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Jonathan Shainin

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Hettie O’Brien@hettieobrien.bsky.social · 3w ago

After seven months of spinning multiple plate promoting THE ASSET CLASS on maternity leave, today I’m starting a new role at the Guardian writing the flagship morning newsletter with the brilliant @libbybrooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Guardian announces new writers for flagship newsletters

The Guardian has today announced key appointments for its First Edition and Long Wave newsletters, boosting its newsletter expertise globally.

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Jonathan Shainin@shainin.bsky.social · 3w ago

This Thursday I’ll be in conversation with the legend David Goldblatt for an @equatormag.bsky.social online event on the politics of the American World Cup — free and open to all, 6pm BST / 1pm EST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-cards-...

Red Cards, Fouls and Corruption: The Politics of the 2026 World Cup

The football writer David Goldblatt discusses a tournament riven by geopolitical strife and controversy – and looks ahead to to the final.

eventbrite.co.uk

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 4w ago

“As we look upon burned flesh in Gaza, we are also seeing the rubble of this older version of Western empire. How best to splice the frame, to keep them both in mind, to keep looking?”

Every day for two years, we have seen the material ruins of Gaza: apartment buildings, houses, schools, hospitals, water lines, gardens. Aerial photographs show destruction so total it resembles ash, like the leavings of a fire, which, if you touched them with a finger, might crumble softly. The majority of housing is damaged or uninhabitable, and most people are living in tents, vulnerable not only to Israeli firepower but to the elements, storms, the freezing cold, poor sanitation.
Jonathan Shainin@shainin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two months ago, we published a fantastic essay by Mona Ali on the Hormuz crisis and the emerging picture of a world after American hegemony. The strait is still not open – but America's dollar dominance has not yet collapsed. Tomorrow we're discussing it online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-amer...

After America: Oil, War, and the New World Order

Mona Ali and Dominik Leusder discuss the fallout of the war in the Middle East and the end of American hegemony.

eventbrite.co.uk

asma | اسمإ@livefootnotes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

David Wolf, thank you for introducing me to @equatormag.bsky.social. I haven't stopped reading this magazine since this edition of the SLR. They are consistently producing incredible writing & reporting the most interesting stories I'm reading in (digital) print right now.

The Sunday Long Read@thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Morning! We've got a collection of awesome stories for you curated by this week's guest editor, David Wolf. David is the editor of the Long Read, The Guardian’s flagship longform section. Enjoy his picks! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nasser Abu Srour spent three decades in Israeli jails – but nothing could prepare him for the dehumanising abuse visited on Palestinian prisoners after October 7. This is his account of surviving Ben-Gvir’s torture camps

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I personally would prefer it if Burnham could be swapped in quickly and easily, and it’d probably be better for the nation. But I see no reason why the Greens should now help people who just spent two weeks calling them hateful racist cranks trying to give heroin to children.

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky... • 6h I hope this isn't true. There are times when it's more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham's longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
Jonathan Shainin@shainin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a nice sentiment but there is no such thing as "country before party": how are we all meant to agree on what's good for the country if not through political contests?

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Natalie Scholz, she/her@nataliescholz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"critics of Germany's repressive reading of memory culture are treated as antisemitic – suggesting that the real Staatsräson is not just the protection of Israel, but of German moral purity." Menasse has written a superb analysis of Germany's frightening memory culture malaise.

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“In Germany, the reality of Israel and Gaza, and even the ongoing wars in Iran and Lebanon, is less significant than German guilt, and the subsequent pride in memory culture, which is regarded as a kind of vaccination that will prevent Germans from ever again feeling such guilt.”

Jonathan Shainin@shainin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ok what's the 2026 consensus on posting here vs posting there? is it considered poor form to post the same thing in both places? are some people doing whole separate identities on each site? should i post more Equator links here?