I think the criticism of the 'decolonisation' trend that has inflected academic and activist discourse over the last years should be entirely separate from the criticism of extant settler-colonial enterprises.

Really off-putting how the default social style in America is jingoism. One of the most consistent things across age, class and milieu. It‘s the glue that keeps the whole monstrosity together.

Not altogether surprised to see, rushing to Maduro's defence, the same 'Stalin was based' academic-turned celebrity-activist types in the London scene who have barely managed to conceal their delight at the prominence boost the catastrophe in Gaza has brought them.

"By U.S.A weapons" Seen today in #Gaza

Apropos David Roberts Compare these two tracks of new renewable installation since 2018. One is the "disappointment" of "Green-led" Germany. The other is Biden's heroic IRA. But which one is which? Where has there actually been a surge? iea.org/data-and-stati…

Quiet little world-historical moment.

This is pretty amazing: the ocean heat content averaged over the Gulf of Mexico is obliterating previous all-time record highs. It's 126% of average for the date. bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/

Israeli ministers giving strong hints of imminent ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

This is not good. Hachette Books, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Wiley have won their case and their books are going to be removed from the Internet Archive. If you still want or need to get their books for free, use libgen and Anna's Archive.

La prima giornata in giallorosso di Mats Hummels in giallorosso 🟡🔴 #ASRoma

A great stain on our collective conscience.

To me, the most consequential developments of the 21st century so far are the dramatic sharpening of climate crisis, China's industrial development, and the all-enveloping rise of private finance. Below, a warning by Lenore Palladino in the LPE blog: lpeproject.org/blog/private-f…

In Jan, a whistleblower said Germany's state-approved carbon offsets projects have problems. Today, the govt has declared its first results on 8 of 75 projects and they are damning. The credits traded at €440 per ton in 2022. Story with Natasha White: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What do national security driven “blocs” of globalization look like? If we are lucky, perhaps they look like an improvement on the patchwork that gave us vaccine apartheid. If we are unlucky, it looks like a mushroom cloud New The Polycrisis: Geometry of Fear buttondown.com/polycrisisdisp…

Guess the author of this fawning review of Blair's new book. ft.com/content/2b0fa3…

A young woman who allegedly threw sand at Israeli far right minister Itamar Ben Gvir in Tel Aviv is staying the night in prison. Meanwhile dozens of settlers involved in violent rampages, including the killing of Palestinians, haven’t sat a day in jail. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…

Now watching. (Kagemusha - 1980)