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Sara Koopman

@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
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Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21h
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @spbmckenna.bsky.social · 16h
Trump keeps referring to Abdul El-Sayed as Mohamed Al Fayed Al Fayed is the former Harrods boss, who was accused of MULTIPLE RAPES by staff When Al Fayed DIED, #Trump spoke positively about him Trump called him a FABULOUS MAN & noted that they had a GREAT relationship www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ex-Harrods employees accuse its late owner, Mohamed Al Fayed, of rape
Five women who worked at the luxury store say they were raped by the billionaire - BBC documentary reveals.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 07/10/2026
Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says the evidence fits a known CIA pattern of trying to influence elections abroad: from @padispatch.bsky.social
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Ex-agent says CIA is planting pro-Bolsonaro stories to influence election
Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says the evidence fits a known CIA pattern of trying to influence elections abroad
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oh great. Bolsonaro is now openly saying that he will change the constitution so that he (and his dad) and can stay in power for decades.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 09/10/2026
Unbelievable. A livestream of someone being killed. Public execution back in the US. "Execution tonight, at 6, all channels." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍 'Forging a Sustainable Future Together: Conversations in Black-Indigenous Ecological Solidarity' by Tianna Bruno, Lydia Jennings, Danielle Purifoy, and Sara Smith journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still some days to submit your abstract for the AAG 2027 panel on 'Geographies of (mis)aligned AI' organised together with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @lauraneville.bsky.social. We look forward to reading your work! Full CfP here: www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/... @geographers.bsky.social
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CfP 'GEOGRAPHIES OF (MIS)ALIGNED AI' session at the AAG 2027, NYC — Regional Futures
Call for papers: AAG 2027 – New York  GEOGRAPHIES OF (MIS)ALIGNED AI Dates: 8 – 12 February 2027 Session type: In-person paper panel  Convenors : Fenna Imara Hoefsloot (Durham), Ayona...
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Katrina Stack @katgeographic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢Call for papers for #AAG2027: "Desirable Futures in/from Historical Geography” What desirable futures can historical geography help us imagine—and build? @geographers.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @culturalgeogsg.bsky.social
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/02/2025
Remember when the Journal detailed the security risks of Musk’s conversations with Putin?
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Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Ellison family is worth upwards of $185 billion. They now own Paramount, Warner Bros, HBO Max, CNN, and CBS. Billionaires are consolidating power over our politics and our media… This is what rigging the system looks like.
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this despite the fact that Bolsonaro's vice presidential running mate, Álvaro Gaspar, is under investigation for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. the Epstein class is everywhere.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A university founded in the Middle Ages in a city that centers itself around a Medieval castle does not see a need to study Medieval History
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

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nvidia “Unites States”
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
86% of Americans want the release of the Epstein Files. 86%!!! How come more elected officials aren't talking about this ahead of midterms? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Khanna: Epstein files should be one of Democrats’ ‘highest priorities’ if congressional control changes
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Monday the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be one of the “highest priorities” for Democrats if they retake contr…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Romulo Dias @romulobdias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ATENÇÃO | Essa fala vinda de alguém como a Simone Tebet tem que ser levada MUITO à sério: 💬 “Nós estamos diante da eleição mais importante da história das nossas vidas. Temos o risco de colocar a milícia do Rio de Janeiro na presidência da república.”
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Romulo Dias @romulobdias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANTE recado da jornalista Teresa Garcia principalmente aos indecisos: 💬 “Você não precisa gostar do Lula, só é necessário ter a clareza do tamanho do risco que a gente tá correndo”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michigan. Thanks to Donald Trump’s outrageous war in Iran, cosigned by Mike Rogers.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Michigan, we're having to skimp on staples at the grocery store like meat and peanut butter just so we can fill up our gas tank for $5 a gallon and pay our outrageous monopoly utility bills.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Calling all yappers, Team Abdul needs you! Phonebank to onboard new volunteers: go.abdulforsenate.com/volunteer-on... Phonebank to contact voters: go.abdulforsenate.com/phonebank
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mike Rogers refuses to talk about gas, groceries, seeing a doctor, or our broken infrastructure. Mike Rogers only wants to talk about old culture wars fought by small people with smaller ideas and no solutions to our actual problems.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They do some of it by using b0ts to spread disinformation. This is why you shouldn't be following them(b0ts).
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One aspect of shared governance that isn't talked about much is the inherent imbalance of knowledge and expertise. Boards are meant to work together with faculty in part bc faculty know things boards don't, and vice versa Boards increasingly are taking total control but with key knowledge deficits
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I cannot overemphasize that Trump Jr is actively being bribed by a literal babystealer:
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every major nightly news show covered the breaking story about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr's wedding celebration — except CBS.
PBS NewsHour coverage: "Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin"ABC World News Tonight coverage: "Report: Oligarch Paid For Trump Jr. Wedding Parties"NBC Nightly News coverage: "Russian Oligarch Pays For Part of Trump Jr. Party"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Short-hop, BEV aircraft are coming. Heart Aerospace completes successful test flight of its experimental 15 passenger X-1 BEV aircraft (27 minutes; $5 worth of electricity for power). 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 www.travelpulse.com/news/airline...
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Completes First Flight
Heart Aerospace has successfully completed the first flight of its X1 electric aircraft, advancing the development of the ES-30 hybrid-electric regional airliner amid rising jet fuel costs.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please reach out to elected vehicles in your city, town or state, and ask them when they plan to switch to electric vehicles. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Scott B. Silverman @scottbsilverman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Okay, all ye faithful... Raise your hands if you don't know what worshipping false gods means... Keep your hands up if you still don't get the story of the golden calf when an idol was favored over the commandments... Hands up? You're in a cult. Thank you for your attention to this madness.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The question, then, is not whether Americans will forget parts of 9/11. They will. The more interesting question is what remains after that forgetting takes place." A question also for Kent State & other sites of tragedy- perhaps shared humanity is an answer for us, too. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With what could be called a manic religious statement, made by the person in waiting behind a visibly deteriorating US president, makes these words particularly chilling
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