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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 8h

Andrew Ross on the Israeli carceral state’s role in the ongoing genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front

www.nytimes.com

ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 1d

Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 1d

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3331-racial-fictions?srsltid=AfmBOookeDnbTHFnV-NLFUlhSwjuoMDu-YqNwpMbCl5Dom5QPZPhBNpX

ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, there’s a new Hazel Carby book coming out next month?

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:

1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE

2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 2d

Few things cringier than when someone who does not know how W.E.B. Du Bois pronounced his surname attempts to correct people who are pronouncing it accurately.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 4d

Bard College reply-allcalypse over whether instructions on how to deal with a bear encounter on campus pertain only to “campsites” or to campus as well

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report

Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report

<article data-history-node-id="430029" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestinian Authority (PA) was not invited to participate in the Gaza Peace Summit which will be held in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, a source told al-Araby al-Jadeed.</p> <p>An unnamed senior Palestinian official told the news site that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not respond to a request by the PA to "reaffirm that the Palestinian leadership remains the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people".</p> <p>According to the source, the PA were not invited as it was not included in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.</p> <p>Some 20 countries are set to attend Monday's summit, which will be co-chaired by Trump and Sisi.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 4d

“District Attorney Bernie Cantorna dismissed the murder charge, saying a retrial would be both impossible and unjust”. Being picked up by ICE before he even gets home for a tiny taste of freedom? That’s entirely possible it seems. Outrageous indeed

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 7d

The Bought Press

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 8d

Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism, New York: Metropolitan Books. 2023.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10d

Balaji Srinivasan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—has “acquired a private island near Singapore as part of his…plan to create a ‘Network State’“ 7/5/25 … 1/ www.news18.com/business/who...

Who Is Balaji Srinivasan, Who Bought Island Near Singapore To Launch 'Network State'?

Tech entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan has acquired island to create 'Network State' — a decentralised, digital-first society focused on tech, innovation, and community-driven living.

www.news18.com

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 8d

I would really like to post here more than the other place, but the inability to do so privately makes that problematic, especially in light of the ongoing use of social media by Zionist groups and the far right to target activists, organizers, and scholars.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 10d

I’m sorry that this is happening, Mark. Please let us know if there is anything we can do on our end.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11d

NYT constantly devising new ways to render Palestinians infrahuman

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11d

Or, more likely, the purpose of the university police department quickly mutated in a different direction, so that the phenomenon of fake student matriculators is no longer much of a preoccupation for a force whose energies have mostly been directed at homeless people and black teenagers

ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11d

interesting thing about the story of the woman faking her way into Yale is that this very phenomenon is ostensibly what inspired the creation of the Yale Police Department in 1894. 131 years and millions upon millions of dollars and god knows how many arrests later, it doesn’t seem to have worked

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 14d

Source and explanation:

> Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “[r-slur] degenerates”.
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> Class didn’t appreciate it.

www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

From the udub community on Reddit: Nazi interrupts Psych 210, receives predictable response

Explore this post and more from the udub community

www.reddit.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14d

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 14d

Any college that signs this should be bulldozed

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 15d

After everything they did for cops!

Reuters @reuters.com · 15d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

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