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Radhika Natarajan

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💁🏾 Imperial Historian 📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism 🦉 @reed_college_ 📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids! https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · Oct 17

🎉 Happy First Birthday to #HearOurVoices! What a year it's been! I'm grateful for the chance to talk with students and educators, to hear how the book is taught in classrooms, and to see students engage with an anti-colonial history of empire.

#BritishEmpire #HistoryTeacher #HistorySky #Historians

Historian Radhika Natarajan holding her middle grade history of the British Empire #HearOurVoices

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · 18d

nope.

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But will they acknowledge their responsibility for Palestinian statelessness?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

UK to recognise Palestinian state despite pressure from US and families of hostages

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But will they acknowledge their responsibility for Palestinian statelessness?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

UK to recognise Palestinian state despite pressure from US and families of hostages

Keir Starmer expected to confirm move after concluding the situation has worsened significantly in the last few weeks The UK is set to recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday despite pressure from the US and the families of hostages held by Hamas. Keir Starmer is expected to confirm the move after concluding the situation has deteriorated since he urged Israel to change course over the summer. Continue reading...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20d

Starmer is expected to announce that the United Kingdom has recognized the State of Palestine later today (Sunday, the 21st) according to the BBC

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Sep 8

Under this Supreme Court, Joe Biden couldn't forgive student debt because that would be a presidential overreach, but Trump can demand that anyone who looks like they may be an immigrant show their papers.

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · Sep 6

3 of my articles were included from Journal of World History, Contemporary British History, and The Journal of British Studies

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Aug 12

“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

The Subway Is Not Scary

Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 2

I really love the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and earlier this month it was damaged in a fire. I just donated a little money to help out while they’re closed, and so can you: www.mjtgiftshop.org/products/don...

Donate

Your 100% tax-deductible donation helps to ensure the continuation of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and its programs. We are eternally grateful for your support. To make a donation specifically to...

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · Aug 1

Per this chart, CPB grants only make up 4% of KQED (San Francisco) and 10% of KLRU (Austin) budgets.

But KVPT (Fresno)? 24%

KPBT (Midland)? 45%

That’s existential, for them www.axios.com/2025/07/29/p...

Which public TV and radio stations most rely on federal funds

Some stations are especially vulnerable after Congress' clawbacks.

www.axios.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 1

Heartbreaking.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 1

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Another approach: Shortly after Wilson's news dropped today, Seattle announced it's suing Trump over his anti-DEI orders.

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 31

The welfare queen lives!

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 31

A man at the store said he heard a local news story about, “a woman on Medicaid who bought a Lambo.”

I invented a new kind of blank stare just for him. Just held it uncomfortably long until he felt the weight of his stupid meanness.

Beta testing as we speak.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Jul 29

I hope against hope that these folks are misreading the tea leaves, but it is terrifying to consider that Harvard thinks a $500m settlement is worth it

no one pays out a half billion dollars in protection money unless they think the racketeer is here to stay

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Jul 29

the readiness with which American institutions (law firms, universities, media, tech etc) have capitulated doesn't just reveal their cowardice and lack of a moral compass

it demonstrates that their leaders are convinced that fascism is here to stay, and now is the time to find a way to live with it

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 29

“I didn’t stand up, I didn’t get heated. I said, ‘You’re right, it’s not the internet, and there’s a genocide happening.’ She locked in on me, and said, ‘You’re from the internet,’” Nadia told the Mercury. “I said, ‘No, I’m from real life, and children are starving right now.’”

Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · Jul 29

A Regina Spektor show in Portland made national news for the artist’s response to a pro-Palestinian protester at the show. But other attendees who calmly spoke up about Gaza were also asked to leave. Others joined them in walking out.

Palestine Supporters Walk Out of Regina Spektor’s Portland Show

Nadia is a longtime fan of the singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, so she was excited to get tickets for her tour date at Portland’s Revolution Hall. But when she and her partner settled into their fron...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 29

This is why billionaires love AI

"AI doesn't go on strike. It doesn't ask for a pay raise," he added, parroting cliched talking points, much like a certain over-hyped technology. "These things that you don't have to deal with as a CEO."

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Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 29

I would love to know what kind of holdings Blackstone has in the arms industry.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · Jul 28

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

Is starvation in Gaza really Israel's fault? The facts are clear

Rising starvation in Gaza may have a number of factors. But Israel's wartime policies on humanitarian aid are inarguably among them.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 25

As someone who has spent the bulk of my adult trying to get people to turn away from criminalization, I am here to say that it's exceedingly difficult. So now, I see some people insisting that everyone *speak out* against the current concentration camps targeting migrants and it's going to be hard.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jul 17

Going to keep repeating: employers and students know the #ValueOfHistory, it’s somehow the university senior managers and marketeers who don’t read up-to-date information or have any sense of the world outside their ideological idée fixe: files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

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Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · Jul 17

Eviction is always outpacing the rate of people moving from homelessness to housing. 1.4 M more people? Dear god. That’s the same number as children who are currently counted as homeless (McKinney Vento Act count).

1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit

A Trump administration proposal could put more than a million low-income households at risk of losing their government-subsidized housing.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Jul 10

One year has 8760 hours. In 2024 there were a 8,658 anti-Muslim discrimination complaints—essentially 1 every hour of every day of the year.

It's the highest ever recorded—even higher than in the year after 9/11—and this is likely the first you heard: www.qasimrashid.com/p/anti-musli...

Anti-Muslim Hate Is Taking Its Toll

The impact of normalized Islamophobia on millions of Americans—and why silence is not an option

www.qasimrashid.com

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW: GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is introducing a bill requiring a new census "immediately upon enactment" & congressional redistricting using numbers that exclude non-U.S. citizens from census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

I just got off the phone with President Trump!!

I told him about my new bill I am introducing that will save America’s elections from ever being stolen again!

My bill will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.
Upon completion of the census, the bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens.

Thank you President Trump for your strong support of my bill, Making American Elections Great Again!!!

Let’s get this done!!!

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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly

While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.

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