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Matt Hooley
@citiless.bsky.social
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Asst Professor, Colonialism Studies and Environmental Humanities. Get *Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities* from DUP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/against-extraction
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queenofland.bsky.social
Because this has happened to me - a shelter in Spokane was so notorious for its targeting it had to close, and I'm tired of not speaking on it - I need people to understand: if you're an undocumented Indigenous person, you are a target, and the Gov't knows you will have no community to help you.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
gotta say also that if you’re not Muslim now is really not the time to be telling folks that actually his win means nothing for them 🫠

Like jfc stop being a racist little shit
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
actually all of the organizing networks and connections people built together as part of the movement to get Mamdani elected are important

And hope is politically extremely valuable
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I think the ”super radical” takes that Mamdani is a counter revolutionary phenomenon are extremely tired arm chair shit

Also he is gonna be Mayor of NYC so anyone who was expecting him to lead the revolution either works for the NY Post or doesn’t understand the system or both
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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uminnpress.bsky.social
Four brand-new scholarly books out today:
-Nothing Wanting / KJ Cerankowski
-First Light / Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
-Indigenous Inhumanities / Mark Minch-de Leon
-Spectropolis / Joshua Comaroff
Book cover for Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence by KJ Cerankowski. Main title rotated to appear as column over a cyan bird's-eye view of water glasses casting shadows. One glass is cut away, but its shadow remains. Book cover for First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar. White title at center against an image taken above cloud level of the sun just clearing the horizon on a clear day. Book cover for Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse by Mark Minch-de Leon. Painting in red, black, and cream of eyes and teeth in nonfacial arrangement. Title in large white letters stacked on left. Subtitle in cut-out below. Book cover for Spectropolis: The E​nchantment of Capital in Singapore by Joshua Comaroff. Colors from a cardboard slot machine and apartment building stretch up toward the title in black above. Hell bank notes, iPhone, and toy car in front.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
please donate to this fundraiser!

(and check out my colleague Joan Kane's new book!!!)
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October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
citiless.bsky.social
these clowns just can't help themselves
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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“It’s just Netanyahu/Zionists/right-wingers/extremists.”

Honey, I think not.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Oct 10
There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.
“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter Proud father.
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
At the newsletter right now:

One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...
Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
10.3.25
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October 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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jdconnor.bsky.social
oh good lord
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...
USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734
Duke University, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Job #AJO30734, Duke Black Feminist Postdoc, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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October 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Registration is open. Register for in-person and online.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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jasonv.bsky.social
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The whole outrageous story:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Am I reading this correctly?

A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?

What the hell?
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 29
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
Take this opportunity to read the intro for free!
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 19
In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w
Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
September 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
September 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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elifriedman.bsky.social
In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
citiless.bsky.social
the public has already helped enormously
September 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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💔

www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...
Prominent Palestinian academic dies from Israeli-imposed Gaza famine
Omar Harb lost 26 members of his family to Israeli attacks before he died of starvation
www.middleeasteye.net
September 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers
August 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM