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Fancy becoming a progressive university executive? Flirted with Foucault? Dabbled in Deleuze? Here is your professional denouement.

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American nazis affronted by nazi saluting Dumpists. It is just too nazi for them. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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We have a Prime Minister who wants to fight Russia but won’t say boo to a big orange goose.

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#Bluesky is "certainly a much better place for academics to be than Elon Musk’s X. It would be a mistake to assume it will stay that way, given the forces likely to drive enshittification". @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social at markcarrigan.net/2025/02/13/a...

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This is misreading what Trump is trying to do. The negotiations aren’t about rewarding Russian aggression, they are about American aggression and carving up spheres of control. Russia gets the east, the USA plunders the West.

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NEWS: We’re reviewing our partnership with Trump University.

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Ominous stuff from Dump. How long does Zelenskyy have left, what will be the means of his defenestration and who or what will succeed him?

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The #maskedsinger seems to have E Lawn on as guest judge. I could tell it was going fascist right from the outset.

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Alas, the clever, kind, tranquil people are being comprehensively trounced by the stupid, vicious, angry people. Hmm. 🤔 School life as a theory of global political economy?

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Highly recommended for a glimpse of the future.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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BREAKING: The British government has decided it does not want to accept Palestinian refugees, but it’s quite happy to keep supplying Israel with the weapons that create them x

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If even Thrift thinks this, something really must be terribly wrong.

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To conceal their anti-Black racism? Are they trying to conceal it, or make it respectable?

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Devolution isn’t just about economic growth. It should also be about listening to local communities, maximising their input into the decisions that affect them. So far, that aspect of devolution has been ignored. Our Director’s letter in The Guardian 👇

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Well, obviously. The destruction of reason and truth is the raison d’être of the far right. “Flood the zone with shit”. Imperfect and flawed as it is, the purpose of the left is the reverse.

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"When you erode Welsh culture you erode Wales. The arts are not a “nice to have”; they are vital. Urgent change is needed or else the land of song risks being finally silenced." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If only being owned on social media equated to being comprehensively defeated.

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I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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Good piece by Judith Butler, www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Seems to me that the immediate future will be bouts of authoritarian state capitalism juxtaposed with bouts of authoritarian market capitalism. Anyhbow, this commentator overlooks the fact that we have yet to try soaking the rich. The day Mr Mogg has nothing left, we can talk about tax cuts.

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"In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times". Brecht, The Svenborg Poems

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Cedric Durand on "techno-feudalism", the latest and hopefully last (if not the "highest") stage of capitalism. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Long Covid: Why the terms ‘brain damage’ and ‘brain inflammation’ better describe the cognitive limitations of my long Covid brain, not ‘brain fog’ @counsellingsam.bsky.social

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With the demise of twitter, I spend more time with the toxic positivity of #linkedin. Just to publicise work stuff. But can anyone explain how it is, with all the excitement, empowerment and outstanding leadership we get over there, that the West is dragging the entire world into a new dark age?

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An old piece in The Atlantic on Dump's faux religiosity, of which it is no surprise that the religious right is very well aware. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Haaretz: "Netanyahu is neither a king nor a genius, and Trump's Gaza plan humiliated him". www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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I can't see this being anything other than disastrous for Labour. I had to look twice to realise it isn't actually a "Reform" poster. They might as well write Farage a cheque. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The Lucy Letby case has one thing in common with Birminham bombings convictions. Both were heavily dependent on the evidence of a single expert witness.

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ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.

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“Saudi Arabia responded by saying that it would not establish ties with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state” (Spectator). Is this a choreographed response? I don’t believe Dump intends to occupy Gaza himself.

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“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

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Good luck with that. I guess this is a test of those “guardrails”. Not to mention the gumption of Trump‘s opponents, which has so far been conspicuous in its absence.

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Is this, like the tariffs, creating a position to climb down from so as to move forward "normalisation" with the Saudi dictatorship? A case of trying to conjure up power Dump won't actually have unless his (mostly supine) opponents allow it? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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