mays smithwick
@mays01.bsky.social
🕯️phd student at Yale amst
🚏writing about secularism and militarism
🚏writing about secularism and militarism
these were published on the same day...
December 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
these were published on the same day...
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"Congolese Are Paying the Price" for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame
“Congolese Are Paying the Price” for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country, is triggering panic. Reports...
www.democracynow.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Congolese Are Paying the Price" for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame
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I have seen people get thrown face-down onto a hard floor for failing to follow a judge's orders.
I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.
Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.
I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.
Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I have seen people get thrown face-down onto a hard floor for failing to follow a judge's orders.
I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.
Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.
I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.
Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.
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Corporate Coup in Global Context
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Corporate Coup in Global Context
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies
Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
i feel like we are due for another installment of the national treasure franchise, politically speaking
February 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i feel like we are due for another installment of the national treasure franchise, politically speaking
must read www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/t...
The Time of Monsters
In Fire Weather, author John Vaillant describes the “Lucretius Problem,” a phenomenon wherein people can have all the information about what is happening yet fail to understand that it is happening. P...
www.counterpunch.org
February 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
must read www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/07/t...
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Having supported young people who were punished relentlessly for protesting a genocide last year (not to mention vilified, called antisemitic, and sometimes brutalized by police and vigilantes), I find this post offensive. Where were *you* when student protesters were being ground under?
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Having supported young people who were punished relentlessly for protesting a genocide last year (not to mention vilified, called antisemitic, and sometimes brutalized by police and vigilantes), I find this post offensive. Where were *you* when student protesters were being ground under?
in cruel joke news...urgent care front desk forgot about yesterday so waited for nearly three hours to get a covid/flu test.
got a call this morning that they lost my test...
onto another day of being too patient for my own good
got a call this morning that they lost my test...
onto another day of being too patient for my own good
February 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
in cruel joke news...urgent care front desk forgot about yesterday so waited for nearly three hours to get a covid/flu test.
got a call this morning that they lost my test...
onto another day of being too patient for my own good
got a call this morning that they lost my test...
onto another day of being too patient for my own good
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
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Please sign and share the petition in solidarity with Palestinian journalist, @intifada.bsky.social executive director, and Haymarket author @aliabunimah.bsky.social, who is being held in administrative detention in Zurich
Sign the Petition
Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention
www.change.org
January 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Please sign and share the petition in solidarity with Palestinian journalist, @intifada.bsky.social executive director, and Haymarket author @aliabunimah.bsky.social, who is being held in administrative detention in Zurich
not much traffic on my posts so far, but seeing friends on here makes me want to engage better. im trying to stay off socials but need to lift my head up from work sometimes and connect. im learning how to use bsky... i want to replace ig so i hope to share images along with academic content
January 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
not much traffic on my posts so far, but seeing friends on here makes me want to engage better. im trying to stay off socials but need to lift my head up from work sometimes and connect. im learning how to use bsky... i want to replace ig so i hope to share images along with academic content
when tasked with heavy reading loads i oscillate between texts instead of reading in sequence. On for tonight is some interdisciplinary time travel. Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed published in 1190, and also returning to this 2018 Barad essay that influenced so much of my work in grad school...
January 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
when tasked with heavy reading loads i oscillate between texts instead of reading in sequence. On for tonight is some interdisciplinary time travel. Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed published in 1190, and also returning to this 2018 Barad essay that influenced so much of my work in grad school...
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“Ross told Hell Gate that in his more than 30 years at NYU, he had "never seen this level of repression." He pointed out that student activists had often protested at the Bobst Library because the building also houses the offices of senior school administrators, including the president.”
NYU Students Facing Lengthy Suspensions Say They've Lost Jobs and Scholarships for Their Pro-Palestinian Views
"They can keep suspending me until they expel me but regardless, I will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation."
hellgatenyc.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“Ross told Hell Gate that in his more than 30 years at NYU, he had "never seen this level of repression." He pointed out that student activists had often protested at the Bobst Library because the building also houses the offices of senior school administrators, including the president.”
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"Glory to the troublemakers."
Fourteen years.
January 25, 2011.
May we never stop remembering. May we never stop causing trouble. #Jan25
Fourteen years.
January 25, 2011.
May we never stop remembering. May we never stop causing trouble. #Jan25
January 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Glory to the troublemakers."
Fourteen years.
January 25, 2011.
May we never stop remembering. May we never stop causing trouble. #Jan25
Fourteen years.
January 25, 2011.
May we never stop remembering. May we never stop causing trouble. #Jan25
image sharing cold academia
January 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
image sharing cold academia
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If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.
To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.
Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
January 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.
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As our fall 2024 programs draw to a close, we’re busy preparing a vibrant & varied roster of events for spring 2025: lectures by Angela Davis & Rachel Cusk, a weekly Palestine through Film series, and 3 lectures themed around the architecture of illness, among other events. Stay tuned for more info!
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
As our fall 2024 programs draw to a close, we’re busy preparing a vibrant & varied roster of events for spring 2025: lectures by Angela Davis & Rachel Cusk, a weekly Palestine through Film series, and 3 lectures themed around the architecture of illness, among other events. Stay tuned for more info!
"Dissenting opinions, radical ideas, and progressive solutions have always had a home at The New School". Despite this @thenewschool.bsky.social has voted against divesting from genocide, and has taken disciplinary action against renowned scholars.
December 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM
"Dissenting opinions, radical ideas, and progressive solutions have always had a home at The New School". Despite this @thenewschool.bsky.social has voted against divesting from genocide, and has taken disciplinary action against renowned scholars.
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One final fuck you to the working class.
BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.
December 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM
One final fuck you to the working class.
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New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation"
Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...
Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...
Journal of Palestine Studies
Mediating Palestine: Representation, Mobilization, and Experimentation. Volume 53, Issue 3 of Journal of Palestine Studies
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:23 PM
New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation"
Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...
Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...
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Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov't Is Using COP29 as Chance to "Enrich the Regime"
Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan Speaks on COP29
In Baku, Azerbaijan, Democracy Now! continues our coverage of the 2024 U.N. climate summit and its host country’s record on human rights. “Considering that our economy is completely relying on oil…
www.democracynow.org
November 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov't Is Using COP29 as Chance to "Enrich the Regime"