Sara Koopman
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Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist.
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đ§”âŹïžCheck out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of âNon-warâ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches
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Making Space for Peace in Contexts of âNon-warâ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking betwe...
https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2379316
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wiley sharp
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rly excited about this one! the last publication from my MA research has been released as part of this new collection of queer geography scholarship, along with the work of such brilliant colleagues as
@queergeog.bsky.social
@sagebrice.bsky.social
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@joejukes.bsky.social
!!
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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proud of this short editorial with great colleagues
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Such a treat to get to be part of this collective thinking about collective thinking
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Such a treat to get to be part of this collective thinking.
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The Guardian
14 days ago
Pilot narrowly avoids âmidair collisionâ with US air force plane near Venezuela
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Pilot narrowly avoids âmidair collisionâ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident âoutrageousâ and says US military refueling tanker didnât have transponder turned on A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. âWe almost had a midair collision up here,â the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. âThey passed directly in our flight path ... They donât have their transponder turned on, itâs outrageous.â Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/jetblue-pilot-avoids-midair-collision-air-force-venezuela?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Robin Boardman
13 days ago
Words feel weak after the violence at Bondi Beach, but silence isnât an option. Antisemitism is real and lethal. Please support your local Jewish communities. Be courageous in the face of hate. Ahmed al Ahmedâs courage shows how solidarity across difference keeps us safe. We are each other.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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ProPublica
14 days ago
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
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Trumpâs Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1765684803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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yes, you know Venezuela has lots of oil, but do you know what kind? and how that relates to the kind of refineries the US has? Great short overview of the geoeconomics behind the geopolitics here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwn...
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The real reason Venezuela matters
YouTube video by Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk
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Robin Boardman
18 days ago
This is political violence against the living world. Mass Extinction will follow.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act
Experts fear plan, one of many attempts Trumpâs made to dismantle wildlife protection, will speed up extinction crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/trump-endangered-species-act
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Pete Buttigieg
16 days ago
A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trumpâs mob-boss politics. There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game. Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
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Sarah Klosterkamp
about 1 month ago
So delighted to see this piece out in
@areajournal.bsky.social
â a journal I value enormously for its sharp, thoughtful and boundary-pushing work in geography. The article grows out of my research on eviction hearings and explores how legality is lived, felt and negotiated in court. —ïž
#geosky
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John Bisognano
16 days ago
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didnât gerrymander for him. I donât know how else to say itâŠ
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Rafael H. M. Pereira đĄ Urban Demographics
17 days ago
CfP special issue on "Decolonising Research in Transport Geography", in JTG. Please help us spread the word! Deadline 30 Sep 2026 More info
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Guest editors: Qiyang Liu, Peking Zihao An, U. Leeds Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea Zahara Batool, Leeds Tim Schwanen, Oxford
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David Corn
17 days ago
Everything Trump touches is transactional.
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Jen Mapes
17 days ago
With credit to my co-author
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
and a here's a link to the digital version
mappingmay4kent.edu
-- the exhibit includes ipads that let users peruse the website and after 5+ years are also still working đ€©
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https://mappingmay4kent.edu
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Jen Mapes
17 days ago
This was the first Big Map I made, showing Kent in 1970, the year of the shooting. It labels businesses & landmarks, and includes buttons to press & hear oral histories. There are two versions - one on campus, and this one in the city historical society. 5 yrs later great to see it being 'lived in.'
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Veena Dubal
18 days ago
So proud to see my friend and colleague
@katiejwells.bsky.social
âs critical research on the front page of todayâs NYTimes!!!! Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! â€ïž
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Robert Reich
19 days ago
New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices â despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time. The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four. Corporate greed is out of control.
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Instacartâs AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacartâs AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/
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honoring today Dec. 10 (international human rights day) by sharing this horrific and ridiculous news.
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18 days ago
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British Society of Criminology
18 days ago
New BSC Blog. On the final day of '16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence'
@sofiagraca.bsky.social
considers the theme: 'Ending Digital Violence Against all Women and Girls' & outlines the pitfalls of digital technology and the possibilities.
shorturl.at/YYJfU
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Marisa Kabas
22 days ago
NEW â I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, thereâs something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:
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Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/independent-journalism-gift-guide
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#VeryAsian Eric
23 days ago
Sounds like more than reasonable grounds for a recount. Do it!
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Mark Joseph Stern
23 days ago
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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Why has it taken this long to figure this out? lube! they need lube! A very particular sort of lube it seems. That they cannot make. You cannot make this stuff up.
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26 days ago
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this is brilliant, how can we do a community scholars program like this in Geography?
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Yes! Dems should absolutely use ranked choice voting for primaries. I would be so much more exited about the process if they did.
#rankedchoice
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...
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Scoop: Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries
It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Common Dreams
28 days ago
"They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire."
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Nearly 2 Months Into 'Ceasefire,' IDF Kills 2 More Palestinian Children as Gaza Death Toll Passes 70,000
Over 70,000 lives lost in Israel's war on Gaza, including innocent children like Fadi and Goma Abu Assi.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-gaza-now?share_id=9070583
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The Intercept
27 days ago
In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
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Gazaâs Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israelâs genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
https://interc.pt/4iuflFX
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PingTech
29 days ago
The headline needs fixing. It should read: An Illegal Strike ...not "Dishonorable". Dishonorable describes the people who carried out the orders.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original
about 1 month ago
There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed. It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
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Current Affairs
about 1 month ago
The deliberate starvation hasnât ended, as government officials in Gaza say that only around 200 trucks of food per day are being allowed through their borders, far short of the agreed-upon 600. As a result, malnutrition levels are still around 90 percent.
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The Gaza âCeasefireâ is a Total Fraud
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israelâs violations.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaza-ceasefire-is-a-total-fraud
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Rusudan Djakeli
30 days ago
Tbilisi now. Day 366 of uninterrupted protests. A full year of arrests, crackdowns, repressive laws, and fines. The illegitimate, pro-Russian regime must end. đ· Levan Zazadze
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Gillian Branstetter
30 days ago
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Rusudan Djakeli
30 days ago
A year ago today, Georgians flooded the streets after Georgian Dream said it would suspend EU accession. The people havenât stopped since â protests have taken place every day in 8+ cities. Tonight, Tbilisi is packed with protesters marching toward Parliament. đ„ Netgazeti
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Dr. Amy Acton
about 2 months ago
Yet another deliberate effort from our Statehouse to undermine the will of Ohioans â who overwhelmingly voted in defense of reproductive freedom. When I'm governor, the attacks on a woman's right to choose end.
www.cleveland.com/open/2025/11...
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Bill to regulate mail-order medications blasted as effort to limit abortion access
House Bill 324 would ban mail-order sales of certain medications and require in-person doctor visits. Abortion rights advocates say the bill could potentially limit drugs used for medication abortions...
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2025/11/bill-to-regulate-mail-order-medications-blasted-as-effort-to-limit-abortion-access.html
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suzette sommer
about 1 month ago
âȘArthur Larkin⏠âȘ@artielarkin9.bsky.social⏠· Ramaswamy has to be the most unqualified candidate for governor in the entire country.
#GOPClownShow
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about 1 month ago
Some thoughts by
@sofiagraca.bsky.social
on this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence theme on ending digital violence.
blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcommen...
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#NoExcuse for online abuse: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence | Expert comment
Dr Sofia Graca explains how it is all our responsibility to raise awareness and educate ourselves if we are to take steps towards eliminating gender-based violence. Since 1991, the period between 25 N...
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/noexcuse-for-online-abuse-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
about 1 month ago
Thread, today in St. Paul, Minnesota raid and attacks by federal agents. Dana Thiede, KARE11: "As word spread about the operation unfolding on Rose Ave., neighbors and activists calling themselves 'constitutional observers' streamed in, holding phones in the air to videotape what was unfolding."
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Federal agents launch another operation in St. Paul
A witness said the number of agents "just kept growin' and growin' and growin," as did an angry crowd that was eventually sprayed with chemical irritants.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/federal-agents-launch-another-operation-in-st-paul/89-e49a4797-7756-445a-b7be-7881ae9a57a8
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Is it a Russian plan? As a translator I find it very convincing that "Luke Harding of The Guardian noted that the plan appears to have been translated from Russian, as many of the phrases in the text read naturally in that language but are awkward and clunky in English." - Heather Cox Richardson
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VegasJake
about 1 month ago
So Elon opened a feature on Twitter X that allows you to see the country of origin of an account. This new feature exposed literally millions of MAGA accounts as bots, he then promptly shut down the feature. MAGA is literally fake news.
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Jane Voter
about 1 month ago
Please join me in contacting Senators and your representative to let them know we do not want to deregulate AI. You can easily send them an email using the link below.
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Stop Congress from deregulating AI
Should Elon Musk be allowed to deploy dangerous Robotaxis anywhere he wants without oversight or rules? That's a real possibilityâand it gets worse. Tech broligarchs want AI to be completely unregula...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-dont-de-regulate-elon?source=direct_link&
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They Rule
about 1 month ago
A very detailed follow-the-money research about who will benefit the most from the newest US invasion.
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The USâs Top Military Contractors Are Cashing In on Caribbean Operations
The weapons industry is reaping the benefits as Trump amasses ships, drones, and missiles off the coast of Venezuela.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-uss-top-military-contractors-are-cashing-in-on-caribbean-operations/
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Aaron Parnas
about 1 month ago
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Marcy Gall
about 1 month ago
Only problem is that pigs are very intelligent and heâs not. Of course he doesnât know that.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 1 month ago
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
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scha·den·freu·de
about 1 month ago
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.' h/t @cocacolakid
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MÄurice Ross
about 1 month ago
Trump thinks reminding people to obey the constitution, court orders and the law is sedition and treason justifying the death penalty.
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Trump only to be charged with new crimes.
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A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes.
https://nyti.ms/44oOLIm
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Anthony Michael Kreis
about 1 month ago
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