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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Big day for a historian of Christianity in Algeria: the pope is visiting Algeria!

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota

I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...

SEE ICE? Call the LUCE Hotline (617-370-5023) to verify & keep us all safe

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not. It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are. A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 01/04/2025

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me.

Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.

For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US.

Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.

This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.

It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 31/03/2025

Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

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Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe

An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

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Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza: www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/12/2024

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

fascism in Florida

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

I’m basically living for the return of Slow Horses now that the Olympics are over

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

A great day has come, #BlueSkyStorians & #Battlegrounds #MilitaryHistory series fans! @tgpeterson.bsky.social's superb "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" is ready to order at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”

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Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN

Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.

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Patience Bloom @patiencebloom.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Writer friends (and Mom), I'm truly excited to start my freelance editing/writing business. While it's been a lot of fun binge-watching Netflix these past 2 months, I'm ready to work on stories and connect with writers. You can find details below: romanceismydayjob.wordpress.com/editorial-se...

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

"'The Future is Feminist' offers a historical example of a powerful moment in which Algerians theorized their own transnational feminism, in response to French colonial stereotypes about Islam and gender, many of which persist today." - Sara Rahnama, via www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sara-rahnama...

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What does a history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria have to offer us today?

Sara Rahnama, author of The Future is Feminist, shares how the history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria can offer insights today.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

When the question is "what's wrong with men" the answer is always that society is failing them; when the question is "what's wrong with women" the answer is always that they're failing society.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Very pleased to share this set of articles by Algerian historian Noureddine Amara on the memory of the Algerian War in France in the new issue of Naqd, for which I did the English translation www.cairn.info/revue-naqd.htm

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

What a glorious, powerful, beautiful letter of resignation: "So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies."

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Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.

It’s been a hell of a 24 hours for writers demonstrating moral courage. Last night at the National Book Awards, over a dozen NBA finalists took to the stage to use their moment in the spotlig…

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I’m running my most popular webinar once again! It’s free & open to anyone who has questions about publishing a book from your dissertation. Sign up at my new course site (and let me know if you encounter any bugs bc this is my first launch over there) manuscriptworks.thinkific.com/courses/webi...

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How to Publish a Book from Your Dissertation

Learn how to reframe your dissertation project so publishers will see it as an appealing future book. This webinar will explain what scholarly publishers are looking for in new books and how to increa...

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Beyond elated to share the publication of *Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century* from @uncpress.bsky.social !

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Jane Freeland @jecfree.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’ll be presenting some thoughts on gender in post-1945 divided Germany at the @ihr.bsky.social Modern German History next Wednesday. Join in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/events/gende...

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Gender Regimes and Divided German History: Rethinking Asymmetry and Entanglement

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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 28/10/2023

Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera: Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire” It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ‘ball of fire’ as blackout adds to distress

Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

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‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Here is a nice chat I had with my friend Emily Flake about creativity and community and annoying things men say to us that make us try even harder than before 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/all-we-can...

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Happy to share that my new book, Catastrophic Diplomacy, is now available for preorder! If you order from @uncpress.bsky.social, there is a 30% discount with the promo code 01SOCIAL30. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of successive generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students, colleagues, and comrades RIP

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/10/2023

“Danaya Wright, chairperson of the University of Florida’s faculty senate, questioned whether research on breast cancer or gynecological treatments would be allowed based on the language of the draft, because it involves spending in a way that classifies individuals by sex.”

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I will always be grateful to What We do in the Shadows for giving me the vocabulary to understand the various types of vampires in my life. For instance, I am married to a Colin Robinson ☠️

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

92NY cancelled the appearance of Viet Thanh Nguyen because of his support for Palestinians. In response: “As writers of conscience, as anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial thinkers, we have cancelled our appearance at the 92nd Street Y.” Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Palestinians fear ‘second Nakba’ if human corridor is opened with Egypt: ‘Nobody in Gaza wants to live as a refugee in tents in the Sinai Desert. That’s basically the plan of the Israeli far-right.’

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'Second Nakba': Palestinians in Gaza fear human corridor with Egypt

Plans for civilians to escape Israeli bombardment by resettling in Sinai raises alarm of yet more Palestinian displacement

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Simcha Rotman, architect of Israel's Judicial coup: the war will end when "a Jewish child can walk safely in the main street of Gaza". He's talking about permanent reoccupation, annexation, and depopulation of Gaza.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

It is shattering to watch hundreds of years of Jewish longing for liberation result in a situation in which we inflict upon other peoples the terrors and crimes which were inflicted upon us. There aren’t words.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12/10/2023

BREAKING: Israel has used white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries. White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful.

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Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon

Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer...

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing. "We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel, trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."

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“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”

The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

This is my dog Tegan. She is the best.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I just finished translating an entire academic book from French to English and somehow this feels like way more of an accomplishment than finishing my own books. I guess that’s good? 🤷‍♀️

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