ICYMI- Emma welcomed David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, to talk about the horrors unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, and Jacobin’s Benjamin Fogel to discuss Trump's obsession with South Africa. @emmavigeland.bsky.social @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social @benjaminfogel.bsky.social

Turns out that American democratic and liberal institutions just gave up or hid when there was an authoritarian capture of power, and capital seems mostly too afraid when a personalized shakedown system was implemented and global trade was destroyed. A hollow, rotten society

The thing is about the contemporary right is that you can be a sincere Nazi or believe Rhodesia was the tradfash wakanda or whatever and be an open scammer at the same damn time.

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I wrote about Kony 2012, South African mercenaries, internet culture, empire and USAID

Remember Kony and Invisible Children? I went down the memory (rabbit)hole back to 2012 jacobin.com/2025/03/kony...

The other website now has a well funded and Elon supported infrastructure pushing Apartheid revisionism, particularly that it was not a crime against humanity and that the worst evils of that era came as a result of the ANC and the anti-apartheid struggle...

Errol Musk being interviewed by DJ Vlad best represents the state of the culture.

Behind the lobbying campaign against South Africa and the right's support for Trump punishing the country, is a belief that fundamentally this government is illegitimate despite the participation of opposition parties in the coalition.

Brazilian necropolitics: the stock market soars at the news Lula will need another surgery after a brain hemorrhage.

Rio remains the world's most charming mafia state.

Well at least he did one good thing

Testing this websites worth: Does anyone know who has done interesting work on the politics and political economy of sports betting?

it’s about damn time

Is there a single Western institution that will not be forever tainted by what is happening gaza?

How much worse will this year get? There doesn't seem to be anything holding back the genocide in Gaza, and likely annexation of the West Bank, and Biden's lameduck regime is trying to up the ante in Ukraine before Trump comes in. Then there is Sudan and all the other horrors

Liberal Americans really want us all to feel as though we have collectively lost to Trump on this new platform.

at this point I would like to remind Keir Starmer that us inhabitants of these rainy islands may not be as keen as he is to test the quality of British nuclear bunkers.

The great liberal tune out live and direct on this social media platform

if you read one post election piece today, make it this cracking essay by @gabrielwinant.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Does this place have insane meltdowns as cheap entertainment yet?