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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 3d

Two or more Open-rank Professorships in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen:

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Rosie Walters @drrosiew.bsky.social · 4d

It's part of a long-running collaboration with Plan International, analysing their longitudinal study with girls and their caregivers in nine countries over 18 years. Full report coming next month!

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Rosie Walters @drrosiew.bsky.social · 4d

In the paper I argue that hope isn't to be found in asking girls to adapt to an unfair world (e.g. confidence and leadership training), but hope can come from adults doing better at creating societies where girls feel safe to learn, explore and question, and where their views are heard and acted on.

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Rosie Walters @drrosiew.bsky.social · 4d

Spending #InternationalDayoftheGirl in Newcastle for the joint @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social workshop on the Global Politics of Hope.

I'm presenting on Critical Hope and Girls' Everyday Resistance. Couldn't resist putting this print I made of my youngest daughter on the opening slide 🌸🏵️

A print of a silhouette of a young girl on a swing surrounded by flowers and a butterfly

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 6d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7d

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 7d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 8d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15d

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 15d

I hope women read the writing on the teleprompter here and get out. I hope everyone who isn't a fascist does. He is going to legitimise sexual assault as a locker room 'boys will be boys' thing. And there will be horrible misogynists, racists and fascists taking him up on that blank cheque.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 15d

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Rosie Walters @drrosiew.bsky.social · 15d

The new timetabling software. He's due to appear next Wednesday but there's a clash with a year 1 study skills session

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 15d

TEN YEARS for settled status. Labour really do seem to have gone collectively insane. Just don’t play Farage’s game. Refuse. Try thinking about what you’re actually saying. And stop.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21d

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25d

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt

Photo of a standing woman wearing colourful dress facing forwards on a muddy track in a rural landscape with her hand resting on a small loom

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We! Are! Hiring!

The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26

More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572

#blackademia #academia #PhDSky

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25d

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

For those of us whose lives are already easy, giving up means making those lives even easier, at least in terms of effort. For the directly impacted, giving up means surrendering to devastation. Giving up on their behalf is not solidarity. And I doubt that anyone in desperate straits has ever taken comfort in the idea that somewhere far safer, people are bitter and despondent on their behalf or have decided they are doomed.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · Sep 10

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · Sep 2

How Gender Equity Schemes Might Inadvertently “Gender-Wash” Universities, Provoke Backlash, and Propagate Inequality

Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey, Kate Carruthers Thomas, Maria Tsouroufli

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How Gender Equity Schemes Might Inadvertently “Gender‐Wash” Universities, Provoke Backlash, and Propagate Inequality

This paper explores the work experience and career trajectories of people working across 12 UK-based universities awarded an Athena Swan Charter, an international scheme that recognizes commitment to...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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