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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

*Additional small print: he's also a fucking great writer!*

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

*Full disclosure: this guy is also my dad*

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This guy is currently running an experiment in generating advance sales of his novel, PARTISAN, via crowdfunding. The DIY thing works with music - why not literature? Check out the campaign here and if you like what you read, pre-order your signed copy! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan2025

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Help me find the readers who will love this book

Hello! I'm launching this crowdfunder to support and promote my second novel Partisan, which will be published in print in autumn 2025

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Me! But that extended to not being on here hence late hands

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

the complacency is just absolutely wild. Corbyn, Sultana, Polanski - they're not trying to get 30%, they're trying to get 10-15%, and the first requirement for reaching 10-15% is being noticed and the last non-requirement is being a credible government-in-waiting

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Maybe some of the "splitters" just have morals? I know that actually believing in anything is a fucking wild idea to these Oxford LabourSoc gremlins - yeah, that's right, I saw you all down the Union and I know exactly what you're about - but it does actually happen out there in the wild

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Pope Francis was great but Leo is turning out to be awesome

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Ben Morris @benmorris.eu · 02/07/2025

4) rare SUPERPRIZE, come & stay with us in partisan country, 3 nights B&B in the hills where Beppe Fenoglio & Cesare Pavese lived & wrote, plus *optional extra* winetasting of my very own wines & I'll cook you lunch or supper while you hang out with us for an afternoon or evening :)

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Ben Morris @benmorris.eu · 02/07/2025

*Four New Rewards* coming today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan2025 1) ebook of my 5 star reviewed first novel DRIVING JAIMIE which Fay Weldon called "cosmic" 2) "raffle" for 3 guest pieces on my blog 3) read/ crit/ publish (on my blog, if I like it) for a piece of your writing...

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You're the one that's celebrating the obliteration of minority cultures you idiot. Fuck the Confederates and fuck US Indigenous boarding schools and fuck the CCP and fuck India's "tribal" schools and fuck any other state system trying to wipe out other cultures by kidnapping children

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"Rod the Prod," mocked Kneecap - shortly before the local police, egged on by Sir Keir Stürmer and his gang of red-brown genocide champions, opened an investigation into their own performance for potential "hate crimes"

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

BREAKING! Woody Guthrie to be posthumously prosecuted for "this machine kills fascists" sticker: "It's violent, discriminatory speech that's making a lot of normal, respectable fascists feel very uncomfortable," says minister

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Neither is 'wipe out Tibetan culture' you massive dickwad

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The problem is that schools doubling as prison camps and education as a weapon is common to most nation-states, regardless of their political systems, religions or cultures. China is a good example but so is India, the US, France, Israel, you name it... futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/education-...

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Education is destroying humanity

one ‘small people’ at a time.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

You know that many Native American cultures also had slavery, right? Does that mean the rez schools were a good thing? In the end you're either for or against 'education' being used to wipe out other people's cultures, you can't just pick and choose depending on which ones are your favourite

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It's gotta be a better bet than tryign to successfully monetise #substack at least? #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #writersky

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Love literature but tired of tired old publishing models? Bored of debates about gatekeeping and identity and *who* makes a book good instead of *what*? Then support this experiment in funding fine fiction without any of the bullshit! #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #writersky

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Ben Morris @benmorris.eu · 27/06/2025

I'm running a crowdfunder for my second novel, PARTISAN, which will be published in September. If you like what you read there, you can pre-order your copy - signed, with your name printed inside on the Supporters thankyou page :) www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan2025

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Help me find the readers who will love this book

Hello! I'm launching this crowdfunder to support and promote my second novel Partisan, which will be published in print in autumn 2025

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Partisan is a novel which weaves together two stories which unfold in two different times: "then," 1943, Italy, the awful times of war; and "now," 2008, the ordinary present, the year of the crash, the year the banks stole our money. Let's get it published! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan2025

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Help me find the readers who will love this book

Hello! I'm launching this crowdfunder to support and promote my second novel Partisan, which will be published in print in autumn 2025

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s too damn hot to be outside, & the world's burning anyway, so why not stay in & check out all the amazing public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new books from the last week in my 230th #ScholarSunday thread? Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 230

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Honoured to have made the list again - tho wish it was with happier piece. Still, having been right in predicting Trump's strikes on Iran even in the face of all the dissimulation and elite wishful thinking, read on for more about what might happen next futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/will-trump...

