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Michal Schatz

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Editor at Verso Books | michal@verso.co.uk

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Join Verso tomorrow for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari. March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm EST/11am PST. Register below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
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Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War
On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The US and Israel have launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. Join us for an urgent discussion on March 10, at 1pm EST/6pm UK. RSVP at the link below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
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Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War
On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Mir Houssein Mousavi led Iran’s Green Movt in 2009. He ran for pres & received immense support from the Iranian ppl. Millions voted 4 him in an election w/high turn out. But the vote was stolen by the govt, leading 2mass protests. Mousavi & others were put under house arrest /n x.com/tparsi/statu...
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My latest in @currentaffairs.bsky.social w Eric Reinhart. www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ho...
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What Hospitals Do After Tragedy—And Police Should Too
After police violence in response to mental health crises, New York City should adopt the same system-level reviews that save lives in medicine.
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What the fuck
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Shop the Verso Big Sale! For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted select titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go!
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Shop the Big Verso Sale!
For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted the below titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go! Ebooks are NOT included in the sale. Check final ...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A mini syllabus (Including four free books!) for understanding ICE.
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What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or …
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 25/01/2026
On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @versobooks.bsky.social
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The Counterrevolution Against 25 January
Anti-Mubarak protesters march through Nasr City, east Cairo, 29 January 2011. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy. Every year, the anniversary arrives accompanied not only by ritualised remembrance, but by de...
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
No dungeon in hell deep enough
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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 16/01/2026
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota
January 16, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dylan Manshack, Comms | dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033
Member remains in ICE custody in Texas
MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and
Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37002, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
While the circumstances of his arrest are not clear, we know he has been transferred to an ICE detention facility
in El Paso, Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a
husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an
advocate for all workers. And he is one of dozens of Minnesota union members who have been detained in
recent weeks.
The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests since the surge began in
December, according to an MPR News report. But the agency has not provided details about the people
arrested, such as how many were charged with a crime, how many face deportation, and how many were
subsequently released.
“The Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild stands with our member and his family as they face an
uncertainty that is all too common in our state right now,” local president Nick Woltman said. “Like all
Minnesota workers, our members deserve to feel safe in their communities both on and off the job.”
“The detention of a Guild member in Minnesota amidst the chaos created by DHS is heartbreaking and
infuriating,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “My heart goes out to his family, who are now
without their father and husband. As a union, we commit to fight for each other as stewards of our
communities—especially in times as dark as this, while federal agents continue to target working families.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In stark contrast to the US ambassador, the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN presents an articulate and nearly wholly accurate description of all the ways in which the U.S. aggression against Venezuela violated international law, from 2:01:40-2:11:21 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k...
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Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 10085th meeting
The situation in Venezuela.
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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
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Cédric Durand, Michel Aglietta, NLR 156, November–December 2025
A tribute to the founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics, with its striking combination of elite statistical training, rich conceptualizations and long-range economic history....
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Gift subscriptions to NLR come with full access to the archive from 1960 to the present—1000s of articles, including classics from Adorno, Althusser, Brenner, Butler, Harvey, Jameson, Williams; Benedict Anderson, Mike Davis, Nancy Fraser, Ellen Meiksins Wood and many more. newleftreview.org/p/bsk
New Left Review: The Perfect Gift Subscription
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5... @campolis.bsky.social
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/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not ju…
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people.
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Gaza
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction i...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
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Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope
Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
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Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Saturday, 18 October! www.palfest.org/full-schedul...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Join Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, Rebecca Karl, and Tariq Ali for an urgent discussion on China's evolving role on the world stage on Saturday, 4 October, at 6.30pm. Tickets are free with registration!
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Verso Books: A Global View on China
Please join us for a discussion on the global future of China, with Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, and Rebecca Karl, chaired by Tariq Ali.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This footage of Trump and Federal Reserve chairman Powell at the Federal Reserve construction site is absolutely amazing. What a time to be alive.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 17/07/2025
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Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Gaza: The Story of a Genocide" Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro - Electric Literature
Palestinian embroidery and motif traditions inform this cover and represent centuries of hope, history, and resilience
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 17/07/2025
🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 “Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,” edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, is coming from Verso Books on October 7, 2025. Read more about the book, and how the cover, designed by Chantal Jahchan, came to be in the link below.
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Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The next Verso Palestine Pamphlet from Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah is here 🇵🇸
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
look at what was just delivered it’s the @pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read & it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
You should pre-order this. Trust me. Or better yet, don't take my word for it, read Rob's thread where he talks about some of the content and that will convince you.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.
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Riot. Strike. Riot
Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 04/05/2025
Our NEA grant was canceled. Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
On Friday night, n+1—alongside many of our peer nonprofit arts organizations—received notice that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated due to the Trump administration’s “shifting funding priorities.” We knew this might be coming, but receiving the official notice was still jarring, as was some of the messaging itself. It’s unclear to us whether we’ll still be able to recover the money we’ve been promised this year—a $12,500 grant meant to help us pay our authors, our editors, and to have the magazine printed and distributed to our readers. We’ve requested the funds we’ve already spent, and now we’re waiting to see if the money will come through. We’re trying to stay optimistic, but with the administration’s other announcement this week that the NEA might be shut down in its entirety, it’s hard to do so. 

I’m writing to ask for two things—first, for short-term, immediate assistance to help us replace these funds. You can make a donation through our website, or—if you’re in New York and free on June 10—you can buy a ticket to our annual benefit, the N Plus Ultra. Second, we ask for your ongoing support amid the challenges that we, and other small magazines, are already beginning to face. You can do that by subscribing, of course, convincing your friends to subscribe (or simply sending them a gift subscription), or by buying a bit of merch from our shop. And maybe most meaningfully, you can share the n+1 pieces you’re reading and stay engaged with (and be vocal in your support of) the independent media you care about most. We’ll need all the help we can get.

With gratitude,

Dani Oliver
Development Director, n+1
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
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Spring Again
There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost imposs...
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Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“How do we protect each other? Who will be targeted next? Can anyone consider themselves truly safe?” Questions very relevant to Uk unis
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social on his fascinating depressing book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade, history of labor leadership's Cold War imperialist machinations abroad—and at home. Guest host @micahuetricht.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/blue...
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Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke
Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national se...
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tearful farewell of father and son as family members board ship in A Coruña harbour bound for Buenas Aires in Nov 1957. Iconic shot by Manuel Ferrol encapsulating the trauma of Galician emigration forced by economic hardship +by extension similar worldwide. Don't know colouriser.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all." inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...
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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Matthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy. Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Detroit nurses win the biggest NLRB election of the century so far www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
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Corewell Health nurses in Southeast Michigan vote in favor of unionizing
Among 9,775 eligible voters, 4,958 voted in favor of unionizing. There were 2,957 votes against. The union will represent nurses at nine locations.
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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"The Democrats have nothing to offer as an alternative but a simulacrum of MAGA politics stripped of the libidinal pleasures of rage and transgression .. If Democrats can introspect honestly, they will recognize in themselves the mirror image of this grotesquerie" www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...
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Editors’ Note
Country Over Party
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I am helping to assemble the slideshow for Jameson’s memorial and so we are looking for photos. So if you have any, or know anyone who might, please get in touch, or please just spread the word!!
Fred and Susan in the 80s?
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Daniel denvir and team have been doing god’s work on the dig since the genocide started. Big ups to the comrades for their integrity and commitment
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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
me and some friends are going long on the CIO. the podcast's called Fragile Juggernaut and you can listen anywhere you get your podcasts. we'll have what I suspect will be a substantial newsletter with it so if you want that, or just want to support us, subscribe: www.patreon.com/FragileJugge...
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‎Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut on Apple Podcasts
‎History · 2024
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
In his notification to Congress about yesterday’s drone strike in Baghdad, among the authorities he cites is the very 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force that is officially his policy to repeal.
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
📢NEW EPISODE📢 Sai Englert on the history of settler colonialism - from the British colonies in North America to the Portuguese empire in Brazil, and from apartheid South Africa to the Zionist project in Palestine: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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‎Politics Theory Other: Settler colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert on Apple Podcas...
‎Show Politics Theory Other, Ep Settler colonialism - from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert - Jan 1, 2024
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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely. This is a no strings attached gift. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...
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Activists erased $10 million in student debt for nearly 3,000 HBCU students — and said Biden can d...
"We're doing our part, and it's time Biden does his," the Debt Collective said as it erased debt Morehouse College students owed to the school.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Israel has issued a censorship order directing media to “submit to the Censorship all materials dealing with the activities of the Israeli Defense Forces.” Read the full order here:
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Exclusive: Israeli Military Censor Bans Reporting on These 8 Subjects
The highly unusual, English-language order for the Gaza war breaks from the secretive and informal way IDF censorship normally works.
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
The Red Cross is having to hand out sleeping bags to people recently granted refugee status who are now having to sleep rough. The Home Office had to be pushed to act by intense lobbying from councils and charities - and even then, it’s only a temporary pause in evictions until 2 January
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan letter
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Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan lette...
The faculty's letter to trustees expresses opposition to “attempts by trustees, donors, and other external actors to interfere with our academic policies and to undermine academic freedom.
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