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Jessica Stites Mor

@stitesmor.bsky.social
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Professor of History @ UBC Okanagan / Author of South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left / Visualidades series editor UTP

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 28/09/2026
Tennessee's AG is demanding Planned Parenthood turn over donor details, provider info, and patient medical records, including from minors. Planned Parenthood is asking a court to toss the demand as "unlawful" and "intrusive." Abortion Care Tennessee also received a similar demand.
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Planned Parenthood Files Legal Challenge to Investigation, Document Demands by Tennessee AG
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi revealed it is the subject of a wide-ranging state probe involving gender-affirming care and medication abortion; it is one of at least two Tennes...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Migrant Worker Wildfire Relief Fund
Over 8000 migrant workers are located in the Okanagan and power BC's agriculture industry. They often live in substandard and overcrowded housing.
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Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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People Are Betting Millions to Predict Wildfires. Now Congress Wants to Stop It.
As wagers on disaster spread across online prediction markets, lawmakers warn that gambling on blaze size and containment creates dangerous incentives for arson.
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Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Fires of Hate: New Report Exposes Arson as a Far-Right Tactic in Ireland - H&CC
Ireland faces an exponential surge in racist violence, fuelled by hostile government rhetoric and policy. Hope and Courage Collective calls on Minister Jim O’Callaghan to show real leadership and conf...
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Hal Schrieve - writer and librarian ze/hir @halschrieve.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
www.nj.com/opinion/2026... appreciate this opinion article amidst a haze of nytimes bs
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N.J. filmmaker: We watched ICE agents brutalize protesters at Delaney Hall — then we closed our accounts at this bank.
By withdrawing deposits from this bank, customers can target the $2.5 billion in financing that keeps private ICE detention facilities operating amid reports of brutality and preventable deaths.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/05/2026
Good job Minnesota 💪🏿
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/04/2026
Senator ​Tim Kaine says if anyone did to the US 'what we are doing to Cuba', it would be considered 'an act of war' aje.news/gerxv9
Senator ​Tim Kaine says if anyone did to the US 'what we are doing to Cuba', it would be considered 'an act of war'
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Last month, IC hosted a Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar w/Yo No Fui, an abolitionist & antifascist collective in Argentina. A brand new zine, available in English & Spanish, summarizes our conversation about transnational authoritarian collaborations & abolitionist resistance.
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Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism Zine — Volume 1: Yo No Fui — Interrupting Criminalization
A zine on transnational authoritarian collaborations and abolitionist resistance — available in English and Spanish. The zine summarizes a conversation with Yo No Fui, an abolitionist and antifascist ...
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Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Register here: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/02/2026
“There is no one figurehead that’s going to save us from authoritarianism. What I’m seeing every day here is thousands of people finding the way to plug in and do what they can.”
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Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike
Minneapolis organizers weigh in on how to make the movement go national.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Politico @politico.com · 02/08/2025
Labor activist Dolores Huerta gets candid on Trump’s farm raids, the Teamsters and RFK Jr.
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Dolores Huerta Has Seen Farm Raids Before. But Not Like This.
The longtime farm labor activist gets candid about the fallout from Trump’s deportation efforts.
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Jessica Stites Mor @stitesmor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
En septiembre voy a dictar un seminario doctoral, "Movimientos sociales y arte en América Latina del siglo XX," en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires) Informes - rectorado.doctoradoenartes@una.edu.ar una.edu.ar/cursos/movim...
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Movimientos sociales y arte en América Latina del siglo XX
Este curso se centra en la historia de los movimientos sociales recientes en América Latina y el uso del arte en la movilización. También
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 29/04/2025
Fringe candidates, conspiracies, and other stories at the margins of ‘one of the most important elections of our lifetimes’ Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
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Fringe candidates, conspiracies, and other stories at the margins of 'one of the most important elections of our lifetimes' - Halifax Examiner
Appreciating the candidates who run with no hope of winning.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 04/04/2025
Commentary: Anti-trust enforcement is important to competitors and consumers, but don’t forget workers minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/04/a...
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Anti-trust enforcement is important to competitors and consumers, but don't forget workers • Minnesota Reformer
Sen. John Sherman, author of the Sherman Antitrust Act, said in 1892 that a monopoly “commands the price of labor without fear of strikes, for in its field it allows no competitors.”
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 02/04/2025
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems on their school-issued laptops according to a new lawsuit. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/school...
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School-Issued Laptops Are Monitoring Students' Every Word
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/03/2025
A newly translated collection of Pedro Lemebel’s crónicas—a Latin American hybrid combining observation, memoir, reportage, and fiction—focusses on gender-nonconforming locas living under Chile’s dictatorship and the AIDS epidemic.
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Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times
Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen as different.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 17/03/2025
Kansas Democrat tries new tactic with fetal personhood bill, Wyoming keeps trying to ban abortion | via @kelciemmorris.bsky.social #ksleg
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Kansas Democrat tries new tactic with fetal personhood bill, Wyoming keeps trying to ban abortion • Kansas Reflector
Abortion-related bills continue to be introduced and debated in statehouses across the country, especially in states where the procedure is already banned.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 03/03/2025
The workers of downtown Minneapolis' strip clubs are organizing a Stripper Guild and exploring health insurance options.
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New Minneapolis Stripper Guild is building solidarity among downtown dancers
The workers of downtown Minneapolis' strip clubs are organizing and exploring health insurance options.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.
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The Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
CoreCivic is quietly planning a new ICE detention camp in Leavenworth, Kansas – a for-profit facility designed to cage immigrants. This dystopian ICE facility, fueled by political lobbying and blood money, echoes the horrors of history’s concentration camps.
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INVESTIGATION: CoreCivic’s Plan to Turn Leavenworth Into an ICE Concentration Camp – The Kansas City Defender
CoreCivic is quietly planning a new ICE detention camp in Leavenworth, Kansas – a for-profit facility designed to cage immigrants. This dystopian ICE facility, fueled by political lobbying and blood m...
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Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Excelente ensayo de @schusmariano.bsky.social. Entre otras cosas, incluye la mejor historia del origen del concepto "woke". Como sucede un poco con el populismo, el movimiento antiwoke es mucho más real y objetivable que aquello que supuestamente denuncia. revistasupernova.com/nota/la-izqu...
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La izquierda y lo woke
En su libro La izquierda no es woke, la filósofa estadounidense Susan Neiman resitúa el concepto de wokismo en una matriz analítica seria y alejada claramente de la instrumentalización que las ...
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