Linda Mannheim
Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
- Dig the duffle coats on the US Team. The rope toggles harken back to the original military design when the Allies fought fascists. Manufacturers such as Gloverall switched to leather after the war to make the civilian versions feel more "upscale."
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- Every American needs to watch this:
- Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.
- So when we hear people saying the public has lost trust in institutions and we need the public to trust institutions again, that actually requires institutions to be demonstratably trustworthy in moment of crisis, but it's easier just to blame disinformation or polarisation than fix the real rot.
- ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- In the UK, the Home Office issued letters to Syrians demanding fresh proof that return would place them at risk, with just 21 days to respond. Omar, a refugee working as an advocate for asylum seekers, said the shift was abrupt and punitive. @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/features/syr...
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- Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.
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- Kanopy put all their live performance content in the same category so it does look here like Henry VII is dropping a tight hour of observational comedy about being a father.
- REMEMBER THEIR NAMES
- friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
- As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
- "Day after day, can't eat in restaurants"
- It’s not quite true to say nothing has changed, I think. Bovino had a particularly paramilitary style, where he’d roll around in force and tear gas entire neighborhoods, and we haven’t seen that. But ICE is still swarming and if anything aggression against observers has increased.
- I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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- "If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
- I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:
- And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...
- Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
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- Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.
- Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
- Maybe media, politicians & academics should also look into claims this racism & fascism is because the working class 'demand' it. These elite far right grifters have contempt for the working class & no interest in addressing economic/material inequalities. It's just racist, classist divide & rule.
- Impressive. US Embassy Copenhagen. One Danish flag per Danish soldier that died in Afghanistan, fighting alongside US soldiers. 📸 h/t @onkelmikkel.bsky.social
- A small story about today in fascism: Two peaceful, singing protesters got pepper sprayed and grabbed by DHS @ downtown federal building (Eugene OR). I got alerted by my synagogue & a Signal chat. I was downtown by the federal bldg for a haircut. Went to the fed building & not the haircut. 1/4
- I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
- Ausführlicher Artikel von @larsvontoerne.bsky.social über „ICE out Comics“ 👇
- I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.
- my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
- Interesting moment in the post-Trump succession struggle. 1/
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- Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jewish lives — and the millions of others — senselessly murdered by the Nazi regime. We remember not only the unimaginable loss, but the warning history leaves us.
- This day calls on us to do more than reflect; it calls on us to act — to confront antisemitism wherever it exists and to reject all forms of hatred and dehumanization. May the memories of all those lost be a blessing — one that guides us as we build a world where every life is sacred.
- I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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- Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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- The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
- The problem with symbolic compliance isn’t just that they fall short of ending violence. It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.
- So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
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- Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years
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- At most, Crowborough will accommodate about 1.5% of the current hotel population. Camps are not the answer. As @refugeecouncil.bsky.social's Imran Hussain set out in the Times this morning, the way to end the use of hotels is to move people out of the asylum system www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
- Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live." That's a death threat. If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.
