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I love China and hip hop so I was an easy sell but I can't recommend this @equatormag.bsky.social piece enough. It is so hard to get good essays in English about life in China; this one is about so much more than music (though it's got that too)
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Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?
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February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I love China and hip hop so I was an easy sell but I can't recommend this @equatormag.bsky.social piece enough. It is so hard to get good essays in English about life in China; this one is about so much more than music (though it's got that too)
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I signed up for free for @equatormag.bsky.social when it launched but I have so consistently read & enjoyed the articles that show up in my inbox that I just started paying. Well-written and thoughtful and interesting pieces from around the world: www.equator.org
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February 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I signed up for free for @equatormag.bsky.social when it launched but I have so consistently read & enjoyed the articles that show up in my inbox that I just started paying. Well-written and thoughtful and interesting pieces from around the world: www.equator.org
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Wrote a little intro to this excerpt from @yilingliu95.bsky.social's new book, reflecting on Chinese hip-hop's strange decade and the tendency for "cultural freeze frames" in English writing on non-western contemporary culture.
An excerpt from Yi-Ling Liu ’s "The Wall Dancers”, about how the internet made — and then unmade — Chinese hip-hop: “Kafe once aspired to be like Kendrick Lamar, who was commercially popular but also spoke truth to power. That would no longer be possible.“
Have Money Daddy • EQUATOR
Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?
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February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Wrote a little intro to this excerpt from @yilingliu95.bsky.social's new book, reflecting on Chinese hip-hop's strange decade and the tendency for "cultural freeze frames" in English writing on non-western contemporary culture.
An excerpt from Yi-Ling Liu ’s "The Wall Dancers”, about how the internet made — and then unmade — Chinese hip-hop: “Kafe once aspired to be like Kendrick Lamar, who was commercially popular but also spoke truth to power. That would no longer be possible.“
Have Money Daddy • EQUATOR
Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?
www.equator.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
An excerpt from Yi-Ling Liu ’s "The Wall Dancers”, about how the internet made — and then unmade — Chinese hip-hop: “Kafe once aspired to be like Kendrick Lamar, who was commercially popular but also spoke truth to power. That would no longer be possible.“
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‘Van Caracas tot Minneapolis worden wettelijke bevoegdheden en institutionele macht ingezet voor één overkoepelend doel: mensen besturen als onderdanen, niet als burgers.’ Pal Singh
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Amerika is een angstaanjagend voorbeeld geworden
De combinatie van binnenlandse en buitenlandse machtsuitoefening is de voornaamste bezigheid van de regering-Trump
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February 4, 2026 at 7:10 AM
‘Van Caracas tot Minneapolis worden wettelijke bevoegdheden en institutionele macht ingezet voor één overkoepelend doel: mensen besturen als onderdanen, niet als burgers.’ Pal Singh
@casperthomas.bsky.social @groene.nl @equatormag.bsky.social
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Brilliant piece
“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
February 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Brilliant piece
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This piece from inside Iran @equatormag.bsky.social is fascinating and horrifying: www.equator.org/articles/the...
The War Within • EQUATOR
The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
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February 3, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This piece from inside Iran @equatormag.bsky.social is fascinating and horrifying: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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Good piece on Trump's admin
It collapses "the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity"; it "invokes emergency war powers at home, to arrest and remove unauthorised immigrants, and discretionary police powers abroad, to arrest foreign leaders (and seize foreign assets) under US law"
It collapses "the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity"; it "invokes emergency war powers at home, to arrest and remove unauthorised immigrants, and discretionary police powers abroad, to arrest foreign leaders (and seize foreign assets) under US law"
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
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February 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Good piece on Trump's admin
It collapses "the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity"; it "invokes emergency war powers at home, to arrest and remove unauthorised immigrants, and discretionary police powers abroad, to arrest foreign leaders (and seize foreign assets) under US law"
It collapses "the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity"; it "invokes emergency war powers at home, to arrest and remove unauthorised immigrants, and discretionary police powers abroad, to arrest foreign leaders (and seize foreign assets) under US law"
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El novelista Salar Abdoh en @equatormag.bsky.social sobre las protestas masivas en Irán y la represión del régimen:
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The War Within • EQUATOR
The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
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February 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
El novelista Salar Abdoh en @equatormag.bsky.social sobre las protestas masivas en Irán y la represión del régimen:
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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“I heard the bastards set fire to a fireman.”
“Which bastards?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know which bastards anymore.”
If you read one thing about Iran this weekend let it be this
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“Which bastards?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know which bastards anymore.”
If you read one thing about Iran this weekend let it be this
www.equator.org/articles/the...
The War Within • EQUATOR
The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
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February 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“I heard the bastards set fire to a fireman.”
“Which bastards?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know which bastards anymore.”
If you read one thing about Iran this weekend let it be this
www.equator.org/articles/the...
“Which bastards?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know which bastards anymore.”
If you read one thing about Iran this weekend let it be this
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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“We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though as yet we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.”
Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran
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Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran
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The War Within • EQUATOR
The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
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January 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though as yet we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.”
Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran
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Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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"It was a reminder – perhaps a rather too facile reminder – that we were all in this together. But together in what exactly? I didn’t know."
Salar Abdoh, an essential read in @equatormag.bsky.social
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Salar Abdoh, an essential read in @equatormag.bsky.social
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The War Within • EQUATOR
The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
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January 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"It was a reminder – perhaps a rather too facile reminder – that we were all in this together. But together in what exactly? I didn’t know."
Salar Abdoh, an essential read in @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Salar Abdoh, an essential read in @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/the...
“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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This is an outstanding long read by one of the best writers around, never mind just on Pakistan cricket.
I didn't expect Imran to be in jail for this long but it's kinda fitting he's rejected any deals so he'll stay in jail before that.
