Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
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Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
· Apr 18
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Companies deploying McCarthyism and working with far Right groups against organised labor really has a long history.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Companies deploying McCarthyism and working with far Right groups against organised labor really has a long history.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
Such a relief to have turned eighteen before this policy came into effect...
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Such a relief to have turned eighteen before this policy came into effect...
Marc Owen Jones' 2025 open access Daedalus article, 'Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation'
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Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation
Drawing on thirteen years of personal experience researching Middle Eastern politics, I examine how digitality has eroded traditional boundaries between safety and danger, public and private, and demo...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Marc Owen Jones' 2025 open access Daedalus article, 'Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation'
doi.org/10.1162/daed...
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1162/daed...
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
If young people didn't care at all about the genocide in Palestine, and if a certain social media platform hadn't been used to post thousands of videos documenting Israeli state terror, do we think a ban on social media for teenagers would be actually happening in Australia right now?
December 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
If young people didn't care at all about the genocide in Palestine, and if a certain social media platform hadn't been used to post thousands of videos documenting Israeli state terror, do we think a ban on social media for teenagers would be actually happening in Australia right now?
Imagine if people had tried to de-legitimate opposition to the Apartheid South African regime by claiming that reports of oppression were just reflections of “anti-white racism”, or “anti-Afrikaan bigotry”?
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Imagine if people had tried to de-legitimate opposition to the Apartheid South African regime by claiming that reports of oppression were just reflections of “anti-white racism”, or “anti-Afrikaan bigotry”?
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Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰
'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives
'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰
'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives
'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives
A short thread on the ‘Adjustment Centers’ in US prisons in the ‘70s, and how easy it was and is to institutionalize abuse of people unable to communicate with people outside of their prisons.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented
Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented
LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy
More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A short thread on the ‘Adjustment Centers’ in US prisons in the ‘70s, and how easy it was and is to institutionalize abuse of people unable to communicate with people outside of their prisons.
As some definition of the word ‘everyone’ - some parts of the media and ‘international community’ - remains focused on the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ – routinely violated as Israel continues its genocide – that same everyone mostly ignores Israel’s ongoing violence and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
As some definition of the word ‘everyone’ - some parts of the media and ‘international community’ - remains focused on the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ – routinely violated as Israel continues its genocide – that same everyone mostly ignores Israel’s ongoing violence and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Excerpt from the Insecurity Insight report on 'Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (12-25 November 2025)' released on 3 December 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Excerpt from the Insecurity Insight report on 'Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (12-25 November 2025)' released on 3 December 2025.
I feel like I should know this, but who was calling themselves H.W.A. in the '50s writing about Australian politics and such in publications like The World Today...?
Politics feel... maybe... centre Right?
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Politics feel... maybe... centre Right?
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I feel like I should know this, but who was calling themselves H.W.A. in the '50s writing about Australian politics and such in publications like The World Today...?
Politics feel... maybe... centre Right?
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Politics feel... maybe... centre Right?
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
One of my favourite photos of some of the wild sulphur-crested cockatoos who used to visit my former home.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One of my favourite photos of some of the wild sulphur-crested cockatoos who used to visit my former home.
I'm old enough to remember when a phone having buttons instead of a dial seemed fancy, as did someone having more than one landline in their home, or a car phone, the latter certainly already coded as conspicuous consumption
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'm old enough to remember when a phone having buttons instead of a dial seemed fancy, as did someone having more than one landline in their home, or a car phone, the latter certainly already coded as conspicuous consumption
People outside of the country generally don't realise that the Singaporean elections of April 1955, the first elections with any plausible claim to representative democracy, saw the electoral Left doing extremely well, which is to say, winning.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
People outside of the country generally don't realise that the Singaporean elections of April 1955, the first elections with any plausible claim to representative democracy, saw the electoral Left doing extremely well, which is to say, winning.
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.