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Jess Bier 🌈

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Associate prof. of urban sociology Erasmus University Rotterdam Pro 🍉 ⚧️ 🏴‍☠️ PI: DIGIPORTS project, digitalization + racialization in maritime logistics Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · May 5

An updated list of groups who verify people to donate to in Gaza:

Radio watermelon verifies gofundmes, see their twitter:
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Iris collective verifies gofundmes in their Instagram stories, also see calls for volunteers to help set up funds: www.instagram.com/theiris.coll...

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Radio Watermelon (@RadioWatermelon) / X

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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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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 7d

Today's news, but every day: the worst troll you ever imagined is now the emperor of the universe. The best people you've ever met are suffering uncontrollably. Good luck pretending to have a normal day!

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday: imagine managing to get the last seat on a packed train even in 1st class, just to be confronted by a frail 75+ White man who decided that the only Black person in the carriage (and NOT the only person who got on that carriage) couldn't possibly have a 1st class ticket.

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 14d

This is so real. There's an academia version of this as well ...

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 15d

So exhausting..

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 17d

About fucking time.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

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Vers Beton @versbeton.nl · 20d

Het fascistische geweld in Den Haag afgelopen weekend maakt de lezing van de Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist Nikole Hannah-Jones volgende week in De Dépendance nóg urgenter. Daar spreekt zij over de erosie van de democratie. Vers Betonleden krijgen korting.

Pulitzerprijswinnaar Nikole Hannah-Jones: “Excuses aanbieden voor het slavernijverleden zonder de schade aan te pakken is nutteloos” [€]

Interview met Pulitzerprijswinnaar Nikole Hannah-Jones over de rol van het Nederlandse slavernijverleden op de samenleving en haar visie op journalistiek.

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 20d

His lawyer "noted that Ayyash is a well-known Palestinian journalist and that Israeli authorities frequently accuse journalists of Hamas links to silence them."

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Palestinian journalist arrested at Schiphol still in custody

Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, arrested Friday at Schiphol Airport at the request of Austrian authorities, will remain in pretrial detention for at least 20 more days, RTL reports...

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 21d

Background info: ifex.org/faces/alaa-a...

Alaa Abd El Fattah - Archives - IFEX

Social media was one of the driving forces behind the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Yet today, one of the country's most renowned bloggers, software designers and digital revolutionaries still remains beh...

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 21d

This is so genuinely, wonderfully beautiful. #AlaaIsFree

Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 21d

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree

h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22d

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️

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Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 24d

While we're on the subject of free speech, note that Israel bombed a newspaper complex in Yemen, killing 31 journalists. The pundits who've spent the last few days commenting on political violence will have nothing to say about the wholesale murder of thirty-one of their colleagues.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25d

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

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Dan Arndt Is Budgeting For PAXU @danarndtwrites.bsky.social · Sep 13

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Charlie Kirk

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Sep 13

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · Sep 13

‘Cultuurstrijder’ of ‘activist’: de vermoorde Amerikaanse white supremacist Charlie Kirk wordt in de media op allerlei manieren omschreven. Maar niemand noemt hem ‘fascist’, terwijl zijn denkbeelden aan kenmerken ervan voldoen. Herkennen we fascisme nog wel? @cutbeans.bsky.social legt het uit.

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Dagmar Vorlíček @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Just a thought but academics on limited contracts doing major teaching and research load at universities want stability and transparent rules on job prospects not a “postdoc appreciation week” #ichbinhanna

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · Sep 8

New squat in Rotterdam!

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Squatters move into monumental building in Rotterdam

A group of squatters has occupied a vacant historic building on Havenstraat in Rotterdam-Delfshaven, living there for nearly two weeks while planning to renovate it for community use, according to Rij...

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

Dutch police keep trying to intimidate those who call attention to the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of universities.

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LinkedIn-post over Gaza en universiteiten leidt tot aangifte TU Eindhoven; man krijgt van politie te horen dat hij moet stoppen

EINDHOVEN – Een man uit Nijmegen heeft de politie aan de deur gekregen vanwege een Gaza-post op LinkedIn. Hij kreeg de boodschap dat hij moest stoppen. Navraag leert dat het politiebezoek volgde op ee...

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Sep 1

i'm overwhelmed with grief right now. i can't contain this.

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Aug 31

⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders

“The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...