I didn't expect Imran to be in jail for this long but it's kinda fitting he's rejected any deals so he'll stay in jail before that.
After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man.
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The Hidden Imran • EQUATOR
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
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January 31, 2026 at 1:18 AM
This is an outstanding long read by one of the best writers around, never mind just on Pakistan cricket.
I didn't expect Imran to be in jail for this long but it's kinda fitting he's rejected any deals so he'll stay in jail before that.
I didn't expect Imran to be in jail for this long but it's kinda fitting he's rejected any deals so he'll stay in jail before that.
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"Trump’s Homeland Empire is incapable of generating consensual order or lasting hegemony. This is what happens when actual, functioning empire enters its terminal, attritional phase: construction, growth & visions of progress are replaced by pyrotechnic convulsions." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
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January 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"Trump’s Homeland Empire is incapable of generating consensual order or lasting hegemony. This is what happens when actual, functioning empire enters its terminal, attritional phase: construction, growth & visions of progress are replaced by pyrotechnic convulsions." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
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I interviewed Nikhil Pal Singh about his recent essay in
@equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
@equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/28/2026 · 44m
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January 28, 2026 at 9:21 AM
I interviewed Nikhil Pal Singh about his recent essay in
@equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
@equatormag.bsky.social in which Nikhil talks about how the Trump administration has collapsed the distinction between foreign and domestic policy, creating a single zone where violence and impunity reign:
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"There is no Pakistani — male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined — as famous as Imran Khan."
@osmansamiuddin.bsky.social traces, for @equatormag.bsky.social, Khan's story from national cricket hero to prime minister and his current status as a forcefully vanished figure. bit.ly/4q5bbXg
@osmansamiuddin.bsky.social traces, for @equatormag.bsky.social, Khan's story from national cricket hero to prime minister and his current status as a forcefully vanished figure. bit.ly/4q5bbXg
Commentary: The Hidden Imran
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish? 1. Just so we’re clear, the following is a fact. Not opinion, not a point of view, not a hot take. Fact. There is no...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM
"There is no Pakistani — male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined — as famous as Imran Khan."
@osmansamiuddin.bsky.social traces, for @equatormag.bsky.social, Khan's story from national cricket hero to prime minister and his current status as a forcefully vanished figure. bit.ly/4q5bbXg
@osmansamiuddin.bsky.social traces, for @equatormag.bsky.social, Khan's story from national cricket hero to prime minister and his current status as a forcefully vanished figure. bit.ly/4q5bbXg
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From “A Society Exhausted by Repetition,” by an anonymous writer living in Tehran, published by @equatormag.bsky.social.
Read here: www.equator.org/articles/teh...
Read here: www.equator.org/articles/teh...
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
From “A Society Exhausted by Repetition,” by an anonymous writer living in Tehran, published by @equatormag.bsky.social.
Read here: www.equator.org/articles/teh...
Read here: www.equator.org/articles/teh...
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Some poignant observations from Iran “But what endures is what happens after the streets empty: the recalibration of fear, the small private negotiations with conscience, the decision each morning about how visible one can afford to be.”
A Society Exhausted by Repetition • EQUATOR
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
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January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Some poignant observations from Iran “But what endures is what happens after the streets empty: the recalibration of fear, the small private negotiations with conscience, the decision each morning about how visible one can afford to be.”
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Stark läsrekommendatipn på denna redogörelse inifrån upprorets och repressionens Iran. Mörk grundton men skarpa och nödvändiga reflektioner. www.equator.org/articles/teh...
A Society Exhausted by Repetition • EQUATOR
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
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January 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Stark läsrekommendatipn på denna redogörelse inifrån upprorets och repressionens Iran. Mörk grundton men skarpa och nödvändiga reflektioner. www.equator.org/articles/teh...
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Take 13 minutes to watch this Nan Goldin documentary on Gaza www.equator.org/articles/nan...
Gaza Notes • EQUATOR
Scenes from the destruction of a people
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January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Take 13 minutes to watch this Nan Goldin documentary on Gaza www.equator.org/articles/nan...
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Incredibly powerful, beautiful, and heartbreaking letter from a young man in Iran in the midst of his military service writing about the days following the protests, the "suspended agency" quieter than despair. www.equator.org/articles/teh...
A Society Exhausted by Repetition • EQUATOR
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
www.equator.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Incredibly powerful, beautiful, and heartbreaking letter from a young man in Iran in the midst of his military service writing about the days following the protests, the "suspended agency" quieter than despair. www.equator.org/articles/teh...
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Powerful letter from Tehran taking stock of the violence of the last weeks and the mood on the street:
"When politics lacks depth, spectacle rushes in. When history is erased, myth rushes in. When education fails, fantasy becomes governance."
www.equator.org/articles/teh...
"When politics lacks depth, spectacle rushes in. When history is erased, myth rushes in. When education fails, fantasy becomes governance."
www.equator.org/articles/teh...
A Society Exhausted by Repetition • EQUATOR
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
www.equator.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Powerful letter from Tehran taking stock of the violence of the last weeks and the mood on the street:
"When politics lacks depth, spectacle rushes in. When history is erased, myth rushes in. When education fails, fantasy becomes governance."
www.equator.org/articles/teh...
"When politics lacks depth, spectacle rushes in. When history is erased, myth rushes in. When education fails, fantasy becomes governance."
www.equator.org/articles/teh...
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"The capture and warehousing of humans is now at the centre of an institutional transformation of federal police power"
- among many other insights here
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
- among many other insights here
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"The capture and warehousing of humans is now at the centre of an institutional transformation of federal police power"
- among many other insights here
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
- among many other insights here
www.equator.org/articles/hom...