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William Callison

@williamcallison.bsky.social
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Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/09/2026
The AfD's candidate in S-A was the embodiment of diagonalism, which @williamcallison.bsky.social & I coined in 2021. He used feel-good slogans like "Everything is Possible," the heart icon central to social media and literally began as a lockdown influencer. www.bostonreview.net/articles/qui...
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Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The @zetkincollective.bsky.social's Great Driving Right Show is the book we all need to read to fully understand our moment.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 08/09/2026
Reposting the piece @williamcallison.bsky.social and I wrote seven years ago about Sahra Wagenknecht who is in a position now, if she chooses, to put AfD in power in Saxony-Anhalt. Wolfgang Streeck remains among her advisers. dissentmagazine.org/article/pop-...
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Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany
Aufstehen’s leaders insisted that their movement was not defined by its opposition to migrants. But they consistently cast migrants as either pawns in the game of finance capital or as the phony poste...
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And I’ve more episodes coming this fall on platform publishing, deliteracy, and close reading for the present!
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It was a joy to be on "Less Worse", alongside @aprilanson.bsky.social, to discuss what's bad at present and speculative futures in which things might be less... bad. (Ecofascism and fossil fascism are... bad!) Many thanks to @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and Andrew Fitzgerald for hosting us at RPI!
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You heard it here first
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Check out this stunning new masterpiece from my comrades in the @zetkincollective.bsky.social. *The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism*, OUT TODAY, on @versobooks.bsky.social. Please order a copy or two, and share the excellent news!
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The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
[SHORT] - Fr ⬇️ 👉 EXTRACT 3 « So Ernesto Guevara is living in small town Argentina. He's 8 or 9 years old. And when Spanish Civil War breaks out, he gets kind of obsessed with it. youtube.com/shorts/c_mU1...
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
[SHORT - Fr⬇️] 👉 EXTRACT 1 “Honestly, the thing that I’m most interested in actually across all the work that I’ve done is how do people think of themselves in historical time. How people situate themselves as part of lineages, as part of practices, traditions? youtube.com/shorts/_0bGW...
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Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I'm starting a podcast called LESS WORSE. It's about why the future sucks and how the humanities can help make it better. For the first episode, I interviewed @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social about their work on eco- and fossil fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Ecofascism & Fossil Fascism w/ April Anson and William Callison
Podcast Episode · Less Worse · May 6 · 1h 34m
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Rally at Foley Square NYC now: abolish ICE
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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more. Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
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The Manufacture of Denial - DIAGRAMMES
“If you take away the agencies that play a crucial role in measuring climate change, you don't even have to deny science anymore. You just destroy it. There is something particularly aggressive and tr...
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy to post this interesting set of conversations (including one with me on #climatedenial about contemporary affairs: www.diagrammes.fr/en
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DIAGRAMMES
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
this May, I sat down with the philosopher Michel Feher, an exception interlocutor, to talk about the Wall Street Consensus, for the project Diagrammes www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNv...
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DANIELA GABOR - LE CONSENSUS DE WALL STREET
YouTube video by Diagram[me]s
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Une version écrite de notre entretien vidéo avec le politiste @joelowndes.bsky.social Par @williamcallison.bsky.social et @michelfeher.bsky.social pour @aoc-media.bsky.social
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AOC, un quotidien d'idées @aoc-media.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
« Le Parti républicain suit toujours cette stratégie en deux étapes où ils poussent la suprématie blanche d’un côté, et ouvrent la porte aux groupes de couleur de l’autre. » Par William Callison et Michel Feher. aoc.media/entretien/20...
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Joe Lowndes : « Face à un autoritarisme croissant, la démocratie dispose de très peu de ressources » - AOC media
Dans ses travaux récents, le politiste Joe Lowndes étudie les liens entre le conservatisme et l’extrême droite aux États-Unis depuis le début des années 1990 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, avec le second…
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Lucas G. Pinheiro @lucasgpinheiro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Very happy to see my latest article, “Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism,” in the pages of @apsrjournal.bsky.social!
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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Mal wieder ein Re-Post dieses tollen Essays von @veronicagago.bsky.social und @williamcallison.bsky.social - auch weil der Text so gut zu Söders neuester Gillamos-Rede zu "Tofu-Terror" passt, dem widerlichen "Unterleib-Interview" und anderen Performances passt. Unbedingte Leseempfehlung!
