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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 2d

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 3d

Hygge Marxism takes material form ❤️✊

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 8d

meanwhile, every second person who i know in london right now has covid... dry cough everywhere, no one is masked, it's the start of university term.
good luck everyone.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13d

this study highlights that Long Covid remains a risk with every Covid infection, including for children and adolescents.

Particularly relevant as the Children's module opens for the UK Inquiry.

It's nonsense to say that children are and were at no risk from Covid.

Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 13d

“These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisystem effects and highlight the need to promote vaccination in younger populations...”

Time to reconsider our approach to kids and COVID/long COVID.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 8d

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine

In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 13d

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance

www.sup.org/books/middle...

Book cover of How Commerce Became Legal:
Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Omar by Youssef Cheta

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 11d

At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn

At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn

<article data-history-node-id="429575" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 48 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza since dawn on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. </p> <p>At least 13 of those killed by aid seekers, the report said. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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Common Ecologies @commonecologies.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed.

This is an attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and int'l institutions to demand their immediate safety and release

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13d

There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian home, fell olive trees in West Bank

There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 23d

Couldn't ask for a better person to undertake this adventure with 🥰

Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 23d

A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan!

We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place.

To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 15d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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drumm, colin @drumm-colin.bsky.social · 17d

My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 22d

Sending our love back, and hope our paths cross again asap! ♥️

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 23d

A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan!

We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place.

To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Aug 30

I interviewed Flint Taylor, Fred Hampton's & the Chicago Black Panther Party's, lawyer who helped uncover the CPD/FBI's role in his execution and the execution of other members.

We discussed historical & present day policing issues in this piece:

truthout.org/articles/50-...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Aug 29

In a piece for @verfassungsblog.de I critique a recent Hamburg court decision that Marx is an enemy of the German constitution. (English translation out soon)

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Aug 28

Verfassungsfeind Marx?

Die Gesellschaftstheorie von Marx ist mit dem Grundgesetz unvereinbar – so hielt es unlängst das Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg.

BRUNO LEIPOLD (‪@brunoleipold.com‬) meint: Was die Richter zu Marx schreiben, ist ideengeschichtlich nicht haltbar.
verfassungsblog.de/marx-grundge...

Zitat: „Ironisch ist, dass die Richter des Hamburger Verwaltungsgerichtes von einem Marx-Lesekreis profitieren würden, um an einer solchen Debatte besser teilnehmen zu können.“

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Aug 21

Israel is conducting airstrikes on Gaza City.

Earlier they targeted an internet distribution site there and are trying very hard to prevent news from getting out.

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@dn_osama_rabee
We are witnessing an unforgiving night in Gaza, as the occupation's airstrikes set the sky ablaze.
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · Aug 17

here’s the full discussion on the tasks of literary criticism! on a paper of Leo Löwenthal’s—ft. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Schachtel, Pinthus, Soudek

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Deleuze’s Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent

A newly translated edition of seminars on painting by Gilles Deleuze are chaotic and magnificent.

www.artnews.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric
Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio)
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/models-of-...

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson

Listen now | Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute On Culture & Society

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research

@economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

"Soon after its founding, however, it became apparent that the EUI’s splendid digs might be distracting its scholars. As one insider explained to Charlemagne: “Left to their own devices, the academics began producing studies of the wool trade in 15th-century Flanders and suchlike.” He was joking—up to a point. A search for recent articles on the EUI’s database produced a list headed by “Silk consumption and dressing practices in late-medieval Catalonia”. In 1993 the university set up a new division, the Robert Schuman Centre, to keep things forward-looking and relevant, but with mixed success. In 2017 a School of Transnational Governance was founded in the hope that this would finally do the trick."

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