Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialhokusai 🌊🌊🌊 @thebluenami.bsky.social · 16/09/2025RIP Robert Redford 🙏🏻 sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day 417017
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the first woman to lead the Grito de Delores. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...nytimes.comFor the First Time in 215 Years, a Woman Leads Mexico’s Cry of Independence 16517
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialPete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Rothkopf: "It was not just Mamdani being a younger candidate offering fresh perspectives that was a game-changer. The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out." 1248087
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/06/2025‘Maybe we only begin to understand our families when we recognise the stories we can’t bear to tell about them.’ NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAndrew O’Hagan · Air-Conditioned Unease: Joan Didion on the CouchWe can feel imprisoned by other people’s versions of who we are, especially if their urge is to blame. On one hand,... 1152
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott... 513109603038
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 16/06/2025Sisyphus Finds Happiness existentialcomics.com/comic/607existentialcomics.comSisyphus Finds HappinessA philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes 615128
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLucy Gray @lucymaygray.bsky.social · 04/06/2025#booksky 10791291119
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/05/2025‘“Classic” may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add up to hatred, or indeed to anything – but this may reflect a deficiency in the word rather than the film.’ Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMichael Wood · At the Movies: ‘La Haine’‘Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add... 052
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. 5973057610751
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation. 8853641120
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it. 442813629
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/02/2025My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...) 27914177
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income. 11506135
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Wise man… 671320897362
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialTheprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. 1324757
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialKodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 16/02/2025It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this. 335197384746
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025‘This is a narrative about what has been lost, about strange, chthonic richness succeeded by erasure and silence.’ Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukColm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders WentThe remote west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something... 0142
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025‘The police entered in civilian clothes, used Google Translate to decipher the titles of the English language books and confiscated box loads, picking out any with a Palestinian flag on the cover.’ Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...lrb.co.ukSelma Dabbagh | RansackedOn 9 February, two branches of the Muna family’s bookshops in East Jerusalem were ransacked by Israeli police. They... 01412
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialTheprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Christian Nationalism is currently the biggest threat to democracy. 1425341
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialNoam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Capitalists who made risky investments and failed would be wiped out. But the rich and powerful do not want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run the nanny state so when they are in trouble the taxpayer will bail them out. The conventional phrase is "too big to fail." 1104
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025‘Ali’s knowledge of left-wing groups around the world, of their local and global struggles and the way they relate to the strategies being pursued by the US and other major powers, is encyclopedic and in wide demand.’ Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAndy Beckett · Bad Times: Travels with Tariq AliTariq Ali’s loose and digressive book is many things: a history of a left-wing elite and its enemies since the 1980s;... 02211
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/02/2025Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 5297139
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialNoam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The problem of “putting the public in its place” came to the fore with what one historian calls “the first great outburst of democratic thought in history,” the English revolution of the 17th century. This awakening of the general populace raised the problem of how to contain the threat. (1/2) 172
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales" 485192622133
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialPixel Pushers Union 512 @ppu512.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I've been reading this, and enjoying it greatly! 0142
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialTheprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025 1830335
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/02/2025‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’ Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukColm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders WentThe remote west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something... 15818
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 16/02/2025In Amsterdam, we are holding on 20th February (at 2:30pm) a Visual Assembly to discuss, imagine and design cities of the future! It will be at the OBA. Come along if you are in Amsterdam! For tickets - go here: tickets.oba.nl/nl-NL/Show/D... 03510
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.” taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...taskandpurpose.comA Marine vet thought he found a 'home' working at the VA. Now he's one of 1,000 fired.Andrew Lennox, who was terminated from the VA, noted the irony of the VA claiming it had fired some veterans to help veterans. 457201915854
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialTheprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025We are witnessing the Adolf Hitler playbook unfolding right before our eyes. Yet, people are nonchalant about it. 3234384
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialNew York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13/02/2025"....with his delicate humour and control, Antonio di Benedetto persuasively explores the etiology of contemporary masculine dysfunction – that is, as a crisis of social utility." Conor Truax on The Suicides for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...the-tls.co.ukA crisis of masculinity – and the ultimate vow of commitmentThe Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto’s loose “Trilogy of Expectation”, now complete in English with Esther Allen’s translation of The Suicides, 0103
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/02/2025 12754157
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025On Wednesday, we will host a talk via Zoom about David Graeber's views on Anarchism and Anthropology. To join register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... As its David Graeber's birthday, you can come to the talk - its in London, Housman Bookshop at 6pm! Weds, Feb 12th! 06121
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:newyorker.comThe War on Diversity, Equity, and InclusionD.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command. 10755197
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem. 1681358055994
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comNIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediatelyThe move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. 978160986155
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025 217963
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialFlorida Democrats @fladems.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Nobody wants open borders but this anti-immigrant legislation will cost $500 million in state funding and will only make our economic problems worse. 38466261267
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week. 12494893711945
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/01/2025It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy." 2387136
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽 17656821611697
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...drive.google.comStatement from Katherine Franke.pdf 611430533
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 16/12/2024Some books (not 20) that influenced me, with explanations. 4. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1962) I was pretty much Frank Wheeler when I first read this novel. Like Frank, I figured that just having cultured tastes made me better that other people. Ironically, it took Yates, a hardcore... 4243
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 16/12/2024Henk Pander’s portrait of Ursula hangs in the Paulson Reading Room at the University of Oregon’s Knight Library (which is also home to her archives). (It’s quite high up on the wall - hence the angle!) 337341
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 15/12/2024So called "Lobbying" by Corporations which David Graeber called bribery has more of an impact in deciding Healthcare policy. davidgraeber.org/interviews/a... 520246
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialTheprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 15/12/2024 1243889
Reposted by @disappointedarms.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️🌈 1603469249094