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I wrote about the Chinese American far right, how its rise is informed by the crisis of the petite bourgeoisie coupled with racial triangulation, and how we could build working-class politics to counter it.

"Maybe if we were Ukrainians, or any other citizenship, with blonde hair and blue eyes, the world would rage and rant for us." Abubaker is right. Many Western journalists won't show solidarity because he and his colleagues are Palestinian. That's the sorry and shameful truth.

you know when people in china used to (and still to some degree) romanticize everything about the US? it's the other way around. romanticizing the other as criticism of the self's problems

Thailand is preparing to deport dozens of Uyghur asylum seekers to China in violation of international law. Advocates are urgently requesting UN intervention. My follow-up to our New York Times investigation is published at the link below and in my bio. Please read and share.

For the rest of their lives, in every room into which they walk, Matt Miller and Antony Blinken will know that people of good will and conscience have grounds to regard them as mass murderers of children, as the people who enabled a genocide.

“If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like ‘an entire bicycle.’” yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/indire…

A comprehensive primer by Husam Osman Mahjoub on Emirati sub-imperialism in Africa: investing in ports, airports and infrastructure projects to extract resources and increase global political and military influence. In Transnational Institute's "State of Power" anthology. tni.org/en/article/the…

Just to be extra clear, these are deliberate, targeted strikes on journalists that are being carried out

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

We focus a lot on how human AI is. But what about how AI makes us less human—particularly the content moderation and data labeling microworkers that AI depends on and treats as disposable? Our special episode on the invisible labour behind AI is now out! youtu.be/fjUAgodGi2Q?si…

seeing a lot about the andrea long chu piece on ocean vuong--here is the essay whose arguments chu draws very extensively from, by som-mai nguyen. one of my all time fave essays on the literature of diaspora, also very funny. astra-mag.com/articles/blunt…

"What do we learn about time from how the state [...] takes up space on protest streets? We learn that state takes advantage of brief moments of dissent to end years of difficult, unsupported child rearing with a single, terse bullet." mumbi hates the kenyan police. mumbikanyogo.substack.com/p/a-note-on-ti…

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I wrote for Asterisk Magazine about the *other* outsider politician who unites Silicon Valley billionaires, Zionists, and the American Right: Henry George 🔰

Wrote a micro-review on the film Black Tea (2024) in The Drift

Our pamphlet "Revolution Neither Starts Nor Ends"—conversations with Sudanese comrades reflecting on Kenya's Maandamano and sharing insights from how the Sudanese people went from power in the streets to Revolution—is now for sale at Cheche Books!

Mentions from bradley babendir, Page Berger, Sanders Isaac Bernstein, Irene Katz Connelly, Aaron Gonsher, zoe g, erin langner, ryan meehan, Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea, Bryn Stole, April Zhu 朱萸, Daniel Fraser, Syd and more. thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-…

Rashid Khalidi cancels course at Columbia which would be impossible to teach since the uni adopted Zionist definitions of anti-Semitism that conflate it with criticisms of Israel and capitulated to Trump's demands for censorship disguised as oversight: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…