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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham

@dwidmannabraham.bsky.social
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Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen she/her

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...
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Trey Reed’s Family Calls for an Independent Autopsy After Tree Hanging Death
Demartravion “Trey” Reed’s family is seeking an independent autopsy after the Delta State University student was found hanging in a tree.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A normal country would regulate guns.
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Ismat Mangla @ismat.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever. 🔗 apnews.com/photo-essay/...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents' arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view."
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.
The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. 

Then follows an enormous list of small print namesThousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
amazing/lucky you have Arabic majors to teach!
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If there is a Hell, the people responsible for this will burn for eternity on fires stoked with biscuits.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
majors here meaning history majors? (not Arabic
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
this EPI primer on loss of federal funding for school districts across the country includes a map, and if I'm reading it right, some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding.
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Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education: See how much federal funding your school district could lose
Last month, President Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to move forward with plans to close the Department of Education (ED). While this move is illegal and has been met with litigati...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Great to hear
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
am I reading that map right - some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding?
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Knuffle Bunny play ftw. the Saunders is sublime. the best and most hilarious take down of neoliberalism I've ever read.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Willems' We Are in a Book is genius. highly entertaining high theory. ever read Saunders' The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip?
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
but for kids' books, double that for Mo Willems - like 20+ books, for sure.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Jefferson enslaved his own children. Two of his sons were only freed, along with their mother, after his death.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I cannot believe we cannot impeach him.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
if you put out large slices of cucumber, the slugs will leave everything else alone to go for the cucumber.
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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 10/07/2025
Job Post: Executive Director of the West Virginia Council of Churches wvcc.org/2025/07/01/s...
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Seeking Our Next Executive Director!
The West Virginia Council of Churches, one of the nation’s oldest and most revered state councils of churches, with roots going back to 1820, is embarking on a search for our next executive steward…
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I don't know if it is of interest, but here is the resignation letter that Carter Carter submitted to Penn, in protest of targeting and capitulation. carterjcarter.substack.com/p/im-resigni...?
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I'm Resigning in Protest from the University of Pennsylvania. Oh, and I'm Suing Them.
The University of Pennsylvania, where I am a lecturer, recently announced that it is capitulating to the Trump Administration’s demand that it ban transgender women from participation in women’s sport...
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
oh I missed the post about your resignation before this.... congrats? Wishing you groundedness and fulfillment.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya—these are not small cities at all
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Neil PollyTicks 🦜 @neilpollyticks.eurosky.social · 04/07/2025
56m meals since May 19th for 2.3m people in Gaza. One meal per person every two days for 44 days. Starvation rations….
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I wonder if anyone has ever looked into what happens when elected leaders with authoritarian tendencies create massive law enforcement divisions accountable only to them that are comparably funded to the military but specifically designed to be used domestically.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 04/07/2025
BIG: In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it "a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.” mondoweiss.net/2025/06/worl...
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World Council of Churches denounces Israel’s apartheid and occupation, calls for divestment and sanctions
In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it “a turning point in the moral...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians - www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-euro…
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Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians
Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell joins growing international outrage over the controversial US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The British brought these revolt-suppression techniques to mandate Palestine in the 1930s after first developing them in Ireland, the first British colony, around 1920. Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
one of the best essays ever written, on Aquemini oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...
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Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)
From six in the morning until five in the afternoon, five days a week, for thirty years, my …
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Biruni asks: which cat developments? are they on a string you can wiggle?
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
solid. thanks for this.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
many white people would rather kill freedom than share it with Black and Brown people. sick, sick country we have. so much healing to do.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
billions and billions of our tax dollars are going to a regime that is shooting starving people waiting to get flour.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
in this country, where the systems and structures eat people alive and both parties carry water for war, you don’t vote based on who you agree with. you vote based on who you want to fight.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Still time to get a last call in on this. Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here:
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🚨 Act Against Trump's War on Iran Today 🚨
Donald Trump is dragging us into another Middle Eastern war
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
yes I’m doing that for Zohran jaan
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
nazar na lege
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
we need to draw on but reimagine the models of past resistance
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
yes and the security regime is morphing. Civilian tech bros were just made high-ranking army officers: Shyam Sankar, CTO Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer OpenAI; Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer OpenAI.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
2! most engaging (they are all rad but I like engaging, so 2)
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
higher ed institutions are cutting programs in favor of career-focused training and this is happening at the same time that employers are praising the analytical skills and interpretive acumen of humanities students.
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
a chance to recommend @judithweisenfeld.com’s excellent New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration nyupress.org/978147988880...
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
all of my immersive language study came out of federal funding. Cuts to humanities funding will have long-term consequences across a lot of fields. It is tragic. Already only 40% of citizens hold a passport. w/out scholars who study world lang, politics, history, culture there’s only navel gazing
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Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
academia is often - not always - a wealth replication structure. so much of being able to make it through doctoral training depends on generational wealth/family support networks. it is not easy to if you come from a poor or working class family to make it through your doctoral training.
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