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Julie Skurski

@jskur.bsky.social
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Historical anthropologist (U. Chicago), CUNY Graduate Center. Cuba, Venezuela, the greater Caribbean, the coloniality of power, racialization, African diaspora, African derived religious practices, the making of history, imperialism, and more.

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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Dismantling of the judicial system for immigrants and asylum applicants. Judges are being fired and asylum applications turned down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The State Dept. scams the money that people have scraped together to file for a visa, doesn't process their applications. www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...
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Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in immigration fees and not providing the adjudications that applicants are entitl...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Finally recognizing that this is a blockade of Cuba, bringing mass hunger and illness. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...
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A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The spread of "detention centers" that hold people, including those who entered legally, in brutal condition. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
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Opinion | Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is unprecedented; the money from the U.S. sale of the Venezuelan oil it seized is held in Qatar, without Congressional oversight or control. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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Democrats Push for Transparency on Venezuelan Oil Money Controlled by U.S.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Grandin brings out the layers of historical meaning in Bad Bunny's performance!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Venezuelan oil being sent to a US refinery equipped to process it will have a terrible impact on the environment and people in the region. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...
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When Venezuelan Oil Comes to the U.S.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Interview with Robin D.G. Kelly on the murder of Renée Good, police terror, and grassroots organizing. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What did Maduro offer in negotiations, how the regime's social base has been hollowed out, and what broader issues are at stake. tempestmag.org/2026/01/the-...
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The end of pretenses
Trump’s assault on Venezuela was an attempt to reverse the decline of U.S. dominance over Latin America.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A virtual mass call tonight at 8 pm, Eastern Standard Time, on Venezuela, resource imperialism and internationalist climate politics, with a very good panel. Click on link to rsvp. actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...
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Mass Call: Venezuela, Resource Imperialism & Internationalist Climate Politics
Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and naked oil grab prove what we already know: anti-imperialism and ecosocialism are a shared struggle. But what does Trump’s resource imperialism mean for Venezuela, L...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Touches Nationalist Nerve
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Tlaib Introduces Resolution to Recognize Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, Prosecute Those Responsible
The legislation is cosponsored by 20 House Democrats, including progressive caucus leader Rep. Greg Casar.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Historian Greg Grandin on the drug wars and the Caribbean. tomdispatch.com/escalating-t...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Alejandro Velasco on war mongering in the Caribbean and Rubio's fixation on overthrowing the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/27/u...
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“Rubio’s Ideological Project”: What’s Driving Trump’s Campaign Against Venezuela?
The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Mamdani responds to the intensified Islamophobia he's facing, especially from the other candidates for Mayor. Powerful. www.facebook.com/reel/1870637...
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2.4M views · 29K reactions | The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred...
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.....
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan María Corina Machado is personally courageous, but supportive of U.S. military intervention and of Netanyahu and Likud. Contradictory? substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Pro-War Nobel Peace Prize Winner is A Friend Of Netanyahu – Profile
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The expulsion of the Indian population from Uganda and its relevance for Zohran Mamdani: by Prof. Anneeth Kaur Hundle. scroll.in/article/1084...
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Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion
The New York mayoral candidate has been shaped by his Ugandan and Indian heritage and histories of anti-imperialist, racial and class struggle in Africa.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps. Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Norway's sovereign fund divests from Israel, as the US props up its economy. www.juancole.com/2025/08/geno...
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The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy
( Middle East Monitor ) - In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/08/2025
"They Kidnapped Me": L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
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“They Kidnapped Me”: L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
Amanda Trebach, a member of the immigrant rights’ group Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she was targeted and arrested herself. Video of...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The Maduro government in Venezuela has made threatening attacks on noted leftist intellectuals and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, accused of being allies of imperial interests and destablizers of the state. A statement of support by academics. www.laizquierdadiario.com.ve/Centenares-d...
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Tribuna abierta / Comunicado. Centenares de académicos y activistas firman en defensa de los intelectuales atacados por el Gobierno de Maduro
Publicamos a continuación el Comunicado firmado por más de 800 personas y organizaciones sociales a nivel nacional e internacional en solidaridad y reconocimiento a miembros de la comunidad universita...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Rashid Khalidi decided that Columbia's capitulation to a Zionist definition of anti-semitism makes it impossible for him to teach Middle Eastern history there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The NYT repeated unsubstantiated Israeli claims that Hamas stole aid supplies. theintercept.com/2025/07/30/n...
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The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence
Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The civil/military distinction is eroding before our eyes, although I am obligated to mention that the military has been doing logistical assistance for the Border Patrol under every president dating back to the Bush administration. But this is the interior, and more closely entwined with ICE.
The deployment of the National Guard to ICE facilities would more directly meld military operations with the agency’s domestic law enforcement duties. The ICE memo said National Guard troops would directly assist ICE agents with “administrative and clerical tasks, field office program management, case management and transportation.”

The memo did not authorize the National Guard to take part in immigration raids directly, but replacing ICE agents in clerical roles with National Guard troops would free those agents to participate in enforcement duties.

ICE has also established a “strategic planning task force” that will coordinate the deployment of the National Guard troops, according to the memo.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler
Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The CEO of Doctors Without Borders: the famine was "utterly predictable." But now NYT, Obama and others act worried. www.instagram.com/reel/DMl90I8...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Marvin Gaye's 1972 song "Save the Children" that asks Who really cares? is about Gaza now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELNL...
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Marvin Gaye - Save the Children
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I love the fusion of Venezuelan llanera and Appalachian bluegrass music of Larry and Joe and their social message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kiN...
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Larry & Joe - Hermano Migrante
YouTube video by Larry & Joe
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Glad to see this letter: blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...
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The Blogs: We are NYC rabbis who support Zohran Mamdani – Here’s why
His platform reflects the Jewish call for justice and also offers a clear plan to address antisemitic violence. That's what real protection looks like
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Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch on the university's capitulation to authoritarian demands. forward.com/opinion/7069...
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There's a bleak historical explanation for why Columbia's capitulation to Trump is so concerning
Columbia University's concession to the Trump administration's demands for campus change invokes a long history of authoritarianism.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We should see Steven Colbert as a public utility, now taken away. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
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What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means
CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
CUNY Chancellor gives a weak defense of the university and free speech before the Congressional committee. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/c...
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House Republicans Grill CUNY Chief on Campus Antisemitism Claims
Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez became the latest university chief facing hostile questioners, where his non-responses did little to satisfy House Republicans while they also infuriated the union rep...
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Aneeth Kaur Hundle, Anthropology professor and herself of Indian-Ugandan descent, analyzes the contradictory history of South Asians in Uganda and Mamdani's position. scroll.in/article/1084...
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Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion
The New York mayoral candidate has been shaped by his Ugandan and Indian heritage and histories of anti-imperialist, racial and class struggle in Africa.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
No reporting today has mentioned this is an ADF case. But the erosion of rights in the US is a long game by Christian legal advocacy groups with $100M/year and armies of lawyers. ADF and sister groups manufacture cases and brings them to the Supreme Court. And they are now deep in politics too. 2/
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Inside the tactics that won Christian vendors the right to reject gay weddings
Opponents accuse Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative law firm behind a landmark Supreme Court case, of manufacturing lawsuits to advance its agenda during a decade-long battle against laws ba...
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Profiting From Genocide open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Profiting From Genocide
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Why a faculty boycott of Columbia University makes sense now, by Gary Wilder, Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), where I teach. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The Case for Boycotting Columbia University (opinion)
An academic boycott is something faculty can do now, Gary Wilder writes.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 10/04/2025
I’ll be speaking on the topic "Neoliberalism, Geopolitics, Crisis" at this event on Friday, April 11 10:10am–11:30am: Critique, Crisis, and Social Transformation: Celebrating Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky In person at @thenewschool.bsky.social and on Zoom. event.newschool.edu/nancyfraser-...
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Critique, Crisis, and Social Transformation: Celebrating Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky - Day 2
Join us for a three-day conference honoring the groundbreaking work of Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky—two of the most influential thinkers in critical social theory. The event will take place from April 10–12, 2025. It will bring together scholars from across disciplines to engage in discussions on capitalism, democracy, and the possibilities for social transformation in times of crisis. A live-stream Zoom link will be provided for those who sign up ahead of time. Schedule for Day 2:Friday, April 119:00am–10:00am – Latin American Perspectives on CritiqueModerator: Chiara Bottici, NSSR Mariana Assis, Federal University of Goiás Mayra Cotta, NSSR Maria Gómez, Saint Mary’s University Cristina Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba María Pía Lara, University Autónoma Metropolitana10:10am–11:30am – Neoliberalism, Geopolitics, CrisisModerator: Will Millberg, NSSR● Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University● David Harvey, CUNY● Paulo dos Santos, NSSR● Susan Watkins, The New Left Review11:40am–1:30pm – Race and the Empire of CapitalModerator: Ann Stoler, NSSR● Robin Blackburn, University of Essex● Aaron Jakes, University of Chicago● Brian Jefferson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign● Ina Kerner, Universität Koblenz● Ashley Bohrer, University of Notre DameLunch 1:30pm–2:30pm2:30pm–4:30pm – Trumpism, Liberalism, and the Left: What Next?Moderator: Bhaskar Sunkara, Jacobin Magazine● James Ingram, McMaster University● Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University● Linda Nicholson, Washington University in St. Louis● Don Pease, Dartmouth College● Eli Zaretsky, NSSR4:45pm–7:00pm – Dialectic of the Psychological and the HistoricalModerator: Oz Frankel, NSSR● Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University● Robyn Marasco, CUNY● Ross Poole, NSSR● Jeremy Varon, NSSR● Rosa Wesley, DePaul UniversityPlease register separately for other days of the conference here
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Silicone Valley bolsters the Israeli state. www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-acq...
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Google is Acquiring Tech Firm Founded by Ex-Israeli Intelligence Officers for Record $32 Billion
Google's purchase of the the firm Wiz tightens the embrace between Silicon Valley and the Israeli military.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/04/2025
"I was stunned." @drejoanneliu.bsky.social, the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders describes having a talk canceled at New York University last month because some of her presentation discussed Trump cuts to foreign aid and Israel's war on Gaza.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Letter from Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil, dictated from prison. www.juancole.com/2025/03/pale...
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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana: Mahmoud Khalil
Note from Juan Cole: I used to write letters to totalitarian governments on behalf of Amnesty International complaining about their detention of political prisoners for mere thought crimes. One of the...
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 26/03/2025
Perhaps the bigger crime than leaks that “could’ve gotten our pilots killed” is the fact that those pilots repeatedly bombed a Yemeni cancer hospital (via @dropsitenews.com)
Tweet from Drop Site News:

BREAKING: The United States has conducted airstrikes on an oncology hospital under construction in Saada, Yemen, injuring two people. This marks the second attack on the facility, following strikes on March 16, Houthi Health Ministry reports.
A number of Yemeni media outlets report U.S. conducted 12 airstrikes in Yemen's Saada province today, with 9 targeting Saada city and its surroundings, and 3 hitting the districts of Saqayn, Kotaf, and Sohar.
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Julie Skurski @jskur.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Israel kills journalist Hossam Shabat, known for his reports from North Gaza
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” he said. “Keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free."
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