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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 17d

Such a pleasure to join @imarajones.bsky.social on @translash.org to talk about the history of anti-queer and trans surveillance

TransLash Media @translash.org · 20d

This week on TransLash Podcast, @imarajones.bsky.social sits down with @kredburn.bsky.social and @ziembavision.bsky.social to discuss the DHS rolling back limitations on surveillance based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

🎧 Listen now: linktr.ee/translashmedia

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 1d

"The left _cannot_ be a historical re-enactment society." (YES!) Appreciated this podcast (even I am not particularly "Lenin-curious" heh...)

Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 5d

the latest Heart Reacts is up, a particularly tender one for me. we do a bit of an update on "Your Party" but mostly focus on a question about how to care and be cared for in a privatized world www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Episode 29: Let the People who Love You Love You | Heart Reacts

Get more from Heart Reacts on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 2d

but just truly at like what point in the current work-week of already-working multiple jobs are people supposed to be volunteering I really want to understand?? (other than graduate students, graduate workers, fine, but clearly also we are only allowed to "volunteer" in very specific ways so...)

daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 2d

I refuse to believe this particular elite is ignorant of how and why trump was able to gain power the way he did and how their narratives about immigration WILL NOT SAVE THEM.

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 2d

honestly this Labour Party's leaders make me sick with their laziness, narrative capitulation, and pandering. it is incredibly dangerous. the last six months have shown me how little English and british people know/understand about sociopolitical dynamics and movements in the US, but

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 2d

it's SO RIDICULOUS because it belies a dangerous willingness to go along with Reform's portrayal of immigrants as just somehow coasting along instead of being people who through precarious OR white collar work, documented OR undocumented, contribute immensely to british life and the economy.

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot stop laughing at the UK Labour Party's proposed requirement that foreigners "volunteer" -- and this is coming from someone who (bc of immense privilege) "volunteered" (tbh no quotes) for 10-25 hours/week each of the 11 years I lived in the US. these purity tests are SO HILARIOUS I cannot.

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 5d

Note also how the US, China, and employers' groups are on the same side of this. Something that won't surprise those who have lived and worked in both places and often speak to the similarities.

daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 5d

Great piece on @techpolicypress.bsky.social by Nandita Shivakumar on algorithms, labour, and workers' rights. (With a little reminder thrown in about the challenges of accessing ILO reports that will affect people's rights...) www.techpolicy.press/the-ilo-deba...

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 5d

the utility and function of international law (or any law!) - but opinions like this one create a channel for (hopefully) further action. Perhaps even after many of the current systems are (for worse and for better...) dismantled. www.asser.nl/about-the-as...

[Interview] ICJ climate opinion puts 'final nail in coffin' of states' excuses, experts argue

@Thurgga Vigneswaran - People demonstrating at the International Court of Justice in The Hague prior to the Court's Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change - 23 July 2025

www.asser.nl

daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 5d

Super interesting interview from this summer based on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on international climate change obligations. This summer was such a personal blur that I missed it. In the face of all that has happened and is happening politically, it's sometimes hard to stay positive about +

[Interview] ICJ climate opinion puts 'final nail in coffin' of states' excuses, experts argue

@Thurgga Vigneswaran - People demonstrating at the International Court of Justice in The Hague prior to the Court's Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change - 23 July 2025

www.asser.nl

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 10d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11d

The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion

weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 11d

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d

the history will continue until morale improves

poorly photoshopped die Hard 2 poster with Francis Fukuyama wielding a gun in front of explosion. caption: "History 2"

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 10d

Turned out the end of history was the neoliberals killing it.

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sorry, WHAT?!
( laughing from the floor where I fell over in hysterics bc is this the SAME Fukuyama brb where is the rest of my comp lit seminar circa fall 2009 can we regather?? )

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 11d

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

english.elpais.com

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

* everyone who believes in change and will put in the work
* a close friend's reminder that we can get through nearly anything if we can talk about it
* that I can be merely in a cog in the wheels of progress IN A GOOD WAY
* that a certain ez kl may develop a serious rash and it'll be instant karma

daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

feeling really crappy about the state of affairs, and thinking abt
* the work ppl I personally know + love + admire are doing as lawyers, organizers, healers, educators
* the healing work friends have done, internally
* worker organizations that have accepted they can't be racist POS
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 10d

Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve

there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.

Klein keeps swerving.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 9d

Part of what this reveals is what US labor has been arguing since the late 19th C. At will employment impedes political democracy. If u can lose ur livelihood for ur (non violent & non harassing) beliefs, then being an engaged citizen is all but impossible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account

www.nytimes.com

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

Sharon Graham / Unite / www.unitetheunion.org/what-we-do/u...

www.unitetheunion.org

daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

“Examining 17,000 companies, [Unite's report] shows this profiteering crisis is far from over. This is why our economy is broken. Because of the choices of executives, investors, and politicians who choose short-term profits and fat dividends over investing in our industries and public goods."

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daskabital.bsky.social @daskabital.bsky.social · 9d

"While workers have been hit with the biggest fall in real wages and living standards in generations, corporations have racked up hundreds of billions in profits."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26d

the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab

A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database

www.netzeropolicylab.com

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