I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

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We have built our houses, our infrastructure and cities for a planet that no longer exists. On the same scale: The summer of 1976 compared with the summer of 2025. theconversation.com/we-recreated...

For Field Notes, I wrote a history of the anti-deportation movement that, for now, culminated in defeating the White House's "surge" deportation operations in the Twin Cities earlier this year. This defeat halted the domestic momentum of the Trump administration. brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...

On DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26 | The Brooklyn Rail

Over the past several years many had forgotten, or were in denial, that not only is the US a nation of immigrants but that everyone in the US relies on immigrants, directly or indirectly, every single...

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Wrote a review of @ueberdruss.bsky.social excellent Working Nature. Go read it, it’s a book that should have been written decades ago, when the ecosocialist current was just starting to get going. Also one for all the Sohn-Rethel heads out there.

‘Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy’ by Daniela Russ reviewed by Andrzej Frelek

The concept of energy is omnipresent in theoretical writing on the relationship between society and nature. Historically, for some time it even served as the primary means of approaching the problem i...

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“Repression around speech is part of the new Red Scare,” he said. “Being a Black, leftist philosopher, I’m a target.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Texas professor reinstated after firing over Palestine talk says ‘I didn’t do anything wrong’

Texas State ordered by judge to continue paying Idris Robinson after he was fired for talk he gave in another state

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New preface for Forest and Factory, titled "The Immortal Science," to inaugurate the French edition is available (in English) to read now. Links in replies. Special thanks to @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.

"We know well that disabled people have much to lose (and potentially gain) in the outcome of this fight. But we know, too, that the battle lines in this fight are not primarily between disabled people and the home care workers."

My colleague Ryan Lee and I been working for the past 6 months on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. Our first working paper, "Choice under value pluralism," is below. Please read, share, and comment! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

¡Oficialmente Doctora en Economía por @ucm.es !

12/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

Jeremy Cliffe@jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

all time photo editor performance

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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

New post: thechinalab.substack.com/p/hot-cheap-...

Hot, Cheap, and Out of Control

The green tech revolution is canonically chaotic good

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New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters forced federal police to retreat from the intersection where they were concentrated. They’ve totally barricaded the street with dumpsters.

Silicon Empires is out today in the US! For anyone interested, I'm resharing this thread outlining some of the key arguments of the book.

Nick Srnicek@nsrnicek.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

ICE murdered a woman a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in 2020.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

ICE officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in a car, but details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials. The shooting took place about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Follow updates.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

phases.substack.com/p/the-price-... Part 1 of 3 posts on price, value, and oil. this part is just about getting the transformation problem out of the way

The Price-Value Discrepancy in Marx's Capital and Its Relevance for Understanding Oil, Part I

Notes on The Transformation Problem

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David F. Noble wrote a book in the 1970s about how capitalism shapes technology and it's use in the interest of profit against the interest of workers ("Forces of Production. A Social History of Industrial Automation."). He was fired from MIT and Smithsonian Institution because of it.

the right to expropriate and the fight over compensation are key terrains of geopolitical conflict and will be even more so in future struggles over land and climate

Nicholas Beuret@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“ExxonMobil's assets were expropriated by Venezuela in 2007. It was awarded $1.6bn by an arbitration panel in 2014, while last yr a tribunal dismissed Venezuela’s request to annul a $8.37bn awarded to ConocoPhillips over the expropriation of its projects” tinyurl.com/3mzn96te

1. Look, there are basically just two ways to run the global oil market: petro-imperialism and petro-consumerism. Historically USA has embraced both, varying over time. The attack on #Venezuela is a return to naked petro-imperialism. Thread.

climate implications of what's happening now (US controlling venezuela's oil reserves) are unimaginably bad

A great day overall for fossil capital. Trump is less worried about who exactly will lead the Venezuelan government, even saying Machado won’t have the respect to govern Venezuela. What matters is that US oil companies get to drill and sell oil to other countries too.

The abduction of a head of state and the unprovoked attack on Venezuela are extremely dangerous. This is the most naked form of imperialism, which - if unopposed and unresisted - puts every country and government at the mercy of the US, and any other powerful country that tries to copy it. 1/

What if the urgency surrounding Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not just about oil, but about the end of US oil? What if this is a desperate attempt to hold onto US oil dominance after loosing the fight to dominate green capitalism? 1/6

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

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Daniela Russ - Working Nature A History of the Energy Economy À paraître en avril chez Verso

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime

Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

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New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”

Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival

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