Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him)
@dyebo.bsky.social
Prof of Law @Suffolk University Law School. Climate, IP, Indigenous Rights. Blog and Publications - https://dalishabalala.com
Steering Committee - https://greenleadershiptrust.org/
Former Board - www.ciel.org
Queer/Bi 🏳️🌈 - protect trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Steering Committee - https://greenleadershiptrust.org/
Former Board - www.ciel.org
Queer/Bi 🏳️🌈 - protect trans rights 🏳️⚧️
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It was a great privilege to get to hear Justice Breyer speak at Suffolk today.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It was a great privilege to get to hear Justice Breyer speak at Suffolk today.
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MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In t...
www.wbur.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
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If conservative white men can’t tell if you’re “really” a man or a woman, they won’t know if they should respect you or try to take advantage of you. That ambiguity is very disorienting.
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If conservative white men can’t tell if you’re “really” a man or a woman, they won’t know if they should respect you or try to take advantage of you. That ambiguity is very disorienting.
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… so we do understand that anti DEI/ misogyny / transphobia is built on the idea that …..
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
… so we do understand that anti DEI/ misogyny / transphobia is built on the idea that …..
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
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the “anti-fascist popular front” is big enough to include actual fascists (MTG) but not the most vulnerable targets of fascism (trans people, migrants), because they’re not actually trying to construct an anti-fascist popular front.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
the “anti-fascist popular front” is big enough to include actual fascists (MTG) but not the most vulnerable targets of fascism (trans people, migrants), because they’re not actually trying to construct an anti-fascist popular front.
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i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
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You can tell when someone has actually read the stuff in the footnotes and when they haven't, when they've actually delved into the state of the fields they're describing and when they haven't. You can guess which of those two "Sapiens" is.
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You can tell when someone has actually read the stuff in the footnotes and when they haven't, when they've actually delved into the state of the fields they're describing and when they haven't. You can guess which of those two "Sapiens" is.
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"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those whose lives were lost to anti-trans violence.
We honor those we lost by continuing our fight for justice.
We honor those we lost by continuing our fight for justice.
On Trans Day of Remembrance, My Grief is My Power | ACLU
As the trans community remembers those we’ve lost, I find strength in understanding why the grievous injustices that continue to harm our community must be stopped.
www.aclu.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those whose lives were lost to anti-trans violence.
We honor those we lost by continuing our fight for justice.
We honor those we lost by continuing our fight for justice.
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BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, who were accused of ramming a vehicle driven by Border Patrol agents on Oct. 4, court records show.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle
Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...
news.wttw.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, who were accused of ramming a vehicle driven by Border Patrol agents on Oct. 4, court records show.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
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They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT.
It's obscene.
It's obscene.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT.
It's obscene.
It's obscene.
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Why yes, there *is* a lot of similarity between the world’s first (almost) trillionaire and Trump.
I’ve got an essay and paper explaining why
lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...
I’ve got an essay and paper explaining why
lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...
Opinion | The World’s Most Shameless Public Figure Does It Again
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why yes, there *is* a lot of similarity between the world’s first (almost) trillionaire and Trump.
I’ve got an essay and paper explaining why
lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...
I’ve got an essay and paper explaining why
lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...
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While we are unlawfully renaming executive departments, the Education Department should be renamed the Privatization Department.
It's not about giving more education power & funding to states, it's about ultimately turning states' education powers & funding over to private for-profit interests.
It's not about giving more education power & funding to states, it's about ultimately turning states' education powers & funding over to private for-profit interests.
"Dismantling" gives them too much cover
We have here the makings of a shadow agency inflicting 4 harms:
1. Depletion (of public funding)
2. Diversion (of funds to private schools)
3. Discrimination (of DEI, LGBTQ+)
4. Destabilization (of public ed to serve #1-3)
Project 2025 goal: privatization
We have here the makings of a shadow agency inflicting 4 harms:
1. Depletion (of public funding)
2. Diversion (of funds to private schools)
3. Discrimination (of DEI, LGBTQ+)
4. Destabilization (of public ed to serve #1-3)
Project 2025 goal: privatization
Breaking News: The Trump administration announced an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
While we are unlawfully renaming executive departments, the Education Department should be renamed the Privatization Department.
It's not about giving more education power & funding to states, it's about ultimately turning states' education powers & funding over to private for-profit interests.
It's not about giving more education power & funding to states, it's about ultimately turning states' education powers & funding over to private for-profit interests.
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Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
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I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
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I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes.
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes.
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
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DYK the National Indian Law Library (NILL) at the Native American Rights Fund is the only law library in the country dedicated exclusively to federal Indian and Tribal law?
For more than 50 years, NILL has provided free access to legal resources that strengthen Tribal sovereignty: narf.org/nill
For more than 50 years, NILL has provided free access to legal resources that strengthen Tribal sovereignty: narf.org/nill
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
DYK the National Indian Law Library (NILL) at the Native American Rights Fund is the only law library in the country dedicated exclusively to federal Indian and Tribal law?
For more than 50 years, NILL has provided free access to legal resources that strengthen Tribal sovereignty: narf.org/nill
For more than 50 years, NILL has provided free access to legal resources that strengthen Tribal sovereignty: narf.org/nill
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He has made every single person and thing he's touched in his life worse. The world is worse for his existence. We all suffer for the failures of the social, cultural, political, and economic systems that allow him to exist.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
He has made every single person and thing he's touched in his life worse. The world is worse for his existence. We all suffer for the failures of the social, cultural, political, and economic systems that allow him to exist.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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⚖️ The historic climate change advisory opinion #ICJAO from the International Court of Justice looms over the United States' absence at #COP30.
NEW in @climatechangenews.com: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
NEW in @climatechangenews.com: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
⚖️ The historic climate change advisory opinion #ICJAO from the International Court of Justice looms over the United States' absence at #COP30.
NEW in @climatechangenews.com: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
NEW in @climatechangenews.com: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
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#MOP8 event alert: Join us to explore how the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll can strengthen the implementation of procedural rights under the convention, access to information, public participation & access to justice.
⏰ 19/11 at 1pm
🔗 unece.org/environmenta...
⏰ 19/11 at 1pm
🔗 unece.org/environmenta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#MOP8 event alert: Join us to explore how the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll can strengthen the implementation of procedural rights under the convention, access to information, public participation & access to justice.
⏰ 19/11 at 1pm
🔗 unece.org/environmenta...
⏰ 19/11 at 1pm
🔗 unece.org/environmenta...