We were literally able to help feed over 2,000 children in eastern Congo this past month because of your help. The work is real. Your impact is real. Let's keep it going. gofundme.com/f/urgent-suppo…

I am begging you please read every word of this

In this Media, Cultural and Communication Studies book chapter, I present tools for doing fieldwork in the Global South ethically, collaboratively, and respectfully. You can download my chapter here: drive.google.com/file/d/1YB0qWH… Here is the full volume: routledge.com/Research-Metho… Publication #5 for 2025✔️

A fascinating graph: Less than a quarter of the population paid taxes in the UK and US before WW2

AWFUL scenario. Border Patrol agents raided a car wash and arrested a DACA recipient working there. He has a REAL ID, but they didn't even let him show his ID, they just grabbed him and threw him in a van. He was then detained for a MONTH before getting bond.

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has warned neighbouring Ethiopia against renewed conflict. Eritrea said regional tensions stem from Ethiopia’s renewed focus on securing access to a seaport, a longstanding strategic objective for the landlocked country. africanews.com/2025/07/21/eri…

Just put this book on my to-read list. I remember when I lived on the east coast I felt so invisible as a Native person. In his new book, Joseph Lee traces Indigenous land and identity on Martha’s Vineyard–a place where both are often erased. hcn.org/articles/findi…

Or you could just process their asylum case and then let them work?

This is what social housing can (and should) be. Not just a place of last resort, left to crumble by councils, but a place to be proud to live. A place that we could all be proud that our country provides. It just takes the right policy choices!

“Most of the largest states in pre-colonial Africa were made up of culturally heterogeneous communities that were products of historical processes rather than ‘bounded tribes’ with fixed homelands.” africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-societ…

As Israeli siege sparks mass starvation in Gaza, key thread on how many times more deaths Israel’s war on Palestine is causing (compared to what’s commonly reported)

for The Nation i wrote about the beauty (and virality) of Iranian brickwork thenation.com/article/cultur…

I started reading Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This today and I've been unable to stop. It is deeply moving, human and a seering indictment of western liberalism. Strongly recommend.

Today, the folks The New Atlantis have lifted the paywall on the new installment in "How the System Works"--my series about the systems that undergird our days, that have vastly improved life for billions of people, and that--arrgh!--we seem to be forgetting about paying attention to.

I am so grateful for The Sameer Project please support them they are doing what so many of us wish we could do with them, they are getting urgent aid directly to the people in need. when you feel overwhelmed by the scale of devastation look to them and donate. you can help today

Empty words cannot hide the truth: your government is complicit in genocide. We are an unstoppable movement for peace, for justice and for Palestine — and we are never, ever going away.

OnOpportunity Zones, by David Neumark TL;DR: place-based policy doesn't predictably address the problems of people in a given place, especially when it's in a place where people can easily come and go! 1/

🪂 Airdrop: 5–15 tons 🚚 One truck: 15–25 tons 🚚🚚 20-truck convoy: 300–500 tons 🇺🇳 Needed to avert famine: 2,000–5,000 tons/day ⛑️ Airdrops are for remote, inaccessible areas—not places with open land borders. This is humanitarian camouflage. It is a continuation of genocide.

Must-read discussion of China’s push for industrial automation with Prof. Sun Zhongwei. A few highlights: - China’s push for automation was due to labor shortage, not the cause of it. Workers don’t want factory jobs, prefer pay and conditions at service jobs. Factories were

How can any parent look at these images and not see the face of their own child? Beyond horrifying that people are starving while food waits across a militarised border