johan
jraq.bsky.social
johan
@jraq.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Northeastern University| Researching Community-Led Conservation | Interested in How Community Practice Translates into Public Policy
I've been thinking about decolonizing the language we use. This essay by @msaraceni.bsky.social is such a helpful read for exploring these ideas: aeon.co/essays/how-d...
How do you decolonise the English language? | Aeon Essays
Is Earth’s most-spoken language a living ‘gift’ or a many-headed ‘monster’? Both views distract us from the real dilemma
aeon.co
February 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
February 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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Abolish ICE is not enough.

Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.

We need prosecutions and trials.

Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Fuck every single soldier that is like, “I fought in a war zone, ICE is bad!”

Combat troops have a hell of a lot more blood on their hands than ICE or cops. They are all part of a system of a mass violence that hunts and murders. Fuck ICE, fuck the police & fuck the US military
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Trump, Vance, Noem, Rubio, Kushner, Holland, Bovino and all of those disgusting people--send them to The Hague.

Criminals!

#crimesagainsthumanity
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Dictator Trump is responsible for the Jan., ordered mass murders of boaters, threatened to destroy an entire country, bragged he could shoot someone and not lose voters, and is suppressing and killing immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. I think it's safe to say "peace" has never been on his mind.
January 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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I feel like the Nobel peace prize people could have avoided this if they gave their medal to someone who dedicated their life to peace, rather than just "this person is an opposition leader."
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
ICE is terrorism. Pure and simple.
TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened
January 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Amazing to me that Donald Trump has not been asked once to comment on this insanely Neo-Nazi post from his Homeland Security department, nor asked who are the 50 to 60 *million* US citizens that his DHS say they want to ‘deport.’
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It's really tough to decide which one of these two individuals is more disgusting.
President Donald Trump said he will meet with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado next week — and that he would accept the award she has said she wants to share with him.
Trump says he will meet Machado — and would accept Nobel Peace Prize from her
Speaking to Fox News, Trump said it “would be a great honor” if the Venezuelan opposition leader decided to share her Nobel Peace Prize with him.
wapo.st
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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I'm so tired of watching evil people get away with doing evil to others.
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...

US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The inauguration???
Trump on the ballroom: "It's bigger than I told you. It's, you know -- after realizing we're gonna do the inauguration in that building, it's got all bulletproof glass, it's got all drone, they call it drone-free roof. It's dronessss -- won't touch it. It's a big beautiful safe building."
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Republicans and Democrats hobnobbing together on Epstein’s island, while destroying the lives of working-class people, tells you everything you need to know about the US ruling class. Rotten to the core. The whole edifice needs to be brought down.
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM