Christina Heatherton
@cheatherton.bsky.social
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It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
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They might need to put a content/trigger warning on these images of Hurricane Melissa approaching Jamaica.
I can’t just say “thoughts and prayers” I’m battling tears and panic.
To everyone counting the hours and tracking latitude/longitude…I see you.
❤️🩹🇯🇲🇭🇹🇨🇺✊🏾
I can’t just say “thoughts and prayers” I’m battling tears and panic.
To everyone counting the hours and tracking latitude/longitude…I see you.
❤️🩹🇯🇲🇭🇹🇨🇺✊🏾
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
They might need to put a content/trigger warning on these images of Hurricane Melissa approaching Jamaica.
I can’t just say “thoughts and prayers” I’m battling tears and panic.
To everyone counting the hours and tracking latitude/longitude…I see you.
❤️🩹🇯🇲🇭🇹🇨🇺✊🏾
I can’t just say “thoughts and prayers” I’m battling tears and panic.
To everyone counting the hours and tracking latitude/longitude…I see you.
❤️🩹🇯🇲🇭🇹🇨🇺✊🏾
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Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited for this event on Policing and Counterinsurgency ft @chenjerai.bsky.social, @stschrader1.bsky.social, & @cheatherton.bsky.social next Thursday at NYU! Info & RSVP here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
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“Fuck them kids.”
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“Fuck them kids.”
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
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Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation
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Assata died as an elder, living in freedom, not a captive. That's the beauty.
September 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Assata died as an elder, living in freedom, not a captive. That's the beauty.
Teachers! Order your Fall books through Workshops4Gaza link⤵️. All proceeds go to The Sameer Project.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Teachers! Order your Fall books through Workshops4Gaza link⤵️. All proceeds go to The Sameer Project.
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...
LA! Come to Little Tokyo this SATURDAY (8/23) at 10am for a National Day of Action against raids and historic erasure.
#NoRaids #NoErasure
#NoRaids #NoErasure
August 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
LA! Come to Little Tokyo this SATURDAY (8/23) at 10am for a National Day of Action against raids and historic erasure.
#NoRaids #NoErasure
#NoRaids #NoErasure
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Just catching up with this episode, highly recommend it: Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, the role of the students at neoliberal universities, and conjunctural analysis of settler colonialism/capitalism
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Hashem Abushama, University of Oxford
@cheatherton.bsky.social, Trinity College
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Hashem Abushama, University of Oxford
@cheatherton.bsky.social, Trinity College
Palestine is the Barricade
In this episode, Christina Heatherton speaks with geographer Hashem Abushama about Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis. Watch the episode on YouTube, or listen to it on…
trinitysocialjustice.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just catching up with this episode, highly recommend it: Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, the role of the students at neoliberal universities, and conjunctural analysis of settler colonialism/capitalism
🔽
Hashem Abushama, University of Oxford
@cheatherton.bsky.social, Trinity College
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Hashem Abushama, University of Oxford
@cheatherton.bsky.social, Trinity College
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Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
August 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
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Just caught up with this conversation, and I'm glad I did. It's excellent!
Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture:
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!
Conjuncture: Hashem Abushama - Palestine is the Barricade
YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Just caught up with this conversation, and I'm glad I did. It's excellent!
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🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 Israeli forces imprisoned & beat Chris Smalls, US labor leader, after capturing the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship Handala on Saturday.
Every union member, every labor leader who took pictures with Chris, should be speaking out NOW! DEMAND CHRIS BE SAFELY RELEASED & RETURNED HOME
Every union member, every labor leader who took pictures with Chris, should be speaking out NOW! DEMAND CHRIS BE SAFELY RELEASED & RETURNED HOME
July 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 Israeli forces imprisoned & beat Chris Smalls, US labor leader, after capturing the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship Handala on Saturday.
Every union member, every labor leader who took pictures with Chris, should be speaking out NOW! DEMAND CHRIS BE SAFELY RELEASED & RETURNED HOME
Every union member, every labor leader who took pictures with Chris, should be speaking out NOW! DEMAND CHRIS BE SAFELY RELEASED & RETURNED HOME
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
Reposted by Christina Heatherton
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
Reposted by Christina Heatherton
This new policy basically means all immigrants have no due process rights and can be detained indefinitely. Once again like the student detentions and like CECOT, the Trump administration is using immigration detention, which both parties built up, as a testing ground for its authoritarianism...
Exclusive: The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This new policy basically means all immigrants have no due process rights and can be detained indefinitely. Once again like the student detentions and like CECOT, the Trump administration is using immigration detention, which both parties built up, as a testing ground for its authoritarianism...
“The news media is describing the operation as an ominous crackdown, but National Guard sources tell me that it was a botched laughingstock.”
losers
losers
I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"
Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles “Show of Presence”
Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“The news media is describing the operation as an ominous crackdown, but National Guard sources tell me that it was a botched laughingstock.”
losers
losers
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Morehouse and Spelman AAUP chapters are proud to host the Summer Institute on our campuses in Atlanta this year. First time the meeting will be held at an HBCU. And on the heels of new AAUP-AFT leadership committing REAL RESOURCES to organizing HBCU campus workers. Let’s go!
The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AAUP & AFT members to learn how to fight back against attacks on higher ed while continuing to advance our shared vision for the future.
Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members!
Join us!
Register Here! ⬇️
www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...
Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members!
Join us!
Register Here! ⬇️
www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...
June 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Morehouse and Spelman AAUP chapters are proud to host the Summer Institute on our campuses in Atlanta this year. First time the meeting will be held at an HBCU. And on the heels of new AAUP-AFT leadership committing REAL RESOURCES to organizing HBCU campus workers. Let’s go!
Reposted by Christina Heatherton
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
-Smedley Butler
-Smedley Butler
June 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
-Smedley Butler
-Smedley Butler
Walter Rodney: “I do not believe that it is remotely possible in this country that the enemies of the people can extinguish and put out the humanity which resides in us. PEOPLES POWER, NO DICTATOR!!"
RIP Walter Rodney, assassinated on this day 45 years ago.
Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.
www.marxists.org/subject/afri...
Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.
www.marxists.org/subject/afri...
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Walter Rodney: “I do not believe that it is remotely possible in this country that the enemies of the people can extinguish and put out the humanity which resides in us. PEOPLES POWER, NO DICTATOR!!"
Long live Walter Rodney!
On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.
“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
June 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Long live Walter Rodney!
Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture:
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!
Conjuncture: Hashem Abushama - Palestine is the Barricade
YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture:
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!
YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc
Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...
Happy May Day!