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Fiona Jeffries

@fionajeffries.bsky.social
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Bookworm, solidarity enthusiast (she/her) Editor @ fernwoodpublishing.ca

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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Powerful portrayal of the everyday nightmare of moving under surveillance. Rehab Nazzal’s brilliant project Driving in Palestine does it in still photo, drawing and essay form fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/drivin...
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Driving in Palestine التحرّك في فلسطين
This research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal documents the politics of surveillance and mobility in contemporary Palestine through photos, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in English and A...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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California Nurses Association @calnurses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thousands of nurses and taking over the streets of San Francisco and marching on ICE's detention center to protest Palantir tech in our communities and to demand our public resources go toward the benefit of working people.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026
Here are the 11 Canadian think tanks funded by this U.S.-based libertarian network as of 2022, when the network stopped publicizing who they were supporting on their website.
As of 2022, when Atlas stopped publishing the names of partner organizations, there were 11 affiliated Canadian think tanks: Alberta Institute, Canada Strong and Free Network (formerly the Manning Centre), Canadian Constitution Foundation, Canadians for Democracy and Prosperity, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Institute for Liberal Studies, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Montreal Economic Institute, Second Street and Fraser Institute.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026
A U.S. libertarian network called Atlas Network has been funding at least 11 Canadian think tanks that have been fuelling, climate denialism, support for the oil and gas industry, and Alberta separatism.
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How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
20+ PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BLOCKING THE ROAD TO THE AI HEALTH SUMMIT, where healthcare CEOs and tech billionaires are rolling out the red carpet for Palantir-backed healthcare. 72 floors above them, healthcare executives are gathering to talk about Al, hospital profits, and the future of our care
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
it’s interesting to see normalization of technology as a “solution” to pretty serious social issues. do you really think people will take parenting advice from appliances? I’d like folks to make the connections from this to carceral contexts a la luxury surveillance by @hypervisible.blacksky.app.
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Scott Neigh @scottneigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Media Co-op has been publishing (and paying for!) grassroots journalism in so-called Canada for more than 20 years. Learn more about what they're looking for and send them a pitch! mediacoop.ca/node/119373
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Call for Pitches!
The Media Co-op is a grassroots media outlet that has been publishing in so-called Canada for more than 20 years. We publish (and pay for) grassroots journalism focused on important issues and struggl...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 20/09/2026
Capitalist empire is a roiling crisis machine, one that constantly creates openings for something else
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazing work! May we make bathroom access justice happen everywhere. 🥳
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Find the English version of this brainy and passionate book here at @fernpub.bsky.social: fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/essent...
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Essential Work, Disposable Workers
A book about the massive expansion of precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and jus...
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@churlishness.bsky.social and Leah Werner’s The Consulting Trap advances a critical analysis of the scandal of the consultant industry of everything - including higher ed and govenment fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/the-co...
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The Consulting Trap
This book exposes how powerful consulting firms influence public policy with grave consequences for democracy, essential services, and the common good.
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So wonderful to see @mhenaway.bsky.social essential, brilliant book out in French with @ecosociete.bsky.social! This analysis rooted in years of scholarship and organizing could not be more timely and urgent. ecosociete.org/livres/trava... 🥳📚
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Travail essentiel, travailleurs jetables
Plus qu’une analyse implacable d’un système mondial d’hyper-exploitation, Travail essentiel, travailleurs jetables est aussi le récit des liens de…
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes! The revolutionary urbanism that we all need! Bathrooms + transit access are preconditions to basic sociality
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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This weekend we organized a counter-summit to Carney's fire sale of resources & public infrastructure. The rooms were overflowing and alive with movement energy. Then we marched, led by Indigenous leaders, took the barricades for hours and danced. Colonialism, neoliberalism, fascism: NO to it all.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
« This is a company that has maximized both worker surveillance techniques and the methods by which they can be exploited to quell labor unrest. » jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
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How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words
Internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations.
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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The current scene at the protest against Carney’s financial summit. Heavy police presence and barricade. @nationalobserver.com
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, an all-volunteer group I co-founded. Since 1996, BTB NYC has sent app 168,000 book packages to people in 38 states (one package has multiple books). Help them keep sending books to imprisoned readers: booksthroughbarsnyc.org
White rectangular cake with green trim and words that say "Happy 30th NYC BTB!" and a red & white pair of candles that say "30" against a red wall.
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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy to share that our new book is out now #OpenAccess! Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity explores how grassroots actors across 11 European cities build solidarity and enact citizenship through struggles over migration, housing and care. doi.org/10.51952/978... @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity
Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity - Urban Struggles on Migration, Housing and Care in Europe; How are grassroots movements reshaping European cities? This book explores how activists across ten citi...
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Page proofs are innnnnnnn!! Book coming your way March 9, 2027
Screen shot of a PDF reading “PRISON: Incarceration and the Making of America by Dan Berger, Basic Books”
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This 🧵 will have readings that I assign in my Sociology of AI class.
A flyer for the class Sociology of AI