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
From the U.S. to Argentina, El Salvador to Ecuador, the wager of the resurgent right is that spectacles of revenge—trolling the zurdos, owning the libs—can mask or compensate for dispossession. How long the wages of cruelty can substitute for real wages remains to be seen.
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The Chainsaw International - Boston Review
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📹 Verónica Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social, intellectuelle et figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, analyse l’Argentine de Milei comme un laboratoire du néolibéralisme mutant. Face à lui, elle mise sur la potencia feminista : le désir de tout changer. Entretien en ligne 👉 buff.ly/SMQHjdw
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LE LABORATOIRE ARGENTIN - DIAGRAMMES
"Javier Milei s'est présenté comme le résultat final de la crise de représentation du système."
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social recently wrote with Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social, lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard @harvard.edu, about the politics of sacrifice and the radicalization of the international far right in @bostonreview.bsky.social 👉 www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Chainsaw International - Boston Review
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Our interview with Veronica was conducted in Paris on the 1st of April 2025 by philosopher and co-founder of @diagrammes.bsky.social @michelfeher.bsky.social and sociologist @ericfassin.bsky.social for our 4th newsletter. Don't forget to subscribe ! 👉 www.diagrammes.fr/en/page/news...
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Newsletter - DIAGRAMMES
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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes" Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor. shs.cairn.info/revue-critiq...
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Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s) : une histoire en cinq épisodes
Pas encore de compte ?
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
[FR👇] 🎙️ @veronicagago.bsky.social, a prominent Argentinian scholar and leading voice of Latin American feminism sees Milei’s Argentina as a lab for mutant neoliberalism. Against it, she invokes la potencia feminista—the desire to change everything. 📹 Full Interview online now buff.ly/Z87zbmN
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Le Club de Mediapart @mediapartblogs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Les travaux de la politiste Thea Riofrancos portent sur l’extractivisme comme régime politique et économique au Nord comme au Sud. Cet article présente notre entretien avec Thea Riofrancos et dévoile un extrait du chapitre 7/10 : « L'état d'urgence énergétique de Trump ». Par Diagrammes
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Thea Riofrancos - Extractivisme, vert et brun 1/2
Les travaux de la politiste Thea Riofrancos portent sur l’extractivisme comme régime politique et économique au Nord comme au Sud. Cet article présente notre entretien avec Thea Riofrancos et dévoile un extrait du chapitre 7/10 : « L'état d'urgence énergétique de Trump ».
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UAW @uaw.org · 19/05/2025
"A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions." www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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Court gives go-ahead to Trump's plan to halt union bargaining for many federal workers
The union, which represents about 160,000 federal employees, argued the order violates federal workers' labor rights and the Constitution.
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New bilingual politically kaleidoscopic online multimedia interview project is about to drop... Follow ahead of next week's launch: ‪@diagrammes-eng.bsky.social‬ + ‪@diagrammes-fr.bsky.social‬
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New bilingual politically kaleidoscopic online multimedia interview project is about to drop... Follow ahead of next week's launch: ‪@diagrammes-eng.bsky.social‬ + ‪@diagrammes-fr.bsky.social‬
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Incredibly excited to announce that pre-orders for the first issue of The BREAK—DOWN are now live!
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A global phenomenon: leaders of the Latin American right describe the project as a “batalla cultural.” But where Gramsci aimed at the capitalist class, their culture war targets progressives and leftists—progres and zurdos, Milei’s favorite epithets. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
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8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine. Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is Donald Trump telling the Supreme Court to fuck off, and it is Trump asserting his authority to kidnap and deport whoever he wants, for any “reason.” This is a serious escalation of his dictatorial project.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"One of the darkest days in American history" is absolutely right.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/04/2025
"Abolish ICE" was the correct take then and it's the correct take now.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/04/2025
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/04/2025
I think there is a lesson here. Just a year ago, Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg were trying to get a slate of their own candidates elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers (which is, I believe, a step below the Corporation Board). It's very good that they lost. www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/b...
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Bill Ackman- and Mark Zuckerberg-backed Harvard candidates fail to get on the ballot for board election | CNN Business
Former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and KKR co-CEO Joseph Bae are joining Harvard University’s top board as the Ivy League school seeks to turn the page on a tumultuous period.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/04/2025
If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.
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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 Holgersen at Harvard! For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!
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