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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’ll be in conversation with artists Margaux Smith and Heather Goodchild about their show “The Spinner, The Dealer, The Assassin” at Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto May 24th. If you’re here, come!

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“It shouldn’t be this easy to cleave universities from one another, but, so far, it seems to be easier even than making law firms compete for the don’s business and favor.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our first event! “Freedom of Expression in the History of Political Thought” History and Politics – A WPSA Virtual Community April 2nd, noon – 2 pm Eastern Time, by Zoom with Ani Chen (Cornell) and Kevin Pham (Amsterdam) docs.google.com/forms/d/11Mc...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The United States has embarked on a programme of cultural and intellectual vandalism on a vast scale. Universities everywhere will feel more than ripples from the damage.

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 28/03/2025

We are outraged to learn that Canada has approved a contract for the export of artillery propellant to the Israeli military via the US, despite an explicit commitment from Minister Joly that she would stop such transfers. www.cjpme.org/pr_2025_03_2...

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Worth noting there are 264 Democrats in Congress 🧐

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I expanded my thread on the Kristi Noem video into an essay here. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait (And yes, I know substack is a problem. Migrating soon.)

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That's Bait

Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Def a full prof! And I’m glad (some of) those with security are speaking out about the issue. My point was just that lack of coverage is not imho the reason why ppl aren’t adequately responding to the issue…

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

By “plenty” I mean lots…. Would welcome even more ;)

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Just taught Wendy Browns Undoing the Demos- plenty of good work on neoliberalism and the university out there

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Def agree that some liberals failed to acknowledge mounting crises (and how the red carpet was rolled out under Biden for where we are now). Still think you can be alarmed about brain drain (and if you’re here, in Canada, position yourself to benefit from it)

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I don’t mean to troll you but honestly I think this point you’re repeating is really misled. People can hold more than one thought/worry/concern in their head at a time. Plenty of liberals are (rightly) freaking out about disappearing grad students, too

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

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‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

By now the Trump administration’s message to non-citizen residents of the United States is abundantly clear: If you publicly disagree with us, you are not safe here.

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Oh c’mon- one can be in support of basic rights for all, appalled by what is happening in the US, and also make a point about university brain drain

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Question- Just arrived here from Twitter- I managed to migrate many of those I follow- but how to migrate or retrieve my X followers? Doesn’t seem like an option

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Absolutely essential reading.

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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Like the academics and politicians in Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission, American college administrators are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity…This is a tale not so much of capitulation to an authoritarian leader as of collusion with him.” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Adam Shatz | Submission

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I still remember when Egypt arrested AJ journalists and Western media institutions launched campaigns of solidarity. Israel has murdered 161 journalists - including Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansur today alone.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

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Ella Street @ellastreet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Athenian democracy is often associated with citizens talking together. But deliberation was forbidden in what was arguably (by 4th century) the supreme dem institution in Athens. Why? And what does this tell us about democratic justice? My article in History of Political Thought

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 05/12/2024

🚨 CfP: 2025 conference on Women in the History of Political Thought 🚨 Organised by Torrey Shanks, Geertje Bol, and @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social 👇 Details below 👇

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