BREAKING 🇵🇸🇩🇪 Germany’s Interior Ministry has issued a “Betätigungsverbot” on Council member @YanisVaroufakis, banning his political activity following his speech to yesterday’s Palestinian Congress.

I happy to announce that I was reinstated! The investigation did not find any evidence of discriminatory harassment.

Really happy to see this collection of articles fully out in the world, i.e. in an issue. A project begun during the pandemic when our caring demands, needs, and capacities stretched immeasurably. Much gratitude to all involved!

I'm honored and heartened and thrilled af to have my book Form and Flow and Hillary Angelo's book How Green Became Good together in the American Association of Geographers Review of Books, with reviews by so many brilliant and generous scholars of urban nature... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The coming PFAS fallout around the world is so staggering I think everyone - even journalists, advocates, policymakers, the public in the know - has a hard time grasping the scope and scale of it. Personal stories like these help ground the numbers in reality. It is so, so sad.

please come watch me chat with the great brett christophers about his crucial new book. and my friend Johanna Bozuwa about the need to get the profit motive out of our energy systems

I’m honestly honored to be featured with a lengthy interview in this upcoming issue of Granta on the theme of EXTRACTION, alongside some writers whose work I love and have learned so much from…. Coming soon!!

This new essay by Paolo Gerbaudo on 'The Electric Vehicle Developmental State' is an absolutely crucial intervention.

The global politics and sociology of a 'green' transition increasingly center on the technological path(s) of electric vehicles.

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/byd/

Spot on by cornel ban . If the world was acting in time on climate change there would be no ‘overcapacity’ problem. China’s historic innovation and diffusion of low carbon technology should be rewarded and replicated, not ridiculed.

I’m excited to go see Dana R Fisher, PhD (on sky, threads, etc) talk about her big new climate book, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Today at 530. If you’re in SF, come through.

commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-04…

We’re holding a teach-in! Come join sociologists Ruha Benjamin Ruha Benjamin, Michael Burawoy, Roi Livne Roi Livne, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury & Sharmila Rudrappa reflect on their support for the ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine!

Register here: bit.ly/soc4palteachin

My first time at Quesabirria Jalisco, I asked Ventura Orozco why his tacos were halal.

He answered with a moving story bout how a Palestinian restaurant took him in when he was at his lowest & how making his own shop halal led him to success.

Read here: chicagotribune.com/2024/04/09/que…

In a single scroll, a tale of two wars—and two radically different levels of empathy.