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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h

"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 · 19h

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 · 3d

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

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d

+ 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 · 3d

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...

blackwhiteandread.com

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 3d

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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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 4d

“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 · 4d

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

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 4d

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d

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

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 4d

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 4d

"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 · 4d

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 4d

"there are no victims in hell, only devils"

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 5d

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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Elizabeth Beavers @elizabethrb.bsky.social · 5d

Essential reading from @jakeromm.bsky.social 👇

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

The liberal international order is dying, the culmination of a trend that was put into overdrive by the so-called global war on terror.

What’s coming is something worse, unless we stop it

My latest for @thenation.com

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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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

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Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 5d

“The choice is still there: Follow America and Israel into hell, or push them in along with the rotten old world they helped destroy, and close the gates for good.”

Okay, if i can possibly suggest a second must read article of the day, it would be this.

Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

The liberal international order is dying, the culmination of a trend that was put into overdrive by the so-called global war on terror.

What’s coming is something worse, unless we stop it

My latest for @thenation.com

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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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 5d

The liberal international order is dying, the culmination of a trend that was put into overdrive by the so-called global war on terror.

What’s coming is something worse, unless we stop it

My latest for @thenation.com

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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Wm McKenna @wmmckenna.bsky.social · 5d

"As we have seen in both American & Israeli discourse, “terrorist” has come to be a racial epithet, attaching to all Palestinians, all Muslims, all Arabs, & now, all migrants (documented or otherwise)—the circular logic becomes a logic of genocide as well."

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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