Mamdani erasing back rent owed for over 5000 tenants - saving them millions of dollars
Showing how to use city power to force corporate landlords to fix unsafe apartments and end exploitative conditions
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‘One notable innovation concerned the status of enslaved women who bore their master’s children: these women, known as 𝘶𝘮𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘥 – “mother of the child” – were not allowed to be sold.’
@youssefbens.bsky.social on a new account of slavery in the Islamic world.
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gothamist.com
The company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments.
Nathan Newman- Working to 8647, the Pedophile Rapist
London Review of Books
we really are sitting atop a lit pyre - how dire the situation in UK HE is cannot be overstated. | Squadrons of Pigs - Stefan Collini www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... via @lrb.co.uk
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
Drawing on research for 'Cracking the Class Code', Lee Elliot Major and Anne-Marie Sim argue that success in elite workplaces is shaped not only by talent and hard work but also by hidden class-based cultural norms that influence who is seen as credible.
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‘She had no truck with cinéma vérité, speaking instead of “ciné souvenir”, “the fact of having filmed living people in a living frame’.”’
Lili Owen Rowlands on Agnès Varda.
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‘Agnès Varda launched her revolt against femininity early. When she was ten, her mother took her to see 𝘚𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘧𝘴 at the Métropole cinema in Brussels. Varda hated it: “Why does she take care of these little ones all the time?”’
Lili Owen Rowlands:
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End of day 2 working on #WomensLivedCitizenship at @ucddublin.bsky.social with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @mmrovlje.bsky.social. A joy to work with great colleagues to further develop this exciting project. Off to dinner now 😋 ahead of last day brainstorming tomorrow.
Vindhya Buthpitiya
Drawing on research for 'Cracking the Class Code', Lee Elliot Major and Anne-Marie Sim argue that success in elite workplaces is shaped not only by talent and hard work but also by hidden class-based cultural norms that influence who is seen as credible, authentic and deserving of advancement.
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Beneath the whimsy and the wit, Agnès Varda’s films were motivated by contradiction and critique. She said she was...
The deadline for this year's HM London Conference abstracts is tomorrow at midnight (GMT)!
Decolonizing Money presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital.
Starting next Monday, 15th June. Check out our exciting line-up of panels and speakers and joins us in Newcastle! ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @corinnepainter.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social
Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Tu...
Check out the feminist theory section call for the next European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), to be held at Newcastle University 15-17 June 2026—Feminist Theory: Between Hope and Disappointment. Please share widely and join us in Newcastle! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
