How did Weimar-era communist movements approach addiction? This conversation traces the history of communist drug treatment services, linking addiction care to social medicine, mental health, and radical politics. With Evan Sedgwick-Jell on @medicinered.bsky.social

Cocaine and Communism [Political Pathologies ep. 1] w/ Evan Sedgwick-Jell | Red Medicine

A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow. Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher,…

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Thanks to Ordinary Unhappiness pod (on psychoanalysis) @unhappinesspod.bsky.social for giving a shoutout to Red Medicine pod @medicinered.bsky.social which now I’m super enjoying listening to.

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Joshua Richardson@schizosemia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A very interesting episode of ⁦‪Red Medicine with Joana Masó, author of Healing Institutions (MIT Press) about the life and work psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

🚨NEW EPISODE UP ON THE FEED🚨 Amber Husain returns to to discuss the experience of being diagnosed with anorexia, treatment, and her reengagement with questions of food, community, and hunger that came as a result podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Food, Diagnosis, and Anorexia w/ Amber Hussain

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I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence

🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online

It was a pleasure to talk about the limits of “what is to be done” as the political question, mao and newton’s parsing of contradictions among the people, and Pinko’s book After Accountability with @maxfox.bsky.social

Red Medicine@medicinered.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online

🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 7mo ago

Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1

new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki

Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

RP2.20 is out now! - Fanon-Tosquelles dossier - Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine - Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California - Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries - Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more... www.radicalphilosophy.com

Really brilliant reporting here from Glamour Magazine (?!). Particularly liked the description of leadership offered in this section

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

🚨 NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE 🚨 Lydia and Conor (from the publication Notes from Below) join to talk about social care in Britain. We about their experiences of working in care, how social care is (dis)organized in Britain, and the recent upswing in worker militancy across the sector. link in bio !

🚨 NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE 🚨 Lydia and Conor (from the publication Notes from Below) join to talk about social care in Britain. We about their experiences of working in care, how social care is (dis)organized in Britain, and the recent upswing in worker militancy across the sector. link in bio !

Oxfam charity bookshop providing me with reading materials for the Amerikan century of humiliation

Can anyone recommend some good resources on the life and politics of Alan Milburn?

hard to express how angry this makes me. ICE intimidating people who dare to speak honestly about what it is they're doing. endless love and solidarity to Bea, Artie, their lovely child, and everyone standing up against bullies in uniform

Beatrice Adler-Bolton@reallandsend.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

Abby and Patrick are going to be joining for the February edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline! Write in if you’d like to have them respond to your questions and reflections!

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Friends! We're delighted to joining @medicinered.bsky.social's "Anti-Self-Helpline" next week! Write in questions, comments, and reflections on your experiences of political struggle so we can discuss them and take seriously their psychic and emotional content! bit.ly/4qH9mB3

Friends! We're delighted to joining @medicinered.bsky.social's "Anti-Self-Helpline" next week! Write in questions, comments, and reflections on your experiences of political struggle so we can discuss them and take seriously their psychic and emotional content! bit.ly/4qH9mB3

thinking about the words of Klee Benally (“be well, and stay dangerous”) and June Jordan today (“we must become a menace to our enemies”) today. keep each other safe and give them hell

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

All power to the Twin Cities soviet!

What all the crowd shots won’t show you is this energy extends to the rest of the metro. There are additional huge gatherings of people all around the cities, ICE watch is visible on so many street corners, walk a few blocks and you’ll pass people clearly in the middle of distro

Bring Me The News@bringmethenews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is the scene in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon, where thousands of people have braved -25F wind chills to protest ICE operations in Minnesota. More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/a-sea-of-people-thousands-turn-out-for-anti-ice-march-in-downtown-minneapolis Pic: Mike Auger

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK

Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...

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"[U.S.] Fascism...feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and doors will be kicked down in the night and machine-gun fire and buckshot become the medium of exchange...We must rip away its mask." - George Jackson, 1971

abolishing the domestic terror group ICE is the moderate position at this point

Today confirms @stschrader1.bsky.social's assessment that Trump has brought to its culmination the restructuring of US foreign policy on the model of the brutal lawlessness of American policing. A sneering, thuggish hemispheric (aspirationally global) cop. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

I'm seeing out the year by speaking with the warm and erudite @erikmbaker.bsky.social for the second episode of the ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE, where we talk through listeners questions and reflections on their experiences of political struggle... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Finished the year answering listener questions with Sam at Red Medicine for the Anti-Self-Helpline red-medicine.simplecast.com/episodes/ant...

I'm seeing out the year by speaking with the warm and erudite @erikmbaker.bsky.social for the second episode of the ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE, where we talk through listeners questions and reflections on their experiences of political struggle... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...