Brendan O’Connor

fuck it. get relegated, clear out the squad, rebuild around the young players, win the Championship, come back. hard reset.

I would have a better time punching myself in the dick than watching this tottenham hotspur side

I think what sucks is the call is (technically) correct, but also this level of pulling/contact would lead to a penalty on every corner.

archie gray baby genius

football is so fucked man what are we even doing here

both interested to read these and also feel this gives Chibber's analysis more credit than it deserves

sure seems to be happening a lot

What We’re Reading Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

My new book, TO CATCH A FASCIST, is in @newyorker.com’s BEST BOOKS OF 2026 SO FAR list!!! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Watch This 1 Video to Restore Your Faith in Humanity

should work archive.is/jTHVx

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such a vital piece from Brendan, unearthing where DHS/ICE — agencies actively engaged in disappearing people to concentration camps — are operating in new york city, where some 600,000 of our neighbors and friends and loved ones are undocumented

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

NYC public libraries are some of the last places in the city where you can use the bathroom without purchasing anything. Again, we need city government to stop underfunding the libraries.

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The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

credit to @sludge.bsky.social for getting the ball rolling readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

my head is spinning reading this

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hm!

spurs supporter

and not a moment too soon

for Lent I should give up reading essays about what "the left" is or isn't doing, or does or doesn't need to do. I won't! but I really should.

“Gender Ideology,” Bodily Mutilation, and End of the Masculine West – Spectre Journal Taking Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies as a starting point, Tiffany Berruti looks at the reactionary right's fixation on trans persecution.

"Much like the red woman, trans women are both the cause and corporal symptom of the organic crisis, then experienced by the fascists as a crisis of the organic." spectrejournal.com/gender-ideol...

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails The Trump administration is planning to spend more than $38 billion to acquire warehouses across the U.S. in order to retrofit them into new ICE jails with capacity for tens of thousands of prisoners.

Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails

Marx never missed

Regardless of genre the self-evident axiom remains: if nobody bothered to write this, nobody should be bothered to read it

Fato

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that's some graphic

absent the ritualistic sexual violence that he facilitated, different factions of capital and the ruling classes were not able to achieve social cohesion, leading to increased competition between national and international capitals, etc……. but this is so much more insidious

a pet conspiracy theory / conjunctural analysis of mine was that the collapse of neoliberal hegemony was a consequence of Epstein getting sidelined by all of the media attention and criminal investigations…