Rest in Power, D’Angelo 🕊️ A true Maestro — his voice, vision, & spirit reshaped the sound of a generation. He didn’t just make music — he built a language of soul, rooted in tradition but entirely his own. Fly high, D'. #DAngelo

Wankbattling. Pornosexuality. The very real possibility that most people will be illiterate within like ten years. All this and more in my long-in-the-works report on the world of gooning, which you can read now in Harper's Magazine

The Spectre of State Capitalism has won the BISA - International Political Economy working group 2025 book prize!🙌🏽 (Link to the announcement below) Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies Development Studies Association

It’s from Shakespeare 😭

To refuse to use veto power to, even symbolically, stop the genocide and occupation of Palestine is for all intents and purposes aiding and abetting genocide and the occupation of Palestine

Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how and in whose interests? Read Ilias Alami’s “Imperial State Capitalism” to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-state…

I'm on Heatmap News Shift Key this morning to talk all about "Bubble or Nothing" and the fragility of the data center investment boom!

Submitted the last major edit of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!

Unmatched resilience and bravery. The best of humanity.

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇬🇧 Three Prisoners for Palestine (Prisoners For Palestine) have ended their 73-day hunger strike after Elbit Systems UK was denied a £2 billion contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the political prisoners.

I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short The Baffler Link ⬇️

A group of graduates from Japan's defense academy are going on hunger strike to protest the Japanese government's decision to buy Israeli-made drones. National Defense Academy Graduates Against Genocide is led by Hirayama Takamori, a 2019 NDA graduate.

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In memory of the hero Aaron Bushnell, this is an old post of mine, a part of which I republished last year to remember Takao Himori , another hero whose heart was so consumed by Palestinian sorrow that he no longer saw the danger of the flames .

The US and Israel are unlikely to win this war, not only because Iran’s response has already proven qualitatively different from previous confrontations, but because their stated strategic objectives are so maximalist that to call this an existential war doesn't do it it justice.

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

This is happening across Asia 👇 🪨 Japan will lift restrictions on the operation of coal-fired power plants as the conflict in the Middle East chokes LNG supply, the Nikkei reported Older facilities will be put back into service for a year starting in April

Japan is in need of a plan B to dependence on the US. There may not be one. ft.trib.al/UIJwkzu

Amazing! 加油 actually…加电！