Emma Banks, Ph.D.

Anthropologist into global environmental justice. Dog mom. Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University. Opinions are my own.

[Emma Banks, Ph.D. @emmitabanks]

I have turned in
the posts
that were due
months ago

and which
you were probably
hoping
to grade by now

Forgive me
they were so overdue
so late
and so rushed

-my students, probably

[AndeanInfoNet @AndeanInfoNet]

Police distribute weapons, including handmade bazookas, to the illegal, racist para-state group, Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, to break through grassroots road blockades in San Julián, #Bolivia. Think Bolivian Proud Boys. @CIDH @ONU_derechos @TaniaReneaum @Ginitastar @DropSiteNews

[AndeanInfoNet @AndeanInfoNet]

Here's the same para-state group spitting at and harassing and Indigenous protestor. Known as the "White Helmets" they participated in the killings and torture in Pedragal, Rosales and more in 2019. See witness and victim testimoney submitted to the Committee Against Torture below👇 @CIDH @ONU_derechos @TaniaReneaum @Ginitastar

[AndeanInfoNet @AndeanInfoNet]

On the 6th anniversary of the racist, rightwing coup in #Bolivia, impunity reigns. The victims deserve justice and reparations.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yes, yes, we remember!

[AndeanInfoNet @AndeanInfoNet]

AIN-@ceprdc Press Release: The End of an Era: #Bolivia Veers Right as Coup President Freed Ahead of Massacre Anniversary https://t.co/GRM2xBjtHn

[Emma Banks, Ph.D. @emmitabanks]

@TheEconomist Not to mention the repeated assassination attempts against Petro and Marquez on the campaign trail, and the shock that a leftwing candidate could be elected before he was killed.

[Emma Banks, Ph.D. @emmitabanks]

@TheEconomist latest story on Colombia is terrible. Calling the attempted assassination of Miguel Uribe "the most serious act of political violence in Colombia for 30 years." Because massacring peasants and Indigenous people doesn't count?

[Emma Banks, Ph.D. @emmitabanks]

@TheEconomist Both the web and print versions of the title express shock that "political violence is back" or "it never left" in Colombia, which shows your reporters have not been paying attention to Colombia at all. It is only a big deal when the victim is a white right-wing elite?

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

The Biden rule blocked nearly all asylum access _between_ ports of entry. The Trump admin just killed all CBP One appointments _at_ ports of entry.

There is now virtually no way to access asylum at the US-Mexico border. The border is in a state of egregious illegality right now.

[Gators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily]

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE IN LOUISIANA

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

To be clear, you're calling for a New Jersey-born bishop to be deported because you don't like that she exercised her First Amendment right by delivering a sermon in accordance with her faith imploring Trump to show empathy to people?

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Yeah, none of the corporate overlords shrieking about liberation from wokeness want to own the fact that no one put a gun to their head and said they needed to do insane progressive HR programming or pay Kendi $532/minute for Zoom calls. They could have simply done nothing!

[Brad Batt for Tennessee State House @bradbatt]

The resemblance is uncanny

[yasemin dildar @yasemindildar]

This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

If Dems were smart, they’d recognize that the WSJ story about the coverup of Biden’s age is the tip of the iceberg—there is likely more and worse to come—and they’d call for bipartisan congressional hearings, which would give them credibility to attack age-related Trump problems.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is threatening to unseat elected officials if they do not follow his orders to shut down the government during the holidays.

Are we still a democracy or have we already moved to oligarchy and authoritarianism?

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is an image of a multiracial police force in a bright blue city locking arms to defend a mega corporation against a union. Perfect encapsulation of the politics on offer from the liberal center.

[Corinne Green @gaynarcan]

get rekt

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

life moves pretty fast

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Dems who work for AIPAC, Wall Street, health insurance executives, and Big Oil lobbyists, trying to find the “groups” that keep pushing the Dem Party to take unpopular positions.