland Empire'. Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:

Using gen AI means sacrificing accuracy for convenience. Its purpose is to cut corners. If that’s how you roll, science has no need for you.

@paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social, Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone, July 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

How can we expect people to remember the Holocaust if we don't have more Nazis on social media?

Alertar para as mudanças climáticas e suas consequências não é perda de tempo. Ainda é possível evitar o aquecimento em níveis catastróficos O tema é nossa pauta permanente, mesmo que poucos(as) se interessem, leiam e divulguem. ► Conheçam a nossa tag: www.ecodebate.com.br/tag/mudancas...

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

Claus Offe, the great German Marxist sociologist died yesterday. His essays collection Disorganized Capitalism is so good! I'm obsessed with "2 Logics of Collective Action", a rejoinder to Mancur Olson's neo-classical treatment of unions. "The Political Economy of the Labor Market" is also a banger!

An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event.

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities. Uncivil Democracy by @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @profsorelle.bsky.social is now available (24 March UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliticalScience #PoliSci #ReadUP

Howard Zinn left us on January 27, 2010

O jeitinho das nossas elites é o que realmente faz estrago neste país

"O Acordo Mercosul-UE irá intensificar o desmatamento, os conflitos territoriais, a violência contra comunidades e a violação sistemática de direitos coletivos."

Notícia da @folha.com "Justiça de Santa Catarina suspende lei que acabou com cotas raciais no estado" Link sem paywall ⬇️

Pesquisa da USP indica que homens negros têm 49% mais chances de sofrer morte violenta do que brancos, mesmo quando ambos os grupos apresentam condições socioeconômicas equivalentes

Projeto Brasiliana Iconográfica reúne desenhos, aquarelas, pinturas, gravuras e impressos de coleções públicas e privadas no Brasil e no exterior Saiba mais: www.brasilianaiconografica.art.br @bibliotecanacional.bsky.social @abcdusp.bsky.social #acervo #coleções

Em um contexto em que o capitalismo nos esgota e o mundo dá sinais de esgotamento, o que a poesia ainda pode almejar - e conseguir? Essa reflexão faz parte do ensaio de Artur de Vargas Giorgi, professor de Teoria Literária da UFSC. Leia mais no link 📑 www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2026...

Além do jornalismo declaratório, a falência da gringolândia também conta com o jornalismo de afinação, aquele que "muda o tom". Trump não falou, nem decidiu NADA de razoável. Só peidou porque a opinião pública quer a cabeça dele.

Join us, @leftbookclub.bsky.social and the Industrial Workers of the World for an online conversation with Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos about precarity, organising and how capitalism socialises us into participating in our own exploitation. interregnum.ghost.io/left-book-cl...

Como está hoje, os dados mais recentes indicam que o mundo está no caminho certo para um aumento de temperatura entre 2.4C e 2,6C até o final deste século ►Climate change: No ‘credible pathway’ to 1.5°C limit, UNEP warns◄ news.un.org/en/story/202...

👇🎯 Tl;dr: Why the center-left gets destroyed electorally for trying to adopt "right-wing immigration [trade/foreign/education/fiscal/foreign] policies with a human face" This is a cross-national pattern, as you can see from looking at ~every European country as well.

Publication day! "Brooke Newman has written a brave, brilliant, and essential book, telling truths that many will not want to hear. I hope [it inspires] investigations of other maritime monarchies as we reckon with the still-deadly legacies of human bondage." www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Image by Luiso García 👏

Public opinion still matters, and it has strongly turned against Trump. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

I recommend his book The Unjust Society for learning about the ongoing colonial condition in “Canada”

Órfãos do feminicídio: como a vida continua depois da violência? 🔗 Em coluna para AzMina, Cecília França e Silvana Mariana abordam a infância que recomeça “depois do que aconteceu”. Leia em: hoy.bio/vmdfoffssl

On this day in 1967, sheriff deputies in Birmingham shot Robert Lacey, a Black father of six, while responding to a complaint about the family dog.

Reading. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

We visited the town of Nova Ipixuna, in the state of Pará, where loggers and cattle ranchers have left a trail of murders and deforestation. A legacy that a small and courageous group is trying to overcome by pursuing a new horizon shaped by a “food forest.” 🚗 ojoioeotrigo.com.br/2026/01/in-a...

O fundador do Bope, em um livro sobre a criação da tropa de elite, citou como exemplo inspirador as ações do alemão Otto Skorzeny durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele era um oficial da SS - a organização paramilitar do Partido Nazista. Leia: piaui.co/3M5ZOjN

“It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.” (Margaret Atwood). Arguably a contention universities might wish to test via systematic research before handing education over to bots.

A great phrase anyone can say is Nobody should be deported

Quando o gerador de lero-lero também gera dedo-duro

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

“Eu enviava orçamentos para potenciais clientes e recebia a devolutiva com: ‘poxa, eu até gosto do seu trabalho, mas muito caro e demorado. Se eu for fazer com IA, eu recebo na hora e nem gasto tudo isso’. Como se fosse perfeitamente comparável o trabalho de um robô com o de uma pessoa”

Brazilian miner Vale confirmed an overflow occurred in a pit at its Fabrica mine, in Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais state, early on 25 January. How can this situation continue? How is this allowed to happen? Disaster after disaster! www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

In my own extended family, Israel killed my first cousin Tahrir and her husband and their five children (ages 17-6). That was in October 2023. In that strike, a second cousin named Mohammad Khader Abu Toha and his wife and their five children were killed (ages 18-2). Look below for more

Com o PL da desvastação aprovado no Congresso Nacional, provavelmente veremos mais cenas como estas no futuro. Parabéns, Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP)

Bring shame back

#imprensa Victor Pavarin, coordenador de pesquisa do InternetLab, explica em entrevista ao jornal Folha de S. Paulo como modelos de IA produzidos no hemisfério norte podem perder particularidades ao representar diferentes culturas. www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/20...

Enquanto isso, Israel continua assassinando jornalistas

"O Brasil concedeu os primeiros direitos trabalhistas como forma de impedir que o operariado chegasse a uma condição tão miserável que, sem nada a perder e como solução, aderisse à revolução comunista, que prometia ao proletariado uma vida digna"

"One cannot be free alone: freedom is collective" Angela Davis Born on 26 January 1944