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Jeena Shah

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law prof & movement lawyer

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 14/10/2026
"Some have argued that in a moment of ascendant fascism and escalating fascist violence, it is a distraction to spend time pushing a left-wing mayor to fulfill his budgeting promises. But if we want to defeat fascism,...that means holding those in power accountable, no matter who they are." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly right. It’s a way to open the door to more of this.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 09/10/2026
Ms. Pillay led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whose time is AI stealing?

“the data industry came and crushed us" 
“Why more residents are saying 'No' to AI data centers in their backyard.” Ryan Murphy and Emily Feng. NPR.


“I watched my son shot to death in the street in front of me”
“He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him.” Miles Klee. Rolling Stone.

“I live three miles from the facility, and we have enough pollutants in our area to start with before they even started bringing this in and started polluting even more”
 “Elon Musk’s xAI facility is using gas turbines in South Memphis, we’re taking action.” Southern Environmental Law Center. 

“My experience in those four months was the worst experience I’ve ever had working in a company” 
“Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers.” Karen Hao and Deepa Seetharaman. The Wall Street Journal.

“They came offering us trees while drying out our Earth” 
Empire of AI. Karen Hao. 290.

“This is not drought, it’s pillage”
Ibid, 295.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It can save you time. 

(It cannot save you time, only coerce you to live out your time on Earth differently.)

Two stipulations
Time is a non-renewable resource. 
Time cannot be “saved,” only lived — or stolen. 

Quote: I want people to ask themselves and each other what time it is on the clock of the world. —Grace Lee Boggs
Image: Watercolor and sharpie: green and silver clock face with words instead of hours: dream, organize, try, struggle, feel, study, act, defend, defy, love, transform, build.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:
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The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump’s Gaza plan is *colonialism* and the UN Security Council and now Hillary Clinton are shamefully legitimating it. @jeenashahesq.bsky.social: “It is an illegal act of the highest order, and compliance with it makes member states complicit in that illegality.” More here:
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The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
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Jeena Shah @jeenashahesq.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In this short essay on TWAILR, I show how the Security Council Resolution that authorized the Board of Peace's rule over Gaza created a framework for a neo-colony par excellence: twailr.com/the-board-of...
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The Board of Peace: How the Security Council Legitimized Colonialism
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J…
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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Important new piece from @jeenashahesq.bsky.social in City & State. The protests against Israeli real estate events are responding to “active facilitation of what international courts and human rights bodies have classified as criminality representing the worst threats to humanity.”
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Opinion: The debate over buffer zone bills ignores that New York has a war crimes problem
A CUNY Law professor’s case that Israeli real estate events in NYC violate international law – and potentially federal and state law, too.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26/03/2026
WATCH: Learn about ICE warehouse expansion and how to fight back from our recent movement call webinar. Warehouse detention is part of the Trump administration’s plan to expand detention capacity to more than 100,000 people at any given time. 🔗Tell Congress no ICE warehouses! bit.ly/NOicewarehouses
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ICE Warehouse Detention 101and How to Fight Back
YouTube video by Detention Watch Network
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.
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Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs
Weeks after pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking, Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the same charges.
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Jeena Shah @jeenashahesq.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In my latest piece out today on @lpeblog.bsky.social, I reconcile Trump's pardoning of a former Honduran President on drug trafficking while abducting Maduro on similar charges by showing how both actions are consistent with the logic underlying the U.S.'s War on Drugs lpeproject.org/blog/trumps-...
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Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs
Weeks after pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking, Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the same charges.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It is a simple lesson yet many people seem determined not to learn it. Solidarity is not altruistic it is the only effective&realistic self protection.Powers that demand you throw some group under the bus will come for you as soon as they can-all the sooner if you’ve handed them power &legitimacy.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 19/02/2026
Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
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Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
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BigNoNo @bignono.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.
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Anders @derzquist.net · 12/01/2026
It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.
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Jeena Shah @jeenashahesq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“This is why the “any blue will do” mentality is so dangerous. Goldman wears a Democratic label, but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.” @kumar.bsky.social indypendent.org/2026/01/op-e...
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Op-Ed: Any Blue Won’t Do Especially in NY’s 10th Congressional District
“Rep. Dan Goldman wears a Democratic label,” writes one of his constituents, “but his actions undermine democratic values at every turn.”
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better. I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Great thread. This is also true about that Jacobin article criticizing the turnout for the No Kings march. As someone who covered both demonstrations in June and October, I saw a few unions trying to pull together largest unions into organize contingents. Here’s a more rooted analysis. 1/3
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The 2020 BLM protests were the top driver of new labor organizing in the last 5 years. Today's anti-Trump protests could do the same - if we make it happen. www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...
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Can Anti-Racism Spur Labor Organizing?
My survey findings on BLM's impact on the current unionization uptick
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025
It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/10/2025
if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice. We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work." labornotes.org/content/figh...
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How to Hold a Fightback School
We are in a moment of authoritarian crisis. The attacks are dizzying in their speed and range: Courts are rolling back labor rights. Trump is dismantling the public sector and cracking down on free sp...
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These newspapers that publish articles undermining basic human rights aren't doing it by accident. These administrators aren't making "mistakes." Moderate politicians aren't "confused." They're engaging in class solidarity and capitalism requires accepting fascism now. That's it. That's just it.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It's beyond time to recognize that the people in charge and the politicians and personalities responsible for fighting fascism are economically and politically intertwined with the need for America to become fascist. We've got more than enough evidence and people have to move beyond denial.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It's instructive and revealing to see a college president who oversaw the expelling of students protesting the killing of innocent people advocate for schools to start hosting "difficult speakers" who want to strip away rights from people of color, women, and gay and trans people.
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