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Liberty Chee

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (most recently) || International Relations || Domestic Work || Migration Governance || Feminist Theory || Taxes to the 🇳🇱, Remittances to the 🇵🇭 https://www.libertychee.nl https://pric.unive.it/projects/knowingdom

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 25d

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book, at its core, examines what migration governance looks like when states step back and let markets lead. Out now open access #migcitsky #polisky #IRsky #gendersky

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AAUP @aaup.org · 9h

“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”

— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog

Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 12h

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/14/h...

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How the Trump Regime and the Media Killed Gender Studies

BY LAURIE ESSIG On Wednesday, October 1, the Department of Education sent nine universities a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The document asks universities to comply …

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 12h

thedigradio.com/podcast/from... Lots of stuff here. Explains in part why there is a housing crisis in much of the Global North.

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 16h

"...the instinct to cling to the “safe middle” is where work truly dies. Write only what we think will be accepted, and we risk sanding down the voice and conviction that make our writing matter. Rejection is a test of whether we’re pushing our ideas beyond the safe middle."

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 18h

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 4d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 5d

How Mark Bray, author of the book on antifa, was targeted with death threats:

— Trump signs EO designating antifa as terrorists
— DHS memo warns about "antifa-aligned" individuals
— Far-right trolls target Bray on X
— TPUSA treasurer launches petition against Bray

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 21h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A conversation over the weekend sparked my interest in Luffy 🙂

The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial

Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

www.youtube.com/live/5w07aI9... A gem of a footage. 14 hours, including the programme at Museumplein

Amsterdam LIVE | Huge Anti Immigration Protest Ahead Of Netherlands Election | Far Right Rally

YouTube video by CRUX

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

youtu.be/PteQUtiUdrs?... More footage of the protest last Sunday. Dude at the 1m20s mark has a...weird accent 👀

‘DEFEND NETHERLANDS’: Amsterdam Protesters Demand Limits On Asylum Approvals | Times Now World

YouTube video by Times Now World

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

mb.com.ph/2025/10/13/c... "Croatia, PH agree to deepen labor, defense, trade ties"

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

What happens when you leave billionaires to their own devices 😳

Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I read it, and I'm pretty sure that Thiel is the antichrist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die”

(not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 2d

Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1d

And this guy really went up to that graffiti to do that o.O #amsterdam

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

Asking for a colleague, is there literature out there on using police interview transcripts as a historical source, particularly from a methodological perspective?

#historians #histcrim 🗃️

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

Anti immigration protest in AMS today. MAGA hat. Crucifix. God is good. Jesus saves. Geert (Wilders) will be great. Charlie Kirk....

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Well well well

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

jacobin.com/2025/10/russ... "Cold War competition also had great implications for America... The result was capitalism on its best behavior: high public investment, unionization, income compression, and meaningful, if hard-won, social and racial progress."

When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar...

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 12d

Why are migrant workers in Qatar being recruited as cannon-fodder for Russia in Ukraine, and is labour surplus from the 2022 World Cup responsible? Brilliant reporting from @samindrakunti.bsky.social and @bobbyperu.bsky.social in @josimarfootball.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com

For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 3d

I just reviewed a paper. The keywords all had URL links (in the pdf). The links were mostly news articles. What else could it have been other than LLM-generated...????

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

University workers and students, vote according to your interests.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

www.ftm.nl/artikelen/vi... Who's going to scrub toilets? Take out the trash? Pick asparagus? Deliver food? Cut meat? Make pizzas? Once upon a time, these were essential workers.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

Took a while, but hunted down the name of the Chilean worker delegate who recommended that the ILO commission a study on domestic workers in the 1931 ILC. ChatGPT, bless them, made up a fact - that it was Elías Lafertte (a real person btw) who was the worker delegate O.o

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 4d

Dutch politics in a nutshell

Fascist: I'm going to murder you

Progressive: Hey let's get out of here

Liberal: Don't be so negative. Come and debate your murderer. He doesn't mean it

Fascist: Oh I totally mean it (shows knife)

Liberal: Isn't it nice we can all sit together like this?

Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 5d

Als je erkent dat de woorden v Wilders c.s. leiden tot politiek geweld, waarom verlang je dat slachtoffers met hun beulen aan tafel gaan? Hoe beschermt dat de slachtoffers v racisme? En hoe versterk je de rechtsstaat door juist de bedreigers ervan als gelijkwaardige gesprekspartner te behandelen?

Rob Jetten @robjetten.bsky.social · 5d

In mijn Nederland kunnen Sylvana Simons, Fleur Agema en ik samen aan tafel zitten. Fel in het debat, maar met respect voor elkaar.

De Nederlandse vlag is niet van één partij, maar van iedereen die vooruit wil. Het kan wél!

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/f... Public unis' loss - private unis' gain. Small boutique schools are going to make hay...

Fewer international students will Dutch economy €5 billion, universities say

A curb on the number of international students at five universities in the Randstad will have negative consequences for the Dutch economy. Gross domestic product will decline by approximately €4 to €5...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent stuff as always from the Dig. Lots of interesting points made, one of which is that class analysis in the US, w/c ascribes 'working class' identity to lack of college education is 50 years old and needs updating. And of course a gendered analysis as can be expected from Melinda Cooper.

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 13d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 5d

Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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