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Trump and Israel's War On Iran

What history tells us about the future of conflict in the Middle East

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I’m about 70% sure the US will join Israel in striking Iran in the next 24 hours. Moving aircraft carriers and aggressive rhetoric could be part of pressure tactics to get Iran to cave to US-Israeli demands. But it’s also clear that Trump smells blood. futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/will-trump...

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Will Trump Attack Iran?

Hindsight, history and the future of the US and Israel

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And who the fuck knows what their calculations are right now. I guess we’ll find out soon. What a world we live in. 'International law' is a dead letter. Life is officially cheap. Absurd to believe this doesn't result in serious blowback further down the line.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

or get taken out by superior US forces on the grounds that they had a chance to surrender and refused. Potentially it’s just the Gulf states, above all the Saudis, who stand in the way of this happening tonight.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It’s classic short-term reactionary thinking of the kind that Trump is all about. The ‘ultimate deal.’ A situation where Israel take the flak for anything that goes wrong but he gets all the credit if the Iranians either fold under the pressure;

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

If he wipes out Iran’s nuclear facilities with no US losses, he’ll have scored a rare, total ‘victory’ for US in Middle East. With none of the longer-term entanglements his MAGA isolationist allies are so suspicious of. Meanwhile the neocon members of his bloc are already celebrating.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

He knows China and Russia don’t care enough to get involved beyond selling some extra weapons to Iran in the short term; and, esp. in latter case, lapping up extra profits thanks to oil price spikes. So now he thinks that maybe all he needs to do is send a couple of bombers in to ‘finish the job.’

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

the Iranian response hasn’t caused enough damage to Israel to restore any kind of deterrence; and all the ‘sensible’ countries of the G-7 have done is to meekly justify Israeli aggression by ‘reaffirming Israel’s right to self-defence.’

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

same with Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, threats vs. Tehran and the Ayatollah himself. But also clear that Trump smells blood. He thinks Israel have done the hard bit already, both militarily and diplomatically;

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m about 70% convinced the US will join Israel in striking Iran over the next 24-48 hours. Of course moving aircraft carriers and other assets could be part of pressure tactics to get Iran to cave and agree to humiliating US-Israeli demands;

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Excited by this new novel - and by the idea this might be a new and better way to publish proper books in a world where the old models of publishing are broken and new ideas are desperately needed. Join me in supporting the 'Partisan' crowdfunding campaign here! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan20...

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Help me find the readers who will love this book

Hello! I'm launching this crowdfunder to support and promote my second novel Partisan, which will be published in print in autumn 2025

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Enhorabuena! Looking forward to reading!

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Resisting Empire: A History Podcast @resistingempire.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The Russian Revolution allowed the Kazakh reformers to create their own government. But what sort of government can you create when you & your fellow indigenous intellectuals can't agree on the best way to rule & the Russian Civil War is breathing down your neck?

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Episode 27-the Russian Revolution and the Alash Orda

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Israeli forces have killed people waiting for food in Gaza for a fourth morning in a row. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the aid distribution centres backed by the US & Israel have become death traps"

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Today’s my younger son’s high school graduation, but through proud Dad tears I’m still sharing my 227th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 227

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

What happens when Indigenous people fight back against education policies designed to destroy their cultures and identities? Here’s the story of one such case, based on my research on schools and nationalism in revolutionary Mexico futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/bad-educat...

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Bad Education Part 2

Indigenous rebels vs. abusive schoolteachers in revolutionary Mexico

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Across way too much of the world today, schools are more like prison camps and education is ‘re-education,’ deliberately designed to destroy humanity’s endless diversity in a misguided attempt to build ‘stronger’ states and more ‘developed’ economies. futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/education-...

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Education is destroying humanity

one ‘small people’ at a time.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Across the world from the far east to the American west, schools are really prison camps and education is more like ‘re-education,’ designed to destroy humanity’s diversity in a misguided attempt to build stronger states and more ‘developed’ economies. futureconditiona1.substack.com/p/education-...

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Education is destroying humanity

Or what passes for education in much of the world, anyway.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

BBC Verify: "The journalist was injured. We're not naming him for his own safety" Safety from whom? Spell it out, BBC Verify.

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Nathaniel Morris @morrisinmexico.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Yeah Jill and the cat are great. Joe can fuck off and die already, the genocidal cunt

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