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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Andy Burnham's policy and statements on war and the arms trade (2001-26)

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2026

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Nevertheless, I think of this book as belonging in that mainstream of modern philosophy that began when Kant exchanged the structure of the world for the structure of the mind, continued when C. I. Lewis exchanged the structure of the mind for the structure of concepts, and that now proceeds to exchange the structure of concepts for the structure of the several symbol systems of the sciences, philosophy, the arts, perception, and everyday discourse. The movement is from unique truth and a world fixed and found to a diversity of right and even conflicting versions or worlds in the making.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2026

We must come to see the chart as we see the humble paragraph. Merely as the vessel. Limited? Yes Contestable? Of course. But maybe also ripe with the possibility of clarification in a world of turmoil.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What started as an online satire has exploded into India’s largest youth political uprising in years. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was sparked after a high-ranking judicial figure dismissed unemployed youth as “cockroaches" #India 🧵 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j....

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Opposition parties shut down Indian parliament in solidarity with ‘cockroach’ protests

Proceedings suspended as politicians call for Modi government to address police violence and education scandals

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh, for God’s sake.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 19/07/2026

I’d like to believe that some of this can be countered with feed design. But really a big part is *who* is actually active on this site. bsky.app/profile/geof...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OK, so to give a bit of earlier backstory as to why they're called the CJP, the chief justice of India referred to NEET youth in India as "cockroaches" within the system who were a threat to Indian society who turned to activism or journalism www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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‘Cockroach Janta Party’: Top Indian judge’s comment sparks satire, protest

Controversial remark by Supreme Court chief justice triggers a political movement, with thousands of Gen Z signing up.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

we should have more india posts on this website, especially considering it's one of the world's largest democracies

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I don't think these outlets will do meaningful reporting on India or ask activists and human rights defenders onto their platforms to unpack what's happening in India. We'll continue to ask. But in the meantime, keep looking at the videos coming out of India.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For years, my colleagues and I have tried to get people in the US to pay attention to India - things are dire in the world's largest country. And yet, the big players are somehow always afraid to do any meaningful coverage. And I am including the so-called progressive outlets.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I am so proud of the Indians on the streets calling for accountability from this fascist government. They have made the world look, and it is no easy feat. The world ignored the other protest waves - from Shaheen Bagh to Bhima Koregaon to Punjab. Maybe this time things change.

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Ria Chakrabarty @riachia93.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I hope, finally, this is the time that Westerners finally pay attention to India. Indians are in the streets, bleeding and fighting for a better future. This has gone beyond the CJP and its centrist demands. People are demanding the end of everything that has held India back.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 24/06/2026

Key takeaways from @advaitarun.bsky.social’s interview revisiting his “Bubble or Nothing” report which maps the capital structure of the AI and data center sector www.preaquarterly-digital.com/preaquarterl... publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...

KEY TAKEAWAYS
GROWTH STILL BELIES FRAGILITY
Asset-liability mismatches still run through the Al and data center capital stack: cash flows that don't service debt, GPUs depreciating faster than their leases, and circular financing where growth collateralizes more growth.
THE HYPERSCALER CASH CANNON
Mega-deals like Meta-Blue Owl's $27 billion Hyperion bond have pushed back the maturity wall, giving the largest hyperscalers more flexibility. Investors price it closer to Treasuries than Al.
PRICE THE WHOLE STACK
Below the hyperscalers, investors should test tenant concentration, liquidity, and refinancing risk.
Neoclouds like CoreWeave, borrowing at 14% to 17% with two customers driving 70% of revenue, demand a different lens, including GPU depreciation and refinancing cliffs.

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Out today: The Pension Real Estate Association interviewed me on "Bubble or Nothing" and the current state of the AI investment boom. We talk about my report, what it missed, and what's changed since. Really happy with how this turned out: www.preaquarterly-digital.com/preaquarterl...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 24/06/2026

“You wrote about Hyman Minsky in 'Bubble or Nothing.' Why?” www.preaquarterly-digital.com/preaquarterl...

You wrote about Hyman Minsky in "Bubble or Nothing."
Why?
Hyman Minsky was a financial economist who wrote about the financial sector's ability to make the macroeconomy more fragile by piling leverage onto ordinarily safe assets.
The economy shifts from being composed of what he calls hedged units, which take a lot of equity and some debt financing and can always pay back their liabilities, into a world of speculative finance, and then Ponzi finance, where firms have to increase their leverage just to roll over their existing liabilities. So the whole economy becomes more vulnerable to instability.
The linkages between all of these actors, to fund each other's debts, is what creates this web of liabilities, where one shock, one collateral call, one margin call could send the structure tumbling. A Minsky moment is when that Ponzi structure starts collapsing like a house of cards. That's when people start saying, 'Is this a Minsky moment? Are we almost there?'

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Pop pop pop (21 July) "Financial engineering" is such a quaint word for speculative chicanery... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s easy to dismiss comparisons between finance today and the build up to the 2008 meltdown as exaggerated or overwrought. But right now, it’s hard to ignore evidence that we’ve entered a fresh golden age of financial engineering — and it should be impossible to forget that the products of this alchemy can tarnish easily or, worse, turn out to be iron pyrite.

The most recent example is almost too perfect: An insurance company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., has been tapped to protect investors against losses from bonds linked to private credit funds, according to Bloomberg News. Back in the global crisis, bond insurers that had promised to cover defaults of mortgage-linked bonds became super-spreaders of the sickness that nearly took down the world’s financial system.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/07/2026

just finished jager's HYPERPOLITICS and he's very much caught between thinking that mass politics, as in early 20th century political parties, is the "ideal form" of political organization, and the recognition that such form emerged from specific sociological conditions we are unlikely to return to

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Scroll @scroll.in · 22/07/2026

Undeterred after facing police action, protesters returned to Jantar Mantar to continue their protest. Several protesters, injured in the lathicharge a day earlier, turned up at the protest site with bandages. Scenes from Jantar Mantar at midnight. 📷 Ayush Tiwari/ Scroll

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 22/07/2026

Dominic Toretto if he sucked: “I live my life a quarter mile at a time…like a Fabian”

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/07/2026

I’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what

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Arnav Das @arnav7.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Chief justice of india be wilding mahn

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is something of a revolution in paradiplomacy! Traditionally and obviously NYC has been zealously symbolically pro Israel (even if tacitly willing to facilitate the UN and work with eg Palestinian delegations). This is reminiscent of boycotts against South Africa…a big blow to Netanyahu

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 07/03/2026

International law is not dead - The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order @newlefteviews.bsky.social “The law is an instrument of class warfare not just for the rulers but one that can and should be repurposed by the ruled into real constraints on power.”

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International law is not dead

The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know there might be international law experts who disagree with me on the details of this interpretation, but I’m not a lawyer, my discipline is about understanding power, and i view international law as fundamentally political; others may disagree

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

some questions about what I mean by this: the most likely pathway to Netanyahu’s arrest is one in which it becomes politically convenient or important for someone to execute the arrest warrant. that’s unlikely to be the mayor of New York right now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be someone sometime

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

his legal team has come up with this answer: NYC doesn’t have the authority to arrest him, but the federal government does and should. he says Netanyahu is not welcome in NYC regardless

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

after Mamdani’s interview with the New York Times last week, a few people asked me how it was possible that he didn’t know the answer to whether or not he could arrest Netanyahu if the prime minister arrived in NYC, & by my lights the answer is just that diplomatic immunity holds until it doesn’t

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

White House to divert billions in research funding to AI, away from universities - WSJ

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

my hot take is that reading Adam Smith should make our kids woke!

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 02/03/2026

Lorna Finlayson put it best here I think: “On lesser evilism” newleftreview.org/issues/ii145... www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/is-s... (Same piece no paywall)

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Lesser evilism in electoral politics tends to conceive of consequences only in the immediate sense of one or another party being in power. But this construes consequences too narrowly. A particular party being in power is not the sole outcome of the votes cast. A vote, however infinitesimally and depending on a whole array of interrelated factors, might reward a party for how it has conducted itself; it might communicate to those in power that one issue is important to people and that another is not. When Blair was re-elected in 2005, what was arguably communicated was that you can invade Middle Eastern countries despite massive public opposition and people will still vote for you. Even granted that the Conservatives were the greater evil in 2005, a voting policy of 'Teach New Labour a lesson' might have had a more salutary effect on British politics.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2026

“Burnham is likely to face criticism from the left-wing Green Party and the Liberal Democrats, who both oppose the use of the bases because, in their view, it makes the UK complicit in war crimes.” Yes. Yes it does. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Burnham Approves Use of UK Bases for Some US Strikes on Iran

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the US for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, in a continuation of his predecessor Keir Starmer’s polic...

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the US for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, in a continuation of Keir Starmer’s policy even as Trump ramps up his war.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don’t really think scrapping the most draconian immigration policies of this century is ‘shifting hard to the left’ on cultural issues tbh. And that ‘unite vs divide’ framing is curious, but cultural issues already divide the Labour 2024 coalition - he’s just chosen the conservative side!

Outside of Burnham's core priorities there is plenty of continuity. Keeping Shabana Mahmood at the Home Office shows that, as I keep saying, Burnham is not going to shift hard to the left on cultural issues like immigration. His approach will be to focus on issues that unite his potential voter coalition (cost of living, nationalisation, social housing) rather than divide it. But he will want to be able to say immigration has fallen, and has made clear he broadly supports Mahmood's approach. The number 10 policy adviser responsible for this area - Harvey Redgrave - has also been kept on.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 03/05/2025

Indeed. And further.. EVERYTHING👏DIAMOND👏OPEN👏ACCESS👏OR👏JUST👏FIND👏THE👏PREPRINTS/PIRATE👏IT👏

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 24/08/2025

I like this Venn diagram from the “Diamond Open Access” Wikipedia page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond... (May be some exceptions/caveats to the classifications though)

Venn diagram highlighting the different levels of open access in scholarly publishing, as a function of cost to the readers and authors, copyright retention, and peer review.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 08/09/2025

Here is my extensively researched ranking of philosophy journals: 1) Any diamond open access philosophy journal 2) Everything else

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 16/07/2026

only thing i care about

The Canadian Journal of Political Philosophy is open source, being free to publish in, disseminate (free of cost and with proper attribution), and read.
The Canadian Journal of Political Philosophy is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

KEEP GOING!! www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... "Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals now fully open."

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Cambridge reaches milestone as 75 percent of journal articles become open access

Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21/07/2026

A remarkable shift since the frosty and sceptical reception that @theblochian.bsky.social and I received, when we spoke to CUP about the need for OA in 2013.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2026

www2.oberlin.edu/stuorg/sfp/2...

Eqbal Ahmad helped research the script and was present during the filming of The Battle of Algiers. What follows is an edited transcript of a lecture about the making of the film that he gave to an undergraduate class at Hampshire College in fall 1998.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2026

"Eradication is about the irresistible urge to make sense of events through metaphor and narrative, which enable people to get their bearings on the world—and how feelings of grief and duty can warp those bearings, even disable them." advaitcore.substack.com/p/reject-ide...

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Reject identification, embrace the hyperobject

Reviewing Jonathan Miles' Eradication: A Fable.

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I wrote a short review of Jonathan Miles’ Eradication: A Fable, a thoughtful and very fun work of climate fiction that, as I see it, tries to grab the immensity and incomprehensibility of the end of the world by the horns: advaitcore.substack.com/p/reject-ide...

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Reject identification, embrace the hyperobject

Reviewing Jonathan Miles' Eradication: A Fable.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 04/10/2025

Insightful piece from @ashoswai.bsky.social examining the wave of South Asian uprisings. Lays out key differences/similarities between Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. (And a needed check on my optimism) scroll.in/article/1087...

If one looks for a deeper pattern, it is not simply economic hardship but the rising impatience of younger citizens. In Sri Lanka, they were part of a wider coalition.
In Bangladesh, they acted as the vanguard. In Nepal, they dominated and reshaped the protest vocabulary itself.
This is the thread tying the three uprisings together:
South Asia's youth, digitally connected and politically alienated, are no longer willing to wait passively for better governance.
Yet these revolts also reveal the limits of street power.
Protest movements can topple regimes, but they cannot, on their own, build new orders. Sri Lanka shows cautious renewal is possible, Bangladesh shows how fragile transition can be, and Nepal shows how easily generational revolt risks sliding into chaos.
The temptation to see these uprisings as South Asia's Arab Spring is misleading. They are not clones of one another, nor do they herald a uniform democratic tide. Each is written in its own dialect, shaped by local grievances and political structures. What unites them is the collapse of patience with elites, what separates them is the path that follows collapse.

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