Islamophobes on the other site keep sending me this AI of the Statue of Liberty, not knowing they were being purists not alarmists.

Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...

Saddams bathroom. Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

it's funny when lit scholars say this issue is not ours

New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory. Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇 www.texasaft.org/membership/h...

This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

This is going to make No Child Left Behind seem like good legislation

A Palestinian poet insisting on poetry that overcomes the most horrific timelines, Nima Hasan’s voice shames and exposes the politics of necromancy that pass as solidarity, a necromancy that requires a compromised Palestinian voice or a broken Palestinian body to hold up. lithub.com/old-song-a-p...

Translation as Knowledge Production In this "BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS" conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Samah Selim discuss authorship and adaptations in translated texts, Samah's "Turjoman" project and the ways in which the field of translation is specific to location, her translation of…

posting an interview about Sonallah Ibrahim--an inimitable and soon to be much missed voice--on the occasion of the great writer's passing: open.spotify.com/episode/0cpx...

Mohamed Salah calls out UEFA for not mentioning Israeli forces killed Al-Obeid as he waited for aid at Gaza distribution center. The "Palestinian Pele" leaves behind a wife & five kids. His death means Israel has now killed 321 footballers in Gaza (players, coaches, admin, refs etc)

So true king

Please consider signing the petition regarding the unjust imprisonment without trial of the prominent intellectual Hany Babu by the Indian government. It could help him with his upcoming bail hearing. forms.gle/fDsVm3bHdvbg...

As the airdrops begin please do not share videos of people scavenging for food. Its the occupations fault that this is happening first and foremost, but please try to preserve the dignity of the Palestinians in those videos. As a palestinian i am heartbroken enough.

As a faculty member, I would like to say to fellow faculty members that ANNUAL TRAINING VIDEOS THIS YEAR ARE GONNA BE AMAZING.

Rhetorical questions along the lines of "why hasn't [Israel in Gaza] been more methodical and vastly more deadly" don't fit the current reality of causing mass famine, including firing live ammo to stop people from getting food aid. No national security rationale for that, not even a stretched one.

Reading Walter Rodney and finding his argument that revolutions occur when status quo is holding back economic systems useful—particularly its insistence that this need not be a good or wholly good thing. 1/

Well, well, well… if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

I was a waitress in Boulder CO. A woman came in, asked for a quiet back table and a stiff drink immediately. She was meeting an old friend she hadn't seen in ages and was nervous. When he arrived I went to the table to ask for his drink and it was JAMES TAYLOR. He wanted club soda and lime.

amidst all the changes in the media and entertainment landscape, history can still repeat itself, this time with colbert as the smothers brothers.

This clip aged like fine wine.

this btw is literally the film that made zohran mamdani and was completely worth watching even before it became a predictor of the role racial capitalism would play in the backlash against his mayoral campaign.

As an HS teacher whose job it is to get kids to read stuff like this closely for the first time, would love to see more people share their favorite close reads of all the big stuff.

looking forward to this clash of the titans Rockies, White Sox display talent ahead of trade deadline in basement series • Rockies, White Sox display talent ahead of trade deadline in basement series

p.s. francesca albanese will be speaking in sarajevo on the 12th

my book seems to be sold out on bezos's satanic website, but if you want to order a copy you can get 30% using the code UCPLIT on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social website. thanks so much to everybody who's ordered & read it, it means a lot to me 🌿 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Down court! Down king!

It’s also necessary to note how the Trump administration‘s destruction of IMLS threatens interlibrary loan: www.slj.com/story/Cost-L... action.everylibrary.org/imlsill

one of the best things i get from my uni!

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

except not minor so more like 99 or something

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Impartiality, my left foot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE

good turn out in downtown houston with all ages and backgrounds representing

USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

perhaps there's some hope for the political class in the u.s. after all:

gulf of tonkin, babies in incubators, yellow cake uranium--powerful states used to manufacture a casus belli before maniacally bombing there weaker adversaries.

Hi, I’m the guy who got into politics because of the Tea Party and am now calling for the police and army to ruthlessly crush any protests of the military parade the President is holding on his personal birthday. Would be glad to quarter some troops in my house if you need it!

y'all, word.

It’s sad to see the old MetroCard vending machines gone. They were a great example of good, durable, legible, cheerful public industrial design. About 20 yrs ago we invited Antenna Design to come talk @ The New School as part of our media + public space project.

TX politicos built a brand against illegal immigration. Yet unlike other GOP states, they refuse mandating E-Verify for companies. Doing so, said an ex-GOP state rep, "would create even worse problems. Do you want to go to a restaurant & use paper plates?" www.propublica.org/article/texa...