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Constance Bantman
@constancebantman.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK.

Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧. Views own.

"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025) .. more

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 6h
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
They’re doing it everywhere, sadly. In addition to the mindless removal of the compulsory GCSE, the current wave of cuts and general anti-arts & hums discourse are a new low.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d
What a charming and delightful homage to the New Wave, Godard, Seberg and Co.
(No prior knowledge required)
Poster of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
Un de mes genres radiophoniques préférés, ce sont les invités (souvent moyennement progressistes) qui profitent de leur troisième passage sur Radio France pour se plaindre d’être victimes de la cancel culture.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
I mean, what’s the vision here? Becoming a monolingual country (since immigrants are also no longer welcome) and trust that all our language needs can be covered by Google Translate?
constancebantman.bsky.social Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.

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Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 2d
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.

c.org/N2cycpKrpB
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
c.org

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
Voire carrément un Pulitzer qui serait bien mérité!

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
Pas grand chose, vu qu'elle a enchaîné sur "l'islamisation de la France" dont j'aurais aussi du traiter selon elle, et que la conversation a rapidement évolué vers "pour ou contre Marseille" grace à l'intervention assez habile d'une autre auditrice.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
C'est vendredi et je travaille sur un nouveau projet de livre collectif - sur l'anarchisme bien entendu - avec beaucoup de collègues sympas et brillants, à commencer par @gdavranche.bsky.social 🖤

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
Sauf que tu peux être sur que ces gens votent... (entre deux grosses sessions sur Facebook!)

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
J'ai récemment eu un échange flippant dans un groupe de Français en GB ou j'intervenais sur la vie politique, et ou une dame par ailleurs sympa m'a expliqué que MLP est une "patriote" et "de gauche" et que le clivage droite/ gauche a été effacé par celui entre patriotes et globalistes. Glaçant.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 3d
Far right parties everywhere: the left and antifa are oppressing you and denying your rights and freedoms.

Also the far right: let’s leverage our massive networks and financial resources to ensure rights are suppressed and subsequent protests violently repressed.
oldtrotter.bsky.social David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 5d
Devenir Michelle Obama/ Mangione:
« Il y aura bcp de perdants et très peu d’élus. Les premiers n’auront que les pages de Michelle Obama pour pleurer. Devenir Mangione, c’est au contraire refuser de vivre heureux dans un monde de malheur et d’injustice. »

Magnifique conclusion de ce beau livre.

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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 5d
#FreeMajaT

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 6d
This is reminiscent of late-Victorian anarchist history and the tragi-comic figure of Auguste Coulon (with the significant difference that Coulon did find a few willing would-be bombers).

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears
Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’
www.theguardian.com

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 6d
Finally dedicated research on John Creaghe - and by the excellent Niall Whelehan too!
irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 6d
Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 6d
Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 7d
Another couple of weeks to send your abstracts to this great conference!
lauracforster.bsky.social Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · Nov 21
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

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Marielle Debos @debos.bsky.social · 7d
"Gouverner la menace intérieure", le nouveau numéro de Cultures et Conflits est sorti.
Un retour sur des cas historiques de construction de l'"ennemi intérieur", en écho à la politique trumpienne.
shs.cairn.info/revue-cultur...
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ERROR 404 ▼ @antyfaszysta.bsky.social · 8d
⭕À #Marseille, le candidat du #RN, #Franck_Allisio, propose l'apartheid, au sens strict : il veut interdire les plages de la ville à une partie des #Marseillais, selon leurs origines.

Il faut être malade mentalement pour avoir ce genre de discours. Le #RN est un cancer pour la #France.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 8d
So much talk atm of the abstract philosophies of these transhumanist and antidemocratic 'thinkers' - and at the same time, the very material and old realities of money, power and sex.

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Jean-Charles Buttier @jcbuttier.bsky.social · 8d
Aujourd'hui, visite au MUDAC de Lausanne. Je voulais voir la rétrospective Felix Vallotton en plus du nouveau bâtiment : www.mcba.ch
La collection d'œuvres est très riche pour comprendre son œuvre. C´est très chouette, rien à dire, mais...
Accueil - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Explorez l'art moderne et contemporain au MCBA ! Expositions temporaires et permanentes, ateliers créatifs et visites guidées pour tous.
www.mcba.ch

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 8d
Yes, Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) is in the Epstein files.

Here’s Steve Bannon, while running around the UK encouraging Johnson, Rees Mogg and Farage to topple Theresa May, bragging to Epstein of his description of the convicted thug as the ‘backbone of Britain’

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
On m’a assuré que ce sont des faux, je reste sceptique!!

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
Trying to clean under the bed when you kid is a medic

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 9d
Oh, an automated invitation to review a book - 3-month window and electronic copy only. What a surprise that academic reviewing is in crisis.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 10d
A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 10d
Among other things (healthcare etc.), how ill-advised to keep de-skilling and making ourselves even more dependent on volatile and often dangerous international providers (thinking of the tech sector, in particular).
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11d
2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"

2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees