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Sarah Thompson @sarahthompson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thanks to @emilyrussell.bsky.social for speaking to my Politics in South Asia class about her dissertation research on labour and policing in Assam's tea plantations!

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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Trump administration cancels more than a dozen international student visas at University of California, Stanford

Amid a national sweep over student visas that has hit colleges across the U.S., the Trump administration on Friday canceled more than a dozen international student visas at the University of Californi...

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Emily Russell @emilyrussell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

a year ago, i visited guantanamo. a toxic, imperial site of unspeakable (and unforgettable) horror. another chapter of American violence cannot be written here

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

big victory for Indigenous activists

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Emily Russell @emilyrussell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The preprint for my co-authored review article with the unparalleled Margaret Levi is up now at @annualreviews.bsky.social! In it, we explore how property rights have been designed with economic development in mind, but that they could instead facilitate a host of other priorities: bit.ly/3PDWsTc

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Property Righting: The Politics of Rights Over Land and Labor | Annual Reviews

This essay focuses on property rights in land and labor, the ways in which they have been entangled since the development of early capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the extent...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/01/2025

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

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30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners

About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.

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