I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

Report: occupiers poison water supply Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison

Biden got no "credit" for reducing US drone strikes because he was still supplying a genocidal force (with drones!) and bombing the crap out of Yemen. www.bbc.com/news/world-u... "Well, when you say 'working,' are [the airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No," he said. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."

@support.bsky.team is this creating a safer alternative to Twitter? Are you happy with the regime threatening people like this on your website? Meanwhile, anyone who says something vaguely mean about Charlie Kirk or who is Palestinian and wants to raise funds gets kicked off?

It was no coincidence that the first people this admin snatched off the street were Palestinian student activists. Universities had already decided, under the previous president, that those students weren't worth fighting for. The debate became about whether or not they deserved to be kidnapped.

I hate to be a broken record, but this is exactly what happened with Gaza. Palestine was the trial run for institutional capitulation. Some faculty self-censored, some spoke out, some lost their jobs. Universities showed they were willing to crack down on speech, and they're primed to do it again.

"Her writing about Jewish identity influenced later Jewish thought leaders, while many of her poems are easily read as alluding to a same-sex attraction painfully frustrated by the current social mores, and foreseeing a future where such love was permissible." She committed suicide at 27.

Reminds me of the time Maimonides told an impotent Ayyubid prince to stop eating salad, because it has a 'cooling' effect.

Israel was holding bodies of these people (and hundreds others) 9 years ago. This image was posted before a demonstration held in Hebron, on Palestine's occupied West Bank, on Nov 13th 2016 for return of remains held by the Israeli occupation. Israel is still holding many of these people's bodies.

Israel, which occupies 5 illegal 'outposts' in south Lebanon and also bombs it daily, is now building a West Bank-style 'separation wall' 2km inside Lebanese territory. It has 9 similar outposts in Syria (which it has also bombed 1,000 times since the fall of Assad), so expect a wall there next.

"One day, everyone will have always been against this" was a condemnation. Not a one-step guide for revitalizing your career.

How does one read this and not conclude that "defund the police" is the moderate position?

Thankfully no one noticed the problem in my translation

🔴 “Every Released Palestinian Has Spoken of Torture, Starvation, or Medical Neglect” Diana Buttu describes a systematic regime of torture inside Israeli prisons, noting how all of the 1,700 Palestinian hostages released recently “have spoken about torture over and over again. There isn’t one...

In a few years there will be movies about their personal anguish over atrocities they had no choice but to participate in

"Students and faculty at the Islamic University of Gaza ... described in interviews how they kept studying throughout two years of genocide by charging their laptops with solar energy, watching recorded lectures, and meeting in improvised study groups."

Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

Not just dangerous for pregnant people (and it does literally cause miscarriage), but it also causes infertility, and they're spraying it all over minoritised communities. Tear gas is banned in war by the Geneva Convention.

I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...

Israeli soldiers confirm they did exactly what Palestinians said they did.

Pretty clear now that airport workers could strike and extract whatever they want from Congress.

Have Americans tried pirating healthcare?

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

There's so much violence going out of the West Bank literally every hour of the day I can't upload everything here, so you can follow me on my second account @settlertrack.bsky.social for more posts!

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

Universities interested in resisting fascism should immediately eliminate presidents, executive officers, chancellors, provosts, trustees, vice-anythings, probably deans, and all governing bodies with "board" or "council" in the title.

"[T]he Biden administration opened more antisemitism probes against colleges and universities (65) than for all other types of racial harassment combined (38) ... [Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism] has systematically ignored the procedural requirements of [funding cuts based on] Title VI."

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

Anyone else old enough to remember when Cambridge hung an effigy of a female undergraduate riding a bike from the window of what is now the university bookstore, as part of their riot against granting degrees to women?

I never again want to hear a word against reparations or landback as impractical or too expensive when one mediocre sieg heiling white dude WHO DIDN'T EVEN FOUND TESLA (he stole the company from its real founders) IS ALLOWED TO HAVE A TRILLION DOLLARS

This week on Broadview or Ketziot:

Remember the "Israel says they will cut agreed aid by half" headlines? Then shortly after, "Israel agrees to do what they said they would do and allow aid into Gaza"? The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.

Israel is bombing Lebanon again

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

off year elections have given a giant FUCK YOU to trump and also centrism so i expect democrats to adapt to this new political meta by taking a hard turn toward the right

The Cairo Genizah is a fridge.

Something like 10% of NYC residents are Muslim but the pollsters couldn't be bothered to give them their own crosstab?

On that awful face-scanning app that ICE is using to kidnap US citizens:

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

"Look, I voted and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City," Schumer told reporters. