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Mariam Rashid, PhD

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Mkenya || Opinions ni Zangu || Educator || Forced Displacement and Migration Studies || Interna'l and Comparative Ed || Higher Ed

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The lesson here is that if you can get the aunties to approve of you without changing anything about yourself, you can do anything you set your mind to.

05.11.2025 08:47 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At least 700 dead in three days of post-election protests, opposition says

france24_en FRANCE 24 (H.787 TANZANIA At least 700 dead in three days of post-election protests, opposition says

The opposition in Tanzania claims that at least 700 people have been killed by security forces in the last three days following protests against the general election on Wednesday.

31.10.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Every network should be covering this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

01.04.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 5990 πŸ” 1413 πŸ’¬ 207 πŸ“Œ 95
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Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands

https://www.ft.com/content/e4f23164-041d-47e5-be0a-7e0f06b3bb3a

29.03.2025 02:17 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

If you watched season 2 of β€œMo” you will have learnt that the US cannot deport Palestinians because to do that it would have to acknowledge that Palestine exists. So effectively what they’ve done is made this young man stateless.

09.03.2025 23:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Target Loses Web Traffic As Costco Gains On Feb. 28 Economic Blackout Day Target's website traffic dropped 9% on Feb. 28 in the People's Union online shopping boycott with its app usage down 14%, compared with mid-February Friday results.

Seeing what happens >> telling people nothing interesting will happen so don’t try
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

10.03.2025 00:46 πŸ‘ 5176 πŸ” 998 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 63

Claudia Sheinbaum probably called Justin and told him to just promise things they were already doing. And then they laughed.

03.02.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 1485 πŸ” 221 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 9
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Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer.

Today's inspirational story to balance the deluge of bad news: a belated obit of NASA "human computer" Annie Easley. She wasn't profiled in Hidden Figures but had a similar story, and judging from the photo she could have played herself without a glam up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

04.02.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This is some BS.

03.02.2025 13:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I get the impulse but let’s keep a sober eye on facts and history. The US is the villain in many, many, MANY stories in African history. That doesn’t mean don’t resist - it just means keeping clear eyed so that you’re not just swapping out one oppressor for another.

03.02.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of the german paper Die Zeit with the headline and subhed reading

Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß
Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drΓΌber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

screenshot of the german paper Die Zeit with the headline and subhed reading Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

in english: 

A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a
Hitler salute
Elon Musk stretches out his right arm, and everyone jumps over it.
Welcome to the new attention regime.

in english: A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute Elon Musk stretches out his right arm, and everyone jumps over it. Welcome to the new attention regime.

while musk’s fanbois and the ADL tap dance around it, the German papers call it what it is

21.01.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 2005 πŸ” 485 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 35
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

20.01.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 2213 πŸ” 952 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 89

Musk's last spaceship blew up during launch.

20.01.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

One of the biggest memory holes in the US electoral cycle was that millions of people died because DJT didn’t believe in COVID, then used racist tropes to try and explain it away, and then withheld medicines from much of the world. (Biden was no saint in this last act either).

17.11.2024 14:58 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

11.11.2024 14:49 πŸ‘ 2978 πŸ” 3559 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 86