Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Rock over London, rock on Chicago
WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
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Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Endgame
A new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics. Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced ...
press.uchicago.edu
If you’re tired of the Democrats’ feckless failures and their vapid attempts to blame woke or w/e, and are looking for a critical history of the present that goes far back into the twentieth century to explain how we got into this mess, I got you
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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feds in st. paul today
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
feds in st. paul today
lfgoooooo
Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
lfgoooooo
ICE getting absolutely wrecked in the courts: "the federal government defended the aggressive tactics by repeatedly lying, deceiving the public and making claims disproven by their own evidence, according to a federal judge’s scathing ruling."
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...
Feds Repeatedly Lied And Misled The Public During Chicago Immigration Crackdown, Federal Judge Rules
In a scathing opinion, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis highlighted lies and distortions by Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino and immigration agents in press releases, social media posts and their own inte...
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE getting absolutely wrecked in the courts: "the federal government defended the aggressive tactics by repeatedly lying, deceiving the public and making claims disproven by their own evidence, according to a federal judge’s scathing ruling."
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...
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Feds Repeatedly Lied And Misled The Public During Chicago Immigration Crackdown, Federal Judge Rules blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f... In some way this isn't news, but it's a key story, and links to the whole judgment. Some light reading over the holiday . . .
Feds Repeatedly Lied And Misled The Public During Chicago Immigration Crackdown, Federal Judge Rules
In a scathing opinion, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis highlighted lies and distortions by Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino and immigration agents in press releases, social media posts and their own inte...
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Feds Repeatedly Lied And Misled The Public During Chicago Immigration Crackdown, Federal Judge Rules blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f... In some way this isn't news, but it's a key story, and links to the whole judgment. Some light reading over the holiday . . .
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out today!
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
What is it to be Black in America? It is to be constantly given unsolicited advice on how to run your life by people of all stripes, cultures, races, and opi...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
out today!
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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“He was ‘wearing street clothes’ and ‘heading for duty’ when the gun discharged and ‘he accidentally shot himself in the testicles” just cop shit
chicago.suntimes.com/police-refor...
chicago.suntimes.com/police-refor...
Off-duty Chicago cop accidentally shoots himself in groin outside police station in Gresham
The officer was "heading for duty" Wednesday night when his "weapon discharged and he accidentally shot himself in the testicles" in the station's parking lot, records show.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“He was ‘wearing street clothes’ and ‘heading for duty’ when the gun discharged and ‘he accidentally shot himself in the testicles” just cop shit
chicago.suntimes.com/police-refor...
chicago.suntimes.com/police-refor...
can’t stress enough that these fat cowards raiding our cities are going to lose, and badly
Now: the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other immigrant rights groups are holding a presser re: the 7th Circuit appellate court's ruling yesterday, which stayed the release of potentially hundreds of immigration detainees eligible for release per a prior court settlement.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
can’t stress enough that these fat cowards raiding our cities are going to lose, and badly
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Our new editorial dives into the history of the El Gran Paro Estadounidense of 2006, the Day Without an Immigrant strikes. As calls for a general strike mount, and as the deportation regime escalates, what can this history teach us about what might be done? 🧵🧵
longhaulmag.com/we-will-not-...
longhaulmag.com/we-will-not-...
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our new editorial dives into the history of the El Gran Paro Estadounidense of 2006, the Day Without an Immigrant strikes. As calls for a general strike mount, and as the deportation regime escalates, what can this history teach us about what might be done? 🧵🧵
longhaulmag.com/we-will-not-...
longhaulmag.com/we-will-not-...
Riley and Brenner finally respond to the beating they took a couple years ago (tho they opted not to respond to my critique, sad!)
still a lot of flaws in the argument but they manage to mount a decent defense
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
still a lot of flaws in the argument but they manage to mount a decent defense
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner, The Long Downturn and Its Political Results, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog...
newleftreview.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Riley and Brenner finally respond to the beating they took a couple years ago (tho they opted not to respond to my critique, sad!)
still a lot of flaws in the argument but they manage to mount a decent defense
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
still a lot of flaws in the argument but they manage to mount a decent defense
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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Border Patrol moving through Charlotte as videos document arrests, confrontations | By @jmarusak.bsky.social and a team of reporters at the Observer
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
Border Patrol moving through Charlotte as videos document arrests, confrontations
On Central Avenue, a picture by Immigration Alerts CLT appeared to show two federal agents behind a man with his hands behind his back.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Border Patrol moving through Charlotte as videos document arrests, confrontations | By @jmarusak.bsky.social and a team of reporters at the Observer
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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Maybe one legacy ICE will leave is that Chicago and its suburbs have more in common than we thought. They were both targets, and they both fought back, writes @tedmcclelland.bsky.social
Chicago and Its Suburbs Unite Against ICE
The influx of federal agents in the Chicago area is aligning us more closely than ever.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Maybe one legacy ICE will leave is that Chicago and its suburbs have more in common than we thought. They were both targets, and they both fought back, writes @tedmcclelland.bsky.social
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For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
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Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
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DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
The ongoing 'bailout' of AI covered here is just another aspect of creeping state capitalism in the U.S., and how even it's supposedly most "innovative" sectors can't survive without truly massive infusions of state money because they're not actually profitable
www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The ongoing 'bailout' of AI covered here is just another aspect of creeping state capitalism in the U.S., and how even it's supposedly most "innovative" sectors can't survive without truly massive infusions of state money because they're not actually profitable
www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
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I got to work this morning to find a close coworker weeping.
They're in bad $ trouble bc of our bad pay & a weak social support network... $7 in the bank for a week.
I told them I could help bc my people help.
So I ask if anyone can spot $5 to my Venmo so I can transfer as a lump: @Kristofer-Nivens
They're in bad $ trouble bc of our bad pay & a weak social support network... $7 in the bank for a week.
I told them I could help bc my people help.
So I ask if anyone can spot $5 to my Venmo so I can transfer as a lump: @Kristofer-Nivens
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I got to work this morning to find a close coworker weeping.
They're in bad $ trouble bc of our bad pay & a weak social support network... $7 in the bank for a week.
I told them I could help bc my people help.
So I ask if anyone can spot $5 to my Venmo so I can transfer as a lump: @Kristofer-Nivens
They're in bad $ trouble bc of our bad pay & a weak social support network... $7 in the bank for a week.
I told them I could help bc my people help.
So I ask if anyone can spot $5 to my Venmo so I can transfer as a lump: @Kristofer-Nivens
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"Solidarity is literally in LA's DNA."
"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
lapublicpress.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Solidarity is literally in LA's DNA."
"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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German capitalism as we know it is coming to an end.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
German capitalism as we know it is coming to an end.
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
![Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdife25rfr5drwr2nhncr3rf/bafkreidfgv3xytmgta3x35mjze22ojok7lwh3vlhgrcfbcwr7hjg6bb6eu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!