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puertorriqueña | journalist | sociologist | author: "In Defense of Solidarity & Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South"

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec
REMEMBER Signal is safer, not safe scroll for safety tips
COMMUNICATE SAFELY Signal is not permission to say anything. Keep communications in large or not-fully-vetted Signal chats to a bare minimum. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want authorities to read, or to be read aloud in court. If someone’s phone is taken or accessed, your messages to them may be visible. Anything can be screenshotted! Whether readable for one day or one minute, it can still be screenshotted.
VERIFY PEOPLE & DEVICES Double-check that you are talking to the person you think you are through a trusted second channel, such as an in-person conversation, video call, or a question only the two of you know the answer to. Use Signal’s safety-number verification. Compare the safety numbers or scan the QR code in person when possible; if they do not match, stop using that channel until you can verify the person. Remove people from chats if they—or any of their devices—become compromised, lost, seized, or accessed by someone else.
MANAGE DATA Set disappearing messages for every chat you create or join to 1 week, 1 day, or shorter. Set a default disappearing-message timer for all new chats: Signal Settings → Privacy → Default timer for new chats.  Delete Signal on your phone before traveling internationally. Delete Signal Desktop when you no longer need it, especially before giving away, sharing, repairing, or disposing of a computer. Be careful what you store in chat group descriptions—files, links, photos stored there are visible to everyone with a link to the chat.
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
💥 New piece in Big Data & Society. Towards a new paradigm of “datafied development”: Epistemic, infrastructural, economic, and geopolitical domains. By Mohammad Amir Anwar, Nanna Thylstrup, Julian Posada and I journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 10/08/2026
Armando is a dear friend, a tireless warrior for the earth, and a fucking inspiration. I'm fundraising to help him recover from a debilitating medical situation. Please donate if you can, and spread the word. Thank you 💜
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Medical Expenses for Armando
Jorge Armando López Pocol is a Mayan land defender in Guatemala who has dedicated his life to reforesting communal Indigenous lands, fighting mining and other destructive projects in his community, an...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We're excited to announce an alternative conference for those boycotting ASA! "Resisting Authoritarianism: Global Solidarity & Democratic Futures" will take place in NYC on Aug 10-11 at the CUNY Graduate Center. RSVP today: tinyurl.com/ResistSoc #BoycottASA
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
ASA member Ethel L. Mickey @ethelmickey.bsky.social @csusb.bsky.social draws on ethnographic research in a top tech firm to reveal how “ideal” networking practices, such as informal referrals and after-hours schmoozing, exclude women and people of color. @ucpress.bsky.social
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Networking to Nowhere by Ethel Mickey - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There is a country in the Caribbean that is currently undergoing a severe water crisis, adding to an already collapsing electric infrastructure. And I am not talking about Cuba, but about the Puerto Rican archipelago--a colony of the United States.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My brilliant friend @ethelmickey.bsky.social's book "Networking to Nowhere" is out today! This is such an important book to understand the paradox--and failures--of "networking," hailed as the ultimate portal to success for women in the corporate tech sector.
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The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/05/2026
Of the 16 trillion dollar companies only two are not from the tech sector, this is one way to know we are in an era of digital capitalism.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...
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La Torre de Sofía: un hito en el cooperativismo de vivienda en Puerto Rico
La creación de la primera cooperativa de vivienda después de 30 años y la intención de adquirir el edificio fue la respuesta a un proceso de desplazamiento
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Este sábado 23 de mayo desde las 6 pm en el Teatro Paradise, en Río Piedras, es el Coopari pro-fondos para que la Torre de Sofía pueda convertirse en una cooperativa. ¡NO se lo pierdan! www.plateapr.com/que-saber/co...
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¿Qué es una cooperativa de vivienda? La Torre de Sofía busca revivir este modelo en Río Piedras - PlateaPR
Sería la primera cooperativa de vivienda en Puerto Rico en más de 30 años. Buscan adquirir su edificio. Conoce cómo funcionaría.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Far from being on path to a trillion-dollar IPO, some scholars (notably @luizajarovsky.bsky.social) forecast OpenAI won’t even make it through the year. New episode of Vandal shares my keynote at Wake Forest Humanities Institute, draws on @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social’s “Textpocalypse Now”…
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
incredible company to keep! theorize the omnicrisis, periodize the present, construct categories - and then make a better world "READ ALONG" thanks to two stellar teachers @mattseybold.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, for this indispensable syllabus bsky.app/profile/matt...
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom's illustrated reading list (originally assembled by Dr. Matt Seybold): Sassen, Klein, Taylor, Kornbluh, Dean, Jarvis, Slobodian, Tarnoff, Zuboff, Varoufakis, Duran, Srinicek, Gebru, Torres, Wark, SeyboldI have Trump Fatigue. Maybe you do, too. 
War. Sadism. Lies. Fascism. Racism. Sexism. Class warfare. His administration spews this stuff out at such volume and frequency that I find myself responding to truly devastating things like a teenager. Eye-rolling. Teeth sucking. “Like, yeah, I KNOW.” 
I’m not proud of that posture. The whole point of flooding the zone is to inure us to the scale of depravity. 
At the same time, I think I’m itching to move beyond diagnoses. We kind of get the broad strokes, right? Economic inequality + racism + patriarchy + nihilism + religious zealotry = how we got here. 
I was spinning out in this mental space when my colleague Matt Seybold posted a reading list on Bluesky. Matt is a humanist and one of the smartest thinkers on AI, institutions, and culture. 
His list of books that are all trying to diagnose our political moment pierced my exasperation. “What’s next,” I started thinking. 
I have added a couple of books to the list. But this has been my reading recently. I’m working on a mind map of the theories at work in these books. Why? To move from understanding to undertaking; from diagnosis to prescription; from teenagerdom to wise crone. 
I started with “Expulsions” and then on to “End Times Fascism.” Read along!
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 12/04/2026
Do you know a journalist who fits the bill? The Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship will award one $30,000 fellowship to an early to mid-career journalist w/a history of progressive writing who lacks institutional support to do their journalistic work. Deadline to apply is April 20 at 11:59 pm ET.
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2026 Journalism Fellowship — Daniel Singer Prize
Nominations are open until April 20. Apply now.
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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are appalled at this undemocratic action. More on collective response coming soon. In the meantime, follow us for updates. If you sent ASA a response tag us & we'll amplify. If you prefer to remain anonymous, send it to us on our email (in bio) & we'll share it here. Together we will win 🇵🇸
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
THIS! word by word
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 01/03/2026
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate for women in the world. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we're thinking of all the women locked behind bars, away from their families. They can't get lost in the fight to end mass incarceration.
Infographic with text: Only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the United states, but the U.S. confines 25% of the world’s incarcerated women and girls.

Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women/2025.html
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.
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Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries
The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 25/01/2026
#OtD 25 Jan 1995 Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, who attended far-right NF and BNP rallies and had convictions for violent crime including attacking an anti-fascist. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/11/2025
THREAD 👇
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions chuffed.org/project/help...
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North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/11/2025
BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. Rest in power Assata
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Below are photos of Alaa Abdel Fattah free and at home with his sister, Sanaa, and mother, Laila. It’s wonderful to see his beautiful smile again! (Photos via his sister, Mona, on X) #FreeAlaa
Smiling Alaa seated with his arm around his sister SanaaSmiling Alaa standing with his arm around his mother Laila
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2025
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2025
The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data. Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.
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8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”
L.A. Protests Prompt
Calls for Police Restraint After Journalist Injuries
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 10/06/2025
Please keep attention on the struggle of working class families to insist that their family members, community members, and children be safe from terrorization and deportation at the hands of ICE. A thread of donation links to base-building immigrant rights organizations in LA:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...
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LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
So happy, thrilled, and honored that my book "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure" has won the ASA CITAMS book award!!!!!! @asanews.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/sociol...
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In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure | Stanford University Press
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in informat...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Its literally eugenicist! Yet it structures our medical profession. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-...
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How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia
Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/03/2025
Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Statement re Michael Burawoy obit
Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...
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Amelia Doğan @ameliadogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'm co-organizing a workshop for #C&C2025. Join us to explore intersections of design, decolonial feminisms, and activist knowledge. June 23 – Online Submit your story, artwork, or creative format by May 23. All welcome, no prior experience required. sites.google.com/view/intdesign-as-a-form-of-care
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Súmate a nuestro taller que explora las intersecciones entre el diseño, epistemologías decoloniales feministas, y saberes activistas. 23 de junio de 2025 – en línea Envía tu historia u obra creativa hasta el 23 de mayo. Links: cc.acm.org/2025/worksho... sites.google.com/view/intdesi...
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Workshops - Home
WORKSHOPS Workshop 01 Explainable AI for the Arts - XAIxArts3 Duration: Full-day Organizers: Corey Ford (Co-Chair), University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Elizabeth Wilson (Co-Chair), Universit...
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Join our workshop exploring the intersections of design, decolonial feminisms, and activist knowledge. June 23, 2025 – Online Submit your story, artwork, or creative format by May 23. Links: cc.acm.org/2025/worksho... sites.google.com/view/intdesi... cc.acm.org/2025/registr...
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Workshops - Home
WORKSHOPS Workshop 01 Explainable AI for the Arts - XAIxArts3 Duration: Full-day Organizers: Corey Ford (Co-Chair), University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Elizabeth Wilson (Co-Chair), Universit...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
All By Himself John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew. No paywall link: archive.is/lNHNh
NEW YORK MAGAZINE

[black and white photo of Fetterman reclining in shadow]

All By Himself John Fetterman insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.

By Ben Terris, New York's Washington correspondent
5:00 A.M.
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MARION @marion-writers.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our April Focus On is here! This month featuring work by Paul Collis, Joanne McCarron, Tom McIlroy, Hitomi Nakanishi, Marcus Smith, and Firuzeh Shokooh Valle. Check out these plus our region archive: marion.ink/focus-on @firuzehsv.bsky.social @tommcilroy.bsky.social
There are six book covers: Wita Witalana by Paul Collis, Coventina's Well by Joanne McCarron, Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy, Disaster Resilience and Sustainability by Hitomi Nakanishi, Techno by Marcus Smith, and In Defence of Solidarity and Pleasure by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle on a dark grey background. There is a gold stripe at the top of the image with "Focus On April", and a green stripe at the bottom  with the MARION and ACT Government logos on it.
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Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei @rsbartolomei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
La exención contributiva que le dieron al proyecto Esencia en Cabo Rojo es mayor al recorte presupuestario que le hizo la Junta a la UPR.
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firuzeh shokooh valle @firuzehsv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
¡Yo soy de PFKNR! youtu.be/qYAONSDnMrc?...
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BAD BUNNY - LA MuDANZA (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
YouTube video by Bad Bunny
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/01/2025
At least 23 Palestinian child prisoners have been released by Israel as part of Gaza ceasefire deal. But more than 300 minors remain in Israeli custody, many of them without charges. Here's what we know ⤵️ 🔗: aje.io/0x9mb1
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