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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · 11d

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · 23d

Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler

In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · 27d

Prig and Pig | Patrick Blanchfield

It’s a memoir of a rolling-thunder disaster that’s still ongoing, the full wreckage of which could lead us practically anywhere.

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · 27d

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Sep 26

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Sep 22

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy.

To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024...

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · Sep 16

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has found that Israel has the genocidal intent to destroy, wholly or partly, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide

This is a breaking news story.

www.aljazeera.com

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · Sep 16

#BREAKING 🚨 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry

The report has found Israeli authorities have "intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible" and committed the crime against humanity of extermination

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Sep 16

Nav Pillay: "The Genocide Convention was born out of humanitys darkest chapters. Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency"

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Sep 14

“Fascism was not simply a conspiracy—although it was that—but it was something that came to life in the course of a powerful social development. Language provides it with a refuge. Within this refuge, a smoldering evil expresses itself as though it were salvation.”

– Theodor Adorno

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Sep 13

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Hospital's children in war event cancelled amid safety fears

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital says a symposium on the effect of war on children has been cancelled due to safety fears, but some doctors say pressure from a group opposing antisemitism is to b...

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Sep 10

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...

leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Sep 10

Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany

In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · Aug 30

Rafael posted an advertisement video in July for its SpikeFly drone showing it chasing a man and exploding, apparently actual footage from Gaza. It was deleted from its account but not before being downloaded and reposted by others.
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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Aug 17

Jonathan Coe · Don’t we all want to be happy? Satie against Solemnity

Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later...

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leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nick Richardson · Velvet Gentleman: Erik Satie

There are many kinds of eccentric and Satie was most of them...

leecemee.bsky.social @leecemee.bsky.social · Aug 12

Let me guess - the bridge has been privatised?