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Honoured to be included in this collection from Dahlia Simangan of @risjnl.bsky.social alongside a set of articles that have also inspired me over the years #peacebuilding #IR #anticolonial

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46 more Palestinians killed today trying to access food in starvation conditions. This letter from leading #humanrights organizations explains why privatized, militarized aid actually abets war crimes and genocide ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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A few years ago, I wrote about how ppl who use opioids may can find their babies taken away if they seek medical help like nalaxone or suboxone during pregnancy bc of mandated reporting. If those laws are one disconnect btwn nalaxone & ppl who need it, logistics are another. Enter: the pharmacist

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Agreed. But then again, the language of 'budgets' is part of the problem. I'm struggling to think of many people who treat budgets as much more than a 'suggestion' to be 'negotiated' and always exceeded (governments and corporations being the worst at this) #climate #crisis

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Important insights - across key areas, from resources to infrastructure to immigration - Carney is entrenching the settler colonial state. It seems the desire to avoid the extreme right has nonetheless pulled our 'center' further right.

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so... I know what the word 'balk' means, but what does it look like to balk? What are the motions and postures involved? Do you balk? HOW do you balk? silly answers only.

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Hey cis folks, now is a good time to look up these non-profits and resource centers and think about how you can help!

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The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

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Tanks used to attack people waiting for food near Khan Younis, killing more than 50 and injuring hundreds with shellfire. The cruelty of using this violence against starving people is unconscionable #endthegenocideNOW www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Important insight on why it's so important to create and keep hard copies and/or oral and other non-digital histories of knowledge that is under attack (whether directly or by attrition through LLMs) #knowledge #preservation

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👀 Hot off the press: A scathing open letter co-authored by all 17 former ACIP members. It's a frank look at ACIP history and the hard truths America will grapple with in the upcoming months. Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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#CFP for a special issue of Apocalyptica on the #biopolitics of #time - for scholars of #temporality , #crises, #ecology #geography, #sociology and more heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo...

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1/3 ICYMI: The House passed a $9.4 BILLION “DOGE” rescission package that guts funding for global HIV/AIDS relief (PEPFAR) & public broadcasting. It’s a death sentence for millions around the world and at home. Now, it is heading to the Senate where it only needs a simple majority to pass.

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And a huge thanks back to @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social , whose new book is a masterclass in history for the resistance and survival work

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Interested in #abolition and #borders? (or just trying to survive this stage of authoritarianism?) The amazing @haymarketbooks.org is offering three excellent books FREE that can help guide the way www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...

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Important new article from Ghada Ageel www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza... [Alt text: a group of people, many wearing black, stands and knees in a semi circle around the bodies of loved ones, shrouded in white in the foreground]

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Excellent article on the mainstreaming not only of anti-vaxx norms but also the current eugenicist moment

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This is one of the many reasons why funding science matters!

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Looking forward to celebrating this wonderful book! #anticolonial #extinction #studies [alt text: an image of a mastodon skeleton faces right. A figure riding an elephant sits underneath and left, with two figures (one holding a spear, the other a cane and top hat) to the right.

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Mining, including the extraction of transition minerals, leads every sector in attacks on environmental & human rights defenders. 40% of those killed were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. grist.org/indigenous/i...

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As a disabled person, my relationship with 'cure-focused' medical research is, ahem, complicated. However, what this visualizer shows clearly is how much of this research would have improved the lives of diverse disabled people (vs trying to eliminate some of us - fewer cuts there...)

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Evacuation orders only work when it is reasonably possible to evacuate, and many rural, remote and/or Indigenous communities are cut off from transport options that city-dwellers take for granted #Manitobawildfires

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THIS. It's crucial to place the casual #eugenics of this 'administration' in a broader context. #ableism #antidisabilityhate

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"What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians... Israel is committing #warcrimes" - Ehud Olmert. When even the politicians say this, there's no doubt of the enormity of the violence www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Highly recommend this piece to anyone who wants to understand more about what it's actually like to have a ('non-apparent') disability in today's workplaces - or if you've been through these kinds of experience yourself #disability #employment #equity

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"Most people are more aligned with the eugenicist mindset than they realize. They too are afraid of disability and disabled people" - this blog post on the new #surgeongeneral is en point #disabilitysky #disability #eugenics

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New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Yet more evidence that model of philanthropy based on allowing some people to earn billions and then 'give (some of) it back' (to causes they champion, along ideological lines they agree with, for as long as they see fit) - is exactly the bullshit it sounds like #billionaire #philanthropy

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RFK Jr's 'autism database' will use insurance claims, electronic medical records and data from wearables with health sensors. All with the goal of 'eradicating' our community. #eugenics #notadisease www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...

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Habemus murem!

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1/ 🧵 RFK Jr. recently claimed that "none of the vaccines on the CDC’s childhood recommended schedule were tested against an inert #placebo." This isn't true, but the issue is more nuanced than a soundbite allows. Let's break it down. 👇

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Large-scale experimental transformations of earth's ecosystems, hydrosphere, atmosphere & cryosphere w/ high potential for unintended long-term consequences, helmed by the UK - sounds...familiar #geoengineering #climatecrisis #climatecolonialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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