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Brad Wright

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Historian, researcher, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist Author of Strength in Unity: Christian Base Communities and the Urban Popular Movement in Guadalajara, 1965-1994 (Univ Alabama Press, 2026)

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/10/2026
#OtD 16 Oct 1918 the Immigration Act of 1918 (aka: Alien Anarchists Exclusion Act of 1918) was signed into US law by Pres Wilson. It expanded earlier powers to target anarchists and @IWW members, nearly 1000 of whom were later deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8829...
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Orinoco Tribune @orinocotribune.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Venezuela Facing the Uncertainty in Brazil
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By William Serafino  –  Oct 12, 2026 The opinion polls failed again, which is becoming less and less surprising in a volatile and unpredictable world. Against the consensus forecast, on Sunday, October 4, in a Brazilian election marked by intense polarization, far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly defeated President Lula da Silva. The end of the […]
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀: Approximately 500 people in a Georgia immigration detention camp are on a hunger strike, protesting conditions at the facility as well as what they say are violations of asylum protocols by US authorities, according to family members and legal representatives. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵
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Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/using-ai-i...
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Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Every time I see ads for the sale of stolen Palestinian land to settlers, I think of all the ads in the US & Canada offering up millions of acres of stolen Native lands to white settlers.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another international cbb player, this one from China, has been abducted by ICE. DHS says he will ‘self-deport.’ His lawyer says he was traveling to sort visa issues when he was taken. One report suggests “it’s a delayed paperwork issue with the university.” www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
A Mississippi Valley State men’s basketball player has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Qingfang Pang, a junior power forward on the Delta Devils, is in ICE custody at the Richwood Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana, according to the ICE database.
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Brad Wright @bh-wright.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Venezuela Joins US, Israel in Durban Commemoration Boycott
Caracas, October 1, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela joined the United States, Israel, and allies in shunning a high-level UN meeting commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaratio...
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KQED Arts & Culture @kqedarts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Six decades ago, a group of young Black activists in Oakland began policing the police. The Black Panther Party celebrates its 60th anniversary this month with a series of events. Details: www.kqed.org/arts/1399438...
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Honoring the Black Panther Party on Its 60th Anniversary | KQED
Events throughout October commemorate one of the most important organizations of the 20th century.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 06/10/2026
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...
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Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of…
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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)...
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
54 percent of Americans read AT OR BELOW A GRADE 6 LEVEL. Which means they cannot read for context, subtext, authorial intent or bias. This predates the great ‘AI’ deskilling. It is ushering in an epistemological apocalypse.
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Brad Wright @bh-wright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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CIA financió grupos de derecha, realizó infiltración y tuvo nexos con gobierno previo a matanza en Tlatelolco
Según documentos oficiales divulgados y analizados por el National Security Archive, centro de investigación independiente en Washington, la CIA manejaba por lo menos cinco proyectos a lo largo de dos...
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
University of Texas at Austin will eliminate 4 majors—African & African diaspora studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. Faculty in Social and Culture Analysis Department received no explanation as to why they are being cut.
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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors
Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza 🎥
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Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOT
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
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Orinoco Tribune @orinocotribune.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Venezuela: It Is What You See
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By Abel Prieto  –  Sep 23, 2026 Photographs as evidence There is a photograph that is evidence: Delcy Rodríguez and Donald Trump, together, smiling, in New York. Around that photograph, hundreds of narratives can be constructed; diplomatic, tactical, or strategic explanations can be elaborated; discussions about pragmatism, power relations, negotiation, or political necessity can be […]
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Empire psychosis keeps us in a constant state of distraction and escapism, always scrambling to avoid the here and now like we’re trying to climb out of our own skins. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/empire-psy...
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Empire Psychosis
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026
As part of a package of sweeping sanctions, the Trump administration have restricted access to standardized tests such as TOEFL and IELTS for students in Iran. Iranians living abroad using Iran-issued government ID may also be barred.
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No English Test for You: Trump’s Campaign Against Iran Now Targets Education
By restricting access to standardized tests, the US is effectively blocking Iranians from applying to schools abroad.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/09/2026
#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441...
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Certain students do not feel like they belong. Certain students feel like they are under attack. And that circle of students is expanding,” UT professor Maria Cotera said after a town hall meeting with students Thursday. apple.news/ArDpbFFZnS6q...
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Diverse Texas campus bonds in anger after candidate’s racist post — The Washington Post
University of Texas students rebuked the racist attack on South Asians by Republican Bo French.
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Brad Wright @bh-wright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Delcy Rodríguez Grants High-Level Access to Controversial Human Rights Watch Delegation
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Thursday, Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez received a senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) delegation at Miraflores Palace. She granted the US-based organization...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨🚨AAUP Chapter at UT Austin VP Lauren Gutterman: “There's been no direct communication from the provost with faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, no clear explanation about why these degree plans are being shut down," she said."The justification is just entirely lacking."
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors
The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...
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Brad Wright @bh-wright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Trump Plans New Sale of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Which Keeps Using Them to Massacre Gazans | Common Dreams
"You don't have healthcare or a living wage," said one critic who lamented the proposed $2.8 billion, taxpayer-funded transfer, "but hey, more war crimes!"
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/09/2026
"For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?" buff.ly/K5t1rGh
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We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there was a COMPUTER that could AL...
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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
De la Espriella desafía la autonomía universitaria y autoriza el ingreso de la policía a las facultades - www.pagina12.com.ar/2026/09/14/d...
