Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials. “If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener

This is a disgusting, horrifying weaponization of the courts to continue the administration’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for free speech

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

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Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

In case you're still wondering how vile Sylvan Adams is on multiple fronts, this article has a run through of some of his grossest hits. 😬 And yes, it really is that simple. You can race as shiny happy PR for a genocidal regime OR you can race uninterrupted. Not both. 🍉 defector.com/you-can-adve...

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

I wrote something about writers from Chicago. open.substack.com/pub/meltedch...

I hope so

Hi hello we are finally on here! In lieu of introductions here’s a picture of our turtle, John. 🐢

Sally Rooney vows to support Palestine Action with BBC royalties despite terror ban

The fact that they’re building concentration camps should matter profoundly even if you or your loved ones aren’t in direct danger of getting rounded up, but don’t think for a second that that status can’t change. Safety is conditional.

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hey quick question, what the fuck

With apologies, as always, for the substack link 😡—an excellent, concise list of direct actions to take re: Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/blindarc...

Chris Smalls was profiled by every major media outlet when he lead Amazon victory on Staten Island. Shocking that not one outlet has covered the IDF detaining him in the Gaza flotilla

Just a little campus free speech update. I assume Harper’s is on it

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

One of the most prominent scholars of historical memory in the field of Jewish Studies, who teaches at Columbia, fears she will no longer be able to teach Hannah Arendt with the new federal government control over the university: apnews.com/article/colu...

we will brook no guillaume martin erasure

happy bastille day. tear down the prisons and build bridges with the rubble 🧱

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

Will the media give even a fraction of the attention to what Donald Trump did say that they gave to what Zohran Mamdani didn’t?

The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.

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Great mail day from @leonardcrohn.bsky.social

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld. Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!

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After two fabulous years, today was my last day at @deepvellum.bsky.social. Proud to have played a small part in this org’s constant upward trajectory, and honored to have worked with such great people, incredible books, and brilliant authors & translators. I made a fun hat and a lot of memes. 1/

Seela and Sidra in Gaza, eating with your help. Thanks to all who have donated, let’s keep it going. chuffed.org/project/1253...

While our disgraced mayor was kissing up to Trump in D.C. today, another mayor just across the river was arrested protesting ICE's unlawful operation of a mass deportation facility in his city. Collaboration and cowardice are not the only responses to authoritarianism.

A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

"Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing 'information received' from Public Safety" CU also awards the Pulitzer Prizes www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

Ok I may have had some help but

Chicago Taylorville, IL

Columbia students in a standoff with campus police, after occupying Butler Library and declaring it a liberated zone, dubbed the Basel Al-Araj Popular University.

The only violence Claire was the one you ordered. The only students hurt today, including the Jewish students who have shown up bravely in the face of your oppression time and time again, were the ones you had the NYPD brutalize.

At least 78 students arrested at Columbia University sit in www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJU...