Desiree
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London-area friends: I’m looking forward to launching the UK edition of my book THE CROWN’S SILENCE at Waterstones @ Gower St on Jan 30th with Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Please help spread the word! www.waterstones.com/events/the-c... www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy - An Evening with Brooke Newman | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy - An Eveni...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Being jealous of ICE agents:
The Truth about ICE Agents?!?😂😂😂 | So True, ft. Caleb Hearon & Laura Peek
YouTube video by Clip'er
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December 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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This reflects findings from PEP Research Fellows, who have highlighted the urgent need to rethink what equitable collaboration really means.

🔗 Read the full paper: Leading the Way: Fostering Fair North–South Research Collaborations (shorturl.at/rPtfs)
Intranet | Partnership for Economic Policy
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September 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.

This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Fascinating special issues on petitions as an intricate negotiation over discrimination & stake-holding between colonial subjects and imperial authorities in the British (and also Spanish) Empire. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy pride munth. Sashay into deals today!
two men wearing headphones and holding microphones one of whom is wearing a hat that says nirvana
ALT: two men wearing headphones and holding microphones one of whom is wearing a hat that says nirvana
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June 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance
Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.
www.phillytrib.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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There is only one man who can offer us guidance right now
April 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement.

www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...
Experts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Civil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
He's a messy, messy bitch
Possible that JD Vance today had the most significant 90 seconds of his vice presidency, and the biggest impact any VP other than Cheney has had on shifting American foreign policy in the way he changed the trajectory of the conversation in the Oval Office today.
February 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"How do you make sure that a cisgender straight white man is always assumed to have earned his place? By making sure that the success and belonging of everyone else is constantly questioned and countered at every turn."
February 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Can we call white South Africans the "Dutch and British diaspora" instead of Afrikaaners?
February 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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lol live footage from the United States:

#politics #news #blacksky #bluesky
February 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM