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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in the
@lrb.co.uk
'The attack on Iran was preceded by a # of unusually large & well-timed bets that made a combined $330k & were placed by 12 suspicious accounts in the days before Saturday’s air strikes. The FT found a similar pattern related to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro in January' www.ft.com/content/2883...
Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.
Fuck Iran and find out
(listening to verklärte nacht) what if wagner was good
I really appreciate @dwallacewells.bsky.social's work, but this—green energy supplementing rather than replacing fossil fuels—seems to me the main story, not just a qualification to the story of the "green transition." GHG emissions keep rising—with 2025's projected to reach the highest level ever
(My spouse) @hermionehoby.bsky.social’s brave & searching essay on what it’s like to live with a—intermittent but cruel & mysterious—chronic illness www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
like the proletariat, the task of posting is to abolish itself
When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."
Sentimentality is an underrated fash affect
A new national survey finds 70% of Americans think the Trump administration is too focused on deportations. Immigration enforcement ranks as a top driver of defection among Trump's own 2024 voters.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-pollin...
'Armed settlers descended on his home and viciously beat him, his wife, his daughter and his granddaughter. When his son and a 14-year-old nephew tried to come to their aid, both were shot and wounded in the ensuing gunfire, which came from both the settlers and Israeli soldiers'
When the govmt loves capitalism so much it refuses to let the owners of a coal plant shutter it
More MAHA glory
Rotterdämmerung
Remarkable piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Syllabus writing for my upcoming @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
course on the theory and practice of dictatorship.
A few spots are still available—we start on March 3! (Link below)
love to see it
Anybody in or passing through northern Colorado, please think of coming to Perry Anderson's talk (with Tony Wood) here in Boulder on Thursday, February 19th. The event is free: magicmountaintalks.org/event/perry-...
An excellent, funny, and winningly bleak and nasty short story from Daniel Lefferts, in @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/dani...
Particularly funny:
The, er, limitations of Updike's sexuality—scopophilia + the crotch shot in many cases—seem to me aligned w the limitations of his general POV: eidetically precise appreciation of the world as appearance, shallowness otherwise. Why his best characters are limited: boys, or Rabbit
A great piece of criticism, both as an appreciation and for its genial wickedness about Updike's limitations www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reviews like this make writing worth it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...
