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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
As Nas once narrated a bullet, so too does @abubanda.bsky.social narrate the 155mm artillery shell. lpeproject.org/blog/imperia...
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Imperialism’s Shell Game
While every possible form of pressure should be brought to bear on the Biden administration to cut off the flow of arms to Israel, the prevailing law and policy debate tends to obscure some key…
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 27/10/2023
Last week, several members of Dylan Saba’s extended family were killed in the bombing of the Saint Porphyrius Church of Gaza. He spoke with Darryl Li about grief and the tectonic shifts underway in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Tectonic Shifts | Dylan Saba
Colonization and imperialism had been exerting pressure within a relatively stable set of relationships. All that changed in the earthquake of Hamas’s October 7 attack.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
plus far fewer sources on the ground
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Yeah it’s weird. Everything that makes the other place so terrible is also what makes it harder to leave especially in times like this
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
yeah so that whole migrating to this app thing isn’t really working for me
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
a lot of useful background and insight in this interview with toufic haddad, including the chilling observation that for the zentity apartheid is just a holding pattern for worse things to come isj.org.uk/interview-isra…
Haddad: “This begs the question of whether apartheid is just a temporary solution before a push toward ethnic cleansing is eventually attempted again.”
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Gallant commanded Israeli forces in Gaza in the 1990s and was the architect of the 2008-2009 onslaught. Gunning to be a three-time loser here.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
seeing the video of the abominable erez crossing in the hands of the colonized reminded me of all the times i walked through there marveling at how empty it seemed, like dude where are the soldiers at. of course politics is about making the inconceivable suddenly seem obvious.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
we can't rule out the possibility -- and the zentity surely hasn't -- that there are other cadres who crossed the fence but remain hidden and will only strike later. which is to say the feeling of unsettlement will continue to haunt.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
this holding of space disrupts any clear sense of inside/outside, front/rear. it is also likely complicating any planning for an invasion of gaza's populated areas, rendering the staging areas for such an operation insecure and buying crucial time
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
it's been 48 hours and they _still_ haven't reasserted control over the area. unforeseen because inconceivable in the arrogant mindset of colonialism.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
what happened now was no mere 'infiltration,' sneaking through the fence to disrupt. by holding space, they actively un-settled the colonial state's sense of territorialized normality.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
this builds on the achievements and sacrifices of the freedom march, which turned the fence into a site of mass protest and confrontation at immense human cost and did much to puncture its aura of invincibility
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
the achievement this week was for the colonized to make the fence permeable to themselves too, to reverse ever so slightly the logic of the frontier
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
mass confinement meant armed resistance was limited to projectiles or infiltration. the former had to deal with challenges of range and accuracy, the latter was extremely difficult and dangerous. the area around the fence was depopulated, razed, and turned into a kill zone.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
this is why almost immediately after the disengagement in 2005, the army was back inside the gaza strip a few days later and it was a non-event. it wasn't a 're-invasion' or a 'return' because they never really left, just moved their barracks a few kilometers away
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
a key precept of zionist doctrine is that there is no *border* with the gaza strip. a border means you relinquish authority over the other side. the fence is a frontier -- a line with no permanence, one that only the colonizer can traverse.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
wish i could be walking through erez with my friends right now
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
thoughts and prayers
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
finally put my canary mission page to good use
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
going to that place is truly taking one for the team
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
sigh the cycle of abuse continues. today i became that person who asked a colleague to email something after forgetting that i already had it.
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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
The IISG (Amsterdam) has just digitized the papers of Mahdi Amel & made them available online. Mahdi Amel was an influential Marxist thinker and prominent member of the Lebanese Communist Party. #menasky #polisky hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH04...
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Collection Summary: Mahdi Amel Papers
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Yeah but didn’t mean to bring the “google it” energy because googling it doesn’t really clarify anything! It’s all vibes!!
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
can’t explain you just have to look it up and try to make sense of it like i did 🤣
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Lawsuit against Shotspotter in Chicago clears first major hurdle first-defense.org/s/183-Memora...
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
*zaddy
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
you are like the third person to send this my way already ... i am so honored that every time someone rips him a new one people think of me, it's the best thing to come out of him trashing my book lol
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
This review is sooooo good, and the bit about Devji ("our Thomas Friedman" - ouch) in particular is superb!
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A Dying Postcolonialism
By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it’s apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever more vocal and defensive about their…
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Without this, we are left with bad takes like "the US wanted him out ==> second coming of Che Guevara" when IK was more like an irritating third wheel on the relationship that actually mattered.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Highlighting the low-cost/on-the-margin nature of moves like helping nudging out Imran Khan is really helpful for bringing home how much of imperialist violence is elites shrugging and being like, "well, this local faction is marginally more obsequious to us than the other so ok do your thing."
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
nothing like ironing dirty clothes while running to work to make you feel like a winner
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
😂 ☠️ 🐓 🎁
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
that geertz line gets me so much bc the first time i met nf he tried to impress (or relate to? probably no distinction for him) me with hilariously misplaced references to long-repudiated old school anthropologists
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
[re the content idk idc idgaf]
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
does this count as a non-reformist reform?
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
الsheets يعني صفحات تذاكرهم طبعا
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
ulama dry in the streets but awliya hot between the sheets
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
hoping that by the end of today, i will have written at least two paragraphs, that hasan minhaj's entire existence/boom-bust cycle will have been erased from our collective memories, and that the missing fighter jet will still be unaccounted for
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Good morning Bluesky we ended cash bail in Illinois
Illinois State Senator Robert Peters speaks at a podium outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on the South Side of Chicago. Peters is at a podium that has a sign that reads "Protect Pretrial Fairness" with two hands holding above the text. Peters is surrounded by other people. Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx speaks at a podium outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on the South Side of Chicago. Foxx is at a podium that has a sign that reads "Protect Pretrial Fairness" with two hands holding above the text. Foxx is surrounded by other people. A group of people standing outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on the South Side of Chicago. Four people are in the foreground. Two are clapping and smiling. One is standing holding up a large sign that reads "the Pretrial Fairness Act keeps families together." A person is standing next to them smiling. Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch speaks at a podium outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse on the South Side of Chicago. Welch is at a podium that has a sign that reads "Protect Pretrial Fairness" with two hands holding above the text. Welch is surrounded by other people.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
lol can't wait til they figre out the move to a subscription model for military aid ... keep in line or all the computers on your jets go dark
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Peak postcolonial empire is this idea of the "end-user certificate" -- you sell/give weapons but keep a veto over who the recipient can give the arms to. This was a thing when Pakistan begged Jordan for fighter jets in the 1971 war (since they both had the same US-made jets).
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
You thought you were fooling your younger cousin when you sold them that old hand-me-down Star Wars action figure for $5 but now you need to get it back for Sotheby's
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
The postcolonial states that remained wedded to large-scale militarized standoffs in apparent defiance of post-Cold War teleologies -- along the DMZ on the Korean peninsula, the LoC in Kashmir -- now are fashionably back in demand for the big dumb deadly weapons that are most in need
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Read alongside the recent NYT piece on US buying South Korean arms to free up supplies for Ukraine, fascinating how Washington is using its most militarized client states as the munitions equivalents of offshore bank accounts.
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
even posing it as a question i think would still be helpful
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李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
have given this a lot of thought because i'm writing more about legal anthro and there's the question of what to do about the harvey and ghislaine of the discipline
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