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If you're interested in understanding imperialism, we've got a big piece coming out tomorrow (3/25) we're all excited about.

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ICYMI: @benfteresa.bsky.social 's entry in our Abolish Rent Dossier is still live on our website. We'll have another addition to the dossier by Zara Cadoux this Friday (3/28).

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Spectre's own Shireen Akram Boshar writing for @truthout.org.

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I'd honestly be shocked if "results-first, law-second legal hack" wasn't Alito's Twitter bio.

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The stage of capitalism where people who protest against a failing car company are sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.

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ICYMI: @wilsonj.bsky.social 's review essay on Streeck's Taking Back Control and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social 's Endgame is still live on our website.

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Hey y'all! We've got another entry in our Abolish Rent ( @city.bsky.social, Leonardo Vilchis, @haymarketbooks.org ) dossier up on our website. Drawing on Abolish Rent, @benfteresa.bsky.social argues that policy needs to become a "way station for tenant power." spectrejournal.com/from-policy-...

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youtube.com/watch?v=vMsE... This first episode from @projectghostlight.bsky.social was great. The pace @alexanderward.bsky.social maintains in the first scene was phenomenal. (Also, as always, someone play Vamps with me!)

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That Vivek Chibber “end of wokeness” podcast that was the subject of justified derision last month begins with the NYU sociologist making a snide quip about how “the dark night of fascism has not yet descended,” which has not aged well.

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"Tesla has recalled every Cybertruck it has sold in the US after admitting that the glued-on panels on the unconventional pick-up truck have been falling off..." lol. lmao www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

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ICYMI: @malcontent.bsky.social 's contribution to our dossier on @city.bsky.social and Leonardo Vilchis's 's Abolish Rent ( @haymarketbooks.org ) is still live on our website. We'll be adding another piece to the dossier the dossier by @benfteresa.bsky.social this Friday (3/21).

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The third session of Social Reproduction Theory Lab with Dr Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History at Barnard College, NY, is available on YouTube now: youtu.be/Wi-0m106A58 @JournalSpectre @DrTithi1917 @Vipanchika6

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I have a new essay with @journalspectre.bsky.social in which I survey two texts that I take as illustrative of our moment in history. Personally this essay was a moment to reflect and think through some problems that have been bugging me for some time now.

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This week we have @wilsonj.bsky.social's review essay, focusing on nationalism and Wolfgang Streeck's Taking Back Control ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) and @jamiemerchant.bsky.social's Endgame ( @reaktionbooks.bsky.social , @uchicagopress.bsky.social ). spectrejournal.com/nationalism-...

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Spectre's publication manager Ashley Smith interviewing Joseph Daher and Ramah Kudaimi for the latest episode of Solidarity without Exception. @therealnews.com, @ukrainesolidus.bsky.social

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ICYMI: Giorgi Kartvelishvili and Giorgi Khasaia's piece on the political dynamics shaping the antigovernment protest movement in Georgia is still live on our website.

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“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.

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what is this "leftists melt when exposed to ideas they dont like" shit. im exposed to ideas i dont like when i catch half an episode of BONES. theres ideas i dont like printed on the side of a chipotle bag probably

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www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-wa... Womp wonp

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I really miss the days before I knew who Timothy Chillerton Wedgeworth was.

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I hope Columbia never recovers from its capitulation to these fascists. It is not only allowing the state to kidnap its students but it’s serving them up on a silver platter. Disgusting cowardice.

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In "Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?" my latest on @journalspectre.bsky.social I wrote about @city.bsky.social & Leonardo Vilchis's Abolish Rent & Kristin Ross's The Commune Form, starting from a revived communist theme via @tenantpower.bsky.social—the abolition of the separation of town and country

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spectrejournal.com/convivir-a-syn… We've got an entry in our Abolish Rent dossier live. Drawing on Abolish Rent (@haymarketbooks.org) and Kristin Ross's The Commune Form (@versobooks.bsky.social), @malcontent.bsky.social argues that communism must traverse the rural/urban divide.

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Didn't think I'd be so bummed to see the US political class commit collective suicide, but here we are.

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Columbia has expelled the president of @swcolumbia.bsky.social, a HELU member org, for participation in Palestine solidarity activism. This comes less than 24 hours before SWC's first bargaining session. We stand with SWC-UAW against this illegal interference in bargaining. uaw.org/in-shocking-...

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🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

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"Abducting and detaining Mahmoud Khalil is an outrageous assault on free speech, due process, and immigrant communities. Mahmoud is a student, husband, and soon-to-be father legally residing in the U.S. By arresting and detaining him without due process..." April Verrett statement: seiu.co/4irJQLN

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Accommodating fascists only aids fascists...so, do not accommodate them

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Sean Larson analyses the German election results: revsoc21.uk/2025/03/07/g...

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Turns out Shai Davidai was a bigger threat to Columbia students than any protest.

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This dude just vibes-ed his way to the paradox of tolerance and was like "nah, don't see it."

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ICE out of our communities, by any means necessary.

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Hey y'all! For the next bit, we'll also be posting new pieces on Fridays! Our very own @magalintzin.bsky.social has assembled a dossier on @city.bsky.social and Leonardo Vilchis's Abolish Rent ( @haymarketbooks.org) We'll be beginning the dossier this Friday (3/14) with @malcontent.bsky.social

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I have some reservations about the suggested downplaying of the EU-driven reforms’ importance to the economic improvement, but this is one of the rare pieces on Georgia’s political crisis that moves beyond formulaic liberal analysis while also steering clear of reductive, campist takes.

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Hey y'all! This week we've got Giorgi Kartvelishvili and Giorgi Khasaia writing on the antigovernment protest movement in Georgia. spectrejournal.com/neoliberal-g...

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At least a couple hundred of us on the quad right now: students, faculty and staff united against handing our university to the fascists.

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What is the state for? Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social for a free virtual event THIS WEDNESDAY, in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas through the @caseygrants.bsky.social Book Club. March 12 at 3 pm ET/ 12 pm PT Sign up here: tinyurl.com/2ykuxt5s

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UChicago and Chicago, see you on the streets tomorrow. We keep each other safe.

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Hey y'all, Spectre's publication manager Ashley Smith has a new podcast, cohosted by Blanca Missé. Thanks to @therealnews.com and @ukrainesolidus.bsky.social for organizing the show.

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Happy International Women's Day! If you haven't already, give Robin Peterson's defense of feminist antioppression politics a read.

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Alex Gendler interviewing Adam Hanieh for the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2025/03/fiel...

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