Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
incredible biological changes occurring at the PRC around the year 2000.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4d agoexplicit endorsement of white genetic superiority from musk
The “exceptional” success of the superstar, the way Arday’s story was initially presented, not only fits with the growing commodification of education, it feeds a base desire that almost all of us have. But community is what makes academia worthwhile. kojokoram.substack.com/p/letter-to-...
Letter to the Young Black Scholar in the Age of Arday
There has been so much ink spilled about Professor Jason Arday over the past week, enough that ultimately, it seems to have led to a life drowning underneath it all.
kojokoram.substack.com
I think we should bring back shame and also that a society must discourage baldfaced lying to keep functioning and I am not the only one
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agosomeone is repeatedly yelling “shame!” and “lies!” in the background as Lutnick tries to hold a press conference
this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan
state capitalism is even stupider than neoliberalism
Nikkei Asia (Official)@asia.nikkei.com · last wk.Saudi Arabia, France agree on $7bn 'Dragon Ball Z' theme park project near Paris https://asia.nikkei.com/business/media-entertainment/saudi-arabia-france-agree-on-7bn-dragon-ball-z-theme-park-project-near-paris
also it assumes that a debate is a discussion, which it is not.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk."debate me" is often predicated on the idea that spoken, or at least real time, discussion is somehow a unique path to truth. 1
coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with
Babadookakis@ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 2w agoKaren Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.
one weird beef that I have is that it is not legally mandatory to write for a living. if you don't like writing for a living, maybe do another job? I hate editing, but it is part of the fact that I chose to be a professional writer for 40% of my job, so I have to do it?
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2w agoApparently people are using LLMs to edit longer drafts into shorter drafts. This is the stupidest fucking thing ever* *it’s a competitive field they’re all the worst
Many black students I knew at Bate were from immigrant backgrounds. Harper perhaps never spoke with them frankly. We did. They all had stories. The idea that they imagined persecution while peacefully frolicking on an idyllic campus is pure fantasy. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Just one day left to submit your abstracts for this year's meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies: lpeproject.org/events/cfp-m... This year we focus on the role of law in right- and left-leaning world building visions and experiments.
CFP – Making and Breaking Worlds: Old and New Struggles in Law and Political Economy
Neoliberalism – understood both as a political philosophy and as an actually-existing model of governing capitalism – appears to be in terminal decline. The renewed acceptability of industrial policy…
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I hate reality, because I don't care about international criminal law, I don't want to care about international criminal law, but also I need to make something of the fact that ICC judges are under sanctions and ICJ judges are not, and this presses hard against my worldview, and I have that.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w agoTrump administration ramps up campaign against International Criminal Court, sanctions court president Tomoko Akane of Japan u.afp.com/SHVr
as I say often in other contexts too: they are not f*cking; it's so much worse than that.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago[seinfeld voice] what is the deal with natalie harp youtu.be/XqpTkbNRAjY
Mamdani wants to make it easier for consumers to cancel gym memberships and magazine subscriptions…so, just like Trump’s authoritarian overreach.
Mediamorphis@mediamorphis.bsky.social · 2mo agoLina Khan and Zohran Mamdani bring click-to-cancel to New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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there is nothing that I won't blame Protestantism for, and I am glad that The Culture is catching up. Stop bothering Jesus, you freaks, and please direct your prayers to the saint in charge of the relevant subject-matter.
Bill DiFilippo@billdifilippo.bsky.social · 2mo agoupdate:
people often pit informal social rules (norms, culture) against formal ones (laws, regulations). But the formal rules don't enforce themselves and a culture of shameless impunity is not likely to produce, empower, or embolden the people whose job it is to do so
GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸@genxjamerican.com · 2mo agoA story of elite impunity
my crankiest Marxist take is that Bourdieu has a lot to answer for re the total deformation of class analysis over the past decades that has tech bros and mining magnates denounce 'the elites' aka a precarious university worker.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2mo agoPositions of public influence rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M! Get the willingness to espouse, liberal progressive ideas, y’all
the end of Western geopolitical supremacy is so f*cking funny
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2mo agoEven the Mail's now taking the p*ss.
PhD candidate's achievements are theirs alone, but I can still be a bit boastful by association as the wonderful Aman Kumar is heading to Yale supported by a Fox International Fellowship: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve...
PhD student heading to Yale, and into the archives | ANU Law School
PhD student Aman Kumar has received the 2026 Fox International Fellowship to spend 10 months at Yale at the MacMillan Centre and its South Asia Centre. It was not a straightforward path for Aman to s...
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The appalling reality of the cheating machine is that students will cheat if they can use it, and then fail any exam where they cannot. Nobody benefits from this except for the people who negotiate enterprise AI accounts for universities.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2mo ago