Dr. Alyssa Sepinwall
Writer. Professor. Lover of Music and Film. Jersey girl in California. 2023 Wang Award Winner. Books: Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Rev in Film & Video Games; Haitian History; Abbé Grégoire & the Fr Rev.
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallOPINION: "In 2020, there were about 4,800 Jews in India, but almost 85,000 Jews with Indian roots live in Israel," Samira Mehta writes.
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallCasar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallWhat we're witnessing from Donald Trump right now is the most corrupt scheme we've ever seen from a president of the United States. He is literally selling access to the presidency for his own personal profit. We're introducing a bill to stop him.
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallOne estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallDon’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallThis is utterly horrifying. These migrant centers are already notorious. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallFWIW I overheard an FBI agent at the federal courthouse talking about how none of them in the Tampa office have time to investigate actual crimes anymore because they've all been put on welfare check duty on kids whose parents were deported.
- Instead of 30 kinds of foods, you can have 2! Bread & potatoes for everyone - as long as you get there on the right day & it doesn't run out by your turn!
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa Sepinwallsending people to Libya who aren't Libyan is not deportation
- Reposted by Dr. Alyssa SepinwallAnyway, this is actually kidnapping and not deportation
