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“Congolese Are Paying the Price” for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda’s Paul Kagame In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country, is triggering panic. Reports...

"Congolese Are Paying the Price" for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame

I have seen people get thrown face-down onto a hard floor for failing to follow a judge's orders.

I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.

Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.

Corporate Coup in Global Context

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies

Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

i feel like we are due for another installment of the national treasure franchise, politically speaking

The Time of Monsters In Fire Weather, author John Vaillant describes the “Lucretius Problem,” a phenomenon wherein people can have all the information about what is happening yet fail to understand that it is happening. P...

must read www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/t...

that's exactly what is happening. stay curious and look further.

that's exactly what we are doing 😂 meanwhile you are bullying people for not protesting, and also bullying people for protesting your liberal complacency. your behavior is exactly what fuels fascism. defeating fascism takes solidarity, curiosity, and humility. grow up

schools changed policy and now explicitly forbid gatherings. police state is the enemy, not all the young people standing up for collective liberation—which, to be perfectly clear, includes you. join the fight for a better world or at least stop being an asshole. the complacency is so loud.

Having supported young people who were punished relentlessly for protesting a genocide last year (not to mention vilified, called antisemitic, and sometimes brutalized by police and vigilantes), I find this post offensive. Where were *you* when student protesters were being ground under?

in cruel joke news...urgent care front desk forgot about yesterday so waited for nearly three hours to get a covid/flu test.
got a call this morning that they lost my test...
onto another day of being too patient for my own good

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

Sign the Petition Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention

Please sign and share the petition in solidarity with Palestinian journalist, @intifada.bsky.social executive director, and Haymarket author @aliabunimah.bsky.social, who is being held in administrative detention in Zurich

not much traffic on my posts so far, but seeing friends on here makes me want to engage better. im trying to stay off socials but need to lift my head up from work sometimes and connect. im learning how to use bsky... i want to replace ig so i hope to share images along with academic content

when tasked with heavy reading loads i oscillate between texts instead of reading in sequence. On for tonight is some interdisciplinary time travel. Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed published in 1190, and also returning to this 2018 Barad essay that influenced so much of my work in grad school...

NYU Students Facing Lengthy Suspensions Say They've Lost Jobs and Scholarships for Their Pro-Palestinian Views "They can keep suspending me until they expel me but regardless, I will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation."

“Ross told Hell Gate that in his more than 30 years at NYU, he had "never seen this level of repression." He pointed out that student activists had often protested at the Bobst Library because the building also houses the offices of senior school administrators, including the president.”

"Glory to the troublemakers."

Fourteen years.
January 25, 2011.

May we never stop remembering. May we never stop causing trouble. #Jan25

image sharing cold academia

If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.

A grid of black and white headshots next to a list of speakers coming to the Whitney Humanities Center in spring 2025: Razan AlSalah, Eve Blau, Beatriz Colomina, Rachel Cusk, Angela Davis, Jennifer Makumbi, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Elizabeth Otto.

As our fall 2024 programs draw to a close, we’re busy preparing a vibrant & varied roster of events for spring 2025: lectures by Angela Davis & Rachel Cusk, a weekly Palestine through Film series, and 3 lectures themed around the architecture of illness, among other events. Stay tuned for more info!

We knew the university system operates in service to the state, but at least most universities don't proudly claim an ethos they so unabashedly refuse to uphold. They've laid bare the corporate corroboration keeping TNS afloat. My philosophy prof once said "the new school barely tolerates academia"

"Dissenting opinions, radical ideas, and progressive solutions have always had a home at The New School". Despite this @thenewschool.bsky.social has voted against divesting from genocide, and has taken disciplinary action against renowned scholars.

The GND was also co-opted by the ruling class (democrats) to greenwash their pro-nuclear, technofetishistic agenda (highly profitable via its financial and technical link to the weapons industry). Those who rally behind GND rhetoric these days incl the lobbied beneficiaries of the nuclear industry.

One final fuck you to the working class.

Journal of Palestine Studies Mediating Palestine: Representation, Mobilization, and Experimentation. Volume 53, Issue 3 of Journal of Palestine Studies

New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation"

Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...

Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan Speaks on COP29 In Baku, Azerbaijan, Democracy Now! continues our coverage of the 2024 U.N. climate summit and its host country’s record on human rights. “Considering that our economy is completely relying on oil…

Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov't Is Using COP29 as Chance to "Enrich the Regime"