Delia B
@notdelilah.bsky.social
I research armed conflict & economic justice in the Horn of Africa. Fearlessly critical & post-liberal. My views only.
I know there's a lot of passion to help fix what is ailing America. Here's one thought. You live in a school district. See if your district is holding an election for school board this year. If so, find out if there is a pro-public education candidate. If so, do something to support--put up a
The US military industrial complex has rooted itself in Scotland and its historic usage as a playground for British oil and weapons development, making us all complicit by coercion
This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest
The US President says Maduro has been
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Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.* People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off. Special relationship - alive and kicking.
55 grades exams and I’m no longer sure what international relations even are (is? Was?). Also, is “liberalist” a word????
Shedding nerd tears at this. What an incredible family (In Mahmood Mamdani’s “Citizen and Subject”)
Time to reread this seminal work in honor of his son’s victory. Happy Zohran week!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11mo agoThank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
Thinking more about how the West’s humanitarian aid, esp. “food security & livelihoods”, was set up in war-torn countries in large part to create conditions for capitalist expansion. Now many are experiencing the alienation, displacement, & culture death that comes w/ economic “formalization”
Diversity, community, revolutionary culture, artisan donuts, mad hoards of pigeons—Glasgow is home for this former Northern Californian/New Yorker ❤️
These are my @sgsah.bsky.social photo competition submissions, despite not being anything close to a photographer. Gorgeous ride from Cumbrae to Arran yesterday aboard the Waverly; after a huge dolphin pod sighting we arrived back at Millport to a pipe band 🥹
Though have to say, Picking up industrial remains (glass, concrete, piping..) across the way from a decommissioned nuclear plant feels…ominous? But correct for Scotland’s post-industrial/late capitalist crisis
The truth revealed below. Yes, AI will have societal benefits. But left unchecked, the downside will drown the upside. CEOs are going to lay off millions of workers and then use the savings to supersize the concentration of wealth and economic power.
Someone today referred to the fight over USAID as "do we help the right people or do we help the white people" and god damn that's still in my head
I love this phenomenon of registered Republicans doing research in search of truth, uncovering networks of political pay offs & accidentally ending up socialists. More of this! ❤️
The mainstream media narrative is neoliberal capitalism—not socialism, not conservatism, not classical liberalism. News media won’t expose system failure due to misled austerity AND it won’t overtly support racism—it’ll protect a “middle” open market+mass/margina. labor+private property at all costs
No but it’s actually crazy how this country 🇬🇧 has been led to believe immigrants, and not the wholesale severing of economic ties with its biggest trade partner(s) 🇪🇺, is the reason for the fiscal crisis gahhhh
So we may not have won the local by-election in the 'traditional' sense 😅 but we did incredibly well, and due to our phenomenal team, the bestest of candidates in Q, and for the party's future, it feels like a victory 🌱💚 THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has been involved @qmanivannan.bsky.social
Wake up call for the DNC: Stop ignoring us, start embracing progressive politics, and move the damn needle
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...
Thanks to the lovely folks (and cohort mates <3) at E-IR for having me on their #BISA2025 Day 2 recap! In case you’re interested in hearing my ramblings on the evolution of political economy of conflict research, this one’s for you: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/19/e...
E-IR x BISA – Day 2
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast.
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At #BISA2025, my first academic conference as a PhD student. Feeling inspired by just how many of the neocolonial, “rational” walls of the discipline have fallen in the last years & grateful for others’ work that now allows me to unabashedly study/criticize capitalist transformation in war settings
