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The closure of CLL at York is a huge loss, as Joe says — I also had a wonderful experience co-teaching there with @earlymodernemma.bsky.social during my PhD. We were supported so well by Centre staff and learned a lot from the brilliant students who attended. Very sad and frustrating news.

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The revolt against the car park in our neighbourhood that has raised its prices has reached a new phase.

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On Agency is indeed an absolutely extraordinary piece of scholarship. The final paragraph...

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I've had the pleasure of getting to know Pollyanna, Rebecca and Elsa over the years and their work is some of the most exciting in US environmental history!

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this is awful. I loved teaching at CLL; it was such a wonderful way to make academic research accessible to a broader audience and was an invaluable source of experience in course design and management for ECRs. a huge blow to Uni of York's mission to serve its community.

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The cursed spectrum of current British political discourse in a nutshell.

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Congratulations to Andrew Cuomo for his forthcoming permanent slot as a representative of the left on the Rest is Politics.

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And if somehow Mamdani was allowed to stand, Cuomo would be elevated immediately to the House of Lords and would be Work and Pensions Secretary by the end of the year. Probably editor of the Evening Standard a few years after.

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Or at least in the US, no matter how awful and debased the Democratic Party, there is at least still some kind of mechanism for stopping Cuomo from winning.

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Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

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New York ❤️

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1970s screen time.

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I mean of course not right? Gets tiring saying this but… Japanese internment? Dred Scott? Obama’s extrajudicial assassination of a US citizen? These things need to be recognised as internal to US history and resisted even more for exactly that reason.

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Chuck Schumer a week ago

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Let's end the week on a high note... I'm off to lovely Montreal for #NACBS 2025 in mid-November. I'll be on a panel entitled 'Visions of the Future in Modern Britain' with m'learned colleagues @lisebutler.bsky.social, @samwetherell.bsky.social and Alex Hill from Sussex... Maybe see you there!

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Does anyone out there have access to this? www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Maybe the best thing I've read all year. Unbearably bleak, darkly, bitterly funny and insightful on the gaudy banality of US border violence. Also makes clear this is nothing new - this was a political moment forged by long the phase of post 9/11 militarisation. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Do people have any reading recommendations for great works (situated anywhere in the world) about the management (or non-management) of populations deemed surplus or disposable? On the lines of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, James Boggs, the literature on "sacrifice zones" etc?

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"The long-term strategy developed in Washington and Tel Aviv has been to use hybrid warfare as a means of de-development: hollowing out Iranian state and society, isolating it diplomatically and rendering it vulnerable to military incursion" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

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A Muslim candidate for mayor of the nation's largest city, defending the rights of a Jewish candidate for mayor, who was arrested for defending the rights of immigrants not to face detention without warrants. This is the kind of solidarity Trump and his goons fear.

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Also, the left is a big homogenous bloc that cannot tolerate the tiniest dissent, that constantly splits over the most minor disagreements

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On top of anything else, the New York Times long read on history and AI is a reminder of just how little actual work US professors actually do. “Using AI to do my research has saved my graduate students hundreds of hours” is just an amazing thing to read.

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Events in California make me think we desperately need a reissue of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Golden Gulag, one of the most important and beautifully written analyses of place written this century and essential to understanding California's modern formation.

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My recommended page on instagram knows that I basically only use that app for one thing.

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