Oona Paredes🌺
@oonaparedes.bsky.social
Southeast Asian Studies + Indigenous Studies @UCLA🎓Author of "A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao" (Cornell SEAP, 2013)📕Mindanawon🌏she/her/siya🥥🥭🍉🇺🇦
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.
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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Dick Cheney was a cruel bureaucrat who made corrupt institutions more abusive. Officials in those institutions then surrendered what was left of their morals to accommodate his evil vision. In time, those institutions became even more corrupt. What politicians say today will be revealing of the rot.
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Dick Cheney was a cruel bureaucrat who made corrupt institutions more abusive. Officials in those institutions then surrendered what was left of their morals to accommodate his evil vision. In time, those institutions became even more corrupt. What politicians say today will be revealing of the rot.
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If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
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Columbia University demand letter, March 13, 2025, and resolution agreement, July 23, 2025.
Harvard University demand letter, April 11, 2025.
University of Pennsylvania resolution agreement, July 1, ...
sites.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
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I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦
Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health
Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.
capitalbnews.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦
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It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."
www.reuters.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."
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Thou shalt not shut down your entire government just to protect billionaire pedophiles.
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thou shalt not shut down your entire government just to protect billionaire pedophiles.
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Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
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Vice President "JD Vance is the ultimate DEl guy. An OSU who they let into Yale Law School and treated like a shaved ape that they taught to drink sparkling water and later paid for a senate seat for.
relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
bsky.app/profile/hell...
relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
bsky.app/profile/hell...
"among many other topics the political press would normally make a huge deal of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
A sample JD Vance work product: He was on the board of directors for a SPAC "vertical farming" company that was accused of massive labor law violations and has since gone bankrupt and delisted and now trades as a penny stock. Great job JD, I'm sure "most powerful person in the world" will go great!
October 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Vice President "JD Vance is the ultimate DEl guy. An OSU who they let into Yale Law School and treated like a shaved ape that they taught to drink sparkling water and later paid for a senate seat for.
relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
bsky.app/profile/hell...
relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
bsky.app/profile/hell...
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“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”
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Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
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idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
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i am of the firm belief that any politician or pundit performing hagiography on behalf of charlie kirk is doing so because they agree with him. "prove me wrong" 😌
September 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
i am of the firm belief that any politician or pundit performing hagiography on behalf of charlie kirk is doing so because they agree with him. "prove me wrong" 😌
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A white man shoots Charlie Kirk at a white college in a white state and suddenly HBCUs are the ones under threat. Make it make sense. 👀
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
Charlie Kirk Gets Shot in Utah By A White Man, and Now HBCUs Are On Lockdown —Make It Make Sense
This Substack is reader-supported.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A white man shoots Charlie Kirk at a white college in a white state and suddenly HBCUs are the ones under threat. Make it make sense. 👀
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
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Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize *this nakedly* is so thirsty and pathetic.
August 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize *this nakedly* is so thirsty and pathetic.
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Great piece by Edward Aspinall discussing the ongoing protests in Indonesia (and why they are likely to keep resurfacing).
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
www.newmandala.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Great piece by Edward Aspinall discussing the ongoing protests in Indonesia (and why they are likely to keep resurfacing).
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
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The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
August 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.