French Prime Minister names his cabinet. French Prime Minister resigns. Okay.

Watching I should say. Read the book a few years back.

At some we will discuss Berlin Alexanderplatz the novel and Fassbinder tv adaptation, which I finally finished reading in the wee small hours of the morning. #Booksky 📚📚📚

In celebration of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland, we're offering readers 40% off a range of titles on Black radical lineages, legacies, and futures. Check out the full list here ⬇️ www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/532-bl...

*elite capture intensifies*

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

Also in this issue: @jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs @keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon @josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...

Bless your week 🔵 🙏 ✨️

Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found. At stake are 5 congressional seats. If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

We must read Lorde piece. Maybe after we read some Lorde.

‘Audre Lorde described poetry as “an expression, with love, of some piece of the world in which the poet lives”. But she also made clear that her world was expanding.’ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

🚨If you think the Bari Weiss/CBS News thing is new, here's a never-before-seen document showing CBS's president boasting about enforcing the far-right Powell Memo to ideologically "correct the situation at CBS News." This document is from our upcoming new book - pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

This is the best analysis of news media and social media I've read in a long time - with some very good news for the relatively few news outlets taking the much harder path of building subscription businesses instead of attention businesses (yes, there is a big difference).

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Watching Central Texas Gardener, just learned the Brits always refer to the yard as the garden.

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Love how phone kept guessing Wallace Thurman when I was posting about Stevens. My phone's got soul.✊️🥰📚

Should have posted from my favorite Wallace Steven's poems yesterday day for his birthday.

Director Raoul Peck and producer Alex Gibney discuss "Orwell: 2+2=5," a new documentary that explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remains relevant today. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/2/orwell

Jane Fonda has relaunched @1acommittee.bsky.social, originally formed by her father Henry Fonda during the McCarthy era. "This administration is moving fast," she says of Trump's crackdown on dissent. "We have to do everything we can to stop what's happening before it becomes the norm."

2am thinking of 2 Orson Welles parts from the 60s, 1 which he directed (The Immortal Story) the other by Pasolini (La Riccata)...

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Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall was one of the world's leading voices on climate change. Democracy Now! spoke with Goodall in Paris during the 2015 U.N. climate summit.

Looks like I will continue not really visiting cbs news or 60 minutes to any meaningful degree

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." Wallace Stevens, born on this day in 1879

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

Winter is approaching and I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. The Chicago winter has broken the spirits of many. I want to lug around a big ol blanket and call it clothes. I am prioritizing comfort this year and that means wearing a comforter to work.

Publishing today! Wartime #cinema, Englishness and #propaganda Michael Powell and the 'Pressburger Touch' By Ina Habermann A fresh analysis of #MichaelPowell and Emeric Pressburger and 'the Archers', storytellers whose stories explore national identity in times of war bit.ly/4nMmAdB

Can't go an entire September without listening to a least 1 version of September Song. Usually Ella Fitzgerald's.

The brain drain begins. What next? Don't tell me. Okay tell me.

Of the...(5?) folk who followed me over from the foul fowl formerly known as Tw*tter, can any of y'all remember what my highlighter system was back in the day? Seems I discussed this with a remarkably erudite and enchanting world traveler who shall remain beautiful and nameless.

I didn’t think we’d go from “what are the humanities for” to “what are universities for” to “what is the right to free speech for” quite so quickly

Democracy Docket’s @jenrice.bsky.social will be on the ground in El Paso this week covering Texas' ongoing fight over the GOP’s mid-decade congressional gerrymander. Before the courtroom updates kick off, here’s what you need to know about this national case ⤵️

Bless your week 🔵 🙏 ✨️ (Find time to read and write)

Dear Poets, write the poem you were meant to write. From John Berger's G.

“Time is compressed and stretched in this novel, which seems more determined to explore the disjointedness of expatriation than to pursue the conventions of linear storytelling.” My review of False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez @ftweekend.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7356...

Fitzcarraldo Editions probably has nothing to do with the Herzog film, but probably also is sufficiently cool as a stand alone thing. You know? So, yeah, let's follow.

Alaa abd-el Fattah has a book called “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated” that is a collection of his letters from prison and some of his blogposts. In commemoration of his release in Cairo, his publisher @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is making the e-book free. I cannot recommend it enough.

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵 To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website. Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

Next Tuesday Daisy Hildyard will be in conversation with Kimberly Campanello and Barry Pierce at Waterstones Islington next Tuesday 30th September, from 6:30pm. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kimberly-c...

230 am. Via France24: Just found out French fries are actually Belgian. Ok, that's gonna mess me up for awhile...