Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Rock over London, rock on Chicago WRITING check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame MUSIC youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
Plus, I’m singing Last Caress
ILC Chicago@ilcofchi.bsky.social · 4w agoJoin us in Chicago next month for a live podcast recording of This Wreckage, with Sean KB in conversation with Jamie Merchant about WORKING CLASS INDEPENDENCE ahead of another grueling election cycle. Get your tickets here: luma.com/tc972eyv @thiswreckage.bsky.social @jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Much of everything you see online in 2026 is engineered clickbait designed to sap your attention and rile your emotions until you live in a world of despair and confrontation. Most of the comments aren’t even real. Turn off the timeline and go pet your cat.
this is gonna be a sick event, come thru if you’re in or around Chi!
ILC Chicago@ilcofchi.bsky.social · 4w agoJoin us in Chicago next month for a live podcast recording of This Wreckage, with Sean KB in conversation with Jamie Merchant about WORKING CLASS INDEPENDENCE ahead of another grueling election cycle. Get your tickets here: luma.com/tc972eyv @thiswreckage.bsky.social @jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Chicago is excited to be hosting the first national convention of the Independent Labor Club this August! That means we have less on the public calendar than some previous months, but there are still plenty of opportunities to make new friends, learn new things, and get involved! luma.com/ChicagoILC
damn it's almost like the people who were saying you can't just rewind capitalism 5-6 years ago were exactly right www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Almost $1 Billion Later, the US Still Can’t Make a Medical Glove
The failure of a program to produce 100% American nitrile gloves shows the difficulty of reviving US manufacturing
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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
I don’t understand how so many motherfuckers are still analyzing foreign policy as if nothing much has changed except for US “reliability.” You stupid assholes—any government that produces official conspiracy theories based on nonsense and then directs repressive power accordingly is fucked 🚨🚨🚨
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w agoRubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
"How to be Normal About Exercise," offers a way through the awkward swoletariat jokes by clarifying the relationships of physical activity and exercise, to capitalist social relations. Read it now on our website ahead of Issue 3 heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
How to Be Normal About Exercise; or, Why Communists Need Exercise Science | Heatwave
There is no inherent link between exercising and fighting for a better world, nor is there one in rejecting it. There is only the reality that physical fitness constitutes one of many material constra...
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Read this excellent piece on exercise and Left culture and then sign up for our upcoming STRENGTH CLINIC! This will be a super chill, all-skill-levels welcome opportunity to learn some new skills and make some new friends ✨ luma.com/rhauwac2
STRENGTH CLINIC · Luma
The Independent Labor Club of Chicago is holding a STRENGTH CLINIC! ‣ Safely learn lifting fundamentals ‣ Develop a solid foundation for growth ‣ All ages &…
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Heatwave Magazine@htwvmag.bsky.social · last mo.Why does it feel so weird to talk about exercise and left politics? Want to get beyond the dichotomy of overly optimistic lifting for the rev and overly pessimistic rejection of all exercise as social domination?
Yesterday's Resume Review Clinic at CPL's Chicago Works Job Fair went so well! Mutual aid activities like this are an important part of what we're building as the ILC. Check out our other events and ways to get involved here: ilclabor.com/chapters/ilc...
Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
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Ahh crap. This is a sad one. Brilliant actor, good bloke. 7news.com.au/entertainmen...
Beloved actor and Jurassic Park star Sam Neill dies aged 78
Neill only recently revealed he was living cancer free with his family saying the loss was ‘sudden and unexpected’.
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"The AI economic-financial complex has become a tangled, impenetrable thicket...Yet, everywhere one looks, one sees dead ends and unpredictable variables which – however they play out – will have dire consequences for some, if not for everyone." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Frédéric Lordon, Awaiting the Crash? — Sidecar
On the AI bubbles.
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Join us in Chicago next month for a live podcast recording of This Wreckage, with Sean KB in conversation with Jamie Merchant about WORKING CLASS INDEPENDENCE ahead of another grueling election cycle. Get your tickets here: luma.com/tc972eyv @thiswreckage.bsky.social @jamiemerchant.bsky.social
The hosts of @thiswreckage.bsky.social, A.M. Gittlitz & Sean KB, visited our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive
The Verso Archive featuring This Wreckage
The hosts of This Wreckage (A.M. Gittlitz & Sean KB) visit our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive, sharing memories of the Verso Loft and discussing some of the t...
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Can there be a negative dialectic of energy? How does the concept of energy relate to the history of capitalism? And what is nature anyways? Come find out! www.versobooks.com/products/334...
Working Nature
Daniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrialization...
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Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/
Let AI Burn
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...
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hardest rt ever
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w agoToday’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/
they just had a world cup yesterday. having all these world cups in a row cheapens the experience
the Platner debacle will keep happening in different ways until we figure how how to represent ourselves as a class without relying on populist candidates hand picked and manufactured by the progressive nonprofit industry
has there ever been a man so effective at demolishing the vibe. historic scarer of the hoes
Do you know anyone in Iowa? If they are: 1. Working class 2. Into making friends and having a good time 3. Sick of everything but also tired of voting for boot lickers Tell them to check out the newly forming Iowa branch of the Independent Labor Club! forms.gle/K2x2i7zkfV5H...
Independent Labor Club of Iowa
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Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.
love to be in my self-driving car when it careens off the road for no reason and slams into a house at 60 mph
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last mo.U.S. auto-safety regulators have opened an investigation into a fatal wreck involving a Tesla that crashed into a home Friday evening and killed one person inside. Read more: on.wsj.com/3QTWqLn
JOYCE MESSIER - “Indeed. There is a term of endearment they coined for it. In the Dolorian century, when humanity was *high* on this world, discovering more and more of it -- these archipelagos included...” YOU - “What is it?” JOYCE MESSIER - “Elysium.”
