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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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Beckett's fascination, in far fewer words I respect and respect distance with felines b/c I know they are not needy and therefore in a wholly difference space than most of us needful beings
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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.
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Hands Off Central TX
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm so sorry. That is literal insult to injury/pain.
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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
This is part of where we are is the silence around the trauma and grief of the pandemic, and a society generally horrible when it comes to death and grief. It cauterizes nuance and humanity.
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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 .
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
They are disappearing people they don’t want counted as human. The disagreement was initial cover.
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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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
rock it, Ankhi!!! We all need this 💜
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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
This is one of the salient things that comes up again and again for me, from Ruthie's retirement: There is at least one other person in the space refusing the normalization of harm.
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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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Yes! The brilliant @srtoliver.bsky.social bringing her 'cut it close the bone' to the challenges of the moment: "educational opportunities depend even more on where you live, what you have (or don’t), and what you look like." boom.
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is why conjunctural analysis is crucial.
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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 · 18/02/2025
and I love any reason to re-post that brilliant piece!
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
That was part of Rachel Herzing's list of recommendations in Political Education in a Time of Rebellion, right? "Don't ask Mariame Kaba to make you another tool".. and Don't sign Mariame Kaba up for a facilitation she started and is leading. 😂 politicaleducation.org/political-ed...
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Political Education in a Time of Rebellion
As thousands of people across the world protest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis cops, it’s clear that we need the both the expressions of rage and frustration, and solidarity and c...
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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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
key: 'inflection point'
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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...
docs.google.com
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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thank you for this thread, and I understand that the opposite of inclusion is transformation. Your scholarship and how you move in the world teaches that.
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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
nytimes.com
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...
docs.google.com
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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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
To quote the bürgermeister Good-bye, good luck, and good riddance
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a cartoon character with a medal around his neck holds a book in front of two framed pictures
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lpatel.bsky.social @lpatel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The requests are non-stop. So many compelling abstracts, and we only have so many days/weeks in this life.
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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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