Mike Tondre ❌👑

Summer in Florida: tumultuous rain, perfectly tiny dogs, and good books. @mltondre.bsky.social excited to read your introduction with my students in the fall :)

Perfect summer combo — hope it teaches well. I’ve also got your Oil Fictions intro on my syllabus 🤩🌿

Yes, absolutely! So glad it's out in the world.

Hooray!!!! ☀️

Congratulations, Nathan!!! Cannot wait to read this.

We are in the courts each week. Visit www.newsanctuarynsc.org to get involved.

On Tuesday, our members witnessed ICE and FBI agents kidnapping a man in front of his family after his immigration hearing at 290 Broadway. His case had NOT been dismissed by the immigration judge, and he was instructed that he would have time to gather evidence to support his case.

Thanks man!

Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. By Allen MacDuffie Nothing enrages environmentally conscious intellectuals quite like climate denial. But resentment for hardcore doubters and dupes, Allen MacDuffie writes,

A very short review of Allen MacDuffie's brilliant book:
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A short blog post from my book *Oil*: thanks to all the folks at Bloomsbury! @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

“Monster soup”…perhaps a better title for the dirty water campaign.

Anson Rabinbach, Leading Historian of Nazi Culture, Dies at 79 He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

404 has the details. But in a number of interviews w those who've interacted with the Musk gizmocrats, AI and integrating government systems with AI comes up repeatedly. This isn't surprising in itself. AI is big in all tech now. But fits with what is described here.

Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?

For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...

if there were reporting

"What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup."

Join us Thursday, Jan. 30, for an urgent town hall for our members on immigration and the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in schools and hospitals. We'll be discussing Trump's mass deportation agenda & its harmful consequences.

Register: event.on24.com/wcc/r/484534...

JP Morgan’s report of 2020 warns of the desperate urgency of climate action:"[delay] opens us up to potentially catastrophic outcomes, which might be impossible to reverse.” It beggars belief that they now backpedal on net zero promises. They have sold their children’s future for a mess of potage.

Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff

Thank you!

Thank you so much! 🌱

12 books to prepare you for Trump 2.0 » Yale Climate Connections These books, aimed at the general reader, can help you contextualize and respond to our current crises.

@climateconnections.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

Amazing list of books on climate collapse for Trump 2.0, all hot off the press and aimed for everyone—nice to see my book OIL featured 🌿
#climate #climatecrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/12-b...

Campaigners from the Weald Action Group outside the Supreme Court celebrating their historic judgment in June 2024.

*Cringe* I have started a blog. Thanks @ruthtingay.bsky.social for the encouragement.

The first post looks back at my landmark Supreme Court win last June and the ripple effects it's still having.

Please read it or not as you choose! sarahfinch.co.uk

Another release of the day is "Deviant Matter" by @kwazana.bsky.social. Rot, jelly, ferment, and intoxication challenge us to think about resistance, race, and queer life across scales—from the molecular to the political.

A must-read for anyone curious about how matter shapes power.

Awesome—two other OL books I loved were Container (by Craig Martin) and Blackface (by Ayanna Thompson). Both really excellent if you have time down the road 😊

Thanks Michael! Let me know if you decide to check it out :)

Oil Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains th…

My book OIL is out now in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series! Sharing a few images below—big thanks to everyone who helped bring it to life 🌿
www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-97815...

Michael Tondre’s beautifully written and very very smart book OIL

I own it now and so should you 🤩🔥🌿

@mltondre.bsky.social

Huge thanks, Devin—I’ll be curious for your thoughts!!

Thank you *so much* Nathan!!!