Het fascistische geweld in Den Haag afgelopen weekend maakt de lezing van de Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist Nikole Hannah-Jones volgende week in De Dépendance nóg urgenter. Daar spreekt zij over de erosie van de democratie. Vers Betonleden krijgen korting.

His lawyer "noted that Ayyash is a well-known Palestinian journalist and that Israeli authorities frequently accuse journalists of Hamas links to silence them." nltimes.nl/2025/09/23/p...

This is so genuinely, wonderfully beautiful. #AlaaIsFree

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

While we're on the subject of free speech, note that Israel bombed a newspaper complex in Yemen, killing 31 journalists. The pundits who've spent the last few days commenting on political violence will have nothing to say about the wholesale murder of thirty-one of their colleagues.

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Charlie Kirk

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

‘Cultuurstrijder’ of ‘activist’: de vermoorde Amerikaanse white supremacist Charlie Kirk wordt in de media op allerlei manieren omschreven. Maar niemand noemt hem ‘fascist’, terwijl zijn denkbeelden aan kenmerken ervan voldoen. Herkennen we fascisme nog wel? @cutbeans.bsky.social legt het uit.

Just a thought but academics on limited contracts doing major teaching and research load at universities want stability and transparent rules on job prospects not a “postdoc appreciation week” #ichbinhanna

New squat in Rotterdam! nltimes.nl/2025/09/08/s...

Dutch police keep trying to intimidate those who call attention to the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of universities. www.ed.nl/eindhoven/li...

i'm overwhelmed with grief right now. i can't contain this.

De voorpagina van @nrc.nl morgen.

Qwant, Startpage and Duckduckgo are all better than Google at this point imo

Google Sends Parents of LGBTQ Kids to Conversion Therapy Websites. Why? www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Jesus this is fucking bleak nltimes.nl/2025/08/10/d...

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Raphael Elizé was a WWI veteran from Martinique & veterinarian trained in Lyon who became France’s first elected Black mayor in 1929. In WWII Elizé worked with the French Resistance but was deported to Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 where he was killed.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

A call to academic institutions and leaders, worldwide. An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Yay! Caster Semenya’s victory shines in our bleak times. Plugging one of the best analyses by Sylvia Tamale (2020) of how the global racialised sex/gender/sexuality system suffocates us all (ch.4). Tamale contrasts the differential response to Phelps and Semenya. Highly recommend it.

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

📖🎥 The UM Library’s video series on books has ended, but all 16 videos are can be found online! Featuring Sharon Anyango, @moreba.bsky.social, @tullioviola.bsky.social and @sallywyatt.bsky.social. Watch them all here: tinyurl.com/5n7ynh9n

#OtD 14 Jul 1967 Black anarchist Martin Sostre was arrested at his bookstore in Buffalo, New York and charged with “sale of narcotics, riot, arson, and assault.” The charges were fabricated as part of the COINTELPRO. He was sentenced to 41 years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8578...

'Amsterdam University Press (AUP), which publishes in both English and Dutch, last month announced “the majority” of its English-language book programme was being acquired by Taylor & Francis.' 1/2

Today in the US: Kill the poor, especially the immigrants. Also, everyone will be poor soon enough. Next up: -"These days it's so hard to find good help." -"Would you look at the price of avocados." -"You just can't go outside anymore with all the homeless around."

The Netherlands is being embarrassing again. Fun times nltimes.nl/2025/07/02/s...

#OtD 1 Jul 1943 gay Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighter Willem Arondeus was executed after attacking the Amsterdam ID registry. Before his death Willem asked a friend to testify after the war that "homosexuals are not cowards" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8082...

Op 19 september organiseer ik een publieksmiddag over de fantastische Zeeuwse oral history collectie. Wat kunnen we leren door te luisteren naar deze verhalen van gewone mensen uit het verleden? Kom ook luisteren én meepraten! 13-17 uur, ZB Middelburg. Meer info & aanmelden 👇

You can’t see rainbows from underneath the rubble. Equally, you cannot in good conscience celebrate Pride in the west while knowing that many of our countries are supplying the arms & funds that are killing queer Palestinians & … their families. - Jad Salfiti www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Context: There are military helicopters all over Rotterdam today due to the Nato summit that...isn't in Rotterdam

Democratie.

Giving the villain an undercut does not de facto make your kids' show queer inclusive. In this essay I will.... (e.g. Raya and the Last Dragon, Santiago, Spidey and Friends etc.)

Parasite becomes aggressive. Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased. Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.

Feeling old: I sometimes advise students to print out their drafts for a different view, and these days none of them knows the first thing about how to print on campus--or anywhere. Not a single one. As one third-year put it, "it simply never came up."

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

"It's like asking a librarian for book, but they just tell you about the book instead" Also the librarian is an idiot. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The humble shipping container tells an incredible story about the role of containerization and globalization in the modern history of capitalism. Hege Høyer Leivestad explores what we can learn from looking around a port. www.historyworkshop....

On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.

The Netherlands has a privatized postal service. This means the company doesn't pay workers who then, with good reason, don't deliver your package

The company that sells books to Dutch libraries no longer deals with books in Frisian because "we only cover the books that we expect interest for," which is a deeply circular argument, because if they don't inform libraries, they won't know the books exist, and there will never be any interest

"No education until liberation." Students at the University of Amsterdam set up an encampment yesterday at noon, spent the night at the encampment, and negotiated with rectors and deans this morning. Updates can be found here: www.instagram.com/p/DKcYBISMNj...

GUYS. SHARE FAR AND WIDE PLEASE. ALERT: a drone is above the Freedom Flotilla.

Texas cops everyone: "the guy who murdered your husband while yelling slurs has said that he's definitely not homophobic, so no evidence of a hate crime here" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Totally unserious account of the right-wing immigration proposal that led to the Dutch cabinet collapse: -Borders will be closed. CLOSED I SAY. With padlocks and everything -Hunger Games for asylum seekers. Prize is a studio apt in Weert -No more peanut saté sauce period nltimes.nl/2025/06/03/d...

Sis started beating the brakes off white girls and colonialism was like ‘oh, we gotta put a stop to this.’

I am so sad about this. 💔

This quiz taught me that I: 1. Can tell the difference between the real and AI-generated images, so far 2. Cannot follow simple directions under almost any circumstances--kept clicking on the AI image, rather than the real one as instructed Verdict: apparently I'm still human