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Susan Shepler
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Assoc. Prof. at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. Sierra Leone. 🇸🇱
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sjzimmerman.bsky.social
Customs seized 267 bags of cyanide disguised as rice...

Cyanide is widely used in artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso.

There are often fresh water sites near mining areas.
Burkina : La Douane déjoue un trafic mortel en mettant la main sur 267 sacs de cyanure déguisé en riz à Cinkansé, région du Nakambé - leFaso.net
La Douane du Burkina Faso intercepte 267 sacs de cyanure dissimulé sous des sacs de riz à Cinkansé, dans la région du Nakambé. L'information a été (…)
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November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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freedcproject.bsky.social
Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard.

There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
"We are African. We are New York City. And we are voters."
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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refugeestudies.bsky.social
The International Online School in Forced Migration brings together participants worldwide.

Bursaries are available for refugees & those with lived experience of displacement.

Learn more & apply: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/intern...
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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alandettlaff.com
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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semafor.com
Sierra Leone tops global survey on people experiencing daily worry

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Sierra Leone tops global survey on people experiencing daily worry
Sub-Saharan Africa was found to be the global epicenter of self-reported feelings of anger, worry, sadness, and physical pain, Gallup reported.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
susanshepler.bsky.social
Professor hivemind: I'm developing a new course for freshmen on "human rights and body modification." My way into the topic is debates around Female Genital Cutting. Any suggestions for other topics? Readings?
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
All those generals and senior officers flown in from their actual jobs, at enormous taxpayer expense, only to listen to two idiots blathering in ways that defy credulity. Their group chats must be on fire.
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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zekuzelalem.bsky.social
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215 15 INVESTIGATION The Djiboutian massacre Ethiopia won’t acknowledge Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity. Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters. zecharias zelalem On 30 January this year, a drone manned from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote, semi-arid village near the Ethiopia Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a second bomb dropped. And then a third. At least eight people were killed, including three children. Several others were injured. Given the village’s remoteness, the incident might have gone unreported if graphic images of the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian social media. A statement from the Djibouti’s defence ministry said the drone struck rebel fighters from the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (Frud), a Djiboutian political party with a military wing. It has been fighting for Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s. The Afar are a community split by the colonial border separating Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. “Eight terrorists were neutralised on site,” said a Djibouti military statement. “Unfortunately, collateral damage among Djiboutian civilians in the area has been documented.” International media, including Voice of America, Agence France Presse, and Radio France Internationale reported this version of events. Now, new findings from an open In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was injured in the drone strike. source investigation by The Continent reveal a different reality. The bombs landed inside Ethiopia, not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed fighters – were killed. That distinction matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again tolerating a foreign military targeting its own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during the Tigray conflict. A transparent lie Even before the ink could dry on the Djiboutian military’s statement, The Addis Standard and human rights groups in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports in now-deleted social media posts. The Continent got to work to figure out what really happened. Over the course of eight months, we collected eyewitness testimonies, interviewed human rights activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and examined images and footage from the strike. Our findings align with those of Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the site of the strike. The ammunition residue found on the night of the strike confirms the bomb was manufactured by Roketsan, a state run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye. Former US army explosives expert Trevor Ball identified t…
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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citationspod.bsky.social
In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.
Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise
Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza.

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September 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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lesleybartlett.bsky.social
The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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September 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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laurasell.bsky.social
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
susanshepler.bsky.social
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like as soon as they finish an article or manuscript review another request for review comes in? It's like clockwork.
September 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
susanshepler.bsky.social
In line for my flu AND COVID vaccines at Kaiser Richmond in my beautiful California. Line’s around the block.
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Call for chapters – Sustainable development in Africa : What concept for what practical application ?
Call for chapters – Sustainable development in Africa : What concepts for what practical application ? Dir : Etienne Bourel (Leyde University), Constance Perrin-Joly (CFEE), Tessa Minter (Leyde Univer...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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veenadubal.bsky.social
Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Podcast from the always inspiring Cynthia Enloe. nowandmen.net/episode/cynt...
"Women's Wars are not Men's Wars" - Prof Cynthia Enloe and Feminist Curiosity in Times of Militarisation - Now and Men
How do women and men suffer in different ways in war, and how are ideas about masculinity and femininity manipulated to promote militarisation?
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September 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

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UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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For my Salone people
September 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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spaceforpeace.bsky.social
See ICE? Mark the location on Waze as "icy conditions". Brilliant tactic being used in DC. Let's spread it.
September 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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afrobarometer.bsky.social
Majority of Sierra Leoneans want to leave the country, mostly to find work, escape poverty

Head over to our website to read more: bit.ly/4gdOxZv

#SierraLeone #Migration #VoicesAfrica
September 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on

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September 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM