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Political science 47%
Sociology 27%

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@melindacooper.bsky.social

“Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.”

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That was a whole lot of sinister fascist demagoguery from Rubio: Europe is suffering from civilisational decline, threatened by alien invaders, intwined destiny, strength through unity, rejection of shame, proud history, ein Volk, ein Reich….

an exemplary response in a comparable scenario:

bsky.app/profile/undd...

i think the record on this is pretty clear, no?

sure, but this step is not yet completed in Europe and in any case it needs to be fought
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Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.
thewire.in

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com

WTF - Yarvin is a fascist, celebrated by European fascists, and platforming him in this way does not merely risk but IS mainstreaming fascism and thus collaboration
Featuring an avowed reactionary like Curtis Yarvin at a symposium billed as a gathering of “distinguished political thinkers” – alongside Quinn Slobodian and Lea Ypi – risks laundering openly anti-democratic views as just another contribution to respectable debate. Can’t see the case for this.
🚨🚨 Die Vereinigung französischer Jurist*innen hat Anzeige erstattet wegen der Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten in Bezug auf das manipulierte Video von Francesca Albanese.

Hier die englischsprachige Aussendung👇🏼
Featuring an avowed reactionary like Curtis Yarvin at a symposium billed as a gathering of “distinguished political thinkers” – alongside Quinn Slobodian and Lea Ypi – risks laundering openly anti-democratic views as just another contribution to respectable debate. Can’t see the case for this.

HEUTE 15h
all welcome!
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Am 12.2. (15–17 Uhr) veranstalten Kristina Lepold, @robin-c.bsky.social und ich mit EOTO e.V. zum Black History Month an der HU Berlin (Unter den Linden 6, Raum 1066e, EG) einen Vortrag von Nicki K. Weber.

Ihr seid herzlich eingeladen!

„Kontinente und Archipele: Schwarze Geschichte als Praxis“

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Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university
Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the…
mondoweiss.net

ah yes, the famous “reverse colonialism” of the colonized …

brings to mind the fabulous Aamer Rahman:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_m...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

as quoted by one of my students in their BA thesis on the afterlives of slavery
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
m.youtube.com

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‘I saw Black & brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents … bodies, that is how they refer to us. “We’re bringing in a body.” You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are being called a body.’
Aliya Rahman, on being detained by ICE
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Recht während Gaza

überfälliger Schwerpunkt in der Kritischen Justiz

großer Dank an
@isafei.bsky.social und @barskanmaz.bsky.social
für diese wichtige Intervention

ihre Einleitung kann man hier lesen:
www.inlibra.com/de/document/...

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Am 12.2. (15–17 Uhr) veranstalten Kristina Lepold, @robin-c.bsky.social und ich mit EOTO e.V. zum Black History Month an der HU Berlin (Unter den Linden 6, Raum 1066e, EG) einen Vortrag von Nicki K. Weber.

Ihr seid herzlich eingeladen!

„Kontinente und Archipele: Schwarze Geschichte als Praxis“

Prison Letters - from children in today‘s US
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

reminder:

Nicki K. Weber:

Kontinente und Archipele: Schwarze Geschichte als Praxis

Vortrag im Rahmen des Black History Month:

diesen Donnerstag, 12.2., 15–17 Uhr
HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Raum 1066e (EG)
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Wer sich in Österreich für die Menschenrechte aller einsetzt und auf die Einhaltung des Völkerrechts pocht, wird drangsaliert - mit allen Mitteln und unter Zuhilfenahme mancher Medien.

Wir lassen uns nicht nur nicht einschüchtern, wir reden auch darüber.

etosmedia.de/politik/wir-...
„Wir lassen uns nicht einschüchtern“ – Amnesty Österreich über die Angriffe von „Solidarität Israel“ - etos.media
Ein neu gegründeter Verein greift Amnesty International Österreich an, streut Verdächtigungen über angeblich unlautere Spenden und konstruiert Unterstellungen gegen die Organisation, sie sei aus dem A...
etosmedia.de
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
Manchmal blicke ich komplett ratlos auf, na ja, alles.

Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative

Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times

www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon
A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts
www.nybooks.com

… and most German media

“It’s shocking that someone’s human rights work could be seen as so dangerous that they would be thought of as akin to a terrorist“

implicitly and explicitly supported by the German government
Francesca Albanese and various judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court "now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers".

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In Trump’s war on global justice, court staff and U.N. face terrorist‑grade sanctions
Trump’s sanctions on U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court froze assets and disrupted war crimes investigations. The clash is part of the broader campaign by his administ...
www.reuters.com

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Francesca Albanese and various judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court "now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers".

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In Trump’s war on global justice, court staff and U.N. face terrorist‑grade sanctions
Trump’s sanctions on U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court froze assets and disrupted war crimes investigations. The clash is part of the broader campaign by his administ...
www.reuters.com