I've just received my copies of my new book, Emergency Money: Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation 1914-1923, which will be published by @mitpress later this month: https://t.co/VtCBp4QblJ

going to kiss the Pope's ring but he's wearing one of those giant foam hands

Doing a land acknowledgment in Germany is so funny

Marx on Tariffs: “if they (protectionists) speak consciously and openly to the working class, then they summarize their philanthropy thus: it is better to be exploited by one’s fellow countrymen than by foreigners.”

When the US-backed genocide in Indonesia was underway, which would kill well over a million people, US corporations began building hotels on the killing fields of Bali before the massacres ended. Trump’s grotesque “Gaza development plan” is quintessentially US American.

I love seeing people arguing over the final scene in The Brutalist, as if any thought went into it at all. just a moronic ending to a terrible film.

Many people died, many people had their health severely and permanently damaged by infections but many, many more had their brains melted beyond repair by lockdowns, restrictions, vaccine mandates and the culture wars that flowed forth from these things.

This is actually true, but it’s basically nothing to do with the particular pathology of the virus and everything to do with the societal measures taken to combat it.

“Hitler been dead. Y’all living in the ‘40s!” is an all-time quote.

we all know what happens to people who work at the intersection. they wear hi-viz and get chronic back pain

A horrendous toll, all in the interests of multinationals determined to continue the time-honoured colonial tradition of plundering the Congo for its mineral wealth and its people's exploited labourers https://t.co/rokM0ARBRI

Exclusive: Jordan ready for war with Israel if Palestinians are expelled into its territory https://t.co/EeWyvcvsC3

And Guy Pearce was bloody awful

The assault was silly, which is to say, tasteless in the extreme, likewise the deployment of the Holocaust - both episodes reduced to PORTENTOUS set dressing signifying an IMPORTANT MOVIE

The idea that a member of the Hungarian Bildungsbürgertum would have ended up working on the docks, doing smack, and befriending an (apparently mute) Black worker, is ludicrous.

The Brutalist: 👎

Right now more than ever all eyes need to be on Congo. The conflict has reached critical point. M23 rebels have seized the mining towns in north Kivu & have taken over the airport. Key town Goma is now under their control. This is the most territory M23 has ever taken since 2012.

Does no one in the media know what it’s called when you “clean out” an ethnic group and expel them from their land? “Trump Calls For Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians From Gaza,” that is your headline.

fascists are very good at coming up with horrible new things! and there is an enormous amount of queer nostalgia, not least (but not only) from conservative queers