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Aileen
@aileen16.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at Ulster University studying stories, justice and social movements in Myanmar. Formerly in Thailand/Myanmar teaching research and doing research on... a lot of things.
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justiceformyanmar.org
🚨 The USA has ended temporary protected status (TPS) for people from Myanmar, falsely claiming conditions improved.

Yet, the people of Myanmar are being terrorised daily by an illegal military junta committing int'l crimes with impunity.

✍🏼 Sign the petition to extend TPS and protect lives.
Tell President Trump to extend protections for Burmese refugees
Burmese refugees deserve our protection
actionnetwork.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
The implication that someone cannot be a student and then legitimately seek asylum is absurd. This is not abuse of the system, its reality- things change quickly, and at the same time situations that seemed temporary (e.g. might be safe to return after studies) become protracted.
migrantvoice.bsky.social Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 8d
Successive governments have treated international students as an easy target. Whether unjustly stripping them of the right to study, increasing costs for them, preventing them from being with loved ones etc. This is yet more hostility wrapped up as policy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK immigration: Minister flags visa 'abuse' as student asylum claims surge
More than 14,000 students on study visas sought asylum this year to June 2025 according to Home Office figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
aileen16.bsky.social
cozy and jetlagged morning... this is definitely a great choice to readjust back to UK academia after a summer of fieldwork.
September 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Can’t stress enough how harmful it is for prominent people to do glowing promotions for surveillance devices during the rise of authoritarianism and assaults on bodily autonomy.
April 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
Justice Sotomayor
April 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
This. It’s not that complicated.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 7
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
April 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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grammarcunt.bsky.social
Times are rough for absolutely everyone right now, but if you can, please donate to or share this gofundme to help support the Myanmar Queer Earthquake Relief Fund

gofund.me/0cc51469
Donate to Myanmar Queer Earthquake Relief Fund, organised by Colors Rainbow
We, Colors Rainbow, are working for the LGBTQ community in Myanmar. The powerf… Colors Rainbow needs your support for Myanmar Queer Earthquake Relief Fund
gofund.me
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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judithbeyer.bsky.social
Here is a longer blog post in which I explain why humanitarian aid cannot go to the "state" of Myanmar - and to whom to donate instead:

judithbeyer.com/2025/03/29/h...

#whatshappeninginMyanmar
March 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
aileen16.bsky.social
Hard to find words for the earthquake devastation in Myanmar, while airstrikes continue on the affected communities.

If you can spare some funds:
Medical Action MM: www.gofundme.com/f/earthquake...
Better Burma: www.betterburma.org/donation
Mutual Aid MM: www.mutualaidmyanmar.org/fund?ref=hom...
Donate to Earthquake Relief for Myanmar - MAM, organized by Medical Action Myanmar UK
Yangon has experienced a power outage since the earthquake, with many fe… Medical Action Myanmar UK needs your support for Earthquake Relief for Myanmar - MAM
www.gofundme.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
Great news for accountability, congrats to all those who worked for years - at great risk - to document and advocate against this horrible man's crimes.
flightradar24.com Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · Mar 11
Currently #1 on Flightradar24 is #RPC5219, believed to be carrying former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, who is being flown to the Netherlands via Dubai after being arrested on an ICC warrant. www.flightradar24.com/RPC5219/396f...
The flight path of RPC5219 as seen on Flightradar24
March 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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liasciortino.bsky.social
Very pointed article by Sanitsuda. Worth reading. www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...
#thailand #conglomerats
#environment
#rights
Hope dies in Thailand's broken system
A woman, stunned, her husband holding her hand as she walks down the courthouse stairs. Prof Pirongrong Ramasoota, a respected scholar and commissioner of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunicati...
www.bangkokpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
"A truly transformative revolution requires a movement which will hold ourselves to the same level of accountability that we demand of the military. It requires us to question and challenge how we have normalised the everyday injustices around us."

@khinohmar.bsky.social well said, as usual
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
aileen16.bsky.social
And now I've found a cool new (to me) band! Check them out.
February 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
This is so dangerous. Many of the recipients of this support - which, btw, IS in the US's best interests - are under threat from their own governments, publishing this information will have severe consequences.
February 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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ndburma.bsky.social
ND-Burma worked with OHCHR on a report detailing the most effective transitional justice practices in sustaining peace and sustainable development. The full findings will be presented at the #HRC next month.
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
Very interesting on politics of TJ/memorialization in Taiwan - on timeframes and inclusion of colonial and systemic violence, and politicalization of those arguments
February 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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womenspeacenetwork.org
📄BRIEFING PAPER: Four years after the Burmese military's attempted coup

Read and share our briefer on the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis in #Myanmar: womenspeacenetwork.org/publications...

#Burma #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #SpringRevolution
February 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
aileen16.bsky.social
This is dangerous, there is highly sensitive information putting people at risk around the world.

Myanmar friends (and everywhere else) - be aware your data may be leaked. #whathappeninginmyanmar
jmhansler.bsky.social Jennifer Hansler @jmhansler.bsky.social · Feb 2
NEW: Two top security officials at USAID were put on admin leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Musk’s DOGE to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
aileen16.bsky.social
In honor of 4 years of brave women fighting the coup, here is one of my favorite stories of brave women resisting, this one from the 1962 Rangoon University protests - htamein protests even then.

#whatshappeninginmyanmar

youtu.be/9ICOtX5-uQc?...
@sisters2sistersmm.bsky.social
Anniversary of the Rangoon University massacre: Veteran Journalist recounts the events
YouTube video by Asia Calling
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
NEW: The Trump admin told a US-funded aid group that gives food & medicine to starving children in Sudan to shut down.

Children would die.

They’re defying the order.

But the aid world is in chaos.

Brett Murphy & Anna Barry-Jester:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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rk70534.bsky.social
“They came to our home and knocked at the door; my mother opened the door. I couldn’t recognise how many there were, but they instantly slaughtered my mother, my sleeping children, and my wife with sharp knives.”

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

#Burma #Myanmar #Rohingya
Rohingya civilians recall alleged Arakan Army abuses
The most well-known armed group taking on Myanmar’s ruling junta faces renewed accusations of rape, night raids, and murder.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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emilyfishbein11.bsky.social
Disheartening to see @DOGE cancel funding for scholarships to students from Burma, cutting off another pathway for those already facing massive hurdles to safe & quality education, especially since the 2021 military coup.

In light of this news, I've prepared a thread.
January 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
Good summary of what we know so far about the impact of US foreign aid freeze in Southeast Asia www.rfa.org/english/laos...
www.rfa.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
aileen16.bsky.social
These scholarships are so far from what he says they are, I can't stand it. These are young people fleeing conflict and forced conscription, trying to get a better future and contribute to their communities. This was a literal lifeline and they took it away out of spite and ignorance.
January 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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murosinvisibles.bsky.social
People in the US need to realize that institutions are not going to swoop in and save you. This isnt doomerism though, it is a call to action

There are a million small actions that you can take right now to make your community stronger safer and more resilient to opression

That's real resistence
As U.S. braces for Trump, it could learn a lot from the Global South about what "resistance" really means
Going beyond hashtags and doing the real work of building community is our strongest defense against authoritarianism
www.piratewireservices.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM