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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sen Josh Hawley wants to deny the truth of Trump Crow. But he can’t hide from Black voters. This week, we’re on Capitol Hill unmaking MAGA’s plot to erase the Black vote, sabotage this election and lock in white supremacy for another generation. Join our civil rights mvmt to win a future of repair
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now, this I did not know !
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not to debase human life into electoral politics, but Black women are the base that has turned out reliably for Democrats in elections. Or organizing get out the vote efforts. What happens when that base is now in economic survival mode with no ability to organize for the next 3, 5, years?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is proof you can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars — and still be an indentured servant to wealthy supremacists.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(WSJ) - American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they say it is here. @wsj.com $CVX www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“It turns out that by breaking jobs into tasks performed remotely, stripping them of the need for institutional knowledge or personal relationships, [white-collar gig platforms] have made that work particularly vulnerable to being replaced by AI." www.ft.com/content/a2c3...
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Automation is coming for the gig economy
A safety net for people who have fallen out of the formal labour market is being dismantled
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Unfortunately even more relevant given AfD's victory today. Here's a fresh gift link: as.ft.com/r/68f961b0-b...
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A not-so-subtle branding jab at "Democracy Dies in Darkness".
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it detained 121 immigrants at Memphis, Tennessee's El Corralón bar on Aug. 30. Videos of the raid have circulated on social media, though DHS only confirmed the news today.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My latest in the Guardian - where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump admin spends billions to deport Black and brown people while doubling dollars for white ‘refugees’ | Heba Gowayed
‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good arguments that this is the most dysfunctional/least productive Congress in American history.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reminding you to donate to this vetted fundraiser if you are able — it’s for my friends family! Unfortunately the situation is still extremely difficult. chuffed.org/project/1823...
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My Sister Was Gravely Wounded In Gaza. We Need Your Help Now.
UPDATE, 7/8/26:
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Henry from New York @notgonnahavefun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Holders of temporary protected status, like the Haitians now being deported, were never eligible for any of the forms of support that today’s white South Africans are eligible for. Instead, they paid taxes into a social service system that they could not benefit from.”
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!
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Category: Non-fiction: Politics/Current Affairs
THE COST OF BORDERS By Heba Gowayed
Imprint: University of California Press
Deal Report
August 31, 2026
Carnegie Fellow and CUNY sociologist Heba Gowayed's THE COST OF BORDERS, revealing the nature of global frontiers through the stories of people who journey across them, challenging lay and legal conceptions of borders, showing them as for-profit enterprises of state and private industry, whose costs are borne by everyone, not just in smugglers' fees and tax dollars, but also in lives, freedoms, and the very safety they are alleged to protect, to Naomi Schneider at University of California Press, at auction, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company (world).
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Adam Milstein has his watchful eye on leftist creators.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
People's City Council of Los Angelos is doing such real, crucial vital work to support struggles for liberation from their place locally that affect us all around the country, & they are being attacked with a lawsuit from Zionists. So please y'all, support them in surmounting this.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Can you really call them “culture wars” if the power is predominantly on one side? If the “war” is asymmetric? More akin to liberation / independence struggles. But of course this doesn’t fit the “both sides” binary the media has glorified.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Friends, I'm trying to use instagram more, I genuinely believe we can play a role as public educators and with the death of X I feel like that's the next best outlet - so please follow me on there if you're there too!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Something that's bothering me about the societal reckoning on Jason Arday is that the blame is being placed solely on the media & on that white supremacist who began the campaign. Missing is that the production & destruction of this scholar is a story of white insitutions propping up to destroy.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am not usually this person, because y'all know I think the blue-shirts red-shirts view of politics is what got us here, but my god this man voted for Trump BECAUSE of his stance on immigration lol. He just thought it was going to be the brown & Black people, not his red-nailed lily white wife.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is why I say that purging Black voices is a transnational political project, and global digital media campaigns to drive Black people out are a tool of this project. However, these white male academics escape scrutiny, while Black victims become household names.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Really hoping to see secondary reporting on this publication, including reporters pressing the Elias Law Group, DCCC and DSCC on why they tried to suppress it. @sahilkapur.bsky.social @daveweigel.bsky.social @steventdennis.bsky.social @michellegoldberg.bsky.social @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
White academics have been plagiarizing, copying material, falsely accusing minorities of cheating for decades. Arday was cleared of the charges. But now he’s “destroying academic integrity”?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jason Arday story hits home for many Black professionals. Washington Post fired me, claiming I harmed their journalistic integrity. The public accused me of a misquote, in reality Post’s reason? I disparaged “white men who espouse hatred and violence”. karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...
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Why Washington Post fired me
Read the official termination letter for yourself.
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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
6:1. That's how much the Oligarchy outspent @francescahongwi.bsky.social on media, with millions in SuperPAC ads funded by MAGA billionaires, OpenAI, Kalshi, and some sources still unknown. All to win by .5%.
Graph of Media Spending in Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial Primary. Pro-Hong Spending is $1.3 million, anti-hong/Pro-Crowley spending is $7.2 million.
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There is no shortage of nurses in the US. But there is a shortage of good jobs that nurses are willing to take. AI Now Senior Fellow @katiejwells.bsky.social spoke to @time.com about how gig nursing platforms are a symptom of this mismatch: time.com/article/2026...
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Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage
The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Gig nursing companies are bringing Uber’s playbook to healthcare by pushing bills across the country that classify nurses as independent contractors and erode worker protections. “This is such a familiar playbook legislatively and politically,” @katiejwells.bsky.social tells Bloomberg Law.
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Gig Nursing Companies Advance Worker Status Bills Across States
Healthcare staffing is the latest focus of gig economy regulation as state legislatures weigh industry-backed proposals classifying temporary nurses as independent contractors, an advocacy strategy re...
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Muslim leftists winning elections has broken the brains of many centrists and liberals who had managed to mostly hide their Islamophobia for years
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026
thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if the cheese banks fail we will have a problem worse than 2008
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Darializa for Congress @darializaforny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
HUGE congratulations to @donavanmckinney.bsky.social! Michigan showed the country what’s possible when a leader has bold vision, does the work, and brings community along with them. From NY-13 to MI-13, we’re building a Congress for the people who’ve been left out for far too long.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/08/2026
Loser worried his losing party might gain 4 more losers so they can lose more.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
These are little, little men.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What gets me is that AIPAC is going to turn around & spend on the Republican in the MI Senate race while centrist Dems malign Abdul as a non-Democrat. But it’s fine & party line to support people funded in millions by donors entirely agnostic to their party & only concerned with a foreign country.
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Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaffers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They spent $62 million. They had a 9-to-1 spending advantage. AIPAC alone dropped $32 million! That’s more than any single group has spent in a Democratic primary this cycle. And they still lost. Yes, this was a massive win for progressives.
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