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cultural historian of the Middle East
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Hyperallergic
about 9 hours ago
The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, November 28. As the paper’s staff art critic, he published exhibition reviews and commentary on the city’s arts institutions, writing for the publication for 36 years.
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Art Critic Christopher Knight Retires From LA Times
The Pulitzer-winning journalist said he'll keep writing, but the "daily journalism thing is done.”
https://hyperallergic.com/art-critic-christopher-knight-retires-from-la-times/
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Saeed Jones
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UPDATE:
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Mary Lewis
7 days ago
The
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision).
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The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/19/barron-bronzini-vender-chiocco-summers-resignation/
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Ryan Goodman
9 days ago
For context: Larry Summers continued with Epstein despite 2008: Epstein guilty plea in Florida 2008-19: MANY civil lawsuits (including by Virginia Giuffre) against Epstein for child rape/trafficking 2018: Miami Herald's
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social
blockbuster series on Epstein trafficking ring
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Sarah J. Jackson
13 days ago
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
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Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/11/snap-benefits-used-college-students-penn
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Homayoun Ershadi, who starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry, has died after a battle w cancer. The film, a layered meditation on life and death, won the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tim Onion
17 days ago
Things are fine.
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Chase Madar
18 days ago
Reminder that many Republican elected officials aren’t just hostile to Obamacare but to the very concept of “insurance” which violates their deeply held creed of fuck-you social Calvinism. My Le Monde diplo report from Trump I
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Atul Gawande
21 days ago
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands
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Saeed Jones
21 days ago
I really try to mind my business when it comes to this loser, but MY GOD.
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"Artists know that you only have to do something once to prove to others that the unimaginable is actually very much possible." Read
@hrag.bsky.social
's powerful essay on artistic creative imagination and Mamdani's election.
hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-...
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The Creative Essence of Zohran Mamdani's Ascent
The sentiments that drove his inspiring campaign should be familiar to any artistic soul.
https://hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-creative-essence-of-zohran-mamdanis-ascent/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN5nkhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFXdHRuTHlXZWNQVjl1M3FHc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt-OvLmutXrwHC7eDzswlodP_YfLN9I54ybSfGG_bxiXj1LtDaL5BEQvwiVa_aem_iJzhL2p7PxNmPUzylIKDZw
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Manan Ahmed
21 days ago
One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies.
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Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza
This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...
https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2025.2574807
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Elizabeth Warren
21 days ago
The wealth of the 10 richest Americans surged $698B in the past year. Trump’s tax handouts to billionaires and cuts to health care will only make inequality worse. We need an economy that works for everyone – not one that works for the 1% and hangs everyone else out to dry.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Rama Duwaji Makes Her First Lady Debut in This Palestinian-Jordanian Designer
NYC’s finest first family
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a69262629/rama-duwaji-zohran-mamdani-palestinian-jordanian-designer-zeid-hijazi-outfit-photos/
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Huge victory in Mississippi
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-democrats-break-republican-senate-supermajority-flipping-3-legislative-seats/
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So is he packing his bags???
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The Washington Post
22 days ago
Breaking news: California voters approved a congressional map that could give Democrats up to five more House seats, countering Texas’s GOP-favored redistricting in a nationwide battle over district lines.
https://wapo.st/3WYEm2h
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Mayor elect Mamdani. Epic!!!
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The Associated Press
22 days ago
BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.
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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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Hyperallergic is tracking NY elections from the perspective of the arts.
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Christopher Webb
23 days ago
They’re counting on you to sit this one out. Don’t give them what they want. Get loud with your ballot. Drop it off today or hit the polls tomorrow ASAP.
#CAVoteYesProp50
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shauna
25 days ago
tired: great gatsby parties wired: bastille day parties
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Saeed Jones
25 days ago
“A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.”
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Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliat...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/2/explosion-longwood/
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Acyn
25 days ago
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
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You can donate needed items directly to your local food banks on Instacart.
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Saeed Jones
26 days ago
!!!!!
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Leila Molana-Allen
27 days ago
We spoke to released Palestinian prisoners who allege severe abuse while incarcerated, & families of detainees whose bodies have been returned to Gaza bearing signs of torture. Our
@pbsnews.org
story.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Palestinians say bodies and detainees returned by Israel show signs of torture and abuse
As part of the latest ceasefire deal, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees and the bodies of nearly 200. Many of the dead show what Palestinian officials and relatives ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/palestinians-say-bodies-and-detainees-returned-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-and-abuse
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Justin Baragona
28 days ago
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Josh Gondelman
29 days ago
I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.
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jamelle
29 days ago
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/nazi-tattoo-graham-platner-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.t2-U.oNnuFmgl189g&smid=url-share
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I have one sibling who has no children. But I am "auntie" to quite a few folks.
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Sarah J. Jackson
29 days ago
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
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Kelly
about 1 month ago
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Phil Lewis
about 1 month ago
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
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As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/snap-benefits-under-threat-urban-farmers
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 1 month ago
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
well, that's awkward
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Nicole Chung
about 1 month ago
Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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Palestine 36 is screening this morning at 10:30 at The Riviera in Santa Barbara, with director Annemarie Jacir in conversation
sbifftheatres.com/cs/palestine...
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Palestine 36
Palestine 36 followed by a conversation with Director Annemarie Jacir Palestinian entry for the Academy Awards In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates be...
https://sbifftheatres.com/cs/palestine-36/
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Leila Molana-Allen
about 1 month ago
Please watch our
@pbsnews.org
film, made across the last year. A generation of children, severely injured by Israeli strikes, are facing unnecessary disability, amputation & even death because Israel’s authorities won’t let them leave Gaza to seek treatment.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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War leaves Gaza’s children with deep physical wounds and lasting trauma
The Gaza health ministry says nearly 70,000 Palestinians have been killed over the last two years of fighting. The scale of the death has been staggering, and the war's toll on children is overwhelmin...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/war-leaves-gazas-children-with-deep-physical-wounds-and-lasting-trauma
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Phil Lewis
about 1 month ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The entire White House East Wing has been demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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Helen Kennedy
about 1 month ago
Oh
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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AAUP
about 1 month ago
🔥 WashU in STL rejects Trump’s loyalty oath compact! 🔥 The resistance cannot be stopped! AAUP chapters and organized higher ed workers across the nation are unified in spearheading this fight—let’s keep it up!
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first term: destroy Jacqueline Kennedy's rose garden. second term: bulldoze East Wing
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Anil Kalhan
about 1 month ago
An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
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Roxane Gay
about 1 month ago
In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.
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RutgersAAUP-AFT
about 1 month ago
ICYMI 🗞️ Read of the Day "What's most concerning is the goal of it, which is seizing control of universities & putting them in the hands of the government..."–RUAAUP-AFT President Rebecca Givan
@rkgwork.bsky.social
on the Trump loyalty oath.
#rutgersthedailytargum
www.dailytargum.com/article/unio...
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Union leaders speak out against Trump administration's proposal to provide university funds for ideological alignment
Rebecca Givan, president of the Rutgers chapter of the American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) and associate professor in the Department of Labor S...
https://www.dailytargum.com/article/union-leaders-speak-out-against-trump-administrations-proposal-to-provide-university-funds-for-ideological-alignment-20251016
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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨
about 1 month ago
This is Idaho 💙
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Saeed Jones
about 1 month ago
*looks directly at camera*
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