*does not bother sending applicants rejection emails due to “high volume of applications”* *deals with individual follow-up emails* yeah, academia can be smart like that

We have a new blog post from Serde Atalay @serdeatalay.bsky.social 'On Housing, Power, and the Intellectual Joys of Publishing', read it now...

On Housing, Power, and the Intellectual Joys of Publishing

Serde AtalayFaculty of Law, Lund University ‘Housing and Social Control: Reassessing the Protection Asymmetries of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights’, published in Social & Legal Studies about a year ago, is my first international peer-reviewed research article. As such, it holds not only a special place in my academic portfolio, but also in my intellectual growth as a researcher.

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new book chapter out. i wrote this about two years ago. the chapter offers a succinct articulation of some of the ideas that informed my phd thesis, even though those ideas have come a long way since then. you can view the book here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing

Here is something you can do about it

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"I love it. But I don’t quite understand it and what Le Guin was doing with it and how it works. It’s full of very specific time and place that feels absolutely real, as if I read a book set in the 1820s and I could go there now..." —Jo Walton on Malafrena reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

The Istanbul mayor and main opposition Republican People’s Party presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu will stand trial on March 9 as the central defendant in a politically motivated mass corruption prosecution of 407 defendants. New from HRW:

Türkiye: Leading Opponent of Erdoğan on Trial

The Istanbul mayor and presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu will stand trial on March 9, 2026 as the central defendant in a politically motivated mass corruption prosecution, Human Rights Watch said ...

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i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation

Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

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This is a fantastic deep dive analysis of the Epstein Moral Panic/Actual Panic Industrial Complex, happens to be quite feminist, and (as usual) caused a lot of evil cackling in my household. Bravo.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This month's bonus episode is about how "technically it's ephebophilia" went mainstream

My latest post on Substack tells the story of Plymouth's earliest council housing - some of only 24,000 council homes built before the First World War. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

We have not successfully demonized The Atlantic enough.

This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.

Olivia Nuzzi's "American Canto" | If Books Could Kill

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Delaying decent home standards for private renters until 2035 means denying them the most basic standards. It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X

‘Absurd’: decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035

Campaigners say government is letting landlords ‘drag their feet’ and ‘denying renters the most basic standards’

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One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex. Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This man's entire job is to classify one-dimensional right-wing movements as far too complicated to place on the ideological spectrum. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned. period.

Micah@rincewind.run · 7mo ago

over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned from many things and one of them is clearly group chats

In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini

Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.

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"The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable. "

Nate Holdren@nhold.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing. verfassungsblog.de/when-context...

When Context Disappears

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US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7mo ago

Across the U.S., Venezuelans gathered in major cities to celebrate and cautiously muse with relatives back home about what comes next after U.S. forces swept the South American president out of the country on drug-trafficking charges.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

I think this article is fantastic and everyone should read it. bsky.app/profile/pash...

Rob Knox@pashukanist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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....

I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?

Kootenay Greg@kootenaygreg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Nice knowing you all.

A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as: ⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year ⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year ⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here

‘Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’ Michael Wood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Wood · Spellbound Gloaming: Bachelard’s Dreamwork

Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with...

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Finally someone free speech enough to say, “Yes, but are you being fair to the concentration camp?”

Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"We determined it needed additional reporting."