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Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽‍🏫#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer.🗣️Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Nov 12

👋🏽 new followers. I’m a professor of African diaspora + Latin Am religions at U of Virginia, I’ve lived in/researched/written about Cuba. Antifascist racial justice organizer and public historian in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I protest against Confederates, remove and melt down their statues.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 8h

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run.

They have now come for all of us.

And each of us, and all of us, should say no.

Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 19h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Miquel Ramos @miquelramos.bsky.social · 6d

@mark-bray.bsky.social lleva semanas siendo señalado por los principales propagandistas de la extrema derecha estadounidense y recibiendo amenazas de muerte. Han publicado su dirección y se ha visto obligado a abandonar el país junto a su familia.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

Rutgers professor who received death threats moves classes online, is leaving for Europe

Rutgers professor and Antifa expert Mark Bray is leaving the U.S and moving his classes online after death threats and a petition for his firing.

www.northjersey.com

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 8d

🗣Mark Bray, historiador:
"En Estados Unidos nos encontramos ante una situación sin precedentes para el antifascismo."

✍🏻 @beltza.bsky.social
📷 Sarai Rua.
https://elsal.to/44328

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 6d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 4d

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 4d

school board meeting kicking off. not going to fully live skeet, but will do my best to hit the important points.

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National Foundation for American Policy @nfapresearch.bsky.social · 4d

A remarkable story: Omar Yaghi, born a refugee in Jordan, came to America as a teen to attend community college and later earned a Ph.D. and the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Immigrants have won 40% of the U.S. Nobel Prizes in science since 2000. @mclem.org
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Half Of The 2025 U.S. Nobel Prize Winners In Science Are Immigrants

Three of the six U.S. winners in the 2025 Nobel Prize science categories immigrated to the United States, one of them as a teenager.

www.forbes.com

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 4d

Transcript of the Front Burner show with anti-fascist academixc @mark-bray.bsky.social here: www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... "I compare [Antifa] to feminism. There are feminist groups, but feminism itself is not a group. There are Antifa groups, but Antifa itself is not a group."

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 5d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8d

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

Image of an X post from @realDonaldTrump
(Donald J. Trump) at 7:26 PM on October 3, 2025, with 2.54K ReTruths and 8.83K Likes. The post reads: "To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10d

Trump calls for ICE and other cops to enforce his executive order banning flag burning, something that’s blatantly unconstitutional given Texas v Johnson (1989), which established flag burning as protected speech.

To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025
Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10d

New reporting from MSNBC and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: A source familiar with the matter confirms an FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. Comey is being allowed to surrender for booking at his arraignment next week

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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