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"What message is sent when one of the world’s top universities cuts ties with one of Palestine’s most respected institutions during a genocide?

Partnerships that disappear when most needed are not partnerships. They are performances."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Anti-Palestinian racism, which has seen a frightening rise in recent years, includes denying the Nakba, justifying anti-Palestinian violence, erasing Palestinian identity and humanity, excluding Palestinian perspectives, suppressing their narratives, and labeling Palestinian advocacy as antisemitic, extremist, or dangerous, often through tactics ranging from reputational smears and career threats to disciplinary investigations, institutional disavowals, and the criminalization of solidarity, particularly within academic spaces.

At its core, it seeks to erase Palestinians from public life and normalizes the habitual denial of their human rights. It isolates students. It silences scholars. It creates a chilling effect so pervasive that some Palestinians feel compelled to hide their identities entirely.

What message is sent when one of the world’s top universities cuts ties with one of Palestine’s most respected institutions during a genocide?

Partnerships that disappear when most needed are not partnerships. They are performances.

April 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM

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Preeti Chhibber

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Grudgie the Whale

@grudgie.bsky.social

They put resegregation on the “positive impact” side and honestly I cannot imagine a better or more glaring confession

Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · Mar 1

This chart from the NYT opinion page is an obscenity. Climate policy is unmentioned, the ongoing coup which has seen 200,000+ people fired is presented as less consequential than Ukraine policy, and the active re-segregation of the workforce is both positive & inconsequential.

NYT: “10 columnists and writers rate what mattered in trump’s first full month” over a scatterplot chart measuring negative to positive impact and less to more consequential. “DEI” and “trans issues” are at or near “positive impact, less consequential.” The most consequential is “Ukraine,” the most negative is “Eric Adams case.”

March 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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Ray Mitchell

@raymitchell.bsky.social

When it's the first day of school and your parents say "You don't need 64 Crayola Crayons. You better be happy with this box of 16."

Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · Mar 1

Girl!!! The sketches coming out of that courtroom say it ALL

March 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️

@wxdam.com

The old meme that says "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."

January 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM

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Courtenay Harris

@thatharrisguy.bsky.social

Man, I appreciate you.

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January 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Kelly

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Jordan is the son of Anthony Mitchell who died in the Eaton fires because he stayed behind with his disabled son Justin. Justin had CP & needed medical evacuation. It never came

Jordan has lost his brother, father & their home

Please boost - it’s being left out of news articles

Donate to Help Jordan Rebuild After Eaton Fire & Family Tragedy, organized by Andrew Edwards

Hi, everyone. My name is Andrew, and I’m reaching out on behalf … Andrew Edwards needs your support for Help Jordan Rebuild After Eaton Fire & Family Tragedy

www.gofundme.com

January 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Keri Blakinger

@keribla.bsky.social

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires

The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.

www.latimes.com

January 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM

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Brooke

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

There's a GoFundMe hub for verified wildfire assistance

Donate to US Fire Relief Fundraisers

Devastating wildfires are raging throughout the US. Browse relief fundraisers, donate to US fire relief, and help people in need.

www.gofundme.com

January 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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drew

@dogballs.info

Looking for a private service that can help me get this camel through the eye of a needle. I’ll pay anything

January 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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awkword

@awkword.bsky.social

Three dozen Congress members have called for a presidential pardon of Steven Donziger, a human rights lawyer targeted by Chevron and the US government for winning a lawsuit against the corp for destroying the Amazon and its indigenous communities.

mcgovern.house.gov/uploadedfile...

☎️ 202-456-1111

January 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Kim Masters

@kimmasters.bsky.social

Look for the helpers.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Vet opens empty hospital, takes in dozens of displaced pets in wildfire

“I looked around and was like, ‘There’s going to be other people that need help, and we have all this empty space. Let’s use it,’” said vet Annie Harvilicz.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM

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Americana at Brand Memes

@americanamemes.bsky.social

LA. Please stay safe today. This app has been very helpful. And, get a bag ready to go in case things escalate in your area.

And, FYI Planet Fitness is offering free access to their showers, wifi, and charging stations.

app.watchduty.org

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

app.watchduty.org

January 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Nicole Holliday

@mixedlinguist.bsky.social

I taught incarcerated firefighters who worked for criminally low wages. It's considered the best job in the prison, because you get to go out, do something valuable, and eat real food. It's also wildly dangerous, and they are given the worst jobs...literally pulling remains out of charred homes.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jan 8

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

www.teenvogue.com

January 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Teen Vogue

@teenvogue.com

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

www.teenvogue.com

January 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Emily Drabinski

@edrabinski.bsky.social

Do you support New York City's public libraries? Do you hate the endless budget dance that puts library funding on the line year after year? LibraryPAC is committed to helping elect leaders who see libraries as essential and not as political footballs. Join us!

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Donate to NYC's First Library Political Action Committee!

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January 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Zack Furness

@punkademic.bsky.social

Once again, Brett is simply concerned with the common good - the public welfare, if you will. Google Brett Favre and welfare to learn more.

Lolo the Dreaded Court Jester @thelolo.bsky.social · Jan 4

January 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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Daniel José Older

@djolder.bsky.social

The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.

A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty.

KEY POINTS INCLUDE:

—SCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

—After Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for “insubordination.”

— The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this

While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT!

Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to.
SPEAK OUT!

We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices.

We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions.

When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities

We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better.
We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.

January 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Lydia Polgreen

@polgreen.bsky.social

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...