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Tom Moylan

@tpmoylan.bsky.social

Utopian citizen, writer, teacher. Professor Emeritus, Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick.

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Solidarity with IDF soldiers refusing to fight in the Israeli state's genocidal erasure of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
Mutiny for Palestine Now.

13.07.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Practical utopias: A creative methods workshop | School of Social and Political Science

Last June, the utopians of Newcastle gathered to join Rebecca Coleman from Bristol in a creative workshop on utopias. Read about the "messes" we made in this blog for the AHRC network on Utopia and Failure: failingbetter.sps.ed.ac.uk/blog/practic...

04.07.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle MonΓ‘e's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky

30.06.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Americans, better start practicing your sieg heil salutes to Supreme Leader. It’s 1938 again. Btw, you fell over like a house of cards. Wasnt even a challenge for Trump. Afterwards you’ll all say you didn’t want it, not you, but now you’ll do absolutely nothing to stop it.

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Correction, fuzzy memory... just NAM. Big debates in our Milwaukee group over whether to trust the merger w DSOC.....
My own trajectory was Milwaukee CP fellow traveller, Wisconsin Alliance, w roots in the Catholic Worker.

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Both, in reverse order....

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Both, in reverse order.

26.06.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great win for Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral primary.
Important step forward for a Democratic Left, and for the Democratic Socialists of America.
Solidarity from a 1970s DSA member

25.06.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again, the US is on the dark side of world affairs--from Vietnam to Central America to Iraq and now Iran (this time is a genocidal alliance with Zionist Israel) imperialist power and war is chosen over justice and peace.
Stop the bombing.
Stop all support of Israel.
Justice and peace now.

22.06.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
REMASTERED Eve of Destruction Barry McGuire TRUE 1965 STEREO HiQ Hybrid JARichardsFilm
YouTube video by jarichards99utube REMASTERED Eve of Destruction Barry McGuire TRUE 1965 STEREO HiQ Hybrid JARichardsFilm

I’m not sharing this ironically. It shakes me to my bones right now.

22.06.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump just attacked Iran. A few immediate reactions.

First off, as a U.S citizen, I'm simply appalled by Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization in violation of law and the constitution. Just because it's not surprising doesn't make it any less dreadful. (1/n)

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The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

AOC: β€œIt is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

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[19] Please visit my Etsy shop here: robbohan.etsy.com

My Etsy store includes other original drawings, high resolution images, details & reviews.

I arrange shipping via DHL from Ireland to the US to avoid US tariffs, let me know if you have any Questions!

15.06.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach existential challenges

The brilliance of Solnit ✨✨
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

27.05.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Canada also has universal pre-k and an average college tuition of $7.3k/year

And in a progressive taxation system, the higher taxes help keep inequality broadly lower

Okay - but Americans' higher take-home pay brings them more happiness, right?

Nope...

m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

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Vice President JD Vance says universities are racially discriminating against whites and Asians Vance’s claims about racial β€œdiscrimination” on college campuses come as the Trump administration escalates its political battles with universities over

This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they β€œfeel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause.
Reverse Discrimination.
Welfare Queens.

The whole thing survives on myths.

www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

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About which I may write....one day....

28.05.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's to the Otters of the Mulcair River in Limerick!

28.05.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Read the letter, if you can. It's thoughtful, and thought out.

28.05.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes' "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."

www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

26.05.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3433    πŸ” 1565    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 119

Essential for academic research enterprises, including in the specific sense that many graduate programs (eg the ones in my dept) simply couldn't exist without them

27.05.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Land Of Hope & Dreams Bruce Springsteen Β· Album Β· 2025 Β· 6 songs

In my utopia and music projects I never got around to tackling a rock and popular music one. Springsteen is the man of the moment. Let him stand for all my rock'n'roll heroes, especially with his concluding number: Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom".
open.spotify.com/album/1wWm7M...

26.05.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

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Exterior shot of two dozen people in black holding or standing by photographs of kidnapped, detained, and self deported students whose only crime was…expressing constitutionality protected speech.

Exterior shot of two dozen people in black holding or standing by photographs of kidnapped, detained, and self deported students whose only crime was…expressing constitutionality protected speech.

Columbia faculty held our weekly vigil and we will continue until all our students are home.

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Honestly, I'm shocked. Fantastic news and hopefully it gets expanded

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Public pressure works! Keep it going.

25.05.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 22029    πŸ” 4603    πŸ’¬ 355    πŸ“Œ 166

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

We’re always just one election away from this happening in Wisconsin as well.

Every accusation from the far right authoritarian party is a confession.

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