Julia O’Connell Davidson
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Julia O’Connell Davidson
@juliaocd.bsky.social
Sociologist
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Dozens of civilians killed across Gaza as Israeli attacks target homes and aid seekers - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dozens-civilians-killed-across-gaza-israeli-attacks-target-homes-and-aid
Dozens of civilians killed across Gaza as Israeli attacks target homes and aid seekers
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www.middleeasteye.net
June 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Following his release from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil spoke to supporters in New York, leading a chant of “Free Palestine.”
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found.

The list of recipients includes Yvette Cooper, Britain's home secretary who wants to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...
Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet
Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.
www.declassifieduk.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A reminder there's no clear or demonstrable category as 'grooming gangs', that white men are far more likely statistically to engage in child abuse and grooming, and that the discussion on grooming gangs is based on debunked research and racist misinformation.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to launch national inquiry into grooming gangs
PM says new statutory inquiry was ‘right thing to do’ after findings of review submitted by Louise Casey
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Klan Imperial Wizard H.W. Evans: "to the South of us thousands of Mexicans, many of them Communist, are waiting [for] a chance to cross the Rio Grande and glut the labour marts of the Southwest." (1926)

Klan Grand Dragon David Duke launches the Klan Border Watch (1977):
June 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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"Trump's demand that Harvard turn over five years of footage of protests is one of the more chilling things I’ve seen in my almost-25-year career defending free expression on college campuses.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard
If the government succeeds in bullying the richest university into submission, what institutions will be safe?
www.theatlantic.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Next week...🇵🇸

Massive Attack @pscupdates.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Gaza hospital warns Israeli attacks on power generators threaten patients' lives
<article data-history-node-id="423288" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospital-warns-israeli-attacks-power-generators-threaten-patients" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospital-warns-israeli-attacks-power-generators-threaten-patients" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza hospital warns Israeli attacks on power generators threaten patients' lives</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="98" data-start="0">A spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces are “systematically targeting” Gaza’s already fragile healthcare sector by striking power sources that keep hospitals running.</p> <p data-end="614" data-start="421">“The occupation targets the electric generators that supply hospitals,” he said, adding that the army has destroyed “the three largest power generators supplying hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”</p> <p data-end="761" data-start="616">Without power, hospital departments are shutting down, forcing staff to ration electricity where possible to keep essential services operating.</p> <p data-end="988" data-start="763">“The occupation’s targeting of electricity generators means a death sentence for patients,” the spokesman warned, highlighting that Israeli authorities are also blocking the entry of critical spare parts needed for repairs.</p> <p data-end="1078" data-start="990">“Various hospital departments cannot continue operating without electricity,” he said.</p> <p data-end="1328" data-start="1080">Gaza’s hospitals have faced relentless bombardment since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave nearly eight months ago. Medical teams now find themselves scrambling to save lives with dwindling resources, no fuel, and no reliable power.</p> <p data-end="1452" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1330">“The international community must intervene to pressure the occupation to protect the health system,” the spokesman urged.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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May 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Gaza is being starved – open the border now!

"thousands of trucks loaded with baby food and nutritional supplies are ready to enter Gaza but remain stalled at the border"

www.middleeasteye.net/news/babies-...
May 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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their *lawyer* has also been disappeared now? uh holy shit
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Will you be counted among those who spoke up or those who stood by?

Your choice.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi says the U.S. government and extreme pro-Israel groups want to “silence” him.

“They don’t want me to grieve. They don’t want me to share the pain.”

www.democracynow.org/2025/5/16/mo...
May 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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By building on the foundations laid by previous governments, Labour has now become an even more anti-immigration government than its predecessor.
My piece of @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Labour's hostility towards migrants 👇
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/16/k...
'Keir Starmer's Government Is Now Even More Anti-Migrant Than Its Conservative Predecessors'
Hopes that Labour would abandon the Conservative trend of treating incomers as disposable and lesser beings have been dashed, argues Daniel Sohege
bylinetimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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David Lammy may have misled parliament over UK arms exports to Israel

A new report, 'Exposing UK arms exports to Israel' uses data from the Israel Tax Authority to reveal the scale of what Labour are doing
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
David Lammy may have misled parliament over UK arms exports to Israel
A new report, 'Exposing UK arms exports to Israel' uses data from the Israel Tax Authority to reveal the scale of what Labour are doing
www.thecanary.co
May 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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"We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official, or even everyday American citizens who have broken no laws, committed no crimes and done nothing wrong," Evers said. "And as disgusted as I am about the continued actions of the Trump administration, I'm not afraid."
May 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM