Justin Leroy

Historian of slavery and emancipation, abolitionist, vaguely competitive weightlifter, board game nerd, human companion to the world’s cuddliest Doberman

[Cynthia Nixon @CynthiaNixon]

Young people & people of color want desperately to vote for Trump’s Democratic opponent but won’t commit to someone funding the slaughter innocent Palestinians.

To win, our Democratic nominee must support funding for healthcare, housing & education not Netanyahu’s genocide.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Kamala Harris likened Israel’s creation to the US civil rights movement during a 2017 speech to AIPAC

She even claimed she donated to the JNF, Israel’s leading vehicle for land theft

How soulless and sold out must you be to equate the Nakba with Selma?

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

Stop this myth. Joe Biden’s not a “decent” man. He’s had LEAD roles in America’s 3 greatest human right crimes last 50 yrs:

1—Funding Israeli genocide
2—Leading Dems to join Bush/Cheney on Iraq Invasion
3–Lead architect of New Jim Crow last 25 yrs. Joe used to speak VERY clear:

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BELLA HADID: “IM NOT AFRAID TO LOSE MODELLING JOBS & I WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP ON PALESTINE”

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Opinion | America doesn’t need a DEI president. It needs a product of the meritocracy.

by Jared Kushner and RFK Jr.

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

Basque4Palestine

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

@ploeg1997 @GregGrandin Without calling out specific names, the politics of the guests re: labor and empire are quite terrible.

[Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) @bradleyrsimpson]

The first Palestinian person I ever met was my junior year in Germany. He was a medical student named Nimr living on the floor of my apartment building, and for weeks, he wouldn’t talk to me. At one point I asked him why he wouldn’t talk to me, and he said because I was American.

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

@UNCLibrary So researchers will not have access to any of the collections for three years? That’s a major impediment to a lot of ongoing work!

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

Does anyone know what's going on with UNC's Wilson Library? It's set to close for three years, cutting off access to special collections. It's a major, major archive for Southern history and the history of slavery.

[Duke Grad Union @dukegradunion]

Live from our watch party, we are thrilled to join a historic wave of organizing #UnionsForAll in higher ed, and so excited for Duke grad workers. Today, we’ve formed the first recognized grad student union at a private university in the South, and 1 of the largest unions in NC!

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

Duke grad students voted overwhelmingly to unionize, 1000 yes vs. 135 no. 🤟🏽💪🏽

[Astra Taylor @astradisastra]

When Silicon Valley Bank crashed earlier this year, President Biden saved the bank and its financial investors within 72 hours. There was no political grandstanding over whether Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act provided the authority to bail out venture capitalists.

[David Marcus @davidimarcus]

It’s funny in a sad kind of way that we now have four nearly identical social media platforms but still no high speed trains from New York to Chicago or Boston to DC

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

we've broken the record for hottest day recorded on earth twice this week and atlanta wants to raze a forest -- natural air conditioning, among so many other things -- to build a playground for cops

[Justin Leroy @LowestFreedom]

But I’m sure the vice dean overseeing the McNeil makes 3-4x this much 🙄