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UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies | treasurer, Rasheed Wallace fan club | personal account

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Not sure which stat blows me away more. That Donald Trump's name shows up more times in the Epstein Files (38K) than Harry Potter's does in the Harry Potter books (~19K) or that Joe Rogan has had more guests that were named in the Epstein Files (10+) than he's had Black women guests (~5).

04.02.2026 05:09 — 👍 108    🔁 33    💬 8    📌 0
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Ready to vote YES on ULP Strike Authorization this Thursday ✊

03.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Middle East Studies Association ACLS invites applications for 14 two-year Leading Edge Fellowships with mission-driven nonprofits, designed for recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

#Employment ACLS invites applications for 14 two-year Leading Edge Fellowships with mission-driven nonprofits, designed for recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
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03.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is not a defense, but the fact is academics have to spend so much time sucking up to wealthy donors and every single funding cut to education makes the problem worse

01.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
29.01.2026 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Room-illiteracy is a problem that affects millions of Democrats

29.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ones on TV are somehow worse

28.01.2026 04:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marc Owen Jones - Dysinfluence: Transnational Deception Operations in the Middle East

Very excited about @marcowenjones.bsky.social presenting on "Dysinfluence: Transnational Deception Operations in the Middle East", Tuesday 3 February, 17:00-18:30 London time. For details and to register, please see
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27.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 4

Every student at ODU should leave and not look back

22.01.2026 05:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is insane. This is like making students pay for a full meal plan but instead of three squares a day they get one meal and the food is actually sawdust

22.01.2026 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some 22nd century author is going to make bank when they discover the US funded Bin Laden in order to weaken the Soviets

22.01.2026 02:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gonna need a citation for that first phrase my guy

20.01.2026 20:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances, by Paolo Bacchetta. Abstract designs resembling paint splatters, cut up paper, and undulating lines appear on a dark background. Dots of paint vary in size, reminiscent of the solar system. The subtitle appears in the top left and the author's name in the bottom right. In the center is the title, "CO-" in yellow and "MOTION" in blue.

Cover of Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances, by Paolo Bacchetta. Abstract designs resembling paint splatters, cut up paper, and undulating lines appear on a dark background. Dots of paint vary in size, reminiscent of the solar system. The subtitle appears in the top left and the author's name in the bottom right. In the center is the title, "CO-" in yellow and "MOTION" in blue.

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12.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

$FRDM is my etf of choice for this category

11.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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