The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Well that's a bit on the nose.

this guy has it

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last mo.

I like my chances against Mike Rogers😊

I don’t know how much it landed outside the city, but one of Zohran’s first big breakout campaign moments was when he jumped into the water in a suit at Coney Island for the Polar Bear Plunge back when he was polling at <2%

Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · last mo.

New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.

🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!"

Axios@axios.com · last mo.

"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?

Re-sharing @ronakkapadia.bsky.social post, which hits queer & trans* studies, medical humanities, disability justice & abolitionist thought, among others cc @edrabinski.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social - pls reshare

RKK@ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

"Surviving the Long Wars" takes on new, surreal, ridiculous, epic, infuriating, humiliating, heart-wrenching, and nervous-system-destroying meanings by the minute.

It feels so absolutely silly to be working on a book project about expanding infrastructures of breathable life in a moment when the most powerful demonic forces on the planet are trying to destroy life-sustaining infrastructure everywhere you look… bleak, exhausting, ridiculous times.

Should I get critical feedback from writer friends on a grant proposal I've been feverishly working on for the past week, or just turn it in way ahead of schedule to be over and done with it? A memoir.

Academic pals: looking for inspo and seeking examples of your favorite "second monographs"? In grad school, mine was always Saidiya Hartman's LOSE YOUR MOTHER for its style and substance swerving away from traditional expectations toward creative non-fiction and something more. What are your faves?

Sunday thotsicle: the impending strategic defeats of US/Israel in Iran/West Asia may lead to the accelerated crumbling of US empire, but not without further pain/misery for people around the Global South as well as minoritized people in the imperial core.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

NPR@npr.org · 5mo ago

The push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z. n.pr/3PD5bZ6

This #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth, we’re excited to announce that our new oral history website is live! Featuring 100+ hours of interviews of people living with #LongCOVID. We’re building a living history of Long COVID, and bringing voices from the margins to the center. ListeningForTheLongHaul.org

You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?

If you filter your water in your home, but not your indoor air, you’re doing it wrong. Humans drink about 2 to 3 L of water a day but they breathe in about 11,000 L of air! Ventilate and filtrate, folks. You’re welcome.

We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!

We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator

But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values

qasimrashid.com

How do we get every (yt) liberal a CRASH course in abolition, state violence, counter/insurgencies, settler colonialism, disability justice, & racial capitalism??0? Like June 2020-style study & collectivism? BC the political regression is painful. We gotta retool for the remainder of this decade.

I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.

I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We're Tracking Them All.

The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

theintercept.com

Shaming rarely works on most people, so I will simply say: follow the facts, both scientific and economic, for they tell the same story: The pandemic is far from over. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading; COVID-19 is still disabling millions today. It's never too late to align one's conduct with reality.

C.H. Romatowski@chromatowski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Whew.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

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