Brendan O'Connor
@_grendan
sometime journalist studying the geography of football; wrote a book about capitalism and fascism called Blood Red Lines http://bit.ly/3zh0Lwt
in this essay: the ideology of amateurism and the contradictory development of modern organized sports; the history of PED use and their regulation; transhumanism and Silicon Valley's obsession with death; athletic labor and the body thebaffler.com/after-the-fact…
In a supplement to our most recent issue, @_grendan writes on bodily autonomy, “life extension technology,” and the Enhanced Games. thebaffler.com/after-the-fact…
Just a couple months away…
Pleased to announce @blowbackpod SEASON 6, coming fall 2025 from me and @nkulw Teaser:
We unequivocally reject this line of argument from AOC, as should the broader Palestine movement and the Left. Israel is able to continue its genocide unabated precisely because of the endless flow of both offensive and defensive weaponry to its arsenal. That is because every…
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Damn I really went off here
some light saturday morning reading via @_grendan in @thebafflermag
Everyone in the industry knows that this shit does not fly at the Times on any other subject. And rightfully so!
Among these 20 NYT journalists are Natan Odenheimer, who served in the Maglan special forces unit of the IOF for four years, and Isabel Kershner, who has cited her former-IOF husband's Zionist think tank over 100 times throughout her tenure. newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier
pdf here for wider access: drive.google.com/file/d/1FM6_KO… on the social form of movement along the border in south texas and how everything from the deportation machine to the racialized price of labor power depends on an increasingly flimsy modality of technical regulation
my first academic publication in the upcoming @antipodeonline tracks the legal production of freight labor in the us-mexico borderlands and locates in it a pervasive form of capitalist (un)freedom: negative mobility
Somehow both demonic and utterly banal
Had the new Grok waifu talk to Claude voice mode. Tell me this doesn't sound EXACTLY like an egirl trying to rizz up an autistic guy at an SF party?
Sitting by the beach yesterday to escape the devastation for a moment - Malak was assassinated with a drone. She joins hundreds of other athletes murdered by Israel. No FIFA ban, no Olympic ban, nothing. Israel acts with total impunity in every area.
This is Malak Musleh, a boxing champion from Gaza. She dreamed of raising the Palestinian flag on global podiums. Israel killed Malak and destroyed her dream while she was resting at Al-Baqa beach on the Gaza shore.
Someone with access (and willingness to lose it) should do a piece on the five year anniversary of the NBA strike and ask the players and Obama if the deal to end the strike was a good one and what, specifically, were the achievements of that deal.
LeBron, CP3 and a small group of NBA players spoke with former President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, per @ShamsCharania Obama advised them to play and maximize this opportunity to get their desired action items.
Absolutely will not countenance any degree of discourse about a “Superman” movie. Grow up.
What are YOU 🫵 doing to defeat the rampant spread of pickleball?
I’m noticing that different courts around Milwaukee have these little free libraries for tennis equipment? Love