Yesterday, my publisher @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social revealed the cover for my new book, "Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence." Feeling super honoured that artist, Yuken Teruya, designed an obi wrap for it. Release date set for February 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/us/why-are-w...

This is why the markets are going to have such a tough time when the bubble bursts. This money doesn’t exist, and suggesting it does or humoring it is how companies get away with what amounts to lying. $4.5bn per quarter “by 2026”?? So in the next three months? Huh?

New CBS polling shows that voters have soured on Trump's handling of economic issues. 60% of voters now disapprove of his overall handling of the economy. On inflation it's even worse for Trump, with 65% disapproving.

Israel has freed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and is expelling her from the country. She was among hundreds of activists detained by Israeli forces at sea while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza. Freed activists have alleged abuse while in detention, with Thunberg singled out for humiliation.

This is all complete nonsense. How are they building the capacity? Who is paying for it? Data centers take two and a half years a gigawatt. No real money has changed hands! Bullshit galore stocks.apple.com/AmyvoZUvRRV2...

It is their one enduring talent.

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

"When you're a hammer everyone else looks like a nail". These articles are by-the-numbers short-sighted nonsense. Who cares what psychopaths think? if anyone genuinely thinks Trump's policy is a turn away from the awful trajectory of China antagonism, you're either a fool or desperately suicidal.

Doctors Without Borders 'is devastated by the death of Abed El Hameed Qaradaya, our 15th colleague killed in Gaza' www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-d...

incisive piece on the victimhood politics of "anti-imperialist-branding states"

Who is the best messenger for the left? "I think the person who is doing it right in terms of someone who can sit down and talk about the news... and build a consistent audience and engage with them politically... is Hasan Piker." @nikkimcr.bsky.social

This week, it’s good to remember that history of Israel/Palestine didn’t start in October 2023, and that what prevailed then was violent, unjust, and observably explosive, with US help. Here's my article, rejected by NYT in April 2023, on the explosive moment, verbatim: sadat.umd.edu/feature/%E2%...

Those who are so inclined to immediately dismiss all the seemingly grandiose reports of torture and abuse in the Israeli prison system should read this report from B'Tselem entitled: "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps"

I just watched someone get arrested for telling ICE agents to kill themselves.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Choose your fighter:

The Monroe Doctrine was about opposing future European involvement in the Americas. US intervention in the Americas was the Roosevelt Corollary, which was officially repudiated by both the Hoover and FDR administrations.

wizard frog is insane

You can’t be neutral on a moving train

"For most ordinary Japanese, such views, which have been part of the DNA of Takaichi’s party since 1955, matter far less than bread and butter issues". My piece in The Irish Times: irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...?

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

Even "Snow Woman" cringed.

How Zionists read this headline: “Washington Post finds most of American Jews are self-hating antisemites/aren’t actually Jewish but instead are all Hamas.”

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

these freaks are in way over their head. They're lucky that the vast majority have no idea they're directing shadow armies from the Twitter bunker

Stephen Miller is a fascist lunatic

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

and what do you call your act? "the argument!"

Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, bailed on Bluesky because people kept pointing out how often he would vote for Trump’s bullshit while talking tough. Twitter is supposed to be his safe space where he can talk a big game while rubber stamping fascism so this is clearly devastating for him

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

christian zionists not only outnumber jewish ones 10 to 1, theyre a hell of a lot more powerful in the US right now

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

NYT plays down the fascism. Why isn't this a flashpoint for the USA? "Takaichi argues that Japanese atrocities during WWII have been overstated. She regularly visits Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial honoring Japan’s war dead & war criminals & a flashpoint for historical sensitivities in China & Korea."

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed at least 55 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn, despite US President Trump’s calls for attacks to cease to secure a ceasefire deal, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/9te3dv

I completely echo the reminder to treat all rumors with caution. In a situation like this, unless you are physically on the ground doing investigations yourself, the most important thing to do for information hygiene is to wait.

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

between Scylla and Charybdis it was the obvious choice.

I went to bed during the second round of LDP voting because it was late but also because I had this feeling that Takaichi was going to win after watching the runoff speeches. Koizumi focused on appealing to his colleagues while Takaichi gestured towards the party supporters beyond the auditorium.

"Confirmation of Israeli involvement would not surprise us; it would simply lay bare a pattern of arrogance and impunity so grotesque that it cannot escape eventual reckoning"

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Extraordinary: 2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services apnews.com/article/ital...

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

So cool and normal that Europe still has normal relations with Israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Absolutely heinous.

For years, white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.