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ZEP holders have won another court victory against the Minister of Home Affairs, but their legal battle to stay in South Africa is far from over. Read groundup.org.za/article/new-... by Tania Broughton

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I worry that recommendation algorithms may be getting too good.

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True of much of Marxism, poststructuralism and mainstream economics. Also, according Sabine Hossenfelder, theoretical physics. The interesting work is often at the margins, with the people working between traditions, at the frontiers of disagreement.

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Zapiro

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This leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I will be canceling my @backlisted.bsky.social subscription until I hear this has been sorted out

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Mr Macron always wants to geopolitics

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Fact-checking the inaccuracies, half-truths and duplicity in the latest Ramaphosa presidential newsletter: www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

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Incisive piece from @nilsgilman.bsky.social on MAGA and the Risk Society. Spot on, I think, and it points to the key issues at stake in the assault on universities and the professional-managerial class more generally.

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So is the fact checking really by Michelle Harris? How would we know?

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In case you wonder how Trump won

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Who is going to play Bix Caleen's daughter in the inevitable #Andor sequel?

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People keep talking about the left needing its own Joe Rogan as if I don't already exist???

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No, the anger is about the willingness of people who should know better to make nonsensical claims

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When the joke goes, um, over your head

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I’m pleased with #Andor writers’ decision to leave behind Lucas’s infantile Good v Evil framing and to explore, instead, the idea that rebellion is political

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The Great #Tsek, according to Zapiro

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lots of wonderful geographers celebrated by the @rgsibg.bsky.social yesterday - honoured to be in their company. check out the full list here: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.

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Hello––Is A River Alive? is published in the US & Canada on 20 May. I am coming on tour––dates & locations below––& would love to speak of the book’s ideas, people & rivers to as many folk as possible while I'm out there. Please let anyone know who you think might want to come to an event. Cheers!

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I have never been able to understand why David Graeber has such a stellar reputation.

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

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In which it is discovered that the Pope is, in fact, Catholic

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The Trump administration wants startups to remake the US military, setting the stage for a battle over the world’s biggest defense budget

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An audience with His Majesty

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I don't have much fondness for the Roman #Catholic Church (we were Huguenots) but look at the list of #popes. You gotta hand it to those wobbly old uncles - in terms of institutional longevity, they hold the candle. Almost 2000 years pretty much uninterrupted. That's a lorra #patriarchy,

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FdB on Best Whiteism. The demographic reductionism Freddie pillories in this furiously angry piece is of course the direct descendant, dumbed down and flattened even more, of the Stalinist class essentialism that characterised the writing of an earlier generation of so-called leftists.

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