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Denise M. Walsh

@feministpoliprof.bsky.social
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fierce feminist of the transnational, decolonizing variety

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/03/2026
"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new technology. They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”
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The ugly history behind the Olympics’ new gender test
How Nazi-era fears about gender gave rise to sex testing—and why the policy is resurfacing now.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Excited to announce that imperial sexism won the ISA feminist theory and gender studies 2026 book award
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If you want to understand what's going on between Israel, the US and Iran, this is for you newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Under Fire, NLR 157, January–February 2026
One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israel...
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thanks to everyone who filled the room to capacity for my book launch and to everyone who sent messages of support!
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...
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Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials
According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What comes after neoliberalism is even worse
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This Wed, Dec. 3rd 6 pm EST at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social : Join me, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com, & @versharma.bsky.social formerly of @teenvogue.com -- as we discuss building power outside of institutions. RSVP: www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
every Democrat in the country should not only endorse Mamdani within three hours but they should denounce and condemn Andrew Cuomo and demand he retire from politics forever
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/10/2025
So who will be calling the shots on AI? Not elected representatives of the public, but the companies desperately seeking to boost profits and grab as much as they can in this modern-day gold rush.
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The Trumpification of AI: What could go wrong?
Trump lets Big Tech run wild—as long as its chatbots accept his lies.
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Tanya Domi @tanyadomi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.
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Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy
Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/10/2025
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.
Democrats' Ads Make Old Pitch: Stopping Trump
Well-Worn Playbook
Some See It as a Missed Chance to Advance a Positive Message
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful. From @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 07/10/2025
a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
If these people aren’t fascists then that word just has no meaning.
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/09/2025
“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.” — Lavrentiy Beria
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It doesn’t matter. The more he says this crap the more it’s repeated and normalized. It becomes common sense.
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 25/09/2025
Heading in the direction of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power 30 January 1933 and put his political,opponents in concentration camps. But instead of having historians reconstruct events in retrospective, it‘s on live television.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Agreed. Don’t be divided and conquered
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
State licensed violence against it’s citizens
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Today’s events, including this terror memo, suggest we’ve tipped over into fascist terrain
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
That’s because there’s a transnational far right movement sharing their playbook
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This is less about individuals and more about spreading fear and obstructing support for any opposition.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
From the Trump Terror Memo. Have you ever donated to a left org with a credit card? Get ready. This doesn’t mean they’re coming for you. It means if they want to come for you, you’re already cooked.
The Secretary shall provide guidance for financial institutions to file Suspicious Activity Reports and investigate indicia of illicit funding streams to ensure such activity is rooted out at the source and referred for law enforcement action, as appropriate.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Never underestimate your enemy. This is early random and when it is that’s also a strategy. Shock and awe anyone?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Speculation, but I don’t think it’s off the table that within a year or two state Democratic Party orgs could be designated terror orgs according to Trump’s terror memo. The point will be to make examples, and compel submission.
.  Department of Justice Designation.  In the course of and as a result of the investigations directed by section 2 of this memorandum, the Attorney General may recommend that any group or entity whose members are engaged in activities meeting the definition of “domestic terrorism” in 18 U.S.C. 2331(5) merits designation as a “domestic terrorist organization.”
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
From authoritarian populism to fascism: 1) crises take center state, 2) illusion of violent threat of the left, 3) activated mass base, 4) bourgeoisie no longer believe they can democratically control the state, 5) assault on the state and 6) terror against all subordinate classes.
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Dr. Nyasha @drnyasha.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Against the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher Education | via @haymarketbooks.org www.youtube.com/live/AokV9UO...
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Against the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher Education
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/09/2025
ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.
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ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers
“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A lot of attention has (rightfully) been on feds coming to Chicago to arrest immigrants & potentially raid homeless encampments (like in DC) But also worthy of attention: Today city officials (without feds) are planning on clearing a homeless encampment. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
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Another North Side homeless tent camp is targeted by the city
Following a more than yearlong battle at nearby Gompers Park, city officials say they will begin to clear a camp at Legion Park along the river Tuesday.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2025
"I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid." @timothypmurphy.bsky.social talked to Democratic voters who want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
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Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Showing this tomorrow in my class on fascism because ruling elite panic about socialism fueled the rise of fascists like Mussolini
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Declaring dissidents and undesired groups mentally ill was one of the fundamental means of control used in the Soviet Union.
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Smash the clash of civilizations narrative feeding the far right. Check out my new book, Imperial Sexism. First chapter free: academic.oup.com/book/60720/c...
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The Clash
Abstract. “The Clash” opens by highlighting the misguided debates among politicians, pundits, activists, and scholars over how democracies should handle co
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Teaching a new course and decided to share insights from the readings. First up, Ira Allen in Panic Now? Yes! We must panic because this world is dying. Panic opens us up to wonder and to acting collectively to create artifacts for future world building. www.amazon.com/Panic-Now-Dr...
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Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing
Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing [Allen, Dr. Ira] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The United States, Europe and Australia collectively account for less than 2.5% of global human exposure to wildfire; Africa 85%. North/South inequalities are pervasive and national border control isn't the answer!
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Gender studies is crucial for challenging heteropatriarchy, which in on a rampage right now. Support your local gender studies, whether at the library, at an LGBTQ center, or by creating community with your gender non-conforming friends and neighbors.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
From a retired senior Israeli general: www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
1000 authoritarian actions makes the US no longer a democracy
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Denise M. Walsh @feministpoliprof.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
There’s nothing like this before is a daily refrain. Time to stop referencing the past. Liberal democracy is over. Let’s focus on building better futures.
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