Jake Levitan

Berkeley Law ‘26, interested in the (critique of) law and political economy/ecology. Incoming fellow @protestlaw.

[Alexander Aviña @Alexander_Avina]

Palestinian infant dies after being shot by Israeli forces in Hebron

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It’s infuriating that we’re pretending that there’s a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel’s endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. https://t.co/Y2WTxVbGaf

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

Chinese seaborne crude imports now down ~50% from pre-war levels, according to latest Kpler tracking.

Beijing doing more to balance the Hormuz-starved oil market than the rest of the world combined and no one knows exactly how long they can—or are willing to—keep it up.

[Nicholas Mulder @njtmulder]

My essay on the phenomenon of nationalization in an age of geoeconomic fragmentation for the new issue of Finance & Development: https://t.co/2ETWfYKp9S

[Jake Levitan @jklev_]

@AaronRegunberg Also that thread is itself ChatGPT slop

https://t.co/P0sJz7fgvZ

[Ryan Pollock @TexasBCTC]

For 20 years, flat electricity demand was the excuse for NOT building clean energy. Now we finally have huge demand AND huge capital AND political attention on the grid — all at once. That's not the threat. That's the opening.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Matt is right, the best thing to do for climate politics would be to align it with the super popular issue of supporting data center buildout, which working class people of all parties and ideologies absolutely adore!

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Read this https://t.co/NGnaWgfU16

[arne ness @arne__ness]

https://t.co/sxkFEQQC63
imo really agenda-setting work on the nexus between AI data center development and the US natural gas industry. very clearheaded

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Summer supply crunch could get real hairy

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Finally, a depiction that understands the stakes and the purpose of the strategy.

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

Iran's decision to suspend talks and threaten full closure of the Strait of Hormuz in direct response to ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon is a major turning point in this war, and one of the clearest indications that the US-Israeli attempt to impose a surrender framework on Lebanon has collided with a regional logic it seems incapable of understanding. Its substance is the criminalisation of sovereignty, whereby Israel seeks to continue advancing its invasion in southern Lebanon and entrenching its occupation, while Beirut is taken hostage to prevent Hizbullah from mounting any defensive response to that occupation.

That the Lebanese government has attempted to convince Hizbullah of the reasonableness of this new equation, and insisted on proceeding with talks with Israel tomorrow, even as Iran suspends its own negotiations in rejection of this same equation, captures the depth of the divergence. The difference is not merely over values or political principles, but over the very meaning of rationality under the simultaneous conditions of imperial and colonial force. One side has internalised US-Israeli power as the permanent horizon of political reality, while the other treats that same power as contingent and contestable.

Iran's refusal is therefore not merely the product of religious solidarity, ideological affinity, or shared strategic culture with Hizbullah, but is better understood as a rejection of the defeatist rationality that presents imperial power as the invisible limit of the possible, the zero point beyond which politics cannot go. What Iran and Hizbullah share is a political ontology grounded in the refusal of this defeatism, and a conception of sovereignty not as formal recognition conferred by power, but as the substantive capacity to reject subordination, even when the cost is very high.

[Rahim @UlyanovRahim]

Nobody has given a rational argument as to why Norman Finkelstein is wrong here.

I’m taking about leftists here ofc, I understand why a right winger would object.

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

"Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions," argues Afonso Gonçalves, chief organizer of the event. founder of the far-right group Reconquista, so named for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula."

[Jake Levitan @jklev_]

sewer socialism!!!

[David G. Greenfield @NYCGreenfield]

Proudly Jewish NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch tells @MetCouncil’s legislative breakfast to expect “the most robust security plan @NYPDnews has ever put together for a parade” for the Israel Day Parade on 5th Avenue today.

[whit strub @whitstrub]

@n_hold As bad as NJ Dems are, we forced them to pass a law against contracts with ICE five years ago--and then Biden/Harris admin sent a lawyer who literally sat with CoreCivic in federal court to overturn it, thus enabling Delaney Hall's existence

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

Photo of detainees at Delaney, by Ryan Murphy, for Reuters