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:::scribbles out plan for fall sabbatical:::
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"Peace is not what you ask for when the boot is already on someone else's neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted." Also relevant re: Palestine.
Minneapolis turned out today AND so did so many other towns and cities across the state. So much love for all my Minnesota neighbors, especially here in Northfield. What a cathartic day
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Ok, last final call.
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Humorous costumes and symbols do powerful work in anti-authoritarian protest.
They symbolically erode the power of the regime, humanize protesters, and promote viral sharing of images countering regime claims.
“Dismantling their narrative” captures it well.
See: Turkey’s Pikachu. And penguins.
Bar chart showing terrorist attacks in the United States by perpetrator, 1970–2020. The top panel highlights the ten most active groups, with Anti-Abortion extremists leading at over 200 attacks, followed by Left-Wing Militants, White supremacists/nationalists, FALN, NWLF, Black Nationalists, ALF, JDL, Student Radicals, and ELF. The middle panel shows abortion-related groups, where Anti-Abortion extremists dominate compared to smaller groups like Army of God, Phineas Priesthood, Pro-choice extremists, and Christian Liberation Army. The bottom panel shows Islamist/Jihadi groups, led by Jihadi-inspired extremists (about 40 attacks), with smaller contributions from Muslim extremists, Jamaat-al-Fuqra, Al-Qaida, Hanafi Muslims, AQAP, TTP, and Islamist extremists. Bars are color-coded: blue for abortion-related groups, red for Islamist/Jihadi groups, and gray for others. X-axis is number of attacks, Y-axis lists groups.
According to the “Global Terrorism Database (GTD)—arguably the most widely-used dataset in the study of political violence—anti-abortion activists constitute the single most common perpetrators of terrorist attacks in the United States.”
Source: jkertzer.sites.fas.harvard.edu/Research_fil...
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“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that (the government) used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." apnews.com/article/harv...
📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Fletcher Merkel loved family, friends and fishing; Harper Moyski doted on her younger sister.
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸 @danaelkurd.bsky.social outlines what is happening in higher education, how and why the Trump administration is attacking universities, and the role Palestine plays in all of this. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/palestine-and-the-american-university-feat-290777357/
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸
@danaelkurd.bsky.social outlines what is happening in higher education, how and why the Trump administration is attacking universities, and the role Palestine plays in all of this.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.
Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
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Sigh. We fucking warned you.
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@reustis.bsky.social highlight of the day is finding you on here!!
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Thank you so much! I’ll definitely take you up on that!
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Now…just gotta figure out how to join these groups 😂 :::shouts into social media void: WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE::::