Terrestrial Defense League
@david-fieni.bsky.social
Professes Francophone & Arabic literatures, graffiti, sounds, ecopoetics. Imagines forming a nascent movement for earthly relatives who like it here. Writes, reads, walks, listens, talks, plays, collectivizes. Views here do not represent my employer.
It’s like people forget Fanonian anti-colonial exception and only remember Carl Schmitt exception
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s like people forget Fanonian anti-colonial exception and only remember Carl Schmitt exception
Our hands empty except for our hands. -Ocean Vuong
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Our hands empty except for our hands. -Ocean Vuong
Promote A Book Friday! Mine, yours, everyone's! I still can't believe I got to use the incredible painting by Houssein Miloudi as my cover art.
Decadent Orientalisms - David Fieni
Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a rep...
fordhampress.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Promote A Book Friday! Mine, yours, everyone's! I still can't believe I got to use the incredible painting by Houssein Miloudi as my cover art.
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Let’s blackout Black Tuesday! Let’s skip Cyber Monday!
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Let’s blackout Black Tuesday! Let’s skip Cyber Monday!
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If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
DO NOT FUCK WITH ELAINE
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
DO NOT FUCK WITH ELAINE
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National Park workers at 24 parks and offices are moving to form a union.
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Park Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
National Park workers at 24 parks and offices are moving to form a union.
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
Solid gold
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Solid gold
Short guide for educators for when TPUSA comes to your campus
If Turning Point Comes to Your Campus
Steps you can take include informing other faculty and administrators, and making sure Turning Point is following campus rules.
www.aaup.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Short guide for educators for when TPUSA comes to your campus
Swastikas and virulent homophobia now allowed by Coast Guard. NYT Headline:
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Swastikas and virulent homophobia now allowed by Coast Guard. NYT Headline:
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Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
Whistle up!
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Whistle up!
Within 24 hours of being back in the East Bay, I've seen or heard a Sandhill Crane, and Oak Titmouse, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Spotted Towhee, a Hutton's Vireo, Stellar and Scrub Jays, Acorn Woodpeckers, White-breasted Nuthatch, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-shouldered Hawk, Bushtits, Lesser Goldfinches...
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Within 24 hours of being back in the East Bay, I've seen or heard a Sandhill Crane, and Oak Titmouse, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Spotted Towhee, a Hutton's Vireo, Stellar and Scrub Jays, Acorn Woodpeckers, White-breasted Nuthatch, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-shouldered Hawk, Bushtits, Lesser Goldfinches...
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Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
Shout this from the mountain tops to everyone who will listen.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Shout this from the mountain tops to everyone who will listen.
Musk's chainsaw has murdered at least 200,000 children in a year.
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Musk's chainsaw has murdered at least 200,000 children in a year.
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“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
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“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“This is how you’re allowing them to treat the people taking care of our babies”
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.
We have heard privately from Republicans who are horrified by this one.
She has papers. They went room to room in a daycare. This is both racial profiling, and terrorism.