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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢
@jalaneschmidt.bsky.social
Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽‍🏫#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer.🗣️Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
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👋🏽 new followers. I’m a professor of African diaspora + Latin Am religions at U of Virginia, I’ve lived in/researched/written about Cuba. Antifascist racial justice organizer and public historian in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I protest against Confederates, remove and melt down their statues.
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One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Racistisch Trump-regime laat informatie over Zwarte WO2-militairen verwijderen van Margraten
Racistisch Trump-regime laat informatie over Zwarte WO2-militairen verwijderen van Margraten - Joop - BNNVARA
Een van de panelen beschreef hoe deze militairen streden tegen zowel de Duitse bezetter als tegen racisme binnen hun eigen leger.
www.bnnvara.nl
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The Commanders, who had Trump as a guest, lost to the Lions
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Epistemic injustice as policy:
“I feel like it's very much rooted in the assumption that the experiences and the voices of minoritized populations, individuals, communities are not valid. And so I feel like white supremacy is actually on full display in the way that my case has been handled.”
IU lecturer says she was removed from classroom over intellectual diversity complaint
Jessica Adams said a student made a complaint about a lesson on white supremacy.
www.idsnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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@kaine.senate.gov & @markwarner.bsky.social - no one is answering your phones. Hell, Tim doesn't even have voicemail. Sure, it's Sunday, but it's a Sunday when you might be about to vote. Don't cave. If you do, know that your constituents here in VA are prepared to support anyone that primaries you
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.

“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This is interesting.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Catholic religious sisters announce land return to Lac du Flambeau Native American tribe in Wisconsin. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267649/...
Religious sisters announce land return to Wisconsin Native American tribe
The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration announced the transfer of land back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe on its website.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.
Intel Brief Greenland Special
Denmark now hosts a US ambassador who personally supports the idea of US takeover of a part of our Kingdom
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This happened in a suburb called Whitestown. You can’t make this stuff up.
"Stand Your Ground" Law Results in Another Tragic Gun Death

House cleaner Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, 32 & mom of four went to the wrong address.

As they arrived to the Indiana home, Pérez teased her husband and grabbed the key from him - a single shot rang out, & Pérez fell to the ground bleeding.
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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So cute, this guy thinks he invented capitalism.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
Palantir sees "accelerating and otherworldly growth" as CEO Alex Karp highlights working with ICE and supporting Israel on an earnings call.
www.businessinsider.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Can you imagine looking at Tuesday's election results, at the crashing approval rating of this administration and think, yes, we should give up our autonomy and throw marginalized people under the wheels of the segregationists' bus? Can you imagine? Apparently Cornell's leadership could.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Assault of a federal officer with a sub—you mean like a submachine gun?

No, a sandwhich.

Is the sandwich okay?
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how it of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are"
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Liberal women are now purposely “dating” the "brave men" of ICE in an effort to take pictures of their faces without masks on and to learn where they live, so they can doxx them. Taking it one for the team.
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Berenice Garcia-Hernandez snapped into action after seeing a Facebook post alerting people to the agents’ presence near a Gresham Chick-fil-A. The person who sounded the social-media alarm said he had been too scared to get pictures of the agents’ license plates.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Today's Brett Kavanaugh Stop: A US citizen was kidnapped by ICE agents for about 7 hours after taking pictures of agents’ unmarked cars near a Gresham Chick-fil-A. The ICE agents stole her phone and engagement ring, too, and won't return them. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon
Authorities claim Berenice Garcia-Hernandez "aggressively followed" agents, while she says she was targeted for documenting their presence to warn the community.
www.oregonlive.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES

THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration

Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM