Link Roundup: 27 May

Will Jacinda Ardern save New Zealand’s working class? No, she won’t. Tasty follow-up to our recent pod with Ben Peterson.

The millennial vernacular of fatphobia. Love this kind of excavation of a forgotten cultural moment from like, ten years ago. It is amazing how quickly we forget things.

Maybe this essay on how being a professional Magic: the Gathering player destroys your brain will only make sense to people like me who play it? Look, I liked it. There is a lot to be said about how capitalism is destroying the beautiful game of M:tG but first I would have to explain to you what a “planeswalker” is and nobody wants that.

The Glaswegian tradition of popular resistance to Home Office immigration raids.

If Israel eliminated Hamas, nothing fundamental would change.

How the myth of impartiality is used to block reporters from saying what actually happens in Palestine.

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