It's said that Al-Shabaab is why Kenya's largest infrastructure megaproject, in Lamu, north coast, cannot progress. But if we see Lamu less a battlefield than a frontier—LAPSSET an echo of a colonial railway with no raison d’être—we find a different story.

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RT @untileverypod: Our pamphlet "Revolution Neither Starts Nor Ends"—conversations with Sudanese comrades reflecting on Kenya's Maandamano….

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RT @reedschwartzsf: I wrote for Asterisk Magazine about the *other* outsider politician who unites Silicon Valley billionaires, Zionists, a….

Wrote a micro-review on the film Black Tea (2024) in @thedrift_mag

"What do we learn about time from how the state [. ] takes up space on protest streets? We learn that state takes advantage of brief moments of dissent to end years of difficult, unsupported child rearing with a single, terse bullet." @miss_mumbz.

RT @untileverypod: We focus a lot on how human AI is. But what about how AI makes us less human—particularly the content moderation and dat….

RT @boneless_koi: seeing a lot about the andrea long chu piece on ocean vuong--here is the essay whose arguments chu draws very extensively….

RT @ryangrim: Just to be extra clear, these are deliberate, targeted strikes on journalists that are being carried out.

RT @yuval_abraham: A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries….

RT @HossamShabat: This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :. “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most….

A comprehensive primer by @husamom on Emirati sub-imperialism in Africa: investing in ports, airports and infrastructure projects to extract resources and increase global political and military influence. In @TNInstitute's "State of Power" anthology.

RT @chenchenzh: you know when people in china used to (and still to some degree) romanticize everything about the US? it's the other way ar….

RT @equalityAlec: For the rest of their lives, in every room into which they walk, Matt Miller and Antony Blinken will know that people of….

RT @dwallacewells: “If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like ‘an entire bicycle.’….

RT @benmauk: Thailand is preparing to deport dozens of Uyghur asylum seekers to China in violation of international law. Advocates are urge….

RT @malonebarry: "Maybe if we were Ukrainians, or any other citizenship, with blonde hair and blue eyes, the world would rage and rant for….

RT @promise__li: I wrote about the Chinese American far right, how its rise is informed by the crisis of the petite bourgeoisie coupled wit….

RT @promise__li: May 2018 protest against the US and Israel in Hong Kong when Israel killed 58 and wounded 1200+ Palestinians. Two in thi….