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elph 🇨🇦 @elphonics.bsky.social · 13h

What a review.

“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “

No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters

Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.

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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social · 15h

Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28.

Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com

Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 14h

Lmao

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 14h

in many ways, most actually, this is *my* win

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 14h

this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

Strange Matters Magazine @strangemattersmag.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.

@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.

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No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters

Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.

strangematters.coop

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Strange Matters Magazine @strangemattersmag.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.

@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.

strangematters.coop/chasing-home...

No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters

Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.

strangematters.coop

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 1d

Rand Paul, confirmed Romm Head

reason.com/2025/10/08/t...

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 10d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

Further evidence that this supposed legal justification for lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is baseless backfilling:

1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.

2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

reposting for the weekend

I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 4d

+ featuring contributions from @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @literaryhub.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @jakeromm.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social @inverting-vision.bsky.social +

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 4d

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

reposting for the weekend

I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 6d

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency

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Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social · 6d

“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 10d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 6d

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d

Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 10d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 6d

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 6d

"Every image carries with it the shadow of catastrophe; every image carries with it the calamity of history—look here." Extraordinary essay. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 6d

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 6d

thanks! 🫡

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 6d

"there are no victims in hell, only devils"

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 10d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

lareviewofbooks.org

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Mike Tucker @michaeltucker.bsky.social · 6d

The transition from the liberal international order created after 1945, that was violated de facto by the USA, to the contorted linguistic and legal justifications for violations from the Great War on Terror, to its abandonment by Trump.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much

They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.

www.thenation.com

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