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Aretousa Bloom

@aretousa.bsky.social
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housing, critical finance, visual culture UCL

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
‘After the first Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan oil, the number of ghost ships carrying these countries’ oil tripled and the price of old ships due to be scrapped increased.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on ghost fleets. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Ghost Fleets
Unregistered and undetectable fleets cut into the profits of the big tanker companies. After the first Trump...
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 25/08/2026
In this preview from our upcoming issue—out next week!—@davidhill.bsky.social explains how prediction markets are angling to avoid regulatory scrutiny by riding the coattails of another unscrupulous industry: insurance.
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The Polymarketification of American Life
Prediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!
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House Society
The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...
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Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Great essay by @quinnslobodian.com www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...
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Digital Bandung
The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.
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Aretousa Bloom @aretousa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Easily one of the greatest World Cup games
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.
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Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
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The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
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Aretousa Bloom @aretousa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so good @miriammthsn.bsky.social
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Hormuz oil shock has made it possible to see how American hegemony ends. A brilliant new essay by @mona-ali.bsky.social on the ‘hydrocarbon dollar complex’ and the emergence of a new international order:
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Speaking of: Netanyahu and others are openly talking of applying the “Gaza model” to Lebanon. The “Gaza model” means genocide. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Israel Katz: IDF to destroy bridges, homes in Lebanon to curb Hezbollah | The Jerusalem Post
He said the IDF is continuing ground operations in Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah operatives and reach the anti-tank line and key strategic positions as quickly as possible.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Gosh. It's almost as if capitalism is not in fact a totally rational and seamless system.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 07/03/2026
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence. @alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.
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The Axis of Chaos
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Really necessary set of essay about this moment: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
straight fire from Melinda Cooper as usual
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Aretousa Bloom @aretousa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just in time, let’s go
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
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The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield
An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…
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Aretousa Bloom @aretousa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Beneath the Howl of Hunger arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...
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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
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Aretousa Bloom @aretousa.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Looking forward to welcoming Melinda Cooper to LSE on June 3rd, for a talk on "BlackRock vs. BlackStone: Factions of Asset-Based Capitalism" Join us! The event is free and open to all, registration details below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackrock-...
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BlackRock vs Blackstone? Factions of Asset-Based Capitalism
Join us for a public talk with Melinda Cooper, Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University.
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