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The situation in national parks is bad & getting a lot of press (yay!!). But the situation in national forests is actually catastrophic & not getting much airtime. Most of the employees in western NC, where I live, who were working on Hurricane Helene recovery were fired. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

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“Some colleagues were told that offering to teach in Kazakhstan might save their jobs. Apparently the university will decimate itself in Cardiff and rebuild itself in Astana. Apparently the university will decimate itself in Cardiff and rebuild itself in Astana.” voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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In retrospect, what’ll eventually tip you over the edge will be ridiculously trivial.

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The Unseriouscene

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“I think you mean 'raises the question,' not 'begs the question',” I whisper weakly as the tide carries me out to sea.

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I shouldn’t be surprised and yet I am by the visceral depth of anti-theory sentiment within the academic humanities.

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My goodness, can you imagine how much wilder the TradCath world is going to get if the pope passes away?

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It’s always been wryly amusing to me that while Africanists are obsessed with corruption to the point of fetishism, one can barely get Americanists to theorize about it (save as a Tammany Hall historical artifact).

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Conservatives—and let’s be honest, liberals—are invested a lot in treating politics as essentially an exercise in moral condemnation.

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Zionism is more than a crime, it is a blunder www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

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Names for cops around the world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Adichie is like Ngugi now. Just purely symbolic, unable to index anything other than herself www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Stuplimity.

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They have painstakingly refined a sophisticated theory of mediation all their lives, metabolized all the classics of Western Marxism, retrieved Korsch, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Colletti, demonstrated the residual vulgarity of Della Volpe in the pages of NLR….and he just…he just seized the state.

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Reflexively reached for Little Dorrit this evening like the dutiful anglophone postcolonial that I am.

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I think what’s remarkable about Bhaskar Sunkara—mind, this is a person who has held the reins of virtually every organ of the socialist chattering classes in the U.S.—is how utterly allergic he is to ideas. Snark aside, can you think of anything he’s written that's remotely generative?

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To everyone chiding the folks who tried to stand w/ Palestinians in the last election, might I remind you that Biden's policy was defacto ethnic cleansing. Trump is just saying the quiet part loud, which is what he's always done. There's no daylight between them when it comes to Palestine policy.

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Imperialist trash — rage pulsing through my body. And all those complicit in the criminalization of moral activism against this genocidal project have blood on their hands as well. Now you’re asking why aren’t people in the streets? We must shut it down.

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Do you think that when the U.S. empire falls the history books will call those of us posting on Bluesky Vandals?

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In terms of a betrayal of trust, I can’t think of something worse than administrators, faculty, staff and students at universities who are collaborating with Trump’s fascist regime in the detention and deportation of pro-Palestinian international students.

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Why did certain sections of the critical humanities so swiftly embrace epigenesis?

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Trudeau’s mobilization of a sentimental realism in this speech to build a transnational intimate public sphere is symptomatic—to stretch Berlant a bit—of a liberalism that is now primarily about a fantasy of world-making carveouts as opposed to a project of world-transforming agency.

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Bethwell Ogot was an imaginative and rigorous authority in oral history, a stringent critic of ethnonationalist and imperialist historiography, a gifted essayist, and a remarkably generous thinker. I hope living and future historians will do his legacy justice www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/natio...

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Still think Michael Mann’s analytic distinction between the despotic and the infrastructural state is of some use but when I went back to reread it this evening I was rudely reminded that mainstream political science really is a foreign country.

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I genuinely thought this was a parody account

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Everyone knows that there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. What this barbarian presupposes is…what if there were no documents?

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I’ve been trying to work on a project that attempts to track keywords of the racial capitalocene but instead of Raymond Williams’s genealogical lexicon it increasingly resembles Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary. Ex: Carbon capture and storage—technology of containment and disposability.

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An atlas of the racial capitalocene: the United States’ Guantanamo Bay, Australia’s Nauru, Greece’s Aegean islands.

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Been a long time since I reminded grad students that they ought to read the Chronicle the way you’d read a memo from the Assistant Vice President to the Provost. You don’t turn to it for intellectual content but to find out what the bosses are planning to cut next.

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There was a time I was fond of quoting Terrence's “nothing human is alien to me” to my students. It’s only later, in an uncanny mimesis of the Kafka joke, that it dawned on me that I was the alien to Humanity.

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Like Kanafani’s Maryam in All That’s Left to You, these many years I’ve found myself crying for no reason at all—or perhaps for everything for which I have no name

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Has Jared Polis always been such a groveling opportunist?

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Ezra Klein here is actually a classic—that is Sartrean— exemplification of bad faith (he is playing, performing impartiality).

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My response to DH Lawrence’s aperçu about the American soul is that, of course, it’s absurd to say there’s such thing as an American soul but also it is manic, incel, sentimental, and a killer.

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We won’t have engaged seriously with the ideological decomposition rivening the planet unless and until we engage with the trans-antagonistic international nation.africa/kenya/news/p...

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I have appreciated The Continent’s reporting but I wish they had editors and writers that can help its readers develop a geopolitical imagination. For example, the story below does not mention Mondlane’s admiration for Trump and Bolsonaro.

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