Darcie Fontaine
@dfontaine.bsky.social
Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.”
www.lesplumesrouges.com
www.darciefontaine.com
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Big day for a historian of Christianity in Algeria: the pope is visiting Algeria!
Leo XIV will become the first pope to visit Algeria on Monday, taking a message of dialogue with Islam on a trip that also represents a personal pilgrimage for the American pontiff.
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April 13, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Big day for a historian of Christianity in Algeria: the pope is visiting Algeria!
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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...
June 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕
ICYMI: "But what a joy it is to just find something precious, unprompted, without even looking."
@rubeck.bsky.social stumbles upon Eternal Strands and savors his discovery:
@rubeck.bsky.social stumbles upon Eternal Strands and savors his discovery:
The Savory Surprise of Eternal Strands - Unwinnable
One day it seemed to just descend, a videogame-ass videogame looking to do its thing and do it with style.
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April 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.
A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.
A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.
April 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.
A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.
A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.
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Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:
March 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:
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Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité
March 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité
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This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.
Fuck this.
They’re gonna be arresting all of us soon.
They’re gonna be arresting all of us soon.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.
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This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.
February 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.
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CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃
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in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court
December 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM
in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court
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Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Newborn twins killed in Gaza as father went to register birth
Newborn twins killed in Gaza as father went to register birth
The twins were just four days old when their home was bombed in an Israeli air strike.
www.bbc.com
August 13, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Newborn twins killed in Gaza as father went to register birth
I’m basically living for the return of Slow Horses now that the Olympics are over
New Slow Horses S4 trailer. Now with added Hugo Weaving.
Well worth getting an Apple subscription for a month in September just to watch all 4 seasons.
It’s damned entertaining and very funny as I’m sure the other 7 people who watch it will agree. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo27...
Well worth getting an Apple subscription for a month in September just to watch all 4 seasons.
It’s damned entertaining and very funny as I’m sure the other 7 people who watch it will agree. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo27...
Slow Horses — Season 4 Official Trailer | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
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August 13, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I’m basically living for the return of Slow Horses now that the Olympics are over
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A great day has come, #BlueSkyStorians & #Battlegrounds #MilitaryHistory series fans! @tgpeterson.bsky.social's superb "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" is ready to order at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
August 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM
A great day has come, #BlueSkyStorians & #Battlegrounds #MilitaryHistory series fans! @tgpeterson.bsky.social's superb "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" is ready to order at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”
Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN
Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”
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Writer friends (and Mom), I'm truly excited to start my freelance editing/writing business. While it's been a lot of fun binge-watching Netflix these past 2 months, I'm ready to work on stories and connect with writers. You can find details below: romanceismydayjob.wordpress.com/editorial-se...
December 20, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Writer friends (and Mom), I'm truly excited to start my freelance editing/writing business. While it's been a lot of fun binge-watching Netflix these past 2 months, I'm ready to work on stories and connect with writers. You can find details below: romanceismydayjob.wordpress.com/editorial-se...
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"'The Future is Feminist' offers a historical example of a powerful moment in which Algerians theorized their own transnational feminism, in response to French colonial stereotypes about Islam and gender, many of which persist today." - Sara Rahnama, via www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sara-rahnama...
What does a history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria have to offer us today?
Sara Rahnama, author of The Future is Feminist, shares how the history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria can offer insights today.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
December 15, 2023 at 4:16 PM
"'The Future is Feminist' offers a historical example of a powerful moment in which Algerians theorized their own transnational feminism, in response to French colonial stereotypes about Islam and gender, many of which persist today." - Sara Rahnama, via www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sara-rahnama...