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Jess Bier

@bierjess.bsky.social
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Professor at large PI: DIGIPORTS project, automation + racialization in maritime logistics Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge Pro 🍉 ⚧️🌈 🏴‍☠️

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RC48 @rc48-isa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Call for Abstracts: XXI International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress in Gwangju #ISAWCS27 With Palestine in Mind Organized by Global Sociologists 4 Palestine
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Esther @thelifeofesther.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Voor een Palestijns gezin zoeken we woonruimte in Maastricht. Het gaat om een warm en ambitieus gezin – vader, moeder en hun twee jonge kinderen – dat een nieuwe start maakt in Nederland. Een van de ouders gaat hier studeren en het gezin is gemotiveerd om hier een zelfstandig bestaan op te bouwen.
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 22/08/2026
De dood van Jason Arday legt allerlei bekende mechanismen bloot, ziet Nadia Bouras. Als wetenschapper van kleur wordt je werk verdacht gemaakt, en als je faalt, bewijs je dat diversiteit failliet is. ‘Ik wil hetzelfde privilege als iedere middelmatige witte man aan de universiteit.’
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‘Fouten maken is het privilege van witte wetenschappers’
Wat Jason Arday overkwam, is voor veel academici van kleur pijnlijk herkenbaar, schrijft columnist Nadia Bouras.
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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Johanna Fernández, Historian of the Young Lords, Dies at 55
She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

Caption:
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
University)
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions
• Durham University
• Newcastle University
• Northumbria University
• Lancaster University
• University of Cumbria
• University of Lancashire
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Sheffield
• University of York
• Loughborough University
• University of Lincoln
• University of Nottingham
• Aston University
• University of Birmingham
• University of Warwick
• King's College London
• Kingston University
• Queen Mary University of London
• University College London
• University of Oxford
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Surrey
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of Plymouth
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Cardiff University
• Swansea University
• Queens University Belfast
• Cranfield UniversityFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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UK Universities Betray Public Trust by Joining MoD's 'Battlefield Advantage' Alliance
Without Debate
A coalition of campaign groups has accused UK universities of quietly integrating themselves into Britain's defence infrastructure after 35 institutions signed up to the Ministry of Defence's Defence Universities Alliance (DUA).
The Ministry of Defence says the alliance aims to "reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security", strengthen links between universities and the defence sector, and translate research into "battlefield advantage".
Campaigners say the move represents a significant shift in the role of higher education and has taken place without meaningful public debate.
Among the founding members are the University of Oxford, University College London, King's College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University and Queen's University Belfast.
"We are witnessing the formal incorporation of Britain's universities into the defence ecosystem," said Jinsella Kennaway, Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education.
"The Ministry of Defence is explicit about its intentions. Universities exist to advance knowledge and foster critical inquiry, not to become pipelines for military research and defence recruitment.
Students and staff deserve to know who agreed to this and why."
Campaigners are calling on all 35 universities to publish the governance documents and board minutes relating to their decision to join the alliance, and to explain whether staff and students were consulted.
Many UK universities already maintain relationships with major defence companies, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo, Thales, Lockheed Martin and QinetiQ. Critics argue that the DUA formalises and accelerates the integration of academia, industry and the state.
The coalition warns that, at a time of rising defence spending, universities risk becoming increasingly aligned with governme…
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I had the pleasure of reviewing Nadine Attwell's wonderful Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949 (www.sup.org/books/histor...) and also writing about women seafarers. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring
Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...
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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It is amazing to be able to restore someone’s name to the historical record in this way. Nice to meet your memory, Sak Tahn Waax.
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Rogier van Reekum @rvanreekum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Voor de 010'ers in de chat: rotterdamtimemachine.nl
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Rotterdam Time Machine
Verken historische kaarten van Rotterdam door de tijd en vergelijk kaartlagen met de huidige stad.
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Patricia Foort @patriciafoort.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oef ❤️❤️❤️
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.somo.nl/the-netherla... ‘It is not possible to assess the financial success of Israel’s largest corporations without considering the role of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the biggest destination for Israeli capital in the world.’
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The Netherlands-Israel Investment Files - SOMO
The Netherlands-Israel Investment Files shed light on how Israeli companies use the Netherlands as an investment hub.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Adding to my "AI and academia" slides
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 20/06/2026
It will be seven years, on June 24th, that my 20-year-old daughter Robyn lost their life doing bicycle messenger work in New York City, when a for-hire driver blocked the bicycle lane and the speeding distracted driver of a box truck knocked them to the ground and then crushed them into the road.
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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Resource: Scholarly building: a zine: 'Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for 'non-artists''
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a zine: 'Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for 'non-artists'' - Literature Geek
I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”.
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Interview with the great Laleh Khalili on Iran, oil politics and the chaos of US hegemony in decline Recorded a couple of weeks ago, yet perhaps even more timely today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Fh...
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How the War on Iran Changes Everything w/Laleh Khalili
YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'Arrival and departure' - my first time incorporating a city dock into my aerial embroidery! I used card art for the manmade elements, textiles for natural. Each cargo container is about 0.7 x 2 mm :) Plus some boats collecting/depositing them! Now here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a...
An embroidery hoop containing a mixed media aerial view landscape. It depicts a city dock with cargo containers, with embroidered and card elements. A close-up of a mixed media aerial view landscape. It depicts a city dock with cargo containers, with embroidered and card elements. An angled view of a mixed media aerial view landscape. It depicts a city dock with cargo containers, with an embroidered city park and waters. The dock elements are made from card layers.
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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A conversation that antifascists now should be having is: what are you going to do if there are pogroms in your city (like in Belfast at the moment)? How to get mobilized? How to protect Black and Brown people and their homes and families in your neighbourhood? How to organize mutual aid?
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 04/06/2026
De Amerikaanse socioloog Akwugo Emejulu - die vanavond spreekt tijdens het evenement ‘Abolish Europe’ in Amsterdam - schreef het boek Fugitive Feminism, over niet langer deelnemen aan een onrechtvaardige samenleving, maar zelf iets nieuws opbouwen. ‘Wat als we het systeem verwerpen?’
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‘Wat als we niet langer deelnemen aan deze onrechtvaardige samenleving?’
Socioloog Akwugo Emejulu vraagt zich af waarom je toegang zou willen tot een onrechtvaardig systeem.
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pretty excited about the first review of my book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, in the Sociology of Sport Journal 🌸 journals-humankinetics-com.uc.idm.oclc.org/view/journal...
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
h/t Max Bouttell for apprising me of Shell's (never-realized) plans, apparently hatched in the late '60s, to build an enormous airship to shuttle natural gas between the Middle East and the UK. kudos for the Hindenburg comparison, guys! more info here: airshipsonline.com/airships/air...
Scale comparison of the Shell methane gas transporter and LZ-129 Hindenburg. Source: Adapted from Morforth, 2007 & Airships.net
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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In 2015, Vietnamese beverage company Tân Hiệp Phát faced a major boycott after a consumer was sentenced to seven years in prison over a bottle of Number 1 energy drink that allegedly contained a fly. vir.com.vn/vietnam-drin...
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Vietnam drink maker hit by boycott, quality inspection after winning fly-in-bottle lawsuit
Tan Hiep Phat Group, the maker of several popular drinks in Vietnam, is being boycotted on the Internet and scrutinized by the country’s consumer asso
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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Author copies have arrived! In The Broken Machine, I explore what happens when our technologies break. Drawing on five episodes from the modern Atlantic World, I argue that breakdowns have historically helped define who belongs to the social order and who's outside it. #histtech #histsci #HistSTM
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Hondius is coming to Rotterdam. Hope the crew get good wifi + food + rest in quarantine. 42 days is a long time. nltimes.nl/2026/05/12/f...
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Filipino crew from hantavirus-stricken Hondius begins 42-day quarantine in Netherlands
Evacuated Filipino crew members from the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship entered 42 days of quarantine in the Netherlands on Tuesday ahead of their repatriation to the Philippine...
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Vers Beton @versbeton.nl · 07/05/2026
Vers Beton zoekt een hoofdredacteur! Heb jij ervaring met onderzoeksjournalistiek, leidinggeven en een sterke affiniteit met de gelaagdheid van Rotterdam? Solliciteer op “de leukste baan van Rotterdam” en draag bij aan missiegedreven journalistiek voor de stad. www.versbeton.nl/vacatures/ve...
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Vers Beton zoekt hoofdredacteur
Vers Beton zoekt een hoofdredacteur met een scherp gevoel voor urgente verhalen en met een geleefde kennis van Rotterdam in al haar diversiteit.
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here for all the Canvas-related rage bait. It consistently lacks even the most basic functionality, which makes sense given it's sold to university admins who never have to use it and there's almost zero accountability
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Rogier van Reekum @rvanreekum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
moezeum.world/en/agenda
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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@durba.bsky.social's The Future That Was traces how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present. Out now (12 May UK pub). Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
'I don't think he likes food' is such a devastating, caustic burn coming from someone who works with food. It's worse than 'He's dead to me,' because it's like he was never alive to you to begin with. www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...
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From the KitchenConfidential community on Reddit: Anthony Bourdain emphatically refused to have dinner with Donald Trump, "absolutely f---ing not"
Explore this post and more from the KitchenConfidential community
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
new from Charmaine Chua:
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Having spent some time now looking at archival news sources, I can say that natural language search can go straight to hell.
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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Happy birthday to the late great Ben Fletcher! Haven’t heard of him? If you know of Fred Hampton, you should! Both were revolutionary Black socialists persecuted by US gov’t for fighting for a multiracial socialist world—Hampton via the Panthers and Fletcher by organizing workers in the IWW
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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm so sick of tiptoeing around the deluded, violent fantasies of these assholes. They derive much of their power from how much we buy into their claims. They're not actually that powerful, and most of them aren't even that smart. If we call them out loudly and often, it will weaken their grip.
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Glad to see this response from the Party for the Animals
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Netherlands' turn to kiss the ring. I'm sure they'll pretend to be Very Angry™
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Jetten, Dutch Royal Family on joint U.S. visit featuring Trump dinner and state meetings
Prime Minister Rob Jetten is scheduled to meet with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday during his visit to Washington, D.C., according to a press release from the Government Information Service (RVD). Pompeo served as Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021 under President Donald Trump.Defense minister Dilan Yeşilgöz has said the timing of Jetten’s visit to the U.S. president is “awkward,” when asked about it. The comments come after Trump reportedly threatened last week to destroy Iranian civilisation unless Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Update: 18 months since @ubcmedicine.bsky.social SPPH let me go for speaking out about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Faculty Asscoiation grievance filed 14 mon. ago. Process is painfully slow & no arbitration has been scheduled. As I've said before: I will not sign an NDA as a condition of settlement.
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In case anyone wants an introduction for a general reader, Prof. Ervand Abrahamian's A History of Modern Iran is here as a free PDF: ia800109.us.archive.org/11/items/a-h...
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Thinking of the Iranian teachers, colleagues and friends I've been lucky to have over the years. Thinking of all the people in Iran. Thinking about how the CIA and MI6 instigated the overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953 after he nationalised the oil industry. And just: fuck all of this genocidal nonsence.
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Suze Zijlstra @suzezij.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians
Between large book cases, a researcher is conducting research in the museum collection. Photo by Almicheal Fraay
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Sadly relatable, from 1788: "Do you have any money with you? That was the first question I was asked in this foreign land. And why do you want to know that? – I asked. Because, if you call upon our hospitality and humanity, you do need a fat wallet to truly enjoy that hospitality and humanity."
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Dutch newspapers get away with such blatant racism and Islamophobia. Here Amsterdammers, all of them white (but some are Jewish!) are fleeing in fear because people of color: 1. Exist, "dirtying" the city 2. Oppose getting genocided, "the real racism" 3. Have beliefs and holidays (Islam, oh my!)
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A great labour of love and grief - Remembering Gaza Scholars, a memorial website featuring biographies of dozens of the academics murdered in the Israeli onslaught on Gaza: rememberinggazascholars.org
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Fatima Ali Abu Owdah, How Alone You Were (2025) Poetry in cover art excerpted from Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem “Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī” (“In Praise of the High Shadow”): Son of mor...
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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If they are properly confirming the information, then it would take the same amount of time as just doing the thing without AI, but the only way they can justify the use of AI is by it taking less time, which means not properly confirming the information... 😵‍💫
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/03/2026
Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...
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Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"I think that is something we find hard to grasp here; because the Strait of Hormuz is de facto closed, you are stuck in the Persian Gulf. I think that is frightening." nltimes.nl/2026/03/22/d...
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Dutch crews fear for safety as Middle East conflict traps ships in Persian Gulf
Dutch seafarers aboard ships in the Persian Gulf are feeling unsafe due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, officials said Sunday. Annet Koster, director of the Royal Association of Dutch Ship...
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Palestinian Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir spoke to me about her critically acclaimed new film, "Palestine 36" that looks at Palestine in 1936 when it was controlled by the British and the rise of Palestinian nationalism. This great film opens in NYC this weekend youtu.be/9o6z1wTVdR8?...
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Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir talks her powerful new film, "Palestine 36" about Palestine in 1930's
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In an era where "protect the children" has become a right wing canard used to elect pedophiles to allow parents to abuse their children more and wipe queer people from the face of the earth, Ms. Rachel is an example of what fighting for children actually looks like Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This checks out
A meme that shows a map of the Strait of Hornuz with an oversized Godzilla carrying ships over land to avoid Iran's blockade. It's making fun of a misguided and faulty plan by a billionaire to ship oil by truck overlanf
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Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My dad's teacher years ago was Father Dan Berrigan, one of the Catholics who burnt reams of draft cards to stop hundreds from being sent to fight in the Vietnam War. He taught me that being Irish American means: No colonizers. Nowhere. Especially when it's us
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