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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

Obviously I understand the no sick day struggle, but this is still very much an ethos when people have some agency.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

Working while sick is something I’ll never understand, I’ll never be Protestant enough for that work ethic

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

One of *my extras, not sure where that extra word came from.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

My favorite part was when he said he’d put one on, started rummaging through his bag, didn’t have one, AND THEN refused one when I offered one of my friends extras. All that for what?

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

Half a decade into COVID plus a swirling matrix of other highly communicable illnesses and masking in crowded public spaces for some is still contingent upon whether people are symptomatic or know/believe themselves to be ill.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 7

An unmasked man sat next to me (masked) and said “are you feeling okay or just preventing illness?” To which I replied “I feel fine but what difference does it make if you’re not wearing a mask?” He said he’d throw one on if I said I was unwell (he didn’t have one), this rationale is lost on me.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Mar 3

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

If they also push harder for these mask bans…

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · Feb 27

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.

“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"

Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

www.nytimes.com

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Eyebrows are thick as hell but that boy is immaculately groomed and clean shaven. They’re not slick AT ALL

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Galleanisti is back and so is the attendant sub-whiteness of the 19th/early 20th century Italian in the U.S.!

Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · Mar 1

Girl!!! The sketches coming out of that courtroom say it ALL

A screenshot of a courtroom sketch of Luigi Mangione taken from RedNote.

There’s a side by side comparison. On the left, Luigi is rather pale, on the right, in the sketch, his skin is noticeably darker

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

I can’t get sew ins because I would turn into an absolute my little pony menace with that hair

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Of course I absolutely will, thank you so much for your warmth and encouragement. It’s felt and deeply appreciated.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Saw the IG post of someone who went to a museum of Danish resistance. Their last slide was about how, in the election immediately after WWII, most Danes voted the way they had before the war. Because of course they did.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

We’re figuring out next steps for collective action, but perhaps consider sending an email to ACSA board leadership, which they even suggested in their statement (which was released without informing the journal editorial board)

www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-message...

Text that reads: “Please direct any questions to President Cathi Ho Schar (president@acsa-arch.org) or Executive Director Michael Monti (mmonti@acsa-arch.org).”

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

It’s a disappointing cancellation, they always are. The ACSA board has been patronizing & awful to us as issue editors from before our CfP went live. And they’ve trampled on the dignity and academic freedoms of the journal board who endured awful treatment because they deeply believed in the issue.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

We make constant historical references to terrifying authoritarian times, but persistently refuse the lesson that the glimpse of violent illiberalism is the moment to double down on protecting our collective freedoms. Useful, I guess, to remember some people have never had skin in any game, ever.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

I’m unsurprised but astounded by the eagerness with which universities have dispensed of diversity and inclusion “commitments” and their belief that abandoning brief attention to racial justice will make their jobs easier. The Venn diagram overlap of cowardice and monstrosity in times like these.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Mar 1

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor

ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

www.archpaper.com

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Not a thought!

www.theguardian.com/world/2010/m...

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons

www.theguardian.com

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Mnangagwa doesn’t have the same energy for lip service to Palestine as Mugabe’s performances of revolutionary discourse. This diplomatic move would effectively be full normalization. No more state investment in the patriotic histories of struggle (though compensating whites would’ve told you that).

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Superficially, the African Union has called for an end to normalization with and prosecution of Israel because of its genocidal violence in Gaza and withdrew observer status AT THE SAME TIME that too many of these states maintain strategic relations with Israel

www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine?

Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.

www.aljazeera.com

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

It supported Rhodesian and apartheid South African militaries with both tactics and weaponry, further alienating it from the continent because of support for liberation struggles AND decolonization era solidarities with the Palestinian struggle.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

Being immiserated by sanctions and climate change-induced drought hasn’t been bad enough: now the state is opening our lands to the same country that sold weapons to the Rhodesians when we fought for our independence.

I’m so beyond unbelievably sad and angry about this.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is a photo from the Twitter of Ronny Levi Musan, the Zim ambassador to Israel. I can safely assume he supports whatever Trump is doing with the Afrikaners, meaning a dispositional opposition to land reform — a support to keep paying back white farmers whose land was taken and reverse gains made

AI-generated image of Trump holding an American flag

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