J.T. Roane
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J.T. Roane
@jtroane.bsky.social
Black studies scholar
Where y’all submit (and read) left oriented writing these days for public engagement?
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
If tonight’s planned white house telecast is not to announce illegal war on Venezuela I’ll be shocked. #HandsOffVenezuela
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A system that can’t halt genocide but continues to amass enough lethal force to destroy all known life, that can make resources available to some with a click but can’t provide food and water to all, and that can build death camps while hurricane victims remain unhoused must be uprooted and replaced
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hot conflicts and genocides all around metals and minerals. How long before all these proxy wars manifest as just full on World War III? We must demand peace and organize global solidarities that displace our current systems, national and international with something centered in the right to dignity
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I don’t think we can ignore that the two hot spots of genocidal violence on the African continent—DRC and Sudan—host extensive mine interests by Chinese companies and that the “rebels” in one and the RSF the other are backed indirectly by the US or US allies. Please point me to some good reporting.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Bullying poor countries with the biggest martial force in the history of earth, is the surest sign of moral and social decay. It also illustrates the country’s slipping hegemony since the use of force is geopolitically expensive. Its giving the opposite of actual power apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Fascists are false flag stunt queens. Stay woke.
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hands off Venezuela!
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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And never stop. No love for the U.A.E.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is major heist of collectively financed knowledge for private corporate AI development. Given AI companies current profiles in surveillance and war its our collective double financing our own ecological and social unmaking euphemistically named advancement. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump's AI ‘Genesis Mission': what are the risks and opportunities?
National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government's AI platform. But who stands to benefit?
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What could we imagine if both governing parties didn’t squander our collective wealth bombing (or bombing by proxy) poor Black and brown people all over the world and locking us up and running ice here? What if we gave one f-15 jet budget to every school district, or ice’s budget to public clinics?
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
IDF is bombing Lebanon this morning. Israel has broken the ceasefire in Gaza hundreds of times.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Between grant applications to forward collective work, writing and research, letters of rec, teaching and grading, as well as travel, Unc need a bed and a robe. That is all.
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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“Exhausted ideas of liberal democracy and free market capitalism do not need to be reanimated by a new zombie liberalism.” -Vijay Prashad
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
antipodeonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Support for Javier Milei’s chaotic regime is explained by two factors. 1. Argentina is a test case for right wing, hostile political and economic reordering around a new level extreme disregard for the well-being of a national population for short run profit. 2. Milei booted China from rare earths.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Exhausted ideas of liberal democracy and free market capitalism do not need to be reanimated by a new zombie liberalism.” -Vijay Prashad
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
in the US we will have to reckon with the costs of imperial chauvinism forwarded by both parties and all mainstream institutions that hid from us that China ended poverty while we have been immiserated, that Cuba has better longevity despite embargo, and that our interests are not the capitalists’.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is a #MustRead @npr.org article. It's from a trusted source & it's absolutely terrifying.
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM