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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment.” – W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
love love love this essay by David Hollingshead. So smart, so funny, and winningly earnest
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Alexander Livingston @alivingston.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social just published a short essay I wrote for their spring conference, "Revisiting ‘On Violence’" Titled "Power without Violence" its a provocation to rethink Arendt's essay as if the history of nonviolence actually mattered. medium.com/quote-of-the...
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Power Without Violence
by Alexander Livingston
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For @theguardian.com I write that ending TPS is the single largest assault on immigrant lives in contemporary US & part of a playbook that couples expanded enforcement with canceling legal status. “Legal” & “illegal” are decisions about whose life is valued. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger| Heba Gowayed
The court’s TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 11/05/2026
A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must at least temporarily reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Judge Orders Texas State to Reinstate Robinson - Daily Nous
A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israel...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...
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Donate to #FreeBlackMamas
With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day! ✊ EWOC is supporting hundreds of campaigns across the country, offering free training and support to workers ready to win a better future on the job. Please consider making a recurring donation to help us continue to provide them with the resources they need. 🧵
May Day Drive: Make your monthly pledge
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Really compelling examination by @hkerman.bsky.social of what makes alternative medicine so alluring to patients and potentially instructive for doctors today—as well as what makes it so dangerous! www.statnews.com/2026/04/29/a...
Ozone therapy preceded the Make America Healthy Again movement, but the two are spiritual twins. It is a highly technological promised panacea whose main benefit seems to be the intake visit, the relationship you have with your practitioner, and the beautifully lit, incense-scented office you visit. These practitioners have opted out of the mainstream system by not accepting insurance—but it’s a privilege that few patients can claim.

Ozone is a good symbol for health grift, as its practitioners also seem to believe deeply in their product — though it is hard to separate belief from the economic incentives. It is hard for practitioners of Western medicine, taught not to overpromise and often faced with unfixable cases, to counter that confidence. It is true that doctors can misdiagnose or undertreat, but it is also true that, sometimes, people cannot be cured. There is not a fix for everything. But this truth is anathema in a culture where billionaires expect to live forever and encounters with disease are wars to be fought and won.
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Join us tonight for the 4th annual @degruyterbrill.bsky.social - Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking. In person at @bardcollege.bsky.social multi-purpose room in the North Campus Center or via livestream beginning at 5p EST. www.youtube.com/live/OuIpCiZ... #hannaharendt #arendtcon
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Uday Mehta: Militant Nonviolence (De Gruyter Lecture)
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We cordially invite you to the fourth annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking at @bardcollege.bsky.social next Thursday, where Uday Singh Mehta (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will speak on the topic of militant non-violence. 1/3
Visual for the event reading: 4th Annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking. Thursday, 23 April 2026, 5-6:45pm Eastern. Multi-Purpose Room, Bard's North Campus Center (33 Robbins Rd). The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
While strategic petroleum reserves can cushion against immediate impacts of the US/Israeli war against Iran, people really have not prepared for fertiliser shortages and what that may mean for food cycles in the coming year: (Source: Bloomberg newsletter 6 March)
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
thinking about this quote from Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it, if I may so express myself, swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist. False, indeed, must be the light when the drapery of situation hides the man, and makes him stalk in masquerade, dragging from one scene of dissipation to another the nerveless limbs that hang with stupid listlessness, and rolling round the vacant eye which plainly tells us that there is no mind at home.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A Judge Tossed a Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit Over Typos. Hundreds More Dismissals Could Be Coming. nysfocus.com/2025/12/22/p...
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A Judge Tossed a Prison Sex Abuse Lawsuit Over Typos
The state plans to ask a court to dismiss some 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits for not strictly abiding by filing requirements.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I wrote this essay because I wanted as many people as possible to understand that what Paine did in Common Sense was recognize the urgency of his historical moment, and that he matched that moment with words. That is why it resonates now. What words will we find for our moment?
Picture of my essay in the NY Times Book Review about Common Sense, linked in the next comment
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
this analysis of the new school’s financial situation could serve as a model for workers (at certain types of institutions) looking to hold their employers accountable for mismanagement
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
asad haider
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/12/2025
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Am I alone in thinking that this piece itself has been written in AI prose style? “Isn’t X—it’s Y”, lists of threes etc.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
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Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/11/2025
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
MESA and the AAUP have released a critical report exposing the weaponization of civil rights law to suppress campus speech concerning Palestine. Read full report here: mesana.org/advocacy/tas...
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
So devastated we’ve lost D’Angelo. All of his music is amazing, but this recording is particularly special to me. At a time when I really needed beauty in my life I’d listen to it over and over and over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWCb...
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Betray My Heart / Spanish Joint (Live @ Spotify Sessions NYC)
YouTube video by samuel
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...
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Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland
The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A helpful thread! Owners of rent-stabilized units may be facing rising costs relative to rent increases—but this seems to reflect the cost of financing, not the cost of operations and management per se. Add to the list of reasons why housing should not be a commodity…
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Warren’s interlocutor says raising taxes on the rich is an issue for Congress, not NYC, to solve. It makes one wonder which Congress he thinks will do that and when? Moreover, if/when Congress ever does decide to raise taxes on the rich, he’ll say “But the wealthy will just pick up and leave the US”
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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
cpb.org/pressroom/Co... The corporation for public broadcasting shutting down is awful news for people looking to keep public media’s mission alive. a brief thread on what it means for public radio:
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...
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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
A book cover with title “Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry”
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This offering from @prisonculture.bsky.social is for us — the heartbroken & yet hopeful, the exhausted & still going, the down but not out.
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“We should see political theory’s expanding geographic remit as something other than accumulating cases of historical difference, of minor literatures. ... [W]e might see decolonization & its study for what it is: a direct & unambiguous contribution to democratic theory.” Really excellent essay!
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“The actual politics of ‘free speech’ in the United States is not as a freestanding statement of values but a right-wing political strategy—one that advances polarization against the left under the guise of reducing it” Concise & convincing history of “free speech” as right-wing polarization tactic
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
“I get arrested at 26 Federal Plaza.

Pretty rough arrest as everyone could see in the video, and they take me back in a hallway, and then they take off their masks. The first guy is a Pakistani Muslim immigrant who lives in Brighton Beach. The first ICE officer, and the second guy is an Indo-Gaianese immigrant who lives in South Ozone Park.

And one guy says, yeah, my wife really wants me to quit my job. I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage. And then the Pakistani Muslim guy says, what's Mamdani like?

He's been to my mosque a couple of times, and I'm thinking of ranking you guys. And I'm just like, I don't know what to make of this. I mean, there's a whole broader issue.

Like these guys were not born brown shirts, but Donald Trump and the times that we're living in are making them brown shirts.”
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
now calling and texting friends and family who live in these districts...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing”
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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In case those names aren't familiar: Harvard Medical School fired Martin Kulldorff last year after he refused to get a mandatory COVID shot. Twitter banned Robert Malone in 2021 for sharing videos that falsely linked athlete deaths with COVID vaccines (including a guy who died in 2013).
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“fellowship is heaven, & lack of fellowship is hell: ... & the life that is in it, that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.” –William Morris, A Dream of John Ball archive.org/details/McGi...
FORSOOTH,ye have heard it said  that ye shall do well in this world  I that in the world to come ye may  I live happily for ever; do ye well then, and have your reward both on earth and in heaven ; for I say  to you that earth and heaven are not two but one; and this one is that which ye know, and are each one of you a part of, to wit, the Holy Church,  and in each one of you dwelleth the life of the church, unless ye slay it. Forsooth, brethren, will  ye murder the church any one of you, and go forth a wandering man and lonely, even as Cain  did who slew his brother? Ah, my brothers, what an evil doom is this, to be an outcast from the church, to have none to love you & to speak with  you, to be without fellowship ! Forsooth, brothers,  fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack offellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them, and the life thatis in it, that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man' s life upon  the earth from the earth shall wane. Therefore, I bid you not dwell in hell but in heaven, or while ye must, upon earth, which is a part of heaven, & forsooth no foul part.Forsooth, he that waketh in hell and feeleth his heart fail him, shall have memory of the merry days of earth, and how that when his heart failed him there, he cried on his fellow, were it his wife or his son or his brother or his gossip or his brother sworn in arms, & how that his fellow heard him and came, and they mourned together under the sun, till again they laughed together and were but half sorry between them. This shall he think on in hell, and cry on his fellow to help him, and shall find that therein is nohelp 
because there is no fellowship, but every man for himself. Therefore, I tell you that the proud, despiteous rich man, though he knoweth it not, is in hell already, because he hath no fellow; & he that  hath so hardy a heart that in sorrow he thinketh of fellowship, his sorrow is soon but a story of sorrow, a little change in the life that knows not ill.Beautifully engraved frontispiece to A Dream of John Ball featuring Adam and Eve in Eden with the slogan “When Adam Delved and Eve Span, Who Was then the Gentleman”
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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
inspired by @mieinouye.bsky.social , I’ve just set up a recurring donation to @gmasolidarity.bsky.social. I invite others to do the same! givebutter.com/c/GazaSolida...
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Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity (GMAS)
By Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity
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Ethan Corey @ethanscorey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New from @theappeal.org and @typeinvestigations.org: For years, people incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison have raised the alarm about mystery diseases and foul-smelling water at the prison. But no one is taking responsibility for ensuring the water is safe. theappeal.org/mule-creek-d...
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“If You Want to Live, Don’t Drink the Water”
After mystery illnesses and toxic reports, prisoners at California’s Mule Creek State Prison worry their water is killing them.
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