Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

Unsurprising
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Me looking at Black MAGA voters (who've been adamant their Duce/Fuhrer & team were not racists - 'they just wanted to protect America' ...) after those offensive photos of the Obamas.

This is why I can't understand the incrementalism. There's horror shit happening to kids in these places. Horror shit. OK? That has to matter. The longer we wait the longer these kids suffer.

Definitely!

Sunday 15 should be interesting ...

It was! Allez Les Bleus. 👏🏽

My teaching experience changes constantly. This class is for future human rights lawyers mainly 70%) but some are also also anthropologists and political scientists so contemporary issues are urgent matters to them (and to me). My classes need to take that into account.

Students are interested in forms of discriminations and explorations. I'm giving them a few tools to understand some links btw past & present, the mechanisms used to subjugate how very relevant they are today.

Teaching about Encomienda. Baculamento, Pawnship, Chattel Slavery, Altpetl and other forms of labour, their transformation in the Atlantic World & legal ramifications (15th-19th C). Terrible stories but excited to engage with their legal minds. Full class last week given it's a 9am start, surprised!

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Which genius thought sleeping in a hotel that has a pub with fun & loud music downstairs during dryJanuary (hers extends to mid Feb), knowing she's teaching at 9am tomorrow, was a good idea? You Londoners are sinful. I shall not be deterred and shall stay in my room to work!
#vaderetrosatana

Lovely to see this brilliant book, The Great Defiance @gowerst-books.bsky.social @davidveevers.bsky.social 👏🏾

Comparative Focus on Legacies of Enslavement in the United Kingdom and France Abstract. Britain and France were key players in transatlantic colonial enslavement for centuries. The legacies of that past continue to affect millions of

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Publication alert: my latest article
Comparative Focus on Legacies of Enslavement in the United Kingdom and France
#OUP #RacismbyContext

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Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

French Senate approves draft bill to simplify return of colonial-era artefacts The French Senate on Wednesday adopted a draft legislation to facilitate the return of artworks and other prized artefacts looted during the country’s colonial era. This new procedure could help addre...

It's happening!

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dz numidien marseillais (@cherchepastatort) on Threads "Mots passants"...masterclass

For French speakers and on Threads, this is delicious!
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“Ace of spades cards, which have been used by white supremacist groups as a racist symbol and were called ‘death cards’ by some during the Vietnam War, were found in at least two vehicles after those vehicles were pulled over by ICE agents”

US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’ DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s order

Child trafficking: how many haven't been returned? How many were / are trafficked when their parents are 'disappeared' in those centres or deported? Sickening.
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PS: I wrote an entire book about these very issues - US empire, racialised violence and the political dynamics of historical amnesia... 16/

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Davos 2026: a coloniser telling other colonisers why they should stop whining and just accept to be colonised. This historian is finding all that fascinating ...

Exactement !

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200% tariff on wine and champagne he said. Most French people likely go 'ben, vas-y, hein' ! (Translation: knock yourself out!)

UK drops target for international student recruitment Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

When Nottingham's overseas campuses are cited as evidence without any reference to Nottingham's UK campus woes, you know you have a half-baked, politically convenient policy in the oven. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Saudi Arabia opens new gold market in Africa, ending Dubai’s long-standing dominance Saudi Arabia has moved to position itself as a major player in Africa’s gold trade, announcing readiness to begin immediate purchases of bullion from Sudan

Sigh ...
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Maybe this is an opportunity have hard conversations about African & FIFA football associations, corruption, etc. or even about geopolitics ...

Morocco to pursue legal action over chaotic end to Africa Cup of Nations final Morocco’s football federation has announced it will pursue legal action over the outcome of the controversial Africa Cup of Nations final on Sunday

1991, Milan v Marseille. Milan players left the pitch. Not for same reasons as Sénégal but still, they did. I look forward to seeing where this is going.

Morocco to pursue legal action over chaotic end to Africa Cup of Nations final www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Some thoughts on the Director of the Louvre and the institution ...

Author's letters 'massive bit of the jigsaw' in abolition campaign - BBC News Researchers are transcribing and digitising hundreds of letters from abolitionist Hannah More.

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Sweet thing: a personal look at a photographer’s Cuban slavery heritage – photo essay From the remnants of my great-grandparents’ Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unesco’s Slave Route programme – where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece reco...

A powerful series. An outstanding project!👏🏾 #CottonCapital
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