Saddened by the casual cruelty on here towards the thousands of UK academics facing redundancy. Even for a such a niche job, but we’ve really failed in communicating what kind of personal tragedy this is. It’s a sort of Rust Belt for PhDs situation 1/2

"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties" foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

The answer, of course, Big Ron Suny.

Third post in a series. Why does awareness of inequalities and class domination not prompt workers to contest this through collective political action in Ukraine?postsocialism.org/2025/02/21/unm…

This is reminiscent of the operations of the British East India Company. But will backfire—who will buy Starlink if it is revealed as a tool of imperial resource extraction?

Monday morning re-up of an episode that has been ruffling some feathers...

"Three years after the disaster: mourning and melancholia, but we should look to everyday politics and civics-from-below." My institution asked me to write about my research. Link in next post.

Publication time! My article about Polish fishing co-operation in Senegal, 1960-1985 is now out! (first 50 copies free download). tandfonline.com/eprint/8BBEKIJ…

Lozza unironically staning a country where there's actual Sharia law(lessness) and the central government can't do a fuck about it.

The Zelensky administration has not understood that Trump's deal-making to end the war is not goal oriented - it is oriented to meet Trumps's needs for narcissistic supply. That's what we witnessed in the Oval Office. Starmer and Macron do understand this about Trump, but they

National Post The sign on the kiosk: Canadian food products.

What’s very, very funny about J.D. Vance’s denigrating British soldiers is that all *he* had to do was say “thank you” and apologise; instead, he denied saying what he said and now Fleet Street and Westminster hate him even more.

Americans to embrace subsistence agriculture. Soon there'll be a great leap forward.

@FakeMarinetti trump's thing is genuinely incredible, like doing a great leap forward to stop building rockets and cancer drugs and instead make shoes for 7 dollars an hour

JD Girkin Strelkov

the state of the discourse. So absurd, everyone feels they need to go through the looking glass.

Everything Marlene does is worth reading

It's even worse than I thought The idiot is a "headliner" at a "BRICS urban forum" organized by... the Moscow government This is what a combination of narcissism and bad politics does to ya

Imo the problem with Chernobyl (2019) is less that it makes stuff up or is anticommunist (who cares about that?) than that its trying to make a point about Authoritarianism which in subtext conflates Trumpism and the USSR. a sort of toothless centrist comfort fantasy