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Mateus S. Borges

@msborges.bsky.social

PhDing at McMaster University Anticolonial thought and praxis | Affective archives of resistance | Iran All things political, academic, and cat memes

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A imprensa brasileira não pode normalizar a aplicação da lei Magnitsky sobre Alexandre de Moraes. Basicamente, os EUA estão CONDENANDO unilateralmente um juiz brasileiro apenas por ele estar aplicando a lei do país contra uma corja que tentou aplicar um golpe de estado.

30.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 2580    🔁 664    💬 46    📌 32

50% tariffs because we put a pro-US fascist on trial and are making US tech companies liable for their crimes.

My school textbook used the 1954 US coup in Guatemala to explain US imperialism, saying it was done to stop land reform & protect US companies. Future textbooks can just print this letter.

10.07.2025 00:07 — 👍 1459    🔁 455    💬 10    📌 6

THE FUNNIEST THING about the comments from US people asking for this many people to show up to protest Trump - even if you aren't in the US - is....... did you protest Bolsonaro? did you support Brazilians during the Bolsonaro regime? are you protesting Milei? Modi? Meloni...? Yeah I thought not.

04.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 520    🔁 98    💬 8    📌 4

😕 queer theorist here, confused by email from the Executive Director of @isanet.bsky.social attempting to justify why a motion on BDS was not brought to vote; reposting a 🧵 from X since ISA has sworn off that platform

24.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses.

They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

07.02.2025 22:48 — 👍 5664    🔁 1223    💬 167    📌 131

I heard the orange clown down south is causing quite a ruckus with tariffs

this buffoon will literally destroy the economies of our countries to fulfill his narcissistic and megalomaniac plans

such a falling-empire move

02.02.2025 01:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Historicising Racial Militarism

I will be speaking on "Historicising Racial Militarism" at the Institute of historical Research @ihr.bsky.social on Tues 4th February, 5.30-7pm. The event is in-person and online. All welcome, but registration required - details in the link👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

29.01.2025 11:07 — 👍 76    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 0

I have struggled with my role is as an Arabic speaker with a platform, in the face of the need in Gaza. I have decided to start a series I'm calling “Voices of Gaza” that tells a fuller story of people’s lives and dreams beyond victimhood.

I hope you'll help amplify.

15.01.2025 14:34 — 👍 576    🔁 266    💬 13    📌 12
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Folks in and around Hamilton, please join us for the conference “The Afterlives of Feminist Revolutions: Woman, Life, Freedom & Entangled Struggles” on December 14th! Registration link below:

shorturl.at/qx7vZ

02.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the...

No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the Palestinians.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/vietnam-algeria-palestine-passing-on-the-torch-of-…

30.11.2024 17:00 — 👍 128    🔁 54    💬 6    📌 5

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

21.11.2024 11:53 — 👍 31584    🔁 3999    💬 728    📌 297
19.11.2024 14:46 — 👍 3211    🔁 1197    💬 18    📌 10

For Portuguese speakers, @anarcofino.bsky.social provides excellent analyses of Brazilian politics. For an English-speaking audience, check the recent books by @furtadoht.bsky.social and Desirée Poets. Give also the utterly devastating movie "I'm Still Here" a try.

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Accountability is long due, as far-fetched as it may seem for a passive government which is no talk and no action with regards to the military and police. #SemAnistia

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As a case in point, despite Lula's denunciation of the genocide in Gaza, the Brazilian Army and Federal Police still buy and employ Israeli technology in the Amazon and Rio's favelas, connecting the apartheid regime's unending violence against Palestinians to the Brazilian settler colonial project.

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Meanwhile, the traditional "Left" represented by PT insists on the myth of development via a strong military. Lula, in particular, has never moved towards judging, penalizing, or reforming the Brazilian military, quite the opposite instead – the latter still holds a huge chunk of the federal budget.

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The same murderous military men who killed, tortured, and kidnapped thousands of Brazilian activists, students, Black, and Indigenous claiming democracy, equality, and liberation during the 1960s and 1970s now enjoy their retirement without any resemblance of accountability. Impunity is the norm.

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The assassination plot against Lula exposes the danger of his conciliatory politics. Given the case's severity (one member was in Lula's entourage during his inauguration ceremony), Brazil must address how its military and police forces historically operate along settler colonial and imperial lines.

19.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Palestinian starter pack

14.11.2024 21:09 — 👍 1420    🔁 1020    💬 52    📌 33

This horrifying video of the occupation's terroristic assault on Beirut has nearly 2k RTs on Twitter and only 2 here rn.

We need to get serious about actively resharing all the content from Palestine and Lebanon we encounter so this site is not ceded to the warmth of liberal pleasantries for good.

17.11.2024 16:19 — 👍 91    🔁 58    💬 5    📌 3

Sintomático que essa """esquerda""" que nunca lutou por nada que não fosse cargo esteja tentando desmobilizar as manifestações pelo fim da 6x1 classificando-as como golpistas.

16.11.2024 16:19 — 👍 412    🔁 66    💬 13    📌 2
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Editors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”? Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

16.11.2024 11:06 — 👍 66    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

15.11.2024 12:59 — 👍 3580    🔁 763    💬 339    📌 41
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U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan. Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and...

Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities…

02.09.2024 23:00 — 👍 43    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 2

can’t believe my stupid ass has imposter syndrome while elon musk is confidently marching around twitter HQ and chewing on wires until something breaks

02.07.2023 13:30 — 👍 4860    🔁 999    💬 63    📌 43
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chegando por aqui

02.07.2023 14:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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