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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
check our project redcaju.org - a painstaking work of mapping derisking energy projects at granular level across the African continent, analyses of energy policies in Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, and a lot more to come.
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REDCAJU – Reviving Developmentalism for Climate and Social Justice
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Commodification of “learning” and making “intellectualism” “hot” via celebrity culture is not going to save us! This really pissed me off.
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ILGA Portugal @ilga-portugal.pt · 13/03/2026
Comunicado conjunto rede ex aequo – associação de jovens LGBTI e apoiantes; ILGA Portugal; AMPLOS; Casa Qui; Opus Diversidades: A nossa autonomia não é debatível 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦋 lê na íntegra: ilga-portugal.pt/comunicado-a...
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A thread about Nepal’s recent elections, electoral co-operation of movements, resistance within imperial contexts, and the accumulation of revolutionary culture. You can read the full article here:
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What Movements Leave Behind
Electoral co-optation, imperial constraints, neoliberal mandates, and the accumulation of revolutionary culture in Nepal
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A lot of the money behind the AI boom is coming from pension funds of working class people and when parts of the AI bubble burst, private capital gets protected, while ordinary people can be left with the losses. The AI Data Center Gold Rush: The Bailout State Behind It - youtu.be/fHwYIFa1mNE
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I am thrilled to be on the advisory board of this series, please feel free to get in touch with ideas, questions, or proposals!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Cant take the valorization of this sentiment as an indication of love, hope or human decency. Loving the U.S., waving its flag, and insisting that the violence that is constitutive to the U.S. state as not USian is incoherent and dangerous. I wrote something last week that speaks to this!
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Exiled From Our Own Struggle
How immigration discourse reproduces paradigms of imperial extraction
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wrote about how migration discourse & even our resistance gets colonized by the forces that created the displacement in the first place. We're forced to react to one fascist spectacle after another while material foundations of displacement remain uninterrogated.
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Exiled From Our Own Struggle
How immigration discourse reproduces paradigms of imperial extraction
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you ask most colonized people they will tell you that this has always been the U.S.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If the newly formed socialists in the U.S. throw champagne on cops would we learn the true meaning of champagne socialists ? Anyway, good job by this young man!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
What a game !
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Please read this piece - I'm so fascinated by it! It provides a clear walk-through of feminist history - especially valuable for those of us less familiar with these debates. I learnt so much!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My latest piece explores how private equity operates as a mechanism of subordination in the Global South. From Nepal to Kenya, we're told to celebrate foreign investment while our working populations bear all the risk and see none of the gains.
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Private Equity and the Global South's Subordination
How finance capital turns our futures into investable assets
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Bluesky deleted his account (and keeps doing it). I verified that his account is him & that this Chuffed fundraiser is his: chuffed.org/project/1580...
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Help Nurse Hammam and his family in Gaza
Hello !! My name is Sonia. I'm starting this fundraiser to ask for your help for my friend Hammam and his family, who currently live in Gaza 🇵🇸.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The UK is not safe for trans people!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Trump administration is engineering a brutal reordering of global capitalism. While claiming isolationism abroad and racism at home, they're actually forging a transnational capitalist alliance powered by AI. American fascists seek other fascists willing to enforce technological extraction.
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Globalization 2.0: Artificial Intelligence and the New Fascist Order
How American tech supremacy forges a transnational fascist alliance through artificial intelligence
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I might be pro this kind of immigration process - at least until we dissolve borders! I moved to Lisbon and can walk up and downhill without slipping a lot. Do I get permanent residency now?
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Read about how the U.S. turned crisis management into the basis of accumulation. We live in a world where the state’s perpetual arbitration in the financial system has become the precondition for accumulation itself.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
PLEASE STOP ENGAGING WITH HARRY POTTER SHIT! This includes everything from the video games, movies, TV shows to casually referencing HP content ! The scale of damage this one billionaire is able to cause to the trans community is staggering!
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart. It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Part 2 of my AI investments series is live! The question isn't whether the state will bail AI firms and their financiers out. It's understanding why bailouts have become structurally inevitable under the contemporary form of financialized capitalism.
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The Derisking State and Architecture of AI Accumulation
How OpenAI Obscures Its Dependence on State Intervention
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Tiger’s but and tail (Nepal) Elephant (Nepal) Urban monkeys (Nepal) Rhinoceros (Nepal) Musk Deer (Nepal)
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Cover art by Sara Qaed
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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
and @iraregmi.bsky.social with more "strategic reconnaissance" on how "the goals of the AI corporation and its financiers merge with the strategic objectives of the American empire" radicaltransitions.substack.com/p/how-financ...
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How Finance Capital Fuels the AI Data Center Rush
AI infrastructure and the nexus of state power, industry, and financial institutions
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Waiting for distinguished economists to notice Larry Summers is a sex pest of the teenage boy variety, but with the power to harass his own students
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is a very comprehensive mapping of AI financing structure and points to some really important dynamics. I’d pay attention to the GPU depreciations and especially the cash flow uncertainty @advaitarun.bsky.social points to!
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 15/11/2025
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A really thoughtful piece that contextualizes the situation after a bomb blast in New Delhi. India has yet again resorted to collective punishment as state policy. This isnt new. Every incident like this in India triggers the same reflexive and methodical cruelty towards Kashmiris.
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Kashmiris under siege after Delhi blast
It doesn’t take much to happen for life in Kashmir to alter overnight.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New piece up ! I explore how finance capital fuels the AI data center rush and how this reveals something crucial about how state power, tech companies, and financial institutions unite to extract wealth.
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How Finance Capital Fuels the AI Data Center Rush
AI infrastructure and the nexus of state power, industry, and financial institutions
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
here we are indeed. (additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
tweet from Zohran Mamdani on 11/22/2020 saying "never thought I'd be more hopeful about socialism than arsenal and yet here we are ."
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The affordability crisis is real & the far-right weaponizes it constantly. White supremacy excels at manufacturing a racialized other to scapegoat for the violence inflicted by those who hoard power and wealth at the top. Easy sell when racism and xenophobia are the very foundation of our societies.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
No longer any Black women at Teen Vogue!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025
FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK THIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Threaten Lex with a good time. Their work at Teen Vogue was unparalleled and timely - esp given widespread journalistic malpractice on trans issues and Palestine. Their layoff is all of our loss if they can't continue doing essential journalism. Give Lex many dollars or we will curse you!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@azadessa.bsky.social on SRK as an empire himself - complicit in genocide and acquiescent despite Muslim persecution in India. “The Muslim man who assured the Hindu nation that there was an Indian way to be Muslim: a non-threatening, consumer-friendly Indian patriot who always put the nation first.”
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The compulsion to filter every global crisis through the question “but how is this America’s fault?” is simply American exceptionalism in reverse - this time wearing a critical theory costume. Happy Halloween - I’m honored you came dressed as America.
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America: An Exit Interview
What became unbearable was not just its violence, but the insistence that we fight to be included in the American project rather than dismantle it entirely.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The homophobic formulation ‘Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ is rightly receiving the heat. It enacts more than homophobia though. It’s deeply embedded in white narratives of Christian single-origin story of our world. We can’t solely focus on homophobia allowing hegemony of monocultural stories.
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I'm seeing non-Sudanese on here say they don't know where to get daily news reports on Sudan - Sudanese outlets that also report in English include: Radio Dabanga, Ayin Network, and Sudan Tribune (links: www.dabangasudan.org/en, 3ayin.com/en/, sudantribune.com). 1/
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Dabanga Radio TV Online - Latest Sudan News
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I left America with relief, not regret. I wrote an exit interview not about Trump but about the liberal complicity that makes principled resistance impossible.
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America: An Exit Interview
What became unbearable was not just its violence, but the insistence that we fight to be included in the American project rather than dismantle it entirely.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/10/2025
1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead. Her death was ruled a suicide. But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power
News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This connection is completely undeniable. Domestic American authoritarianism is really just imperialism boomeranging inward and now being weaponized against migrants, racialized populations, and queer communities within U.S. borders.
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Puar has been so integral my worldview and my understanding of life, politics, and oppression. Always grateful!
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Time to be who you always were, Harvard - an investment fund! Also applies to other universities
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Sadly, this is what most white Americans have appetite for. A controlled, safe walk in the park once every month or so wont cut it. Most people who ONLY attend these large no kings protests have no skin in the game and it shows. Real solidarity requires sustained action, not performative gestures.
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