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Michael Hall

@mishahall.bsky.social
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Bostonian expat living in New York. Human rights. Academic freedom. Languages/linguistics. Russia, Central/Inner Asia. Politics of memory/commemoration. Books. The occasional lighthouse. Personal account, views expressed are my own. Repost≠endorsement. 🇺🇦🍉

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BiblioIranica @biblioiranica.info · 17/06/2025
The House of the Satrap King, Rhyne. 2025. The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire. Oakland: University of California Press. Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental…
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The House of the Satrap
King, Rhyne. 2025. The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire. Oakland: University of California Press. Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental scale, as their empire reached from the Iranian plateau to eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The technology that powered Covid vaccines may also lead scientists to a cure for H.I.V. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...
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MRNA, Used in Covid Shots, May Help Rid the Body of H.I.V.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
History teaches us that alliances between oligarchs and fascists, while initially beneficial to each other, usually don't end well.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Breaking: Men officially deemed too emotional for positions of power
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
amnesty.org
Kyrgyzstan: Detention of Kloop media staff intensifies crackdown on independent journalism
Detaining journalists for their work, denying access to legal counsel and carrying out warrantless searches of homes violates both Kyrgyzstan’s own legal obligations and international human rights sta...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Public pressure works! Keep it going.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/05/2025
Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 01/05/2025
“I just don't feel safe going to the U.S. right now.” The Trump administration's immigration policies are pushing international students away from U.S. universities. That's a big problem. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Is Driving International Students Away from U.S. Universities. That's a Big Problem.
“I just don't feel safe going to the U.S. right now.”
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Barry Mullin @lighthousehunter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Your moment of calm at the Twin Lighthouses with the sounds of waves crashing against the rocks @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I fully endorse this thread on how to keep your stuff. The Cloud is *never* enough. It's your life's work! Not worried? Our govt is crushing knowledge systems like a mob of monster cybertrucks smashing into the front door of the library. Kate Ozment tells you how to make your stuff recoverable.
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago (Gift Article)
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🔔 Join us this Thursday, April 10 at 10 am EST for a virtual discussion ahead of the two year anniversary of the war in Sudan. Register now: timep.org/2025/04/03/t... Scroll down and meet the speakers!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 29/03/2025
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New open access book from @ucpress.bsky.social : Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires by Sidney Xu Lu www.ucpress.edu/books/collab...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Here’s the correct link 🤦‍♂️: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great, questions for the Press Sec. 1. If it turns out "war plans" WERE discussed, what would be the appropriate punishment? 2. If it turns out classified material WAS sent, what would be the appropriate punishment? 3. Will the administration continue to use Signal to discuss top secret info?
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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“The sheer sloppiness is bad. The illegality is probable. The dangerousness is very high.” @cnn.com
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One thing that most people are missing in the group text scandal: The Trump officials don’t appear clear on what *exactly* Trump approved, which is a huge problem in using military force. Stephen Miller says “as I heard it … green light.” 😱😬 www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
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Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time
Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am reading & laughing at many of your group chat joke posts, but has anyone else gone ice-cold with terror about how our national security is now a global punchline & we have no one protecting us against the world's bad actors, who can apparently just drunk-sext Pete Hegseth whenevs?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included
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Zubayra Shamseden @zubayra.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
China forces Uyghurs to show video proof they are not fasting during Ramadan Beijing has criminalized Muslim practices under the guise of stamping out religious extremism. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
No reason.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2025
Mike Waltz can't explain why the State Department cut off funding to a program that finds Ukrainian kids who were abducted by the Putin regime
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Trump administration's decision to text its war plans to the press shows a transparency and accessibility to the media far beyond what we saw from the Biden administration.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: eggs and waffles, big cup of Folgers, then open the old text message app to read about the administration's secret plans to bomb Yemen. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#ReadingIsResistancd
theguardian.com
Ukraine’s clandestine book club defies Russia’s push to rewrite history
Risking discovery and even prison, teenage readers meet in secret to discuss texts that Putin’s troops are trying to erase
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A great program. Apply by March 30, details in the 🔗. "The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the 31st Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute taking place this year July 4-19, 2025, in Wroclaw, Poland."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hungary's Russian-backed Orban regime not only faces collapsing poll numbers but now mass protests have broken out in Budapest. Today crowds are demanding Orban step down to face prosecution.
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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The first Sinhalese grammar book, Grammatica of Singaleesche taal-kunst, by Joannes Ruell, was printed by François Halma in 1708, Amsterdam. The Sinhalese letters were woodcut.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This may be Polish written in Arabic script! Part of a prayer book containing Arabic, Tatar, and Polish languages, possibly copied during the early 19th century. Collection of Vasili Stefanyk National Library, Lʹviv, Ukraine (STEF 00608): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/608831
A manuscript page with what may be Polish written in Arabic script. In a prayer book containing Arabic, Tatar, and Polish languages, possibly copied during the early 19th century.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11/03/2025
From fascism to freedom: fifty years since Franco’s death With the 50th anniversary of Franco's death this year, how does a radically changed Spain mark the occasion? @centralbylines.co.uk
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From fascism to freedom: fifty years since Franco’s death
With the 50th anniversary of Franco's death this year, how does a radically changed Spain mark the occasion?
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms — Guardian US
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/03/2025
‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’ John Gallagher (@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social) on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bons
With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
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Ajam Media Collective @ajammc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
***new podcast alert!*** @bcheves.bsky.social interviews @annikaschmeding.bsky.social about her first book, Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2023). Listen here: ajammc.com/2025/03/03/a...
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#memory #enslavement #slavery #commemoration #Ghana #museumsky #memorialization
theguardian.com
‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery
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Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
motherjones.com
Trump’s order to make English official language does nothing but embolden xenophobia
Advocates say the measure is part of Trump's broader anti-immigrant agenda.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The Sovereignty Project is hiring! After a brief hiatus from briefing, we are taking on new projects (and a bit overwhelmed at the moment). Should you know of a lawyer with a penchant for teaching and an appreciation of Indian Country, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/164483
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
📜 House For Sale Advertisement in Ottoman Turkish and Turkish with Armenian Letters, Istanbul, 1886 "In Üsküdar, there is a property for sale within a garden containing fifteen rooms, three halls, a perfect bathhouse, a saharnıç, a water reservoir... [𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁] #houseforsale
"In Üsküdar, on Selamiye Street in Tarlabaşı (Istanbul), there is a property for sale within a garden exceeding 4,000 zira' (2,297 square meters) in size, situated on a plot of land measuring 650 arşın (494 meters), containing fifteen rooms, three halls, a perfect bathhouse, a saharnıç, a water reservoir, a well, and two shops. Additionally, it includes a laundry room, a stable, a carriage house, a hayloft, a gardener's room, a water reservoir, a spacious pool, and a vegetable storage. Interested parties can visit the property at any time they wish. It is announced that negotiations should be made through the administration of the house."
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