account still here solely for poster accountability. find me at Bluesky, "the digital insane asylum," same handle xo
Portland, OR
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Happy to announce my latest work: a chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics titled, "Geopolitics and Far-Right Ideology." Deepest thanks to our indefatigable editor Zak Cope and the good people at Springer.
link.springer.com/referencew…
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My report from Chicago on the Trump administration's war on immigrants and how people are pushing back, protecting their neighbors through newly-formed community safety networks, spontaneously confronting ICE agents in the streets & more — at @newlinesmag
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch…
New Years of Lead Pod episode on Franco Piperno
patreon.com/posts/franco-pip…
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This week I had the pleasure to speak with fellow @FRANetwork_ colleague @areidross about the trial of Jair Bolsonaro, Trump's tarriffs and the prospects for the far-right in Brazil. You can check it out in the link bellow or wherever you get your podcast open.spotify.com/episode/3h9…
Nazi behavior:
ALT Why did she not at least attempt to help the Jews? The Catholic bishops of Holland tried this gamble. In July 1942, together with the Protestant Church, they sent a telegram of protest against the deportation of the Dutch Jews to the German Reichskommissar and threatened to make their protest public unless the deportations were halted. The Germans responded by offering to exempt from deportation non-Aryans converted to Christianity before 1941 if the churches would remain silent. The Dutch Reformed Church agreed to the bargain, but the Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht refused, and issued a pastoral letter in which he denounced the wrong done to the Jews. The Germans retaliated by seizing and deporting all the Catholic non-Aryans they could find, among them the noted philosopher Edith Stein. 149 Once the
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"Syria’s journey to the liberty and democratic ideals that prompted the Syrian revolution to begin all those years ago will be long and hard ..But on the streets of Damascus[..] it was not fear that I witnessed but hope"
Please read this by @OzKaterji
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24…
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This is such a beautiful piece. Essential reading:
aljumhuriya.net/en/2024/12/1…
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TOP READ: The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has turned Luigi Mangione into something of a folk hero. But celebrating vigilante violence comes with historical baggage and political danger, argues @areidross in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
"They talk through Trump’s appointees for the nation’s top health and science agencies like RFK Jr,, how to bring scientific thinking back to policy making, and how to differentiate between public health and individual healthcare."
crooked.com/podcast/how-to-c…
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NEW: The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has turned Luigi Mangione into something of a folk hero. But celebrating vigilante violence comes with historical baggage and political danger, argues @areidross in @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
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"Those enthusiastically embracing symbolic vigilante murder risk rejoicing in a vast wave of reaction that will undermine the thankless task of building movements," writes @areidross in a wonderfully thought-provoking essay on Luigimania for @newlinesmag.
newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
Alexander Reid Ross retweeted
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has turned Luigi Mangione into something of a folk hero. But celebrating vigilante violence comes with historical baggage and political danger, argues @areidross in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
Alexander Reid Ross retweeted
NEW: The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has turned Luigi Mangione into something of a folk hero. But celebrating vigilante violence comes with historical baggage and political danger, argues @areidross in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
shout out to @DannyPostel and the wonderful people at @newlinesmag for working with me to publish my longread on political violence in the US and some of the historical comparisons to Italy's Years of Lead, focusing on the 1977 crisis of the intellectuals.
newlinesmag.com/argument/los…
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My interview with Dr Alexander Reid Ross @areidross from Portland State University @GeogPDX about Italy's 'Years of Lead'. Loads of murky parapolitical goings-on. He offers info not found in English-language sources!
@Gia_Passarelli check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/commen…
reverse-multipolarism: "there are now 4 jews in syria."
If you want to learn about the Years of Lead, here's a good place to start (my podcast):
patreon.com/YearsofLeadPod?u…
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I'm seeing a younger generation of Syrian activists, recently politicized over Gaza, confused as to why some of the commentators they follow have such bad takes on Syria.
Good time to re-share:
leilashami.wordpress.com/201…
wrote a thing about some thoughts I'd been having
medium.com/@areidross/a-wind…
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New from me: antisemitism has grown dramatically in the past several years, but not primarily on the left. All evidence available shows that the right is its natural home, historically and today, which reveals how weaponizing antisemitism also hurts Jews. religiondispatches.org/the-a…