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It is notable that China hasn't tried straightforward bribery like this with Trump to get a trade deal. It seems likely to work and Xi doesn't have to worry that he'd face corruption charges

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Think we should just keep feeding Bourdieu into the machine until smoke starts to hiss out the back

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Such strategic genius, get everyone in the world to hate you and nearly crater the global economy so you can end up with pretty much the same tariffs as before

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Some Milei fan opened a branch of his party in Madrid, they've received a warm welcome "Nazis Fuera!"

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The defenders of the remnants of neoliberalism are now under very little pressure to maintain the pretense of ethical production/consumption

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This will be incredible

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Haha this is the exact same thing Chinese universities have done when they don't like student activism. Idealistic 19 year olds are obv extremely receptive to their parents telling them to behave

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

For the last two months, the Israeli military has not allowed a single aid truck into the Gaza Strip, depriving Palestinians in Gaza from lifesaving food, medicine, water, and other essentials after they have already endured 18 months of devastation.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely horrifying case where the boss reported their own workers to ICE for unionizing. Labor movement cannot sit out the attack on immigrants

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It's 'Victory' Day this week, when we celebrate that initial defeat of fascism of the 1940s, when ideas like annexing land through genocide were deemed too barbaric. International law, the UN - all of those nice ideas cheapened by both Russia in Ukraine and Israel in Palestine.

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"Beware of authoritarian mercantilist regimes bearing gifts,” Navarro said. ... powerful message coming from an authoritarian mercantilist regime bearing no gifts

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Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Went to a surprisingly good Chinese place in Casablanca that was exactly like a fancy restaurant in a small city in China circa 2005, the music, the plastic flowers, even the smell weirdly took me right back

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Lots of recent calls for mass protest in the US haven't explained how the resulting crowds can help produce better outcomes. This piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social talks about why that's a problem and offers a theory of change that has important implications for movement strategy.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Look at this video: a huge crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Unfair to Trojan Horses, they at least tried for the element of surprise, everyone can see what's happening here

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A key element in post-war US hegemony in East Asia was investment leading to jobs and development. Chinese capital hasn't yet had that effect in allied countries, but Cambodia will be a key case

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@anveebhutani.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com in our latest addition to our United States of Suppression series: international students like Cornell's Momodou Taal already faced deportation over the Trump admin's targeting of pro-Palestine protesting; now others are scrambling for legal advice

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Love that even during blackout panic buying Spaniards were unwilling to take the weird Swedish crackers, everyone knows that's not food

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Amazing how Madrid's citizenry engaged in spontaneous, mass rejection of open container laws the moment the power went out

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

It is my duty to point out that Chongqing is not anywhere close to the biggest city in the world

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Miller is, as this article points out, a political outlier for his demographic. But he is also an indicator of how a segment of US Jewry has aligned with white nationalism in a way pretty much unthinkable a generation ago

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This is the Sean O'Brien speaking at the RNC of the mayoral race

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Solidarity to the striking sanitation workers of Madrid!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"The ministry also said the cancellation of the contract would leave the Guardia Civil police force without the bullets they needed to fulfil their duties." Two birds one stone

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone will lose from this trade war of choice, but China's factory workers are feeling the effects earliest and most intensely

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment