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🚨 All eyes on the border wall blockade at Camp O:ṣhad in Lochiel, Ariz. This morning, over 50 Border Patrol / BORTAC agents raided the resistance camp, entering private property without a warrant, attacking land defenders & deploying a cherry-picker to extract the tree sitter.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t know Leviathan I’ll have to check it out.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026

It took like a week for him to change his mind on the "enjoy the camps" thing. All it took was people saying it to the mod team instead of trans people.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Forgotten Space (if that counts)

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The new book I co-edited with @juliango.bsky.social, IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLICING, is now shipping from @dukepress.bsky.social. Order your copy here: dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...

Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing (red with black netting and white letters)

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Between this and Dr. Doom showing up at the Seattle city council...the PNW has upped the political dramaturgy game.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there should be no university police forces. Cornell has failed in every way and every process, including the lack of regulation of greek life before this horrible rape even happened, the police, the title ix processes. it is disgusting.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’re so right on with this! These cases reveal just how much police protect rapists. I hope we can get to the place where the common sense response isn’t more policing.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

When I talk about abolition & someone says a version of "what about the rapists?" I share info this piece from @interruptcrim.bsky.social. Police don't keep us safe from rape. Police don't solve rape cases-even when we identify our rapists. static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

youtube premium is giving me three free months of discord nitro. crunchbucket plus is giving me ninety free days of splorb. fubo ultra is giving me a complimentary fortnight of bonk concierge. grackle platinum is giving me six years of squak. quibi eternal is giving me three fiscal quarters of tobi.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

abolish DFCS and all forms of policing. this is not the answer to any social problems (and it doesn't prevent child abuse)

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I find truly confusing about this is that meal planning is the least amount of time in the whole process. what’s saving a lot of time is the worker doing your shopping. So while the task of planning may be tedious for some (not tedious for others), the time saved is a blip compared to shopping.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Chat make me grocery list…’ Men would rather burn up the carbon budget and deplete fresh water than take on the cognitive tasks that the median working mother takes on everyday.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Would love a labeler for all the 'no iced coffee at an interview' accounts. Hmmm, how hard is it to make a labeler?

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mare of Easttown?! SVU with regional accents...shouldn't come anywhere close to this list.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NHJ's daughter says kids at her new high school are no smarter than at her old school, plus she's facing racism for the first time. But white readers take away that privileged Black families should send their kids to superior white schools and maybe apologize for trying to help maj Black schools.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Rabb for Congress! (PA-03) @chrisrabb.com · 25/09/2026

I wasn’t arrested yesterday in front of the UN, but Netanyahu should’ve been!

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Instead, he appeared to rely on his own imagination as a rich and powerful middle-aged white man” Madiba Dennie’s takedown of Brett Kavanaugh is excellent.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does it humanize one’s self and family and neighbors and school peers? (‘Cause we know that engaging in competitive school bullshit is dehumanizing).

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t think NHJ argues or thinks her (and her husbands) choices will change the system. It’s worth analyzing her choices/claims on the terms she provides. Does opting not to play the “elite” school game and go to your community school reduce harm?

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve seen some good critiques of the recent Hannah-Jones piece, but which don’t seem to focus on NHJ’s claims. Some responses interpret NHJ’s choices as a theory of change, which feels like a misread. I interpret her choice to disengage from school choice as a kind of harm reduction.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

gentle reminder of the active call to boycott writing for the opinion page of the NYT, because that's what they use to whitewash all the disgusting shit they publish as "news" by sharing "opinions" about genocide, transphobia, fascism and more www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

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No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

My mom was a volunteer in the Black Panther breakfast program, which importantly was a grassroots effort that the community organized for itself, not because people swanned in and said here's a check, do something nice with it, clean up your community The community was fighting for itself

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I really appreciate how this thread prods us to look closely at the NHJ piece! I didn’t interpret NHJ as saying that proximity would address systemic gaps. Her thesis seemed different to me (though now I’m thinking about a reread). Thread definitely worth a read!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i simply cannot imagine the level of delusion and sheer ignorance it takes to believe that the rise of Republican Nazis is some outside imposition and not something that has come from within the American right.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

The other third rail of textbook discourse is that there really needs to be some equity between the amount of $ students are expected to invest in STEM textbooks vs humanities textbooks. gwhatchet.com/2019/09/02/s...

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STEM course materials about 85 percent costlier than humanities, arts textbooks

Students enrolled in STEM courses pay about $45 more for books than those in non-STEM courses, a Hatchet analysis found.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is the legacy of 9/11 that should ALWAYS be talked about. absolutely catastrophic loss of life as the doubled down on imperialist war, which many of us tried in vain to stop

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*takes a bite of Pringle* *nods at waiter* "Yes, I'll have the whole tube."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Had the same reaction. Like whatttttt? They weren’t ready for the big moment when everyone wanted their product

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good.” Appreciate the honesty in this piece. What’s also striking is how much this experience matches the kind of alienation that workers have experienced under capitalism.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A rational society would attempt to protect and nurture one of its most valuable exports (educational services), but we unfortunately don’t live in a rational society. Great thread!

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

True! And we don’t need hyperscalers to post. Just regular ol’ data centers are enough.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Capital flight is both regional and international. It’s harmful to workers when it doesn’t cross an international border. But international borders are also integral to how many industries manage the labor process. It’s all connected.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s been a while since I read Golden Gulag but do you think RWGs analysis of Mothers Roc be an example of how she’s engaging with Black radical tradition?

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I guess one way to put it is that RWG is adding Uneven and Combined Development theory to Racial Capitalism. But again I don’t know Robinsons work well enough to say more.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Appreciate the clarity. I don’t have the knowledge of the source material to make a case on glossing. But I do think RWG is making the argument that the process that racializes ppl for exploitation in one time/place is the same process as criminalization.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Are you saying that RWG’s use of the concept differs from Robinson’s?

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