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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cool sounds from living creatures? Bears huffing; ravens crackling; and raccoons chirring (the last one I heard tonight).

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Critical minerals” make it sound much nicer than the absolute pillage of the land and waters this implies. To say nothing of endless war. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Canada will pay for NATO spending hike partly by developing critical minerals: Carney

"Some of the spending for that counts towards that 5% (target). In fact, a lot of it will count toward that 5% because of infrastructure spending"

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Jun 24

For those in it/ How do you think about the experience of this intense heatwave? For me, it feels like I’m waiting, a bit claustrophobic.

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Jun 4

Who else feels like the Liberal government is taking full advantage of the fear of Trump to push through Trump-lite policies?

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · May 27

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My current cosseted existence as a visiting scholar in Italy means that each afternoon, I work in an old palazzo, while buskers sing opera and horses clip clop down the street outside my window. Weird.

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · May 20

Law and social movements research conference! With a comparative lens. www.sns.it/it/evento/so...

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · May 6

Protests irritate those in power, who seek to contain and shrink the spaces, and expressions of dissent. We must stop this City bylaw, limiting the location of protest, when it is clear what is being debated. shorturl.at/NLeAk

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Apr 15

Trump wants “Viewpoint Diversity” at @harvard.edu . Does this mean poorly researched findings are just as valuable as well researched ones? Yeesh

David Noll @david.noll.org · Apr 14

As it became clear that the State Department and ICE were targeting students for their lawful political speech, our dean worked with university leadership and our clinical program to establish a rapid response project for students threatened with detention or deportation.

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 19

It’s one of those sunbeam on skin; smell of road salt kind of days.

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 18

youtube.com/watch?v=kyaW... Over 100 Palestine solidarity activists have been arrested in Toronto over the past 17 months. Help fund legal defense at tcjf.ca

Drop the Charges Against the Indigo 11!

YouTube video by friendsofthe11

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 12

Let me just say, Canadians are paying attention/freaking out. We can hopefully use the moment to promote a vision of internationalism and a model of care for all our relations.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Mar 12

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 11

The detention of recent @columbiauniversity.bsky.social grad and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil by ICE is a structure test. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

The detention and attempted deportation of Khalil is a test by Trump to see how far he can go—and a test for us to see how hard we will fight back.

www.thenation.com

Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · Mar 9

"Politicians find it more convenient to blame foreigners, instead of addressing the cumulative consequences of years, even decades, of failure to protect housing as an enforceable human right."
-- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Migrants must not be blamed for housing crises, says Special Rapporteur on Housing

GENEVA – Migrants and refugees are not responsible for the global housing crisis and are among those most vulnerable to its effects, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakri...

www.ohchr.org

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The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · Mar 6

The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.bsky.social) issued a strongly worded statement Wednesday condemning President Trump's recent comments threatening to expel and arrest student protesters and cut federal funding to colleges and universities that permit campus demonstrations.

AAUP Condemns Trump's Threats Against Campus Protests as "Antithetical to Democracy"

Academic organization criticizes president's remarks about expelling and arresting student protesters.

www.diverseeducation.com

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 6

Delighted to be a part of this! Incredible editors and contributors ..

Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social · Feb 24

🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically.

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Mar 3

#Trumpnausea is a thing

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 25

We know that creating uncertainty is a power move. But some things remain certain. we must take care of one another and all our relations.

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 24

As a supervisor of graduate students, today I was reminded of how anxiety can be the enemy of curiosity.

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Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social · Feb 24

🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 24

Suspended for 15 months so far.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 22

One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up

The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align the military with Trump’s agenda.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 12

Anyone else in Ontario experiencing a surge in political polling? I think I’ve had ten calls, texts or emails in the past two weeks.

Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 10

Anti-imperialist, natch

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 10

Imagining some sort of political internationalist alliance amongst Gazans, Greenlanders, Panamanians and Canadians. Room for growth. lol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 4

Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."

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Lesley Wood @bikenerd416.bsky.social · Feb 5

A mensch. RIP Michael Burawoy

Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · Feb 4

I will always remember him as the 1st professor to show up at the barricades & the last to leave whenever there was a student protest on campus. Here he is on the steps of Wheeler Hall lecturing on Foucault as students chained themselves to the roof protesting austerity. 📸 @zunguzungu.bsky.social

A stately beaux arts building on the left with dozens of students sitting on the steps. In the middle, Michael Burawoy stands with a megaphone wearing all black and staring at the camera with a friendly smile.

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · Feb 4

I will always remember him as the 1st professor to show up at the barricades & the last to leave whenever there was a student protest on campus. Here he is on the steps of Wheeler Hall lecturing on Foucault as students chained themselves to the roof protesting austerity. 📸 @zunguzungu.bsky.social

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hey so FYI this is why a lot of us believe billionaires should not exist. Because no one should be rich enough to topple a government

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