Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

David Webster

@dwebster.bsky.social

1.2K followers 780 following 1.3K posts

Historian: Canada, Quebec, Asia, Timor-Leste, human rights, development. Latest book Challenge the Strong Wind https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind . On unceded Abenaki land, maintenant connu sous le nom Estrie/Eastern Townships. .. more

Videos

Political science 38%

Sociology 22%

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 19h

surprised that journalists don't seem to remember the Mulroney years at all ... they were pretty important in Canada-US relations.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 19h

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/looki...

Looking for a tenured teaching job? I’ve got one piece of advice: get lucky

By reinforcing the myth of meritocracy, we perpetuate a system grounded in cruelty and false promises. It needs to stop, says David Webster

www.timeshighereducation.com

1 2

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 22h

Yes
It is luck.

1 2

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke French with a man from Lexembourh this year in Timor-Leste. He spotted the QC accent right away.

Thanks for this lovely column!

1 1

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 3d

Don't "dig a hole and bury the past." My review of the excellent RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews...

RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman

book review of RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman

pacificaffairs.ubc.ca

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

The call to tax billionaires more is a moral case more than a fiscal case, I thought?

2 3

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

The Monroe doctrine, as put formwork by JQ Adams, simply barred further colonization and stood in solidarity with Latin American revolutionares. The US imperialsiism part came later. today's US forgets it once stood for Venezuelan sovereignty.

1 1

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 6d

Memikwaldamnana, we remember. Vigil for the Rogers Raid on the Abenaki village Odanak, October 4, 1759 and the 34 massacred that day.

1 1

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. I am not defending Trump.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d

Part of his political genius there. He claims victory no matter what, and his millions of cronies set out to show what a winner he is. Meanwhile the left wins victories (like governments recognizing Palestine) and insists they are meaningless defeats.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d

This is objectively true. Biden chose to let genocide happen, when he could have stopped it. US liberals' contortions just show that they can't see, can't resist the fascism taking over their country.

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 8d

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency

Reposted by David Webster

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 8d

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency

8 25 100

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Not surprisingly, apologists for Israel's genocide have a soft spot for war criminal Prabowo Subianto, president of Indonesia.

Reposted by Juan Cole, David Webster

404 Media @404media.co · 9d

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

26 130 440

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

I just signed KAIROS Canada’s urgent call to the Prime Minister: Stop the famine. End the siege on Gaza. Canada must press for an immediate ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian aid & total arms embargo on Israel. Add your name: kairoscanada.org/gaza-letter-...
#Gaza #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael

Gaza Letter Campaign |

kairoscanada.org

2 1

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

So many buzzwords separated by commas, it burns the eye

2 8

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! Excellent indeed.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d

Because Americans sure don't know how

Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · Aug 24

For decades, American experts have flown around the world teaching local activists how to practice democracy. Now it’s time for activists from authoritarian countries to come to American and show Americans how to fight autocrats.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d

The insidious lessons of Canada's "residential schools" are being applied to assimilationist education in Tibet today, featuring residential preschools where Chinese language is enforced on Tibetan children aged 4 to 6.

Human rights violators learn from each other.

share.google/MiU6IZ7Cb5zW...

How China Is Weaponizing Education to Erase Tibetan Identity

For China, Sinicizing Tibet’s next generation through boarding schools is the ultimate strategy for solidifying its control over the region.

share.google

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d

Looks grea! Any idea where non Toronto Star readers can find it?

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11d

An invitation to everyone else on the world to attack US civilians. Hegseth hates Americans and invites harm to them.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11d

Truth and reconciliation march at @ubishops.bsky.social

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11d

Why do white people even believe we have white skin anyway? We are pinkish. We know this. Why do we use white crayons, white paint...?

1 1

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11d

The Guardian calls this "a flesh colored ziggurat"

Who has flesh this colour?

1 3

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Kori Schake, Elizabeth Saunders , and 30 more Timothy Snyder, Kori Schake, Elizabeth Saunders, Christian Odendahl, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Jonathan Wolff, Philip N. Cohen, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Melissa Johnson, Juan Cole, Nancy T. Ammerman, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Michael Zimmer, Jacob T. Levy, Serge Egelman, Josef Früchtl, Jason Lyall, Peter Stegmaier, Henry Jones, Susan Strasser, David Webster, Karen O’Leary, Alan McNally, Julien Théry, Albin Wagener, Nicolai von Ondarza, Aviel Roshwald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck, Virginia Sapiro, Southern Africa

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

1.8K 1.1K 3K

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 12d

That's 0.784% of the world or 64,815,850 people, roughly 1.5 Canadas. Worth understanding better, maybe

WHO @who.int · 13d

#Autism is a diverse group of brain development conditions.

In 2021, about 1 in 127 people worldwide were estimated to be on the autism spectrum.

Signs may appear in early childhood, but many go undiagnosed for years.

Early understanding and support can make all the difference. 👉 bit.ly/4pGvgnP

A graphic with a soft rainbow fan on a white background. Text reads 'Autism, or autism spectrum disorder, appears in early childhood but is often not recognized until much later'

1 2

Reposted by David Webster, Timothy D. McBride

WHO @who.int · 13d

5 85 290

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 13d

Les Cowboys pas malins