Ghost Coast.

When you're caught in the blast wave.

This is very similar to German memory culture. ‘Remembering’ has the function of being performative and serve state interests. It has zero to do with actually fighting fascism. To the contrary, it plays a vita role in fascisisation.

It's related to the US as the only opposing vote to yesterday's UN Commission on the Status of Women: a state causing material harm to millions of people, standing in the way of basic human decency. Obsession with irrelevancies, refusing good work, actively causing harm bsky.app/profile/nate...

Who cares if there's graffiti on a statue in Parliament Square. Who cares if a statue gets thrown in a lake. It doesn't matter. None of these things matter. These are phantasms. You are het up over lumps of slag metal and the arrangement of lines on paper. You love idols.

Nāgārjuna would kill you

This isn't a coordinated distraction; they think only in irrelevant cultural signs while this island slowly sinks into the ocean. Put a platypus on the fiver, a chair, a donkey. Who cares. Why are politicians talking about this. Why is the BBC talking about this. Why is anybody talking about this

‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

Horrifying to refuse UK visas to people *because* – not in spite of the fact – they are fleeing a genocide: specifically, a genocide that Britain continues to fuel through its supply of arms to the UAE

ICE Tried To Turn This Minneapolis Teacher Into An Informant Brandon Siguenza was detained for doing legal-observer work. ICE's real interest was in generating snitches. PLUS: Mojtaba Khamanei isn't surrendering

Spencer caught ICE trying to turn an American detainee into an immigration snitch (?) in Minneapolis. Details of his interrogation in this amazing Q&A: @attackerman.bsky.social

Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.

On the professional and personal costs of this work:

This is excellent, and once again highlights how the leadership at the NYT are both explicitly queer-phobic and functionally conservative, whatever hand waves toward aesthetic liberalism they might make here and there.

‘I have never seen anything like it’: MP warns of rise in extreme views on race and identity Health minister Zubir Ahmed says new definition of anti-Muslim hostility could be a turning point as he tells of Islamophobic abuse

Whatever the value of the definition, the Labour government cannot be taken seriously when it come to countering the mainstreaming and emboldening of the far right when Mahmood, Starmer and co unashamedly borrow from its discourse and policies

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Mariners, Renegades and Castaways Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-cent...

You should read Mariners -- and you don't need to read Moby-Dick first

And yes I wrote the foreword for the new edition
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I can't recall whom it was that said it on here first, but they remarked that you're going to see US soldiers defend, and lose their lives for, data centres as "critical infrastructure", which comes to mind as one reads this.

@parismarx.com, have you seen this?

Happy Birthday! On this day: "Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hōne Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororāreka, New Zealand."

Ordered and got this the other day, really fantastic read! Also, it was only recently that I learned* that you're CLR and Selma James's granddaughter. 🤯

*(Before I ordered the book)

What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer Figuring out what really counts as a galaxy could give us insights into dark matter and potentially shake up astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, says columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

This month in my 🧪🔭⚛️ column for @newscientist.com subscribers and library users, I wrote about how telling the difference between a galaxies and a star cluster actually isn't always easy

I loved prepping this column, the universe is so great 🥹

Wait, what? Ew.

"The ADL, which downplayed Elon Musk's Nazi salute, condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for hosting Columbia University anti-Genocide protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who would shield 'students, including me, a Jewish student, from harm'* at his official residence."

*Source, Newsweek.

"The ADL condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for hosting Columbia University anti-Genocide protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who had 'shown compassion for Israelis in the wake of the October 7th attack, and expressed grief for the loss of life' at his official residence."

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Sarah Sackman, Labour, used to work for the Israeli Supreme Court.

She can’t directly answer the question about the US bombing an Iranian school bcs she’d have to talk about Israel bombing *all* of Gaza’s schools as part of its genocide.

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

I would go further, and have a *fourth* slice of cheese on toast.

..are you seriously using child rape as a punchline? What, in all seriousness, is wrong with you?

Biden is so gung-ho re Israel, that in 1982 he reportedly told Menachem Begin (not exactly a fan of Palestinians) that he would defend Israel “even if that meant killing women or children.” When you unnerve *Begin*…. theintercept.com/2021/04/27/b...

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*Counts down to Trump's more ornate and tackily gold embossed "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner*

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.

It's evil under any circumstances to encourage the machinery of death and imperialism to attack any country, but there's a particular cowardice and stupidity to thinking you can wield it against people who you have that kind of connection to.

I remember when Turkey had huge anti-government protests and I'll tell you this, not a single British Turk I met through that was begging the big boys to lay waste to our parent's home country. I have nothing but contempt for the people who beg America to do the work they're too weak to see through.