New Year Office Chitchat How was your Christmas?you ask and I think ofthe bloodstained rug and the silent scrapingof the spade in the gardenat midnight and the wash washwashing of my hands and the dreams,those endless dreams which hauntthe night-time and smudgetheir thumbprints on the dayto come and I replySuper, thanks. Yours?
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How door-knocking for Mayor Mamdani restored my faith in the power of organized people to defeat organized money.
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January 5th, 2026: Welcome to 2026! Well my holiday is over. Not that I had one! This morning we submitted the manuscript to the publisher for the Second Edition of our Macroeconomics text, which will come out later this year. Finishing a massive project like that is always non-linear – the last few months are hideous – checking everything and filling…
One Nation’s spokesperson for foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has released a statement that says that while he’s not sure why Donald Trump chose to invade Voo Voo Zella (sic) he supports him none the less. ”Look, I’m not sure why... Read More ›
by Tony Wikrent Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens Stephen Prager, January 02, 2026 [CommonDreams] The Trump administration provoked horror this week with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported. On Wednesday, the […]
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump. The post The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War appeared first on The Intercept. Trump’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.
Donald Trump has declared that US will “run” Venezuela after its military captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and launched airstrikes on the Latin American country. The post Hands off Venezuela, no to Trump’s gangster invasion first appeared on Solidarity Online. One of the big changes I made at the end of 2025 was shaving off my moustache. I’ve had a moustache since mid-2020; I talked about my reasons for growing one in my post called My Moustache. I think it looked really good, and it made me feel connected to my Middle Eastern heritage — … Continue reading New Year, New Me
Didn’t expect this. Guess enough of the military wasn’t loyal or competent. Won’t work out well for the US in the longer run, but here we go again. Hell of a precedent to set. If I were Mexico’s President I’d be very worried. Hope she can trust enough of her military. A lot will depend […]
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U.S. forces attacked Caracas and multiple states in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The post “We Are Going to Run the Country”: Trump Boasts of Regime Change in Venezuela appeared first on The Intercept. Amidst criticism of his current run on Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies is turning out to be the best AND worst showrunner for the show possible.
Zohran Mamdani, the 112th mayor of New York City, concluded his inauguration speech with a call to arms. After reassuring the crowd that he was ‘elected as a democratic socialist and will govern as a democratic socialist,’ he went on to say: ‘Before I end, I want to ask all of you, if you are […] Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. This particular post is …
Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter. The post Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE appeared first on The Intercept. David Hoch, identified only by first name in Nick Shirley’s video, got info for his anti-Somali campaign from a GOP state House staffer. The post Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons” appeared first on The Intercept. New York civil liberties groups celebrated Mamdani’s orders as a step to protect the First Amendment right to criticize Israel. The post Israel Accuses Zohran Mamdani of Antisemitism for Reversing Orders Adams Gave Under Indictment appeared first on The Intercept. Scammers are using publicly available information to steal your money — while spotty regulations and industry pushback have limited your ability to recover it.
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