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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 4d

Wish I could clear my schedule!!!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 25d

Sign up for the MTC reading group for Banu Mushtaq’s 2025 International Booker Prize winning collection HEART LAMP! We’re meeting this Thursday, Sept 18! It’ll be a great time—even if you don’t do the reading :)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 26d

The never ending story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 29d

5 tv shows from 2025-25 that Americans need to watch, but will probably never get a chance to.

5. Machine (Arte France)
a rollicking 6-er, Kung-Fu fighting, Karl #Marx, & labor rights.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · Sep 12

austerity brain: when you’ve got nothing left to cut you start trying to cut other people’s free labour

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Pop Junctions @popjunctions.bsky.social · Sep 10

Next up in #EMMYWATCH2025 is a piece on #Andor by @taralomax.bsky.social that explores questions of genre in the series and the #StarWars franchise.

EMMYS WATCH 2025 — When the Force is Not with Us: Considering Genre in Andor and the ‘Star Wars’ Franchise — Pop Junctions

‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Sep 10

The wonderful Jolie Holland at The Cluny last night.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Joyful night at the Cluny with Nev Clay and The Burning Hell last night.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Aug 26

'FALSE WAR is a rich and capacious novel that has much to say about our contemporary moment.' Arin Keeble reviews FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, tr. Natasha Wimmer, for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez review – a new vision of migration

A novel of interlocking stories captures the ordinary lives and interior worlds of Cuban exiles seeking sanctuary in Miami

www.theguardian.com

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Aug 26

The opening lines evoke 'the primordial gas stations of America' and the I10 journey across the Southeast of the US that finally drops you into Florida.

Screenshot of the opening paragraph of False War

Another screenshot of a paragraph from False War

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is an absolute stunner. Out this week with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and this Autumn in the US with @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer. My review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez review – a new vision of migration

A novel of interlocking stories captures the ordinary lives and interior worlds of Cuban exiles seeking sanctuary in Miami

www.theguardian.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 19

1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this?
2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Aug 15

it's me, in one of my favourite journals! 🌱

natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · Aug 14

OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:

@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wrote about the most violent day in D.C.'s history, January 6, 2021, the current takeover of that city by the guy who instigated it, the right-wing snowflakes complaining they're afraid to walk down the street, and why the right fears and loathes cities (and lies about why). Bonus Epstein finale.

Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy | Rebecca Solnit

Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein files

www.theguardian.com

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Devoured Jonathan Buckley’s One Boat and I think I like this one even more!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Alan Sparhawk, wow. Stunning show.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Aug 7

So good! I loved Audition too.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · Jul 31

I submitted my book Domestic Denial: Terror, Race, and Home in Literature After 9/11 for peer review today! It's under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social. I'm super stoked that this whole process is chugging along!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Jul 30

For the first time my Y4 seminar, Fictions of Terror, doesn't include a '9/11 novel'. A long overdue change.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 30

Israeli signatories, including the former speaker of the Knesset, are calling on immediate crippling sanctions on Israel

Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire": letter in the Guardian from prominent Israelis.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed | Letters

Letter: Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community

www.theguardian.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Jul 25

Very excited to read this one, forthcoming with @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. I loved her first three and particularly Vladivostok Circus.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Absolute treat to be in the front row for Jessica Pratt tonight - so good!!

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