Fortunately someone (me) wrote a whole book about why this is significant. newbooksnetwork.com/darcie-fonta...

Big day for a historian of Christianity in Algeria: the pope is visiting Algeria!

Hi Melissa!! Thank you!!

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Going to bed and watching Heated Rivalry again is always the answer

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

SEE ICE? Call the LUCE Hotline (617-370-5023) to verify & keep us all safe

Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...

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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

THE PIZZA TREE!!

THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.

A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.

I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me. Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.

For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US.

Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms. This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.

It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité

Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.

This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza:

www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Recipe: Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust We guarantee everyone will love it.

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Paddington 2

I take Nurtec (preventive) and Ubrelvy as a rescue. I don’t really feel tired from Nurtec but if I do have a headache and take Ubrelvy, I feel utterly exhausted for 1-2 days after.

Sending you lots of love! I’m so very sorry for your loss.

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fascism in Florida