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@lpatel.bsky.social
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I read this when it came out on @truthout.org and remain gutted. Dante got nothing on a global shrug at scholasticide, ecoside, genocide. Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage truthout.org/articles/isr...
truthout.org
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage
When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Big win for Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine.
publicsource.org
Pitt Palestine club can resume activities, judge rules
Students for Justice in Palestine at Pitt sued the university over a suspension. They may now resume activities, as the U.S. District Court case continues.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Not the first time 'let it burn' was literal - so much stupidity and harm.
washingtonpost.com
Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire
Veteran firefighters worried a DHS raid on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington could make it more difficult to find contractor crews.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.
handsoffcentraltx.org
Hands Off Central TX
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The protests have continued all week. Yes, Nebraska. Who does Trump preps his fast food?
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Well, SCOTUS that is one way to be during Pride 🏳️‍🌈
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is the year for every single higher education institution to make THIS book their read of the year. Admins, start reading it now. breakout groups should consider: Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd, Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Astra Taylor. other recs?
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So grateful for this session today. The Fire this time with Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn and Jerry Rosiek. Please join us. As adrienne marie brown reminds us, none of us is leaving this (imperialist fascism on steroids) at the same time, but no one is leaaving alone. Come, gather, join.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tomorrow, PIttsburgh, Schenley Plaza, Film screening to follow!
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Writing is hard going tonight. Deadline looming.... But, I have the opening sentence nailed. Inspiritation for a strong openine: Prince
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a black and white photo of prince with the words `` this prince '' written next to him .
ALT: a black and white photo of prince with the words `` this prince '' written next to him .
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
learn, archive and protect
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Crackling with truth and incisiveness. Thank you @hfdavis.bsky.social electronicintifada.net/content/univ...
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Universities buckle to authoritarian demands
Accepting government orders is a losing strategy.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In 1940 the immigration courts were moved to the Department of Justice, whose main job is fighting crime and criminals. That transfer implied that immigrants were dangerous people—invaders, Trump now says—from whom the country needed protection.
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The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil - Boston Review
How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Ziggy West @ziggywest.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"As protests and support efforts for Khalil continue, we should all uplift demands for his freedom."
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They Came for Mahmoud Khalil in the Night, and They Will Come for Us, Too
We must treat attacks on our communities as an effort to silence every voice of dissent, because those are the stakes.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I am confused, not really, when my public university asks to give IT a donation. Let me know when the contract with the union-busting law firm of Ballad Spahr ends and how those monies are directed to the most vulnerable.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/02/2025
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The decision by a group of people, no matter how few, to commit themselves to this collective and protracted struggle and to reject “on the go” politics, shapes everything that follows. Grace Lee Boggs
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
hmmm....that standing up and looming in a white dress just isn't landing in the same for Taylor Swift tonight.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gwynne Wilcox has been a lawyer for workers' right her entire career. Trump's firing of her was a deliberate attempt to stall the NRLB from any hearings ro decisions. Cowardice embodied. I am trying everyday to refuse distraction that leads to lack of action
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Higher ed, you are behind but now is when you join organizing for teachers and kids terrified from ICE raids
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This video report is foreboding & a great teaching tool. At the same time so much to say about how often this and other outlets did not do this kind of reporting more and sooner. “Hear from people who missed the first signs” (and you should) as the framing w/ no institutional reflexivity.
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Opinion | How Tyranny Begins (Gift Article)
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025
Updated this list today. Please keep using and sharing it you find it helpful. Added the letter to principals/school leadership and district/state leadership against EOs and in support of Black and Brown, and Tran students, and those at the intersections. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Actions to take
Ways to Practice Hope: Actions to take* Create kits to hand out to unhoused people or donate to institutions/orgs (e.g., libraries, community centers, etc-make sure to ask first if they need these!) ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Workers at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia just voted to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain
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Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union (Gift Article)
The union win comes as Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, is also fighting labor organizing in its warehouse and delivery businesses.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I have always despised the ethnocentric category of "Best International Film," but completing missing the briliance of All We Imagine As Light is a new low for the Oscars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgQ...
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ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT - Official US Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 25/01/2025
Thank you for this! I just sent this to white boomers relatives who are liberals. This administration has begun to radicalize them & they are so angry. But many don’t know what to do. Let’s hand them these kind of step by step manuals. They are retired & have time to go to meetings.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Why I stay close to conjunctural analysis: This gutting of DEI positions/money materials was already walking a thin line of nonperformativity (Ahmed) continued material impact from the whim of leaders (not just Trump, not even close. wapo.st/4h2GoXb
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Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders federal DEI workers on leave
Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What if one of Oprah's 'favorite things' was a permanent cease of genocide?
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
ICYMI....resources for supporting people in the firezone (not all of them are in the U.S. (news flash!). These have been vetted. docs.google.com/document/d/1... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Adv Qual Research Spring 2025 Online Discussion Space
Advanced Qualitative Analysis, Spring 2024 Online Course Discussion Space Welcome, welcome, welcome! This google doc will serve as our shared online space to dialogue with each other outside of clas...
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
docs.google.com
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Abortion escort stories - compelling, necessary read h/t @prisonculture abortionescortstories.com/blog/
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Powerful Voices: Read First-Hand Accounts from Clinic Escorts - Abortion Escort Stories
Hear powerful stories of clinic escorts. This blog explores the experiences of those who support patients seeking abortions. Through personal stories, news, and resources, learn about the important ro...
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Finalizing syllabi this early in the damn year is bettered by selecting an image from the newly free domains of 2025. A Frida Kahlo self-portrait will be pic for Advanced Qual Research this 'Spring.'
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yes, only surprising in a society where, to paraphrase Carla Shalaby, adults treat children from a basis of control instead of care. This also, btw, shapes young children to lean into control instead of care.
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”
Elegant woman seated with a book in her lap gazing at the viewer.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Going live in 23 minutes!!!💜💜💜💜
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
crack nbc news: securing safety in the superdome is far easier. Define safety for ppl displaced by Katrina
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Context, Contradictions, and False Equivalencies I write this essay on the cusp of several holiday traditions. As always, the holiday season can be incredibly painful for many. Loss of loved ones, memories of painful past holidays, undealt with grief, and the yearning for comfort are palpable…
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Context, Contradictions, and False Equivalencies
I write this essay on the cusp of several holiday traditions. As always, the holiday season can be incredibly painful for many. Loss of loved ones, memories of painful past holidays, undealt with grief, and the yearning for comfort are palpable every holiday season. This year, the added confusion of record-breaking shopping while a genocide rages in Gaza will underscore, for thousands, destabilizing worry and grief.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thanks for the reminder Duolingo. Say it with me everyone : Ayiti pa yon teritwa Etazini. Ayiti/Haiti is NOT a US territory. 💪🏾✊🏾💜🇭🇹 #themoreyouknow #knowledgeispower
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Losing people, confronting another holiday w/o loved ones and facing harmful generational patterns in your family? You are not alone. See you at noon eastern on IG live to answer your questions about ancestral listening as a practice. If you can’t wait sangodare.podia.com/repetition-i...
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling and efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (in the U.S. and globally) #eduskyhttps://go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Grades lodged. Now for my annual read of their Eyes Were Watching God Ever grateful for ZNH
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I now want to teach a course on Cultural Studies and Education using Stuart Hall's work and 🧵s from Derek Guy. Or I will simply keep muttering "you 'Nita' size up your suit coat"
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/12/2024
You have more in common with most prison inmates in the United States than you do with any billionaire
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