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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Begging folks to stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense. It’s still “during COVID”. The pandemic isn’t over just because you want it to be. We have no sterilizing vaccine. No treatment or cure for Long Covid. People are still dying & becoming disabled every day because we refuse to adapt

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

It is not complicated. These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.

AP: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza, December 28, 2024

Dire tie if Jamal Aswan hospital arrested for refusing to leave patients.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The New Brunswick Media Co-op @nbmediacoop.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Give them a follow and support our alternative media outlet here in NB.

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Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

David Peck is relaunching his podcast with our conversation on Hidden Politics and the SDGs - have a listen & share for your students and colleagues! shows.acast.com/face2face-wi... @lcotula.bsky.social @davethomas.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social

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Hidden Politics - Hidden Agendas | Face2Face with David Peck

Unpacking the Secret Powers of Commodities with Adam Sneyd

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hiring alert💥💥 Our Department of Politics & International Relations at Mount Allison University is hiring tenure-track in the field of Comparative Politics. Link to the full job ad here: mta.ca/about-mta/wo...

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Assistant Professor - Politics and International Relations

Full-time tenure-track appointment

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

mta.ca

Assistant Professor - Politics and International Relations

Full-time tenure-track appointment

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Kids helped me make a batch of these for the striking postal workers today. The workers are in good spirits despite the relentless drizzle this week. Solidarity with CUPW.

Photo of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a cooling rack fresh out of the oven.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Although Netanyahu and Gallant will most likely never be tried, it is a small step toward justice for the ICC to clearly spell out the charges against them and issue the warrants. It is now incumbent upon every member state, including Canada, to enforce the warrants.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In case anyone needed a reminder that the US is fully backing the genocide, even after a full year of slaughter and destruction.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Covid conscious community: I’ve started seeing a few of these air filters in classrooms on campus. Brand is Fellowes, Aeromax 4. Anyone know much about them? From my searching online they seem like a good option but expensive?

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is a great collection of interviews with some key thinkers on the connections between capitalism and the pandemic.

Photo of book cover. Title is Crisis and Contagion: Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is a really thought-provoking piece from a very smart and experienced organizer. Highly recommend.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Quick introduction to my research work here. I’ve typically worked on Canadian corporations abroad through a critical international political economy approach. My first book looked at Bombardier and a few of its high speed rail projects abroad. Link is here: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/bombard...

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Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession

Centred around a theoretical framework that combines concepts of dispossession, political economy and important interventions from the field of settler colonial studies on the topic of colonial dispos...

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Coming back here after a long absence. The thing I liked about Twitter a long time ago was being part of several communities: academic, New Brunswick/Maritime, old friends, Covid aware, radical politics globally. Also a place to build community. Maybe it can happen again.

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Sarah Kardash 🍉 @kardashsarah.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Dress warm. Bring a candle. Family friendly. A delegation inside will be presenting to council to urge them to call on Justin Trudeau to take meaningful action towards permanent ceasefire.

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Sarah Kardash 🍉 @kardashsarah.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

“The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them”

breachmedia.ca

Palestinian deaths count for less in Canada’s newspapers. Data proves it ⋆ The Breach

An analysis of thousands of sentences in Canada’s top newspapers shows a clear bias that serves to sanitize Palestinians’ deaths

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Another student emailing me today who is out with Covid. I’ve lost track of how many and it’s just October. I don’t think I’ve ever seen attendance this low in all my years of teaching. But sure, let’s just let it rip through everyone over and over with no protections.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

When I first heard someone had recorded a new version of Tracy Chapman’s song Fast Car I was horrified and deeply sceptical. But I gotta say, Luke Combs does it justice and it’s a great sound. Others might disagree.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

I teach a third year course called Global Capitalism this term. We are doing a unit on food and watching the documentary Food Inc from 2008. Still a classic for documenting the corporate concentration and control over food production and distribution in America. Very similar trends in Canada too.

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 29/09/2023

Check out my new podcast with @blueprints.bsky.social. #COVIDisAirborne "We're over 3 years into the pandemic, is anyone even paying attention anymore? We see health officials start to wear masks again, a good time to talk about the COVID conscious community." podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM...

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Blueprints of Disruption - COVID Conscious Under Capitalism

We are over three years into the COVID pandemic, is anyone even paying attention anymore? As we see health officials start to wear masks again, it seems a good time to talk about the COVID conscious c...

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

For the Polisky crowd, especially IR folks. This was a good article to use with my third year Global Governance class on the topic of UN mediation efforts. Focuses on the case of Libya and effectively highlights why mediation can work in one case but not another. brill.com/view/journal...

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Brand new CorsiRosenthal box for one of my classrooms this year. Without institutional efforts to add filtration to indoor spaces we do it ourselves.

Photo of a CorsiRosenthal box with red and black tape.

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🏳️‍🌈 The vibe is in shambles | #CovidIsAirborne @shelse.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Last school year was the first full school year NB entered without any protections. So myself and the @popnb.bsky.social l created a Safe September kit. We've updated the kit based on experience and new info this year. Find the PDF here protectnb.ca/SafeSeptemberToolkit2023.pdf

The 2022-2023 school year in New Brunswick was the first full school year without any
pandemic protections. It was also the first school year after most kids had been infected with
COVID-19 during the spring, after the political decision to remove all protections on March
14, 2022.
The fall & winter of 2022-2023 brought unprecedented child hospitalizations, illnesses, and
medication shortages. We’ve also seen illnesses and severe outcomes that were rare happen
more and more frequently.
This was predicted and preventable, if our political and public health
leaders listened to science.
Please use this toolkit to inform yourself on how to lower the chances of getting sick. If you
or someone in your household gets sick, hopefully the information will help to keep the
others in your household from catching whatever illness it is.
We hope this information will empower you to protect yourself and your family as we go into
another school year and cold & flu season.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

If someone were to ask me what one simple thing is to help you enjoy life, I would say grow some fresh herbs and smell them on a regular basis. Basil, dill, cilantro, rosemary, whatever. Added bonus if you add them to your food.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

This book is such a gift. The photos and stories shared here are so valuable. It provides an insider’s perspective on what life was like inside the hospitals during brutal phases of the pandemic.

Image of a book cover. Title is Shadows and Light: a physician’s lens on Covid. By Heather Patterson, MD.

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Dave Thomas @davethomas.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

In preparation for the Fall, me and a few colleagues convinced our union to purchase a couple CO2 monitoring devices that will be lent out to faculty members. The institution doesn’t seem interested in monitoring indoor air quality, so we will start doing it ourselves.

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