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De la Espriella desafía la autonomía universitaria y autoriza el ingreso de la policía a las facultades
Dijo que son "santuarios de la violencia"
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 14/09/2026
Islamophobia spiked after 9/11. In the aftermath of the attacks, at least 12 people perceived to be Arab or Muslim were killed in hate-motivated shootings. . Most of the shootings took place in the month after the attacks.
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The Forgotten Hate-Fueled Shootings in the Wake of 9/11
Several shootings driven by Islamophobia were obscured in the aftermath of that day. In a new analysis by The Trace, we revisit what happened.
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“I teach a subject that is now considered ‘controversial,’” a professor in North Carolina wrote. “As a result, I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...
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University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator
A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this day in 1851, armed free Black resistance prevents the recapture of escaped formerly enslaved persons at Christiana, Pennsylvania. Some escape to Canada. anticolonialhistory.com/event/360/
Print from the 1871 book "The Underground Rail Road" (p. 350) by William Still depicts the shooting and fleeing.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨”The annual survey from the AAUP included an open-ended question that allowed faculty to detail the problems they’re facing. Compared with previous years, there was a significant spike in faculty scared not only for their careers but also for their physical safety.”
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Professors in the South Fear Doxxing and Harassment, New Survey Shows
The survey found a significant spike in the number of faculty worried about physical threats to their safety.
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Brad Wright @bh-wright.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Amiri Baraka and Rob Brown - Somebody Blew Up America
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/09/2026
US SOUTHCOM announced that the latest “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat has been executed operating along known “narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean,” killing three people that the US claimed were “narco-terrorists.”
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US Kills 3 People in Boat Strike, Raising Death Toll in Illegal Bombings to 230
US Southern Command released no evidence to support its claims that the boat was involved in narco-trafficking.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 09/09/2026
Donald Trump's proposed uniforms for the US "Space Force" remind us of nothing so much as the well-known Italian film, Fascists on Mars.
President Trump posted this image on Truth Social showing what appears to be an A.I.-generated version of the “next generation” Space Force outfits.A screenshot from the Italian farce, "Fascists on Mars"
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The records involve a US program set up after WWII to secretly settle large numbers of Nazi war criminals in Canada, often with the support of Canadian officials. US intelligence agencies recruited Nazis for their covert operations against the Soviet Union." ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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Judge orders release of records on Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada
Documents from CIA program to settle Nazi war criminals in Canada ordered released by judge
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#tdih 1949 rescheduled benefit concert for Civil Rights Congress with Paul Robeson in Peekskill, NY. Security was organized by labor unions (circled concert grounds) after the 1st attempt was brutally attacked by racist mobs yelling “We’re Hitler’s boys!” ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pe... 🧵
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Sept. 4, 1949: Concert in Peekskill Attacked
Benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress with Paul Robeson was held in Peekskill, New York.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 05/09/2026
Students from more than 200 high schools across Colorado walked out of school Friday afternoon to protest federal immigration enforcement. Some clashed with pro-ICE counterprotesters in Denver's La Alma-Lincoln Park.
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Colorado high school students participate in statewide walkout to protest ICE | Colorado Newsline
Participating high schools span the entire state, but students in the Denver area will gather for a larger demonstration at La Alma Park in Denver at noon.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 04/09/2026
Reminder: the hallucinations AI makes are not design flaws, they’re fundamental to how LLMs work, and as the LLMs improve, hallucinations will simply continue. This is known about them. But the common sense assumption that hallucinations are errors that will be fixed is definitely going around
Screenshot of text: I had thought at one time that as AI chatbot technology improved, hallucinations became rarer, but I now sense that creative hallucination is fundamental to its design
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are in the “you can’t learn that anymore” stage of fascism, for anyone still keeping track.
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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today, September 1, 2026, a U.S. strike hit a residential HOME in Bandar Kuhestak, in Sirik County, Hormozgan Province. While a WEDDING was taking place there. Iranian Red Crescent said 4 people were killed, including a child, and MORE than 50 were wounded. I am sick.
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Orinoco Tribune @orinocotribune.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mexico: More Than 300 Organizations Join the Latin American Network for Palestine
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By Resumen Latinoamericano – Aug 26, 2026 In response to what they described as “genocide”
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On this day in 1891, William L. Patterson is born, best known for presenting a petition to the UN along with Paul Robeson in 1951 accusing the US government of genocide against Black Americans. anticolonialhistory.com/event/182/
William L. Patterson September 1961 Chairman New York State Communist Party
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This story is completely outrageous, and legally actionable. It seems that the leadership of @historians.org was using our membership dues to suppress member advocacy in violation of AHA bylaws. If true the responsible leadership of @historians.org should resign, immediately.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Contra la falsa simetría de las tijeras: Una carta abierta mientras Irán resiste una guerra ilegal de agresión mundoobrero.es/2026/08/23/c...
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Contra la falsa simetría de las tijeras
Queridas amigas, queridos amigos y colegas: Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaron una guerra de agresión contra Irán en febrero de este año. Durante seis meses, misiles y bombas estadounidenses han caído s...
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There are already plenty of stupid morons in academia but what the racists are demanding is that being a stupid moron should itself be a recognized academic discipline
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23/08/2026
#OtD 23 Aug 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist workers and Italian immigrants, were executed in Boston, Massachusetts for a murder which neither committed – the real perpetrator had even admitted the crime. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9543...
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