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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · 9h

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · 3d

We have the same dad.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 8d

Speaking as someone with experience: stuff like this reveals both a) how pissed off sources are and b) who the respected reporters are among people who know their stuff, who may not be at the outlets you expect!!

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8d

three generals/admirals?? talking to the Intercept??? bsky.app/profile/tank...

Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 8d

"Three different defense officials who spoke with The Intercept called Trump’s speech “embarrassing.” … One called Hegseth’s address “garbage,”... Another said: “We are diminished as a nation by both Hegseth and Trump.”

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · 9d

📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · Aug 30

In the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses," Hajar Yazdiha..."

#Pinks

www.axios.com/2025/08/30/h...

Fresh discoveries are rewriting U.S. history amid backlash from conservatives

A new generation of historians have produced works challenging old myths

www.axios.com

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Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social · 15d

"A CLASP study from 2018 found that children as young as 3 experienced behavioral changes–like frequent crying, separation anxiety, and sleep problems–due to the loss of a parent or the fear of losing a parent. www.clasp.org/publications...

Our Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children | CLASP

Our country's children are living in fear. This report documents how the current immigration context is impacting our nation’s youngest based on focus groups in six states.

www.clasp.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d

There's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history."

Well, about that ...

ANNOUNCING: America 250 Civics Education Coalition

YouTube video by America First Policy Institute

www.youtube.com

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 16d

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

cuny.jobs

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19d

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

They're Organized; We Need to Be Organized, Too

Trump and his far-right acolytes wield their power to disinvest from public services, terrorize our neighborhoods with ICE agents, and ensure that opposition to genocide becomes a fireable, and d...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24d

If you are employed and feel bad for people losing their careers over politics you share with them, there is one thing and one thing only you can do to help them: FIND THEM WORK. Use EVERY lever of power you have to FIND THEM WORK. Don’t send them job apps, MAKE A JOB FOR THEM. That’s ALL they need

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USC Sociology @uscsociology.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The affective strategies of White unknowing: how police violence reveals the expression of racialized emotions on Twitter

Abstract. Racism shapes the ways racialized actors and groups feel about the social world, but how does racism get reproduced through affective politics, t

academic.oup.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Friends I’m running a 5K in Brooklyn on October 12 as a fundraiser for Gaza & UNRWA. If you can, join us or donate here!

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 2

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Sep 2

Colloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History 👇🏾

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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 Job! 🚨

Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).

Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655

Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you so much!

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · Aug 31

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Future Hindsight @futurehindsight.bsky.social · Aug 31

People are very down on the idea of racial justice because they can only see the progress that's already been made.

Join us with @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social to explore how true reckoning transforms healing—not by ignoring the past, but by creating accountability we haven't yet tried.

Tune in!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 30

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How To Fight Trump’s Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

www.thenation.com

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 21

Y'all! Register for my workshop with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social coming up September 17! For fiction writers of all levels. All proceeds are going directly to support mutual aid in Gaza.

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sign up for our workshop with novelist Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) for "Storytelling out of your people and for your people" on September 17th, online!!

This workshop supports the Sameer Project's urgently needed Medical Campaign.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...

workshops for gaza
Storytelling out of your people and for your people
Chantal James
Sept. 17, 6-8 edt
online

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Amaka Okechukwu @phdamaka.bsky.social · Aug 29

For grad students in Black Studies

www.agatheringtogether.com/undiscipline...

Undisiciplined Workshop Registration — A Gathering Together: Literary Journal

www.agatheringtogether.com

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