Wendy Russell
@drwrussell.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the Centre for Global Studies, Huron University.
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Every element of Zohran Mamdani’s camapign introduces new possibility. youtube.com/shorts/FSkKO...
Painting Zohran’s logo
YouTube video by Koysun
youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Every element of Zohran Mamdani’s camapign introduces new possibility. youtube.com/shorts/FSkKO...
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Archaeologists Uncover Massive 1000-Year-Old Native American Farms That Defy the Limits of Agriculture
October 18, 2025

Raised agricultural beds cover an estimated 70% of the lidar survey area at Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River.
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October 18, 2025

Raised agricultural beds cover an estimated 70% of the lidar survey area at Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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Most white colleges wouldn’t accept Black students, and Black colleges didn’t have the capacity to handle the post-war demand—by 1947, as many as 50,000 qualified Black veterans had been turned away.
How a hostile America undermined its Black WWII veterans
Servicemembers were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Most white colleges wouldn’t accept Black students, and Black colleges didn’t have the capacity to handle the post-war demand—by 1947, as many as 50,000 qualified Black veterans had been turned away.
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The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation has committed 282 violations since the beginning of the ceasefire agreement, resulting in the killing of 242 Palestinians and the injury of 620 others.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation has committed 282 violations since the beginning of the ceasefire agreement, resulting in the killing of 242 Palestinians and the injury of 620 others.
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Read my statement on IDF soldiers platformed at Canadian universities here: www.heathermcpherson.ca/statement_on...
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Read my statement on IDF soldiers platformed at Canadian universities here: www.heathermcpherson.ca/statement_on...
More evidence of the continuing debasement of Canadian politics by increasingly unserious right wing politicians. Conservatives at every level of government in Canada are just absurd. Canadians deserve so much better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont | CBC News
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says pushing and yelling from Conservative Party leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on his choice to cross the floor to the Liberals earlier this week.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
More evidence of the continuing debasement of Canadian politics by increasingly unserious right wing politicians. Conservatives at every level of government in Canada are just absurd. Canadians deserve so much better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“…a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life. One photo turned him into a symbol. Meeting him confirms he is, reassuringly, real.” What a delight.
apnews.com/article/louv... man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
apnews.com/article/louv... man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“…a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life. One photo turned him into a symbol. Meeting him confirms he is, reassuringly, real.” What a delight.
apnews.com/article/louv... man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
apnews.com/article/louv... man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Co-signed.
I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Co-signed.
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‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now pose lethal risks.
Gaza’s water turns deadly as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic aftermath
As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now pose lethal risks.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now pose lethal risks.
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Excellent analysis of, first, how completely the bigoted politics of fear were repudiated in the Mamdani campaign and election. And second how easily the Democrats could squander this moment by failing to stand for everyone in NYC against the next wave of those politics. youtube.com/watch?v=uxtY...
'The anti-Mamdani Zionist plot': explained by Simone Zimmerman and Katie Halper | MEE Live
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Excellent analysis of, first, how completely the bigoted politics of fear were repudiated in the Mamdani campaign and election. And second how easily the Democrats could squander this moment by failing to stand for everyone in NYC against the next wave of those politics. youtube.com/watch?v=uxtY...
“Comically out of touch” is the phrase for the times.
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“Comically out of touch” is the phrase for the times.
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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This media shop, whew, they have stepped ⬆️!
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This media shop, whew, they have stepped ⬆️!
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Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
No matter the outcome, the most interesting interviews that will happen in coming months will be with this campaign’s media shop. Pitch perfect. youtube.com/watch?v=1jRI...
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
No matter the outcome, the most interesting interviews that will happen in coming months will be with this campaign’s media shop. Pitch perfect. youtube.com/watch?v=1jRI...
H-2A visas for white South African workers have surged 1,300% since 2011 arkansasadvocate.com/2025/06/12/h...
H-2A visas for white South African workers have surged 1,300% since 2011 | Arkansas Advocate
Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign workers come to the U.S. to fill temporary agricultural labor shortages through the H-2A program — a system first introduced in 1986 to address shortages i...
arkansasadvocate.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
H-2A visas for white South African workers have surged 1,300% since 2011 arkansasadvocate.com/2025/06/12/h...
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Yes, defend SNAP, but making econometric arguments about it saving other costs or increasing productivity is losing the plot.
As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."
As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Yes, defend SNAP, but making econometric arguments about it saving other costs or increasing productivity is losing the plot.
As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."
As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."
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Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick’s company, Tether, bought up beef producers in Argentina
substack.com/@cryptadamus...
substack.com/@cryptadamus...
Michel de Cryptadamus (@cryptadamus)
guess who’s been buying up argentina’s beef producers (hint: it’s Howard Lutnick’s stablecoin company Tether who bought Adecoagro outright a few months ago)
substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick’s company, Tether, bought up beef producers in Argentina
substack.com/@cryptadamus...
substack.com/@cryptadamus...