The overview says: SOC 3900 Sociology of AI uses a sociological lens to study what is popularly called "artificial intelligence." In this class students will learn about cutting edge research examining the origins, impacts, and struggles over the broad set of technologies and practices involving AI. Through an international focus, this class will cover numerous topics related to AI, including: gig work, algorithmic bias, data colonialism, resource extraction, digital labor, data center studies, and environmental and climate effects. This class will primarily focus on sociological research, but will also include scholarship from geography, history, international studies, and environmental studies, as well as other social scientific and humanistic disciplines. No prior knowledge of AI is required for this class
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On Friday, we are hosting an online event featuring @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and Magdi El-Gizouli. They will discuss El-Gizouli’s monumental essay in Equator about revolution and counterrevolution in Sudan. 6pm BST / 1pm EST / 7pm CAT – free and open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution...
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Sudan
A conversation between Magdi El-Gizouli and Nesrine Malik
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
jesus christ. i'm sobbing.
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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#BrockU is hosting the annual @cawls-acets.bsky.social conference next year. Check out the call for proposals here: cawls.ca/en/2027-annu... #labourstudies #canlab @brocklabour.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 30/05/2026
we should not underestimate our power to make it a huge pain in the ass to execute on their racist projects.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Picture of the today comes from Fran Etzel enjoying her trip in Rankin Inlet. Thanks for sharing and for being a long time supporter of our segment Fran!
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NDP @ndp.ca · 13/04/2026
Corporations have found a creepy new way to rip you off. It's called "surveillance pricing" and it's coming for all of us at the checkout if we don't stop it. Add your name and help stop retailers from price-gouging us with the help of Big Tech: ndp.ca/surveillance-pricing
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
To paraphrase James Baldwin, the belief in the goodness is the whole problem.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.
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Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In light of recent media pieces arguing that public funds are wasted when they come to our publishing company, we have decided to write a short article about why we remain committed to putting our political commitments over profit-making. fernwoodpublishing.ca/news/view/wh...
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What does it mean to prioritize politics over profit?
Fernwood has been profiled in a few media pieces that attempt to discredit the public funding of arts and culture. These folks think it’s a waste for public money to be spent on a publisher that is po...
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is making substantial cuts to Fisheries and Oceans (-70%), Environment and Climate Change (-45%), Agriculture and Agri-Food (-10%), and Natural Resources (-5%), and closing multiple research stations.
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In Toronto, the first community policing model began in 1967, introduced in two neighborhoods with large Black communities. By 1970, it had expanded citywide, with a 1973 creation of the Ethnic Relations Unit, and a “Black section” in 1975. 1/3 briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
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Community policing: expanding the carceral web
Excerpt from Policing Black Lives: Revised and Expanded – In a revised and expanded version of Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard documents how half a centre of police reforms, including community po...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@choicechat.bsky.social @marthapaynter.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2509839/epis...
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Abortion Decriminalization in Canada: Why Criminal Law Should Stay Out - Choice Chat Podcast
Interview with Dr. Martha Paynter, author of Lawless: Abortion Under Complete Decriminalization.In this episode of Choice Chat, host Tara speaks with Dr. Martha Paynter—nurse, researcher, and author o...
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
👇👇👇
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Useful to teach this with broken windows theory, since it‘s used to promote community policing. And for those of us whose work on the prison-industrial complex focuses on the United States, the focus on Canada here shows how antiblackness and the limits of police reform are global.
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 06/03/2026
People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Writing tip #2: Three things to do to write for a broader audience. First, you need to want to. (Most people do not.) Second, you need to read and study gifted prose stylists and learn from them. Third, you must work hard at the art and craft of writing. It’s all pretty simple.
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Fiona Jeffries @fionajeffries.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A+ advice from a wonderful writer
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Writing tip #1: No matter where you are in the writing process, imagine your ideal audience and write for it – small, large, simple, complex: friends, family, community, scholars, activists, children, theatre-goers, the general public. You pick the combination & decide to whom you want to speak.
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