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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Other models of exit seek to free capital from the cumbersome demands of popular democracy. The Board of Peace is a form of escape, too—in this case, though, from a cumbersome international legal order.” Great piece by Noura Erakat / @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/exi...
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Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I first read this in 2000 but it's still a great essay, with links to JC's work for the Boston Review.
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Genre Trouble
Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This story never changes: Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Silencing of Fred Dube
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Devastating.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
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Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It is not just that white nationalism is ideological fodder for fascist forces. Fascism itself is constituted through the border. @harshawalia.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"The notion of the good life has not just been an ideal to strive for. It has also been a criterion for identifying lives that are not worthy." A widre-ranging essay from Jan Grue on disability and how we think about what makes life worth living.
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Good Lives
What the denigration of disability tells us about human flourishing.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"We do not live in a gerontocracy. We live in an oligarchy where a disproportionate number of the oligarchs happen to be old. That’s a different social problem, requiring a policy response focused on affordability and economic justice, rather than intergenerational equity."James Chappel on Sam Moyn
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The Myth of Gerontocracy
Older people are not holding everyone else back. A more just society requires a different fight.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"1970, the year in which Reichardt’s film takes place, is a hinge between the utopian visions of the 1960s and the nihilistic spirit to come, one which touts creativity and human ingenuity but keeps its eye squarely on the profit line." Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, art, and AI.
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Art Thieves
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Tech workers are not like artists for a great many reasons, the biggest one being that they don’t make any art.” Now online from our Spring issue, Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, theft, and the work of art in the age of AI:
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Art Thieves
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the booing is an important tactic in the movement to BRING BACK SHAME @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social takes us from tactic to strategy: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together?
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"On May 11, 2022, Shireen was covering an Israeli raid on homes in the Jenin refugee camp. Despite a valid press credentials and a well-adjusted protective vest and helmet, an Israeli sniper found the small vulnerable area of flesh between the two and shot my cousin in the head without warning."
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For Shireen Abu Akleh
Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our new issue, FOREVER WARS, heads to press soon. Featuring a roundtable on Iran with @peymanjafari.bsky.social, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, @naghmehs.bsky.social, @alexshams.bsky.social. Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @harshawalia.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social +
Boston Review’s spring issue, FOREVER WARS, goes to press soon. Featuring a roundtable on Iran with Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Alex Shams, plus David Waldstreicher on America at 250, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on ending elite impunity, Harsha Walia on how not to abolish ICE, and more. 

Subscribe by Tuesday May 5 to get it straight from the printer. Use code FOREVERWARS for 20% off: https://www.bostonreview.net/memberships
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
First group of migrants deported from the US ​under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
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First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say
The first migrants deported from the United States ​under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according ‌to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Palestinians living in the West Bank cannot feel safe anywhere. Raja Shehadeh reporting from Ramallah on the sharp rise of settler violence and IDF complicity since the start of the war.
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Standing at the Gates of Hell
In the West Bank, the war has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So many Haitians were placed in detention that even the Reagan administration acknowledged the situation “could create an appearance of ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by blacks.” @policingblack.bsky.social on the ways that anti-Black policing have shaped today's deportation regimes.
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Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons Is Running a Conversion Therapy Program. We must not let it stand
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“It seems that ICE’s primary objective was less to get bodies inside of prison cells and more to be seen and filmed—and for those videos to sow confidence or fear, depending on the watcher.” Now online from our Winter 2026 issue, Liv Veazey on the agency’s spectacular shows of force:
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Power Plays
ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"If Chuol dies like other Sudanese or South Sudanese, he is not dying because of some special reason that makes him Chuol. It’s not personal. He is just dead. And as he will die, just like other Sudanese, he is not eligible for DCAT. " @joshuacraze.bsky.social on DHS's twisted logic
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Poor Historians
In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is exceedingly bad news.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Israel’s incursions into southern Lebanon look less like a new doctrine than the revival of strategic vision associated with Ben-Gurion: preemption, cross-border force, and the reshaping of neighboring realities through military power @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/mil...
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Millenarian Fantasies
In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad). People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The high fantasy—that the strongest would defend the weakest—will strike many in our current political climate as too ridiculous, too impossible, but the fact it continues to have purchase on our collective imagination is a sign that not all is lost. —Junot Díaz www.bostonreview.net/articles/ris...
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Rise Up
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in a familiar realm of forever wars fought at the behest of cruel elites. Like all great fantasy, it shows us what might be otherwise.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Brasilian feminist activist Marielle Franco's killers have just been convicted. From the archive, here's an article of hers we published at the time of her assassination. newleftreview.org/issues/ii110...
Photo portrait of Marielle Franco with a crowd in the background.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"There’s no need for pretense anymore: women, even the wife of the most powerful man in the world, are put on earth to be dominated." Devastating new piece by @judith-levine.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The First Lady’s New World
Melania is less about one woman than the disposability of them all in Trump 2.0.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A long read, but worth it. Sharp analysis by an economics professor of the threat that cryptocurrencies play, especially with Trump stumping for them. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Crypto Chokehold
Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Vivian Gornick thinks through our times with a Joachim Fest's memoir of Nazi Germany: "You’ll see how easily it can all happen—how easily we can all become good Germans." www.bostonreview.net/articles/tur...
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Turning a Blind Eye
A memoir of daily accommodation to fascism.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“We—that is, Americans—live most of the time inside the cocoon of our small daily lives. Except for fire, flood, or outright war, the history-making world hardly ever impinges on most of us. For the most part, it is over there and we are over here.” New from Vivian Gornick:
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Turning a Blind Eye
A memoir of daily accommodation to fascism.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Alex Pretti's murder struck a nerve in the health care community, not just as a tragic loss of one of their own but as emblematic of the dangers facing workers and the moral basis of medicine itself. @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/occ...
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Occupying Hospitals
From Gaza to Minneapolis, attacks on health care turn spaces of refuge into sites of state violence.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"The partition is simply another vehicle for annexation. This is no Marshall Plan for Palestinians, to say the least, but effectively a fire sale of their land and resources." An essay on how we got here from Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Must reading (as so much is) from the @bostonreview.bsky.social. @debchasman.bsky.social's interview with Robin D.G. Kelley on placing the ruthless brutality of ICE within the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"The colonists, fewer of whom could vote, and all of whom were supposed to defer to the judgment of their representatives, nonetheless assumed a capacity to consent to law or withhold consent “after the fact.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/bar...
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Revolutionary Consent
What the public life of American colonists can teach us about politics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"The first ICE inspection report on Camp East Montana revealed a litany of abuses: makeshift construction, broken sinks and toilets, flooded cells, insufficient food." www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I am already seeing reporters parrot DHS's version of the story, which is journalistic malpractice. Every story they spun about being under threat in Chicago was either seriously undermined by subsequently revealed evidence or outright proven false in court. Lying is ALWAYS their first move.
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T. Scott Johnson @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It's as if the spirits of Umberto Eco and Borges were summoned to confront the absurdity of LLMS. Absolutely brilliant. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-b...
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A Brief History of AI Psychosis
A short story.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Throughout 2025, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline. Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
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Our Most Loved Pieces of 2025 - Boston Review
Revisit the writing from this year that readers turned to the most.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Like their South African counterparts, Palestinian activists have confronted the limits of a “segregationist apartheid” paradigm. @panashechigumadzi.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Land Question - Boston Review
It’s easier to imagine the end of apartheid than the end of settler colonialism.
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Extraordinary text by Honora Spicer, situating context & origins of horrors of contemporary migrant detention at Fort Bliss in El Paso ("Camp East Montana"), exemplifying systematic abuses of Trump 2.0's campaign of persecution & terror vs migrant communities www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...
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Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review
The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In the latest forum of @bostonreview.bsky.social I wrote about migration, social class and the causes of displacement around the world. You can read the essay, the responses and the response to the responses online here & also subscribe to Boston Review!
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The Real Border Crisis - Boston Review
The problem isn't immigration. It's the failure of liberal democracy itself.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
.@emilybaughan.bsky.social: What happens If enough daycare centers and community hospitals close, if workers cannot access the care that allows them to show up and generate profit for others, if the most fundamental mechanisms of social reproduction collapse? www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
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Deborah Chasman @debchasman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
On the destruction not only of public schools in Gaza, but all of the public sector: With only private companies entering, "the markets are full of things that are not really necessary: ketchup, a thousand kinds of chocolate, fruit juices, even sodas." www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...
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First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review
Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.
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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“But I thought this was why Columbia had to pay the government a zillion dollars and accept restructuring,” said no one ever
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
this is more or less the whole thing imo
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