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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026

This is the video.

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nodraerjk.bsky.social @nodraerjk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m following news of a reported shooting of a legal observer by ICE agents in South Minneapolis. I’ll continue to monitor the situation closely and will update as soon as I receive information. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I forgot to share this here. My mistake!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Turning DC into Moscow (or East Berlin from back in the day).

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Join us in a few minutes, live!

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025

Working people need our leaders in power to work for them and put their interests first. A wasteful birthday military parade does nothing to help working families pay their bills, lower their costs, or keep their health care.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025

The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025

$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025

$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year.

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craigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social ! #solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Step 1. Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants at government agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...

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GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE | FFXnow

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,

The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher

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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

1900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering - the most respected scientists in this country - rise up against the war on science.

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Read the Letter

Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Imagine hundreds of thousands gathering on campuses, in community centers, and public spaces worldwide—learning from social movements and taking responsibility for system change.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Reminder: Next System Speaker and law professor Anthony Cook joins us at 1:30 EDT today on "Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr." You can still register and get the zoom link here : nextsystem.gmu.edu/events/16730

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Anthony Cook - Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr

Thursday, March 20, 2025 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM EDT: Using Dr. King’s life and legacy as a guide, Anthony Cook will explore what King’s vision for...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/11/2024

“An organization of intellectual workers can have the greatest significance for society as a whole by influencing public opinion through publicity & education. Indeed, it is the proper task to defend academic freedom, without which a healthy development of democracy is impossible.”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

this guy really hates his trans kid so much that he decided to destroy liberal democracy

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is 1990s Russia post-coup: The Trump demand that federal workers resign en masse? He intends to liquidate most of our federal agencies and use our taxes to award massive contracts to himself and his loyalists. Short-term prediction.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Clearly, STEM is the problem and we should invest in the Social Sciences and Humanities instead. Or hadn't we noticed that it's not sociologists, historians, or artists who are shooting people, hijacking planes, or sending bombs in the mail?

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@POTUS has the authority, responsibility, & opportunity to certify this critical protection ahead of the Trump administration. We need a mass movement urging him to take action. Take action at bidenpublishtheera.org #BidenPublishTheERA #ERANow

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Biden Publish the ERA

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

3 weeks ago, dozens of police officers from multiple jurisdictions, led by federal law enforcement, broke down the front door of a Fairfax County home at 6:00am and began an ordeal that one of my students and their family have been dealing with ever since. theintercept.com/2024/12/03/g...

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Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation

Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"Who started it is not the point. Proportionality and discrimination don't say that you don't have to worry about these rules if the other guy is a bad guy and the other guy started it." tinyurl.com/ujk77pnp

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Rashid Khalidi: 'Israel has created a nightmare scenario for itself. The clock is ticking'

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Give thanks for Mercy Otis Warren.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Children should not be used as props for their parent's idiosyncratic legal-political agendas, I generally agree. But in this case, I'll make an exception.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A little early, but human liberation is a constant and universal struggle.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

19 Senators believe that the laws they pass are worth the paper they are printed on. The rest of the Senate? Unworthy of the public trust. I'm glad to see Senator Kaine among those who give more than platitudes to the promise of a republic. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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Senate Rejects Sanders' Bid to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Atrocities | Common Dreams

The U.S. Senate rejected Bernie Sanders' resolutions to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel over Gaza atrocities.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Were the U.S. still the world hegemon, you would be hearing more about this. But the criminalization of democracy is no longer a subject of geopolitical posturing. This to me is more evidence for the rise of the new hegemon: a global class, not a nation state. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w... "

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Dozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Sentenced in Mass Trial

The 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years.

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Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's a gift idea for the winter holidays: www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/the-...

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This speech by NZ Greens member Chloe Swarbrick is not to be missed! Real leadership. Stop & watch! #nzpol #treatyprinciples @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social

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