Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 16/10/2024"From Turtle Island to Palestine, we will be free" Posters seen on a Columbus Statue in Richmond, Virginia 014835
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"WE'VE STORMED THE BASTILLE", shout the students. Recreating a historic day when the power of the French Monarchy was ended. 513453
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026An appropriate day to recommend some books and to say "Free Palestine" ❤️ 110
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAnthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Attacks on the humanities/humanistic social sciences are attacks on women, Black people and other people of color, poor and queer folks, and others whose presence threatens power's smooth functioning. They're an aspect of the same project that undermines libraries and public education. 02810
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/09/2026Why the artist must take sides @saulwilliams.bsky.social 118772
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialBen Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025If you don't oppose genocide you don't oppose fascism 3406114
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Rodney's magisterial opus is recognized globally as a landmark in African studies, not to mention the history of colonialism and imperialism. Beautifully written and expertly argued...It belongs on every bookshelf." --Gerald Horne Our new edition is available for pre-order now! 17329
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There have been many excellent critiques of the recent, Vanderbilt/Washington U report (co-written by prominent Bob Dylan scholar Sean Wilentz), but I have read none of pleasurable as this one by David Hollingshead ❤️ defector.com/humanists-ha... 000
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231915802
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Smash Surveillance" Seen in Sydney 024577
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.therealnews.comA new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emergedExcept this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one. 1421162246
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026today in destroying higher education is economic sabotage newrepublic.com/post/213446/...newrepublic.comTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 48948
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026Turns out community opposition to AI datacenters is working.theverge.comThe fight against AI data centers is just beginningBuildout and backlash. 1484136
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/05/2026“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba," says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. "This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.” mondoweiss.net/2026/05/same... #Palestine #Israelmondoweiss.netGaza elders who survived the Nakba on being displaced by Israel again“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger,... 24632
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of centrist and liberal media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social. > www.plutobooks.com/product/how-... > a.co/d/00CQcElrplutobooks.comHow to Sell a Genocide - Pluto PressA gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza 7440170
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialIskra Books @iskrabooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Iskra Books is excited to launch our new journal project - Red Horizons! This scholarly, radical journal will be in the service of global liberation movements—a site for cutting-edge theory, translations, art, and poetry. 2105
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialTaylor R. Genovese @taylorgenovese.com · 07/01/2026What we need is a Tribunal révolutionnaire, but I guarantee you what these limpdicked politicians will try and sell us will be a Pacto del Olvido. No one will be held accountable for any of this unless we, the people, organize and do it ourselves. 121
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025"An irreversible shift" is underway "that no weapon of mass destruction, no tech firm, no military occupation, no nuclear power can ever destroy," one that threatens "to upturn the system that has made this genocide possible in the first place." 020
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The US and Israel are starving Gaza. They are also starving Yemen. I wrote about these dual human-made—or, more precisely, American made—humanitarian crises, and how starvation is now a routine tool of siege warfare and collective punishment.inthesetimes.comNo Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving YemenThe Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel. 63832
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025"The facts are known. The evidence is overwhelming. The silence is a choice. And we are here to break it." 020
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.” 010
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialPatrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...academic.oup.comUnseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. By Sarah DimickA deceptively simple question animates Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable: what do literary and cultural depictions of seasonal regularity (or irregularity) revea 031
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAnthony Ballas @tonyjballas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I am thrilled that my piece "What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like" (co-authored w/ Gerald Horne) is now available in Issue 5 of Peace, Land and Bread! Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏 3154
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAnthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I'm thrilled to see this. More of us who teach relevant topics should find ways to participate in Freedom Schools or, if we have the means, build our own. Let's Educate to Liberate. 092
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialVijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 13/04/2025We were all reading our Karl Marx and he says the tools have to be in the hands of the guys doing the work, and so we tried to keep the fabrication and the distribution in the same hands. - Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation 0133
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialIskra Books @iskrabooks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025We are proud to be a sponsoring organization for a new academic society, along with our comrades at @CTW_ATC and @worldmarxistrev: The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).spine.ju.mpThe Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE)The Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE) provides a platform for rigorous scholarly research, cultural work, and organizing that stands up for peace, international solidarity, and env... 191
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I don’t know Mahmoud Khalil but I love him because every time he opens his mouth, even if he’s sleeping on a floor of a prison cell estranged from his pregnant wife, he advocates for others, for people in Gaza, for immigrants in holding. No wonder they’re terrified of him. They fucking should be ✊🏼 431162
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech. inthesetimes.com/article/notr...inthesetimes.com“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My TalkWhat a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations. 514157
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialMaya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 06/04/2025It was a relief to join 30,000 people chanting through the streets of Chicago today for the #HandsOff rally and march. 430242
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/04/2025people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise. 89164232823
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialNick Estes @nicke.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...web.archive.orgStatement on Palestine, Genocide, and RepressionThe Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine. 14651335
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialNate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort: chuffed.org/project/just...chuffed.orgJustice for Rümeysa ÖztürkDear Friends, Allies, and Supporters, 12926
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia. Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say. Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin. 7768255
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.social👻Spooky Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 21/03/2025I'd like to make one thing clear: I've LONG been an advocate for Open Access to scientific knowledge. Both of my books w @mitpress.bsky.social are freely available, and I fought for that! What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work. 24715
dpolanski.bsky.social @dpolanski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era." 010
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/03/2025In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."inthesetimes.comMy Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am A Political PrisonerA letter dictated by Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. 1431190
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...newyorker.comWhen America Tried to Deport Its RadicalsA hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way. 201538542
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialHampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump. Only 28.6% voted for Harris. 42% voted for neither. Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005. Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility. 27020
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025A lucid, blistering review of what is probably the most damaging and intellectually dishonest book of the past year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...bostonreview.netThe Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston ReviewWriters like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains. 196
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The vicious culture of anti-Palestinian racism the liberal establishment has helped normalize strengthens Trump’s insidious narrative of migrants as terrorist threats, all as part of a massive push to facilitate deportations, ramp up surveillance, and further militarize the border.bostonreview.netThe Boomerang Comes Back - Boston ReviewHow the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border. 12314
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?docs.google.comNot In Our NameSign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine... 4608213
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other. 5962391934
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this 21378492
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialXavi Pijoan @xavipijoan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025El lament dels grandíssims @vijayiyer.bsky.social i Wadada Leo Smith pel poeta palestí #RefaatAlareer assassinat per Israel a 2023 open.spotify.com/track/760WBv...open.spotify.comKite (for Refaat Alareer)Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith · Kite (for Refaat Alareer) · Song · 2025 062
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialsahouraxo @sarahabdallah.bsky.social · 02/03/2025“Fully closing down Gaza AGAIN, while resuming hostilities, is much more than a violation of the ceasefire.” “It is an escalation of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.” —UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese 18246
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"Life requires taking sides" Calligraffiti spotted in Chicago 046392
Reposted by @dpolanski.bsky.socialStereogum @stereogum.com · 21/02/2025Jazz greats Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith announce new album 'Defiant Life.’ Hear its 10-minute closing track:stereogum.comVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith Announce New Album 'Defiant Life', Share 10-Minute Piece: ListenNine years ago, jazz greats Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith joined forces to release the collaborative album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Both of them have done plenty of big things since then, a... 03613
