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Shana Haines

@idasentme.bsky.social

American Studies scholar and professor committed to fighting white supremacy in the classroom. When I'm not being all scholarly, I'm perfecting my NYC bagel game - I make the best ones, no contest.

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 31546    πŸ” 19084    πŸ’¬ 1193    πŸ“Œ 1747
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The Sooknanan Monologue The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

31.08.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 10129    πŸ” 3388    πŸ’¬ 346    πŸ“Œ 220

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

20.03.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 34948    πŸ” 8660    πŸ’¬ 935    πŸ“Œ 479
Library display based on artwork from Dev the Pineapple.
A smiling Mychal, illustrated, with books and sunflowers.
Text quote reads, "Library kids are going to save the world"

Library display based on artwork from Dev the Pineapple. A smiling Mychal, illustrated, with books and sunflowers. Text quote reads, "Library kids are going to save the world"

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024.

What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.

Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid πŸ’š

02.03.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 23430    πŸ” 1754    πŸ’¬ 1252    πŸ“Œ 92

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: β€œAll malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

28.02.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 37937    πŸ” 13817    πŸ’¬ 1146    πŸ“Œ 811
Resisting the Urge to Disappear - Liberate Your Research spillaneh

"We don’t have the luxury of silenceβ€”we are called to find strategies that balance risk with the recognition of our power. Together, we commit to the relentless pursuit of critical analysis, justice, and collective liberation."
liberateyourresearch.com/resisting-th...

25.02.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It seems there was a dinner at the WH where a military choir serenaded the orange turd and his guest with a rendition of One Day More from Les Miserables, and the ignorant fools loved it. This is what happens when you don’t read. People mock you to your face. 😹

24.02.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 22135    πŸ” 3245    πŸ’¬ 448    πŸ“Œ 176

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

17.02.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 36764    πŸ” 9926    πŸ’¬ 2003    πŸ“Œ 685
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

18.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 62689    πŸ” 15195    πŸ’¬ 1032    πŸ“Œ 1179

I don't know how to tell you this, but if we're relying on me to find my car keys at the bottom of my purse before the serial killer catches up with us - we're dead.

18.02.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you want a pat on the back when you should have been voting no on all of them? When you should be pushing back against a fascist coup? You and your colleagues are not doing anything you were elected to do.

14.02.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are married to someone who has ADHD and you don't, here's a phrase that might help you with your spouse: "Map it out for me."

This is what I say to my wife when she goes from one thing to a seeming non sequitur. In her mind, there is a relationship.

13.02.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2744    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 25
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Brah...
Very true

12.02.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 25987    πŸ” 5118    πŸ’¬ 538    πŸ“Œ 241

Papers are due next week. One of their sources is a hand written journal. Most didn't have their first draft today. Why? They can't read cursive, so they decided not to do it. I write on the whiteboard in cursive. I guess this explains why they don't take notes.

13.02.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a bop.

13.02.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does anyone else's coworker keep trying to take credit for your work? Eartha Kitt is always pretending my work is her own under the "If I touch it, it's mine" doctrine of feline productivity.

11.02.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order β€œEnding Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order β€œEnding Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.”

"We reject the premise that it is 'anti-American' or 'subversive' to learn the full history of the United States with its rich and dramatic contradictions, challenges, and conflicts alongside its achievements, innovations, and opportunities." πŸ—ƒοΈ www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

06.02.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

It's question potential jurors for a trial or, I think it's also used to determine whether witnesses are competent to guve testimony. I'm less sure about that last one.

05.02.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jamies: Have a good day.
Me: I will have a good day punching Nazis.
Jamie: I'm serious. Stay safe.
Me: I will stay safe while seriously punching Nazis.
Jamie: *sigh*

03.02.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I full throated FUCK YOU to NSF Dir Sethuraman Panchanathan. By following Trump’s orders you are doing NAZI shit! Read this article on how 1933 German Universities did the same thing: trading the lives of their most vulnerable scientists in exchange for funding! www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

31.01.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Academic freedom is still a thing. Our reference to terms widely accepted in scholarship violates our 1st amendment rights.

30.01.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a shocking surrender to tyrannical thought control. It is unlawful for Trump to use federal funds or any other coercive mechanism to compel universities to give up their First Amendment rights or those of their staff & students.

30.01.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

GA Tech complying in advance. Apparently "justice" is a bad word. "Equality," too. #UGA & the entire #Georgia university system.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social #GATECH #academicsky @aaup.bsky.social #GAPol #Edusky #HigherEd

30.01.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9

This is horrifying. #academicsky

31.01.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They've been jumping through hoops justifying and explaining everything away. Gaslighting the rest of us as if we haven't heard what we've heard or seen what we've seen.

30.01.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Image of Hind Rajab wearing a crown of flowers with the text:
One year since the martyrdom of Hind Rajab
5 year old murdered by the zionist entity Jan. 29th 2024
"This is the most difficult feeling, to lose your daughter.
This is her weapon, a crown that she was wearing."
Wissam Hamadah, Hind's mother

Image of Hind Rajab wearing a crown of flowers with the text: One year since the martyrdom of Hind Rajab 5 year old murdered by the zionist entity Jan. 29th 2024 "This is the most difficult feeling, to lose your daughter. This is her weapon, a crown that she was wearing." Wissam Hamadah, Hind's mother

Hind Rajab was murdered by an IDF tank one year ago today along with several members of her family.

While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.

30.01.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Once again, one thing I was very wrong about was that I assumed there was some baseline level of professional pride that would prevent the editors & journalists at the Paper of Record from so thoroughly debasing themselves in the face of the far right authoritarianism. I apologize for my naΓ―vetΓ©.

30.01.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Investigate for what? And do what?

30.01.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That this happened in the first place, shows what kind of characters are taking control in DC and the Pentagon.

That they took it back -under pressure mind you- makes no difference. They showed their hand nevertheless.
Bastards.

27.01.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Bestie's TikTok is back. I closed mine (not uninstalled) because it wouldn't come play. The icon and app are now gone. I guess I have to work on lesson plans and grade.

19.01.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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