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Gav Jacobson

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Founding editor, equator.org

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you aren't already subscribing to equator you should be. This magazine has attitude. Writing by South African Nobel prizewinner JM Coetzee www.equator.org/articles/dus...?
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Ericka Beckman @erickabeckman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
check out this reading group! 🔥
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is going to be so great. Guests include: Esmat Elhalaby, Rebecca Karl, Mrinalini Sinha, Geoff Mann, Richard Seymour, Susanna Hecht, David Wallace-Wells, Laleh Khalili, Sunil Amrith, Chinnaiah Jangam, Alexander Zevin, Deepti Singh, Ericka Beckman and others!
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is going to be so great. Guests include: Esmat Elhalaby, Rebecca Karl, Mrinalini Sinha, Geoff Mann, Richard Seymour, Susanna Hecht, David Wallace-Wells, Laleh Khalili, Sunil Amrith, Chinnaiah Jangam, Alexander Zevin, Deepti Singh, Ericka Beckman and others!
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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...
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Late Victorian Holocausts • Events • EQUATOR
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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
in my favorite new magazine @equatormag.bsky.social
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For @equatormag.bsky.social, I interviewed Antonio Spadaro (Vatican Undersecretary, papal confidant, and co-author of a book on faith with Martin Scorsese) about the theological and geopolitical stakes of the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. www.equator.org/articles/to-...
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To Dwell in Possibility • EQUATOR
A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The senior Vatican advisor @antoniospadaro.bsky.social talks to @gavjacobson.bsky.social about the Pope’s AI encyclical – which radically critiques both Silicon Valley transhumanism and Trumpism
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/06/2026
@equatormag.bsky.social is for both people who are curious about the world, and those who wish they were. It is for the politically homeless, the ones seeking a moral oasis among the navel-gazing necropolitics of Western corporate media. It is also for those who'd rather be nomads.
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On the Occasion of a Magazine • EQUATOR
In a previously unpublished essay, Thomas Mann reflects on America’s ‘terrifying moral decline’
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
i somehow give equator money yet forgot to follow them on bsky - anyway if you would like to read internationalist leftist thought that isn't infested by dumb parochial tankie nonsense, i cannot recommend equator highly enough. invaluable.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Equator is a marvellous publication.
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‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’ • EQUATOR
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you are looking for new online magazines to read, Equator just launched and looks very promising www.equator.org/about/what-w...
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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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asma | اسمإ @livefootnotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
David Wolf, thank you for introducing me to @equatormag.bsky.social. I haven't stopped reading this magazine since this edition of the SLR. They are consistently producing incredible writing & reporting the most interesting stories I'm reading in (digital) print right now.
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Eric Teusink @ericteusink.com · 16/05/2026
This is one of the smartest things I have read in many years. Thanks to @andisheh.com for unknowingly turning me on to @equatormag.bsky.social!
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Good Jews, Bad Jews • EQUATOR
What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism
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Rory Taylor @rorytaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Equator is fast becoming a regular read for me, and this conversation about Mali and the Sahel juntas was particularly interesting
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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Great analysis of Orban's defeat from Ivan Krastev c.o. @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Mittel Man • EQUATOR
What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe?
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I signed up for free for @equatormag.bsky.social when it launched but I have so consistently read & enjoyed the articles that show up in my inbox that I just started paying. Well-written and thoughtful and interesting pieces from around the world: www.equator.org
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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
From the @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement and damn, was that ever proven 100% correct in short order.
The genocide in Gaza has destroyed what remains of the illusion that the West should determine the future for the rest of the world. The United States and its satellites, having taken the centre stage of history to great fanfare after the fall of the Soviet Union, are now exiting in disgrace. A profound disorientation is the fate of the intellectual class that was created and sustained by the 'American Century. A legacy media whose authority to narrate the world depends on Western
assumptions of omniscience is now lost in a ruin of shattered concepts.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/12/2025
"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.” www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful. So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning... Enjoy!
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Good people here, well worth your time
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Mira Kamdar @mirakamdar.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is so needed. Can’t wait!
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Great start to important new must read platform: The End of the West is not the End of the World!
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Lilith Verstrynge @lilithverstrynge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So honored to join @equatormag.bsky.social , born as a response to the horror in Palestine and inspired by a need to bring back meaning and hope amid today’s nihilism. 💪 I open with a personal piece about my last year in politics. Hope you’ll find it worth reading. www.equator.org/articles/far...
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Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR
My decision to quit politics at 31
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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
this @equatormag.bsky.social piece is excellent www.equator.org/articles/mur...
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Murder House • Articles • EQUATOR
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Join us at the Southbank on 31 October! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pan...
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Jerome Roos @jeromeroos.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Incredibly excited about this new magazine and global community, launching soon!
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new." Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration. Join us: www.equator.org
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The end of the West is not the end of the world. EQUATOR: a new magazine of politics, culture, art. ** If you haven't signed up to our mailing list, do so at equator.org **
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A small teaser of what I’ve been working on for the last little while. @equatormag.bsky.social is finally out in the world. Sign up for our newsletter, donate, and get tickets to our launch event at the Southbank on 31 October: equator.org
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A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Looking forward to @equatormag.bsky.social !
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A small teaser of what I’ve been working on for the last little while. @equatormag.bsky.social is finally out in the world. Sign up for our newsletter, donate, and get tickets to our launch event at the Southbank on 31 October: equator.org
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A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Come celebrate with us! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pan...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”
So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Who in the future is going to listen to a Jewish perspective on environmentalism or social justice when the bodies that espouse them did not speak up when thousands of people were being starved to death in the name of Jewish safety and security?"
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? - defector.com/why-do-fasci...
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Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? | Defector
In June, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the wetlands of the Big Cypress Nature Reserve, west of Miami and just ...
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Incredible
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...
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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
NEW ARTICLE: Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social bit.ly/3D5vUY5
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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Want to thank @shaneburley.bsky.social and @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social for interviewing me regarding my forthcoming book on the American Jewish left(s) and anti-Zionism.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 06/06/2025
this week's newsletter: trump vs. musk as forum drama maxread.substack.com/p/admin-is-c...
This is, of course, a highly visible political dispute between two of the country’s most powerful men, as well as a highly entertaining reality TV-style feud between two celebrities with a knack for attention-getting stunts. But I want to underline that this is more than just another example of the ongoing and near-complete convergence between “electoral politics” and “television entertainment.” It is also an example of the ongoing convergence between “electoral politics” and “forum drama,” driven by the overwhelming mediation of politics by various message board-like social-media platforms.

In this case, Musk has, consciously or not, stepped into the (astonishingly familiar despite its specificity) role of “overworked forum admin whose offline substance abuse and desperation to be liked by other posters has driven him to madness,” while Trump assumed (a long time ago, if we’re being honest) the stock role of “eccentric but predictable message-board regular whose strange obsessions and unique formal style have turned him into a kind of valued cult Character despite his obvious mental deficiencies.” (I would argue that his decade-plus performance in this role is as important to understanding Trump’s media presence as his status as “reality-TV star”; I would also say the fact that we elected a message-board eccentric to the presidency is both (1) a world-historical tragedy and (2) about what you might expect from a politics structured as a forum.)
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Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“his thought had a kind of archaic substantiality. He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius”. Raymond Geuss on Alasdair MacIntyre newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).
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