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happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
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verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
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This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.
Olivia Nuzzi's "American Canto" | If Books Could Kill
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January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.
never has the dependence of assholes like this dude on the social reproductive labor of a spouse been encapsulated in such a subtle but direct way
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
never has the dependence of assholes like this dude on the social reproductive labor of a spouse been encapsulated in such a subtle but direct way
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Delaying decent home standards for private renters until 2035 means denying them the most basic standards.
It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X
It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X
‘Absurd’: decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035
Campaigners say government is letting landlords ‘drag their feet’ and ‘denying renters the most basic standards’
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Delaying decent home standards for private renters until 2035 means denying them the most basic standards.
It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X
It will leave millions of people, including families with children, trapped in poor-quality housing with nowhere to turn. We need decent homes now. Read more: shltr.org.uk/wfQ8X
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One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
This man's entire job is to classify one-dimensional right-wing movements as far too complicated to place on the ideological spectrum.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 PM
One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
“an extraordinary turnaround for an artist who was shunned by much of the art world in her lifetime.”
‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 AM
“an extraordinary turnaround for an artist who was shunned by much of the art world in her lifetime.”
LOL did she pick this up from celine dumont in season 4 of the morning show?
This Bari Weiss edict is the most idiotic manifesto for a legitimate news organization that I have ever seen, and I cannot begin to tell you how many idiots I've come across in my career.
Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
January 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
LOL did she pick this up from celine dumont in season 4 of the morning show?
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned. period.
over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned from many things and one of them is clearly group chats
Billionaires in a "Save California" Signal chat call a 5% wealth tax "Communism," the WSJ reports. "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who lives in the Bay Area and now has a roughly $150 billion nest egg, has said he was fine with the tax." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
January 10, 2026 at 8:43 PM
over a certain wealth threshold you should be banned. period.
if I ever send you an email where I dropped the “best” and said only “regards” in the end, know that you just got me really pissed
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
if I ever send you an email where I dropped the “best” and said only “regards” in the end, know that you just got me really pissed
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In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
‘an AI girlfriend was added to the chatbot, allowing users to have sexually explicit conversations and to get her to strip down in the process. … he even posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you,” showing the extent of his pathetic desperation.’
fucking deranged
fucking deranged
Elon Musk’s X must be banned
Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the world
disconnect.blog
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
‘an AI girlfriend was added to the chatbot, allowing users to have sexually explicit conversations and to get her to strip down in the process. … he even posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you,” showing the extent of his pathetic desperation.’
fucking deranged
fucking deranged
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"The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable. "
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 AM
"The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable. "
happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
When Context Disappears
verfassungsblog.de
January 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
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US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.
Across the U.S., Venezuelans gathered in major cities to celebrate and cautiously muse with relatives back home about what comes next after U.S. forces swept the South American president out of the country on drug-trafficking charges.
In exile, Venezuelans greet Maduro’s fall with joy — and fear of what comes next
Venezuelans in the Miami suburb of Doral took to the streets in celebration after learning that the U.S. had struck their homeland and removed Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.
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we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism
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Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime
Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...
www.tandfonline.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?
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A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.
getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.
Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.
“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe