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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 30/09/2026

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

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Res Diff 3.1 (2026)

Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honored to be cited briefly in new work by Ophira Gamliel on "Zionist Land Fetishism and Genocidal Iconoclasm" re: geoeschatology, European visions of colonial expansionism, and Indigenous erasure scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pir/art...

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Zionist Land Fetishism and Genocidal Iconoclasm

Abstract. The article argues that Israel’s genocide is grounded in political theologies originating in early-modern Europe alongside colonial exploration and expansion. It characterizes Israel’s genoc...

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 18/09/2026

From Russia and America to Israel and the UAE, Stephen Lennon has built an increasingly powerful international network. As the global far right moves from the streets into parliaments, new doors have opened to Lennon, boosting both his influence and finances. hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...

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Tommy Robinson: A Global Far-Right Figure

From Russia and America to Israel and the UAE, Lennon has built an increasingly powerful international network. We investigate the foreign politicians, wealthy backers and influence operations helping...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is why I find the whole ‘oh yes we need to show the public migration is handed control’ stuff from labour so stupid as well as immoral. The public at large isn’t basing their concerns on evidence or migration rates! How much clearer can we see this

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Cecily @tibg1312.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

These points made in these threads show more broadly how important it is for antifacists to push back against the idea of a single ‘human nature’, or that we are creatures of nature rather than culture

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/08/2026

Finally reading EMPIRE OF AI. This Sam Altman character certainly seems like bad news!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

it would appear that there is more memory politics ahead, so I am once again encouraging you to Read Theory www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru... bsky.app/profile/sale...

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Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This chapter will be a bit of a follow-up to my OE piece on Eusebius’s Palestinianness, digging more into how he narrated local trauma to craft a shared Palestinian ID & encouraged his readers elsewhere to care about Palestinian Christian suffering everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...

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The Father of Church History was Palestinian – #EOPalestine 21

by Chance Bonar Eusebius Pamphilius, bishop of Caesarea Maritima (modern Qesarya/قِيسارْيَة, Israel), is a fixture in the study of ancient Christianity. Living from the 260s to 339 CE and spending …

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

The sub-head is seriously questionable: “how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities” buys into the university’s narrative that this is driven by falling recruitment leading to deficits. How can that be, when Exeter has been eating other people’s lunch for years?

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I mean, look at this ghost house ceramic play set by Erika Rier!

cross section in gray, silver, green of a house and varioys ghosts and people beside it

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/06/2026

Tyler Austin Harper, William Deresiewicz, and Joshua Katz have more influence and power over the public perception of higher education now that they’re outside the academy than they did when they were in it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

when I say "bring back shame" this is what I'm talking about

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

no no no you misunderstood. i said fuck YOUR intellectual property. MY intellectual property is very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird®

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"The past is both a tool and a target in modern warfare, prompting us to rethink how heritage is increasingly exploited as an instrument of power, coercion, and security." 🏺 "Ruin Warfare: How and Why We Weaponize the Past" by Lynn Meskell www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Ruin Warfare: How and Why We Weaponize the Past

This review explores how and why we weaponize the past, underscoring how all parties to a conflict might manipulate antiquity, its materialities, and its meanings. The decision to destroy or preserve ...

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Generic white guy SysAdmin @westbynoreaster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s important to remember that the current #UKHE funding model goes back ONLY to the #Cameron & #Osborne austerity of the 2010 coalition years. Shifting the burden from the state via taxes to the students themselves.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yep, same guy. Mere days apart.

Screenshot of a Futurism headline accompanied by a photo of Keir Starmer:

Prime Minister of the UK Vows to Unleash AI Tutors on 450,000 Poor Children
Look how much your government cares for you, kids.
By Frank Landymore
Published Jun 12, 2026 3:10 PM EDT

Screenshot of a headline from TheJournal.ie, accompanied by an image of Keir Starmer:

Keir Starmer announces forthcoming ban on social media for under-16s
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Starmer said that it is hoped the regulation will pass by Christmas and come into effect early next year.
8.39am, 15 Jun 2026

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nathan J Robinson: Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

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How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/06/2026

If there were disciplines (like the humanities & social sciences) challenging AI's inevitability/social worth, wouldn't it be convenient if at the same time as companies pushed for AI's expansion, seemingly credible people published a report 'proving' that said disciplines were biased & invalid?

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We at EO are sharing part 1 of our primer on ancient & medieval Palestine written by a stellar lineup of experts. Today: "The Role and Problems of 'Biblical Archaeology' in Writing the History of Israel-Palestine" by @chancebonar.bsky.social 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/ 1/

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 25/04/2026

It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff7, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics. All videos from #ResDiff7 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com

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Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🚨 Excellent 2-part article in Everyday Orientalism on the use of the past and archeology as foundational to the eliminationist colonial project of Zionist Israel. Part 1 1/2 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/a...

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Archaeology and the Elimination of the Native – Part 1

by Silvia Truini Cover art: Detail from Dima Srouji’s “Four Moons from Home”, permanent installation, Mosaic Rooms (London) It is a truth universally acknowledged that the past is…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/04/2026

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Journalism treats elections like magic cleansing agents for democracy. That simple-yet-attractive story ignores that corrosive agents still eat away at democracy, even after these supposedly "sanitizing" elections. Journalism's job is to monitor that corrosion. No slate has been wiped clean.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I think he's genuinely brain cooked himself even if he started off doing it for the sake of the populist right. the mask ends up becoming the face almost all of the time

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Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Roman history | Greece & Rome | Cambridge Core

Roman history - Volume 73 Issue 1

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Meanwhile, in France, the far right is growing in strength & confidence, the left is in disarray, & the media is calling this a "pre-fascist moment." Upcoming nationwide local elections could be disastrous. Luckily presidential elections are still a year away. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

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Face à Mélenchon, la gauche oscille entre responsabilité morale et responsabilité historique

Dans le moment pré-fasciste, la critique des propos de Jean-Luc Mélenchon se heurte chez certains à l’impératif de faire bloc contre l’extrême droite en 2027. Ces injonctions contradictoires tiraille…

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/02/2026

Reform on 13% of the registered vote seems about right and this is with all the major media and parties painting them as THE alternative As always, far-right support is limited and its mainstreaming comes from the mainstream elite who try to use it as a distraction from their failures

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Cecily @tibg1312.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Delight to see myself and my lovely co-authors in print!

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