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@gabantoniosolis.bsky.social
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Historian of labor + capitalism in the US-MX border and Taiwan. From the very holy el paso, Texas. Devoted to the immortal science of historical materialism and shared caguamas.

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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If the space rocket blows up in space, then it is not the most powerful space rocket ever built, sry.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
One day after being booed, Columbia President Claire Shipman at university-wide graduation says international students shouldn't be targeted by government for free speech. "And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil."
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Tomorrow I get my PhD conferred (cheers) at Columbia University (booing) and now I'm reading beautiful novels again (greater cheering). Please recommend me new beautiful novels!
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NPR @npr.org · 29/04/2025
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Tomásï @necalli24.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Drought and violence plague Nuevo León — Ojalá
Reportag e • Chantal Flores • April 17, 2025 •  Leer en castellano From Highway 54 in Nuevo León, Mexico, around 70 kilometers south of the United States border, you can catc...
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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...
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Columbia University may have signed its own death notice.
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 10/04/2025
"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI
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The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals
As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New ACLU video shows the moment ICE arrested Georgetown Scholar Dr. Badar Khan Siri. Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar. In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We've finished scanning CD-ROM Today! This was an influential magazine from the height of the multimedia era, and a great record of what was happening in the computer games/software industry in the mid-90s archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071...
A cover for CD-ROM Today advertising their "Multimedia Tool Chest," with over 100 tips & tools.A cover story for CD-ROM Today talking about internet-connected CD-ROMs.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK.
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Tomásï @necalli24.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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“Un ataque contra la sindicalización”: detienen al líder de los jornaleros agrícolas de Washington Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez en la avanzada represiva de Trump contra la inmigración
“Un ataque contra la sindicalización”: detienen al líder de los jornaleros agrícolas de Washington Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez en la avanzada represiva de Trump contra la inmigración
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Harvard tries once again to outdo Columbia--this time by dismissing the leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies without the Trump administration even asking them. So much for not obeying in advance. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The legendary anime film director Miyazaki. The subtitle reads "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ah look, the rapid rise of the German armaments industry during a lil Transatlantic far right conjecture, I'm sure everything totally okay and chill; no bad vibes or premonitions at all!
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
it's so cool how nazis are going to raze an ivy league school and turn it into a snowflake safe space camp for chud student athletes like they did ito third rate florida schools and its own trustees don't even care because the new york times convinced them the students were baader meinhoff
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
He is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance. This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
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Palestinian Oscar winner 'lynched' by Israeli settlers, colleague says
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning 'No Other Land', returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
European Commission, I am told, is ready to rip (already fraying) social contract in its enthusiastic march towards the armament economy. at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines: European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains. Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I don't really have a lot of comrades active here but it's nice to scroll thru a dumb media app that isn't all nazi AI stuff.
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This year Columbia University's "anti-discrim + harassment training" is especially egregious. Not only CU's collaboration with ICE to exile Ranjani Srinivasan and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, but also how the training uses cartoon images of protestors in slides that describe forms of harassment.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 20/03/2025
society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

On Tuesday, Schmidt was transported to the regional headquarters for ICE in Burlington, Massachusetts, and then transferred to the Wyatt facility. The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We really need a new Arcades Project about dead tech, but I'm not sure our generation currently has the melancholic-messianic grasp of revolutionary communism to do it right.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Potential revised Muslim Ban coming. @aaup.bsky.social
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Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo @mibarizt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hyper-Imperialism is a militarized form of imperialism marked by the US's declining hegemony and growing reliance on military power and sanctions to maintain its dominance. This dossier remains a nice read for understanding current shifts in U.S. foreign policy. thetricontinental.org/studies-on-c...
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Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"...there has been no mass organizing movement as many had hoped. One reason is the absence of a practical alliance between Mexican independent unions and the U.S. and Canadian unions in the same industries." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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International Solidarity Is the Union Answer to Tariffs and Deportations
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has recently expressed the UAW’s readiness to “work with Trump on trade.” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke on a podcast against “illegal immigrants that ...
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Currently chasing bad vibes (reading a lot about Hsinchu)
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
One of the greatest insights I received from growing up on the border in the Bush years was the intimate and early understanding that the U.S. is a disgusting, reactionary, war-hungry country built on a big bundle of terror and bones, but also, uniquely endowed with great hamburgers.
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We have to face facts: WW2 combat flight sims disappeared from the mainstream and fascism began making a return. Indeed they were replaced by their Wario / Scratch: the live service combat arcade game, where military hardware was stripped of context and rendered morally neutral and brand safe.
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"yearslong clampdown"
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I wish there were more Bolsheviks on bluesky
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Taipei at night
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In Taiwan, always more fun to buy tech stuff in person. Even if I'd save like 10-20 bucks online, no one can convince me it's better than buying stuff from a random uncle in a cubicle on the fourth floor of a Taipei electronics market, who will let me play with 30 gadgets before buying them.
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
National Day of Mourning for weird videogame handheld and IEM headset aficionados throughout the gringo continent.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
in better news
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Showing this to my gf, who keeps asking me when Skyrim 2 is coming out.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Video Game History Museum Library Digital Archive is now available to the public archive.gamehistory.org
-Guidebooks and ephemera from game events, including searchable directories and maps from the first 12 years of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
-An extensive international collection of From Software promotional materials, collected by citizen archivist Kris Urquhart, with a blessing from FromSoftware to donate them to the library.
-100 CDs of art and press releases from GamePro’s magazine archive.
-Over 100 hours of footage from the production of the Myst series, including never-before-seen interviews with the Cyan team.
-The Mark Flitman papers, a treasure trove of documents collected over the course of Flitman’s career at video game publishers like Konami, Acclaim, Atari, and more.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
this seems significant
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Brb gotta figure a way to make my dissertation about a murder
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I really wanna know who in the Taiwanese gov manages their list of b list homophobic far right American political figures to visit the island
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Re: maquilas and destruction of the world. From Bowel et al 1995 study that tried to estimate maquila waste and contamination. In 1991, JRZ government made public that US maquilas in the city produced roughly 35,000 tons of toxic waste per year, only 35% returned to US.
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
blogged about Xiaohongshu and why i thought about that time chinese people were on Clubhouse for a week ko-fi.com/post/Xiaohon...
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Xiaohongshu and the Cross-Pollinating Nature of US-China connections
BeanPaste published a post on Ko-fi
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Coming to terms that in my research on the maquila in Taiwan and Mexico, industrial poisoning is huge issue for workers and their communities. What's your fav readings on labor and ecology?
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gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A great interview with Rebecca Karl on the importance of the AHA vote against scholasticide in Gaza: truthout.org/articles/sch...
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Scholar Says AHA’s Vote on Gaza Scholasticide Shouldn’t Be Controversial
Professor Rebecca E. Karl explains why she voted in favor of the American Historical Association’s resolution.
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