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James McCorkle

@jamesmccorkle.bsky.social
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teaching/working/writing in Africana Studies on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee. My books include Evidences, The Subtle Bodies, In Time, & soon Seven Cycles & ONTARIO... Poet/writer/bird watcher/environmentalist...open borders=open minds

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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Asking for a friend, "why would a small liberal arts college invite a war criminal (he was the architect of the invasion of Iraq, advocated torture, outed a CIA agent, refused to comply with subpoenas, & promulgated deception to further war) to speak at a major homecoming lecture about democracy?"
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website, has posted a detailed allegation about Gianni Infantino’s role in UEFA’s handling of Manchester City and PSG in 2014, citing material revealed through Football Leaks. These are Pinto’s claims, and they’re worth reading in full below.
Screenshot of a post by verified account Rui Pinto (@RuiPinto_FL), dated 30 September 2026. Pinto alleges that Gianni Infantino, while UEFA General Secretary in 2014, improperly intervened in investigations into Manchester City and PSG, sharing confidential documents and helping both clubs avoid potentially harsher sanctions. He says the details were revealed through Football Leaks and concludes that Infantino has become “a cancer on football” who should have no place in the game’s future. The post shows 2.2 million views.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a Hawkeye I am offended that Senator Eric Schmitt could confuse Iowa with Atlanta, IA with GA with MD. He's an ignoramus who knows neither geography nor sports. And he is a butt-hole misogynist as he apparently is dismissive of women's sports. But he's MAGA so unsurprising.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Imagine how luck Schmitt is that he doesn’t represent a state that has the Jets, Mets and Nets. He’d never figure out who was doing what.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I-5 in Seattle
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Civilian displacement surges as key Yemen roads close, leaving thousands in camps amid dire humanitarian challenges.
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Yemen's war disrupts roads and ports, deepening humanitarian crisis
Civilian displacement surges as key Yemen roads close, leaving thousands in camps amid dire humanitarian challenges.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
He says that what he's doing in Gaza is the "opposite of a genocide," and that we should all be ashamed of ourselves for inverting victim and aggressor.
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Manchester City @mancity.com · 24/09/2026
Erling Haaland only needed 18 minutes to score again for Norway. Summer isn't over yet 😉🇳🇴
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The republicans have become lawless. There's no turning back now. They're all in! Rules and ethics be damned 🖕🏼 They know that if one goes down they all go down. Because unlike the real mob, where if they get caught they never rat, these fuckers would sell their mom to avoid consequences! 🐔
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would like not to pay taxes as much of it seems to subsidize Thiel, Musk, oil, the Trump family and its associates, and Netanyahu. In other words: war, war, and more war.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Created between 755 and 780 CE, the Maya Vase of the Eleven Gods captures a complex creation conclave. It depicts God L, an old underworld deity with feline ears, smoking a sacred cigar on a jaguar-skin throne. Ten other gods present tribute bundles. Origin: Petén, Guatemala.
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Resistenza @resistenza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More corruption.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026
As the U.N. General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to “asphyxiate the people of Cuba into submission.”
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Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat
As the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to “asphyxiate the people of Cuba...
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David Knowles @writerknowles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Via Wikipedia: The Nazi regime used the concept of "fake news" by weaponizing the German term Lügenpresse ("lying press") to dismiss independent journalism, foreign reporting, and critical facts as deceitful enemy propaganda.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Raise the upper age limit to 82. Would not want to exempt the felony-in-office.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Anyway UT Austin had the largest African and African Diaspora Studies program in the country sure wish there was as much energy for it when it was running as there is now for condemning its closure.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cornplanter (Seneca) to George Washington, 1790: "When your army entered the Country of the Six Nations, we called you the Town-destroyer and to this day, when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the neck of their mothers."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every morning my dog and my cat greet me. They are anxious for news. They ask "is he dead yet?" And I shake my head. The rest of the morning is quiet. Joy deferred makes the day long.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everything conservatives do or touch gets ruined. Case in point.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone re/reading Brontë's "Jane Eyre", I HIGHLY RECOMMEND also reading "Salvage: Readings from the Wreck" by Dionne Brand. #Lit The 3rd chapter takes a critical look at it in relation to Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea". "It is, above all, a novel about submission. Confinement and submission."
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How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But far more importantly, the voters make no appearance whatsoever in Justice Alito’s reasoning. He, like the government, does not dispute that using the rule in 2026 would disenfranchise millions of our most vulnerable people. He doesn’t care. It’s despicable and antidemocratic.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ann Telnaes is a treasure.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is precisely why the US is a rapidly declining empire. After WWII it had essentially all the wealth and capacity and it squandered it with an accelerating speed.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the world is dealing with a very different security landscape. And today brought another reminder of just how quickly it is changing. Here’s what mattered on September 11 🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Self-incrimination.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"He said that I’m disrespecting Jesus. You want to know what actually disrespects Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran, and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war." PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/09/2026
Reuters: Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, Russian subs were caught training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables Britain, Norway and the United States tracked and confronted m Russian vessels at sea reut.rs/3Ti3Kl8
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EXCLUSIVE: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot
Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving...
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The warm embrace of comrades.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The choice is clear: a tribal authoritarian despot steeped in depraved cruelty or sanity.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/09/2026
Leaders gathered to honor King Harald V of Norway.
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Ree @hillz8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He puts other politicians to shame!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why shouldn't he? Mamdani is the Mayor of NYC. He isn't responsible for 911 or terrorism. Unless of course ALL Muslims are...? abcnews.com/US/george-pa...
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Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What's the environmental damage? Oil leaking? How much? Is this a photo of one of the ships that was struck? It's riding high, so perhaps there's little . . . but this illegal war has to be understood as ecocidal--not only for spills and bombing contamination but for what it is about--oil.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Most corrupt prez ever. Apparently, it is a genetic trait as his father was a corrupt landlord and Nazi sympathizer and his kids are war-profiteers and neo-Nazis.
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Manchester City is now 3-0, the campaign continues!
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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James McCorkle @jamesmccorkle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump's party. The New Nazis.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Norway's Prime Minister ripped apart trumps stupid letter. Love this! Every leader receiving a letter like this from TACO, should do the same. Thanks for your attention to this matter! ============================
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