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Sara Koopman
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof, solidarity activist. #Colombia.
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TRkenwhite.bsky.social

The problem with “free speech culture,” as opposed to free speech law, is that it is fuzzy and malleable and can be manipulated like this to say “Richard Spencer talking was essential to healthy and productive debate but kids protesting Gaza is disruptive, intimidating, and discriminatory.”

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AKakalhan.bsky.social

"Martin [told] Michigan students terrified of a white nationalist guest speaker that they were in no danger. Why isn’t a Richard Spencer speech a threat when a pro-Palestine chant is?"

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JRjohnrogers.bsky.social

The key to understanding this is to remember Trump’s support is not the working class, but the local aristocracy, the car dealership owners et al. who see themselves as Johnny Big Boy Business like Trump’s jmage.

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I've been quiet about this publicly out of respect for my colleague who was going through a legal process, but now that she has spoken on the record, I am sharing it here.

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech

Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.

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MSmsoares.bsky.social

Não tem nada mais lindo no jornalismo mundial do que os mapÔes dominicais da editoria Geopolítica do Le Monde.

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CNclimatenews.bsky.social

“Words cannot describe just how off the charts hot the ocean is, we reached a record high today and I'm yet to see a single media article” - Earthly Education on Instagram

Comment posted:
“words cannot describe just how off the charts hot the ocean is, we reached a record high today and I'm yet to see a single media article”

Above a graph showing global sea surface temperatures of 2024 at an all time record high for this time of the year.

Link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAfO7rnumZ8/?igsh=MWxrYjdoOHN3M3V2dw==
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MSmsoares.bsky.social

"Os bilionårios que investem no espaço não querem Jornada nas Estrelas. Querem Duna."

MSsixtus.net

On point.

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HMhenrymance.bsky.social

This is ridiculous. A judge has sentenced an activist who threw tomato soup in the National Gallery to two years in jail. The same judge decided not to jail a policeman who gave a drunk woman a lift in his patrol car, then had sexual contact with her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers
Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers

Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup over Van's Gogh's piece.

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SSshoshana.bsky.social

It's happened. OpenAI wants to use more electricity than bitcoin (2-4x more). They want five to seven 5 gigawatt data centers đŸ€Ż fortune.com/2024/09/27/o... đŸ§”

Geordi La Force meme where he's saying no to 1% for the planet and saying yes to 1% of global electricity for OpenAI
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Sara Koopman
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof, solidarity activist. #Colombia.
1.2k followers1.9k following113 posts