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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 13h

Yes incredible clip

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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 13h

It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14h

too much sis. Truly struggling.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14h

Silence never saved anyone, they were coming after him for a book he wrote years ago

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

Like on top of all the rest of it - the kidnappings of our students. The twisting of the judiciary. The spinelessness of any form of opposition. The people who have seemingly vanished from a place that they literally call "Alligator Alcatraz" bec they think its catchy. It's a lot. And chilling.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

"set to a catchy beat and propulsive baseline" like even the court document is team Kedrick.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

Oh my.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

Whose peace is this?

Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 17h

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

Unfortunately too much is left unsaid and we know who that privileges! Happy to do what I can to narrow the gap. Thanks for the kind words!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

lol if you click through its fixed in the document.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

this with the caveat that academia is more this meme than other institutions in america

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17h

Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School

Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School For PhDs in Social Sciences, and specifically sociology* Each question is about 1 paragraph response 3-4 sentences. This should be abo...

docs.google.com

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JustMark @marksjustice.bsky.social · 22h

This year? More CHILDREN have died, not due to cancer, but due to Israel

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

No bomb should’ve ever dropped on a single civilian, a single child.

If this is the end of them I’m glad.

But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.

What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22h

Counterpoints to what? What are you even talking about?

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing shows the dangerous tendency to normalize authoritarianism like the New York Times coverage of the extortion of Harvard. One could read this article and think it is about a free agent inking a contract with the Yankees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington

www.nytimes.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23h

This is clearly deliberate

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t waste your breath I blocked them.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

No bomb should’ve ever dropped on a single civilian, a single child.

If this is the end of them I’m glad.

But the loss is so so immense and the future so uncertain.

What does “peace” mean when it sits atop a genocide? What peace when the genocider dictates its terms?

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 2d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Most people aren't brave but at least don't be actively cowardly.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

I’m genuinely so annoyed with myself. I’ll recreate it if I can’t find it