Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
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Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
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Subramanyam Vedam was just released after spending 44 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, only to be picked up by ICE put BACK in prison, this time for a decades-old deportation order.

What a summary of the nation's horrors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pennsylvania man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years faces deportation after Ice arrest
Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was recently exonerated for murder after being sentenced to life in prison in 1983
www.theguardian.com
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🧵 I was a Zionist a few years ago - Here’s the full story

When I was young I proudly raised the Israeli flag, so I want to talk a little bit about what happened since then

I grew up learning that Israel is "surrounded by enemies" so it’s a miracle we got to survive that we must serve in (1/8)
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It's endless, I've written a lot about this but it's overwhelming...
Like Fanon said Europe is nothing but a "succession of negations of humanity, and an avalanche of murders"
The Mediterranean continues to be a graveyard for people attempting to reach safety in Europe. 🧵
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.
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Airports standing against fascism better than many of our universities.
democracynow
23 hours ago
Airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for
TSA delays


With picture of noem looking off in distance smiling
Stolen from on these very college campuses and I guarantee there are signatories to this letter that have preformed no action in support of them. And that’s their students on their own campus
I’m staying with a friend now who is part of a mainstream institution— in one day messages promising to assassinate her and imagining her flaying.
I’m glad Bray is getting support of colleagues and I don’t begrudge anyone leaving, I’d do all I can to keep my family safe.

I do want to emphasize tho that doxing & death threats have become normal for minoritized activists who get little support from colleagues as they stay & continue to fight.
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
lol i did text my partner “we could live here!” So guilty as charged 😂
Thank you so much - that's so kind. I'm being well taken care of by friends i'm staying with. And yes it's a wild time!
Ok so I'll caveat with the fact that I don't go to bars often and am mostly getting a cocktail with dinner but I expect to pay over 20. Often around $22.
Like what the fuck did you think they were texting? Did you think they endorse violence out loud and are nice in private to one-another? Of course they joke about gas chambers and rape and mass murder.

Are you here with us as bombs are being dropped from the sky on two million Palestinians?
I'm so pissed about the outrage re: young GOP messaging each other lols about rape and gas chambers and "watermelon people" & Jewish people.

Like they're saying this shit in BILLS. That anyone who aborts a child should be KILLED. THERE ARE MASKED GUNMEN ON OUR STREETS KIDNAPPING.
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The most remote pub in Britain has cancelled a Harry Potter-themed Halloween party after it was hit with a backlash over JK Rowling’s gender-critical views ⬇️
Harry Potter Halloween party cancelled after JK Rowling backlash
www.thetimes.com
I had coffee at my friends place but I’ll report back tomorrow
Wow and here I was thinking we were friends
I’m in Chicago and no joke the prices are like 2012 New York. Also the existence of art spaces. Mamdani needs to bring back the 12 dollar cocktail.
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Book 2 is done done except for corrections to the second pass pages. It's gonna be repaginated and then indexed and then I can't make any changes that affect pagination 🥲

This means ... I'm back at it with Book 3!!!!!!

The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic is in principle 2/3s done 👽
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Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that
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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
It was awful four hours delayed — but i jsut took my headphones off now. Putting them back on lol