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Doctoral Student, NYU || International law and science fiction, utopian studies, anticolonial imaginations of outer space

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They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

25.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 11835 πŸ” 5322 πŸ’¬ 387 πŸ“Œ 295
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR RΓΌmeysa Γ–ztΓΌrk has earned her PhD!!

19.02.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 11774 πŸ” 1537 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 129
Excerpt reads: β€œTechnological change expresses a panoply of human motives, not the least of which is the desire of some to have dominion over others even though it may require an occasional sacrifice of cost savings and some violation of the normal standard of trying to get more from less.
One poignant illustration can be found in the history of nineteenth-century industrial mechanization. At Cyrus McCormick's reaper manufacturing plant in Chicago in the middle 1880s, pneumatic molding machines, a new and largely untested innovation, were added to the foundry at an estimated cost of $500,000. The standard economic interpretation would lead us to expect that this step was taken to modernize the plant and achieve the kind of efficiencies that mechanization brings. But historian Robert Ozanne has put the development in a broader context. At the time, Cyrus McCormick Il was engaged in a battle with the National Union of Iron Molders. He saw the addition of the new machines as a way to β€˜weed out the bad element among the men,’ namely, the skilled workers who had organized the union local in Chicago. The new machines, manned by unskilled laborers, actually produced inferior castings at a higher cost than the earlier process. After three years of use the machines were, in fact, abandoned, but by that time they had served their purpose--the destruction of the union. Thus, the story of these technical developments at the McCormick factory cannot be adequately understood outside the record of workers' attempts to organize, police repression of the labor movement in Chicago during that period, and the events surrounding the bombing at Haymarket Square. Technological history and U.S. political history were at that moment deeply intertwined.”

Excerpt reads: β€œTechnological change expresses a panoply of human motives, not the least of which is the desire of some to have dominion over others even though it may require an occasional sacrifice of cost savings and some violation of the normal standard of trying to get more from less. One poignant illustration can be found in the history of nineteenth-century industrial mechanization. At Cyrus McCormick's reaper manufacturing plant in Chicago in the middle 1880s, pneumatic molding machines, a new and largely untested innovation, were added to the foundry at an estimated cost of $500,000. The standard economic interpretation would lead us to expect that this step was taken to modernize the plant and achieve the kind of efficiencies that mechanization brings. But historian Robert Ozanne has put the development in a broader context. At the time, Cyrus McCormick Il was engaged in a battle with the National Union of Iron Molders. He saw the addition of the new machines as a way to β€˜weed out the bad element among the men,’ namely, the skilled workers who had organized the union local in Chicago. The new machines, manned by unskilled laborers, actually produced inferior castings at a higher cost than the earlier process. After three years of use the machines were, in fact, abandoned, but by that time they had served their purpose--the destruction of the union. Thus, the story of these technical developments at the McCormick factory cannot be adequately understood outside the record of workers' attempts to organize, police repression of the labor movement in Chicago during that period, and the events surrounding the bombing at Haymarket Square. Technological history and U.S. political history were at that moment deeply intertwined.”

In light of all the AI ads played during tonight’s Super Bowl, it’s worthwhile to recall this excerpt from Langdon Winner’s The Whale and the Reactor:

09.02.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 25093 πŸ” 5879 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 50
halftime show

halftime show

what a shot

09.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 20028 πŸ” 3459 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 137

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

24.01.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 24112 πŸ” 6244 πŸ’¬ 291 πŸ“Œ 291

It’s a welcome dose of hope, a welcome dream for a better future. What a great pilot episode!

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JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

10.01.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 7993 πŸ” 3411 πŸ’¬ 392 πŸ“Œ 373
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portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

08.01.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 3819 πŸ” 1899 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 191
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

08.01.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 44252 πŸ” 17123 πŸ’¬ 1079 πŸ“Œ 778

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

07.01.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 11830 πŸ” 4353 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 47

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

07.01.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 1251 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5

The β€œprosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

07.01.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 16983 πŸ” 4189 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 329
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

04.01.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 43460 πŸ” 16076 πŸ’¬ 326 πŸ“Œ 411
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

β€œβ€œThey dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinΓ‡elik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

04.10.2025 18:21 πŸ‘ 6389 πŸ” 3844 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 516

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

β€œPeople of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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01.10.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 5158 πŸ” 2983 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 82
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

26.09.2025 11:11 πŸ‘ 20609 πŸ” 7427 πŸ’¬ 1032 πŸ“Œ 787

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS

I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling.

These are human beings.

22.09.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 238 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

17.09.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 4301 πŸ” 1415 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 26
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JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as β€œthe β€œmost authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

16.09.2025 07:11 πŸ‘ 642 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 30
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

14.09.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 8228 πŸ” 2882 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 298

β€œβ€¦ They went after Musk’s cars …”

As the right-wing pundits start wringing their hands and stoking outrage over Kirk’s death, it’s worth noticing how they hold the life of one of β€œtheir own” as equal in value to the price tag of a Cybertruck

10.09.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We conceptualize borders as a space outside of law, where we can use extreme forms of policing (warrantless searches & now execution). But these acts do not protect us; they endanger us by creating a vast, unregulated police state. What happens at the border will eventually happen everywhere.

03.09.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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I’m saying that Burke and Gavin would be buddies

18.08.2025 05:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gavin Newsom has the exact vibe of a Weyland-Yutani executive who watches in glee as a xenomorph eats you

18.08.2025 05:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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What the fu**ing shit, nyt!?!?!?!
Just within 24 hours after five of al-jazeers journalists were killed, nyt published this.
Who wrote it?
An israeli writer.
The blood of the journalists is still fresh in the journalists’ graves.
Blood is on nyt hands.

12.08.2025 01:52 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 9
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Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

24.07.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 707 πŸ” 452 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 23
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Whelp, they were only a couple years off…

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