"Milei introduced the Super RIGI project in an op-ed for The Financial Times, opening with praise for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [which] fused corporate and governmental power. It was granted a commercial monopoly, its own army, currency and legal system, and the power to declare war." 😵‍💫

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.

aljazeera.com

True! I don’t know how he survives at AJC, but @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the best exports of GA!

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4h ago

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

Haha! Dutch partners: always there for you for a bit of constructive feedback. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I was interviewed by the Revista Foro

Under pressure of the #StepTheGame movement in Ireland, FAI and UEFA move the Ireland-Israel qualifier to a third country rather than facing the critique at home.

Israel v Republic of Ireland: 'Small allocation' of Israel fans to attend Nations League fixture next month

Israel supporters will be in attendance when their side face the Republic of Ireland in the Nations League next month but no away fans will be facilitated.

bbc.com

If anyone had any doubt about what kind of publisher Frontiers is, this is a shocking whistleblower account

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

katemanne.substack.com

Finally getting into Ted Lasso and look what Coach Beard is reading, @simonkuper.bsky.social 😍

“In addition to disseminating new, worker-friendly technologies and promoting productivity growth in non-tradable services, it will need to deploy competition and pro-worker policies to ensure the gains are widely shared.” Thought-provoking piece by @drodrik.bsky.social

The Left must focus on where the jobs will be, not where it wishes they would be

A series on the politics of production.

futureoftheleft.substack.com

I'm hiring an Associate Director for the Center for Qualitative & Multi-Method Inquiry: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Run IQMR, work on QDR, help run events around methods @maxwellsu.bsky.social - great for recent MA or PhD interested in alt-ac 1/2

Associate Director, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI)

Work collaboratively with the Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI). Lead the planning and logistics for the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-method Research...

sujobopps.com

Surely people don't need his writing on a Millwall blog to know that Rod Liddle is a racist?

Let me dream for just a little… #lisa4president

Gay exec touted as best choice to replace Gianni Infantino at FIFA - Outsports

Lisa Klaveness has been an outspoken critic of under-fire FIFA President Gianni Infantino, whose predecessor says the out lesbian executive should now replace him.

outsports.com

“The term ‘remigration’ sounds neutral because it comes from the social sciences, but it’s an act of linguistic normalisation: its meaning and its origins are inseparable from the political project behind it.” Very good read on the increasing normalization of the concept of “emigration.”

Normalising “Remigration”: A Far-Right Playbook

How do extreme far-right ideas travel from the fringes to the fore of political discourse?

greeneuropeanjournal.eu

Maybe the Dems opposition research team could have spent a bit less time looking for that Russian golden shower video and focused on this instead?

Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'

Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.

abcnews.com

Ten of thousands of people are dying because of high heat. Tens of thousands of people make a one-day trip to Cueta. Guess what European politicians are identifying as the main problem?

This is one of the first real examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome I have seen and painfully shows how U.S. politics has fully fallen in the Trump trap — democracy is now defined as opposing whatever Trump does. 🤦‍♂️

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

This 👇

Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social · yesterday

The past few years have been an explicit test of two theories of how to win back AfD voters: first, the CDU just needed to pivot to the hard right under Merz and second that the Linke as a party was too woke and needed to turn to workerist anti-migrant nationalism via BSW. Both failed.

We just got back from Delaney Hall and we can confirm that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo died on Saturday while in ICE’s custody. More on what we heard today at Delaney:

Legalized grooming…

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Higher education is far from perfect but neither illiberalism nor neoliberalism has addressed the imperfections. Instead, they are destroying many of the aspects of higher education that did work well.

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

open.substack.com

What an absolute shit show! 🤯 Also striking that there is absolutely no attention or sympathy for Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, the female academic whose work was allegedly plagiarized.

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

Gotta love the WSJ, always fighting for the “little man” out there. ❤️

Look who I met at the Charleston Battery game yesterday?

Oh, South Carolina…

I disagree. Le Pen hasn’t instigated a coup d’état. Meloni does not have track record of openly racist remarks. And Orbán accepted his electoral defeat. Not to say that Europeans would no longer vote for these leaders if they did, but we simply don’t know yet. Trump is much more extremist!

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more. Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.

We worden afgedroogd door AZ. Velen gaan zich achter de rode kaart verschuilen, maar zonder enkele centrale veranderingen in de selectie — verzadigde spelers weg (eg Dest, Veerman) en een ervaren centrale verdediger en goede linksback erbij — worden we niet weer kampioen.

The far-right reactions are not the real problem. They do what they believe in. The big problem is the similar reactions from liberal democratic parties from left to right. And thát, more than anything, is the problem of the 21st century!

Nathalie Tocci@nathalietocci.bsky.social · 3d ago

When an EU member is in trouble, esp if instigated from outside, as for Spain in Ceuta, solidarity should be the only EU response. Far-right reactions is yet more proof there’s no “moderate” far-right, only different ways far right forces seek to dismantle European integration

This! 👇 The way the UK is destroying one of its (few) major assets is absolutely bonkers! Brexit and neoliberalism are wreaking havoc!

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

Charleston Battery — Brooklyn FC USL Championship, 01-08-2026 #groundhopping ⚽️