"In early modernity, in any case, the set of patriarchs who were most appalled by such womxn-on-womxn action were not the Islamists, Hindus, or Sikhs, but the Christian British." scroll.in/article/1086... An excerpt by Sindhu Rajasekaran Simon Schuster India #bookexcerpt

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Myanmar nationals who have spent years in refugee camps in Thailand awaiting resettlement in the United States now face increased depression and other mental health issues since President Donald Trump halted his country’s refugee programs.

Crackdown on protesters in the Philippines -- link for support ko-fi.com/duriandistro

Message From Friends in Philippines on the arrests following yesterdays protests. Some links to support legal aid & other support in images.

This piece (by a lawyer at ED during the first Trump administration) notes that ED has more tools to go after colleges' federal financial aid now than eight years ago...and they are likely to use them. It's well worth your time to read this.

It’s like a watergate level scandal every six hours plus he’s just straight up bombing boats full of civilians every few days

KweliTV and its 501(c)(3) partner, the Black Indie Creatives Coalition (BICC), proudly announce Black.Indie.Ignite., a two-day summit designed to power the next wave of Black indie filmmakers, immersive creators, and creative technologists.

Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

Start using your public libraries. ACTIVELY REQUEST books by marginalized communities so libraries know the demand & can buy them. Use your NOTIFY ME tags in Libby. CHECK OUT books (electronic and physical) by marginalized authors. Circulation numbers and holds are critical for us.

One of the great paradoxes of authoritarianism is that so-called strongman leaders are always very thin-skinned

so this h1b thing is not even an executive order but a presidential proclamation, and should "not have the force and effect of law" (as per the library of Congress) but that won't make any difference because we seem to be completely resigned to be living in a dictatorship, yes?

Not that they care apnews.com/article/vene...  US military strike off the coast of Venezuela disrupts life in impoverished fishing communities

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

"The Taliban has removed all books written by women from universities in Afghanistan as part of a ban on the teaching of 18 subjects, including human rights and sexual harassment. In all, 679 books were found to be “of concern”, of which some 140 were written by women." [Observer]

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

Google allegedly shared student’s Gmail data with ICE and didn’t tell him until later. Roger McNamee ( @moonalice.com ) and @allenorr.bsky.social join me at 11a ET on how tech companies are fine with giving your personal data to the government, and what you can do about it. #Velshi

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My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

People say they don’t know how to get started convening /organizing/facilitating community groups: I have some resources to share. Some free, some by donation This is one ⬇️

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

We don't teach history. We teach mythology.

Key read. A lot of people are leaning that what is destroying us has been piloted and stress tested in SEA, S Asia, MENA, and our corresponding immigrant communities in U.S. cities.

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas: “inverted victimhood” “hijacked victimhood” “imitated victimhood” The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

Shoutout to David Fagen!

Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires’ Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.

If one hasn't read Twain's To the Person Sitting in Darkness, you've never seen the side of him they don't tell you about in school.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

When did we decide that random executive orders posted online constitute concrete statutory changes to be enacted immediately?

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that liberals don’t exist.

I am still going to be watching what happens at airports tomorrow. Despite this similarly anonymous statement, the actual federal government has not issued any official guidance to ignore what the text of the proclamation says. The incompetence is staggering. This is governance by chaos.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

What can you even say?

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

🎯 When Sister Souljah raised the roof and gave Bill Clinton and the US government a well deserved tongue lashing for comparing her to the KKK.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

Aaaand this is why Bondi has dismantled the public corruption unit at DOJ. It’s now pay to play

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

Highly recommend everyone reads “How to Hide An Empire” by Daniel Immerwahr

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

“Gross misconduct” for saying the country demands we perform grief for white men who espouse violence (objectively true in this case!) is wild

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

We are here now. The woman is a Dem political candidate. The masked man grabbing her breast and throwing her to the ground is presumably some kind of federal agent. www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...

Like Toni Cade Bambara said, “The most effective way to do it, is to do it!"

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.

Over 70% of H1B visa holders are Indian, many right wing and Islamophibic in their own right, and they’re about to find out how seeking favor on a case by case basis with an administration that advocates to “normalize Indian hate” will work out. Sorry, we are not white! Ask Bhagat Singh Thind!

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Indians comprised 72.3% of all H-1B visas issued by the United States in the financial year 2022-’23. scroll.in/latest/10867...