Wendy Russell
@drwrussell.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the Centre for Global Studies, Huron University.
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Without a doubt. He will make a good faith effort to enact all his policy ideas. He will succeed on some and fail on others. And that’s fine. That is how change works. Also his promises are all feasible.
Do you think he can actually achieve his promises?
January 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Without a doubt. He will make a good faith effort to enact all his policy ideas. He will succeed on some and fail on others. And that’s fine. That is how change works. Also his promises are all feasible.
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A UK judge has accused the pro-Israel group Campaign Against Antisemitism of bringing an "abusive" and "misleading" case against comedian Reginald Hunter ⬇️
UK judge throws out ’abusive’ pro-Israel summons to comedian
A UK judge has accused the pro-Israel group Campaign Against Antisemitism of bringing an "abusive" and "misleading" case against comedian Reginald Hunter
www.newarab.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A UK judge has accused the pro-Israel group Campaign Against Antisemitism of bringing an "abusive" and "misleading" case against comedian Reginald Hunter ⬇️
👇 Read this please.
David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
👇 Read this please.
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Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/
www.wired.com/story/itana-...
www.wired.com/story/itana-...
A Peter Thiel-Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware
Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.
www.wired.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/
www.wired.com/story/itana-...
www.wired.com/story/itana-...
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Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
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How many more statements of meaningless denunciation - empty of one single consequence for unrelenting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - must Palestinians endure Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?
Joint statement on the approval of the creation of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank
“We, States of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom condemn the approval by the Israeli security cabi...
www.canada.ca
December 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
How many more statements of meaningless denunciation - empty of one single consequence for unrelenting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - must Palestinians endure Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?
A real thing with real consequences. Just ask Garífuna communities on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Plutocrat’s fantasies aside, libertarian’s grotesque enclaves are a predictable outcome of capitalism:
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/
December 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A real thing with real consequences. Just ask Garífuna communities on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Plutocrat’s fantasies aside, libertarian’s grotesque enclaves are a predictable outcome of capitalism:
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📚Book Announcement!📚
The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3
The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📚Book Announcement!📚
The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3
The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. 1/3
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More great work by Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social), a rare piece of journalism about the raids that gives you hope.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
More great work by Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social), a rare piece of journalism about the raids that gives you hope.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Whistlemania 😀.
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whistlemania 😀.
👇This!!!
"My most daring idea is to refuse."
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
👇This!!!
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What it's like to see community activists in Louisiana stand up to a Border Patrol raid, from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What it's like to see community activists in Louisiana stand up to a Border Patrol raid, from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
“The Horns and Whistles Work” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“The Horns and Whistles Work” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is an extraordinarily helpful thing to read. If you’re not actively working to remake the academy by deliberately finding ways for it to serve the future, you’re missing the point! On how the university actively finds ways to insulate itself against positive change:
One of the arguments I make here is that Black women academics, especially, often have our academic credentials disregarded (implicitly and explicitly) if we mention, even in the slightest way, how our discipline reproduces inequality – structurally or conceptually.
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
Activist or Academic or Both? The Quandary of Scholactivism for the Minoritised in the Ivory Tower
What makes a scholar an activist, & can an activist be a “proper” scholar?
folukeafrica.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is an extraordinarily helpful thing to read. If you’re not actively working to remake the academy by deliberately finding ways for it to serve the future, you’re missing the point! On how the university actively finds ways to insulate itself against positive change:
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Treaty Nine First Nations held a press conference in Toronto over their lawsuit against Ottawa’s bill C-5 and Ontario’s bill five.
Press conference in Toronto by Treaty Nine First Nations over lawsuit on proposed bills | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Treaty Nine First Nations held a press conference in Toronto over their lawsuit against Ottawa’s bill C-5 and Ontario’s bill five.
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So RFK Jr is paying nuts in Denmark to go to one of the poorest places on earth, tell half their group their children are in line to get vaccinated for free with something that’s been saving lives for decades and is already fully proven safe, and not actually vaccinate them.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So RFK Jr is paying nuts in Denmark to go to one of the poorest places on earth, tell half their group their children are in line to get vaccinated for free with something that’s been saving lives for decades and is already fully proven safe, and not actually vaccinate them.
An extraordinary thread that every student of research methodologies needs to read. Not to mention every parent, researcher, university faculty and the Ministry of Health in Guinea-Bissau.
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
An extraordinary thread that every student of research methodologies needs to read. Not to mention every parent, researcher, university faculty and the Ministry of Health in Guinea-Bissau.
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“Billionaire-backed, anti-feminist women’s media outlets and viral female lifestyle influencers are increasingly shaping young women’s politics”
@kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
@kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control
In the aftermath of the 2024 election, explanations for Donald Trump’s decisive...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“Billionaire-backed, anti-feminist women’s media outlets and viral female lifestyle influencers are increasingly shaping young women’s politics”
@kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
@kylietcheung.bsky.social, author of Coercion, writing for @talkingpointsmemo.com:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
The history of movements includes how their success is fed by myriad day to day refusals, face-to-face cultural analysis and spontaneous expressions of power. They exist in arms’ reach and vast networks. Written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches for civil rights: youtube.com/watch?v=_Weq...
Freedom Highway (Live)
YouTube video by The Staple Singers - Topic
youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The history of movements includes how their success is fed by myriad day to day refusals, face-to-face cultural analysis and spontaneous expressions of power. They exist in arms’ reach and vast networks. Written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches for civil rights: youtube.com/watch?v=_Weq...
Read this and the thread please:
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Read this and the thread please:
Fired academic Frances Widdowson has been showing up on university campuses to question aspects of the history of residential schools in Canada.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Pierre Poilievre hates women and smirks at not only gender-based violence, but he thinks MMIWG being sexually assaulted is HILARIOUS. Now wonder all the red pillers flock to him. He’s their Temu tyrant
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Fired academic Frances Widdowson has been showing up on university campuses to question aspects of the history of residential schools in Canada.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fired academic Frances Widdowson has been showing up on university campuses to question aspects of the history of residential schools in Canada.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
This Saturday on a new episode of APTN Investigates, journalist Christopher Read looks into a recent eruption of residential school denialism.
This is such an important story. The future of agricultural work in the US is at a turning point. As a market for fruits and vegetables, Canadians need to support fair wages, job security and housing for farm workers in the US. You feed us too.
The UFW has sued the Trump Administration ... again. Why? Because they are trying to steal wages from farm workers and we are not going to let that happen. #WeFeedYou
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is such an important story. The future of agricultural work in the US is at a turning point. As a market for fruits and vegetables, Canadians need to support fair wages, job security and housing for farm workers in the US. You feed us too.