Weather Report #49: Repression on antifascists, Reflections on the 2024 Nairobi protests, the anti-Amazon, the FBI and the Green Scare, and more...
Consuming 08/05/2026
Hello, dear reader! Welcome to your Weather Report, a (sometimes) weekly column where I recommend some articles, a book, a movie, and some music for readers to consume.
Here's what you're getting this week:
- Listen to the podcast series about Puerto Rico and the United States that I worked on
- Essays, articles, and columns about: the history of government repression against antifascists, reflections on the 2024 Nairobi protests, and the antithesis to Amazon.
- A genre-defining British spy novel that started a nearly 60-year story arc
- A terrific sci-fi anime anthology made by some of the greatest directors and animators in the medium's history
- A good podcast interview about radical environmentalists and what the FBI tried to do to stop them.
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What I Did This Week:
One of the big projects that I've been working on over the last few months has finally come to life. The first episode of American Colony, a podcast examining the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, debuted yesterday. The first episode is an introduction to the series, but the next six episodes will examine one specific aspect (like baseball, selling coffee, etc...) of Puerto Rican culture and how it has been impacted/molded by the US.
New episodes drop every Wednesday from this coming week until mid-August.
My main contribution to the series outside of fact-checking was editing companion videos for each episode. You can check them out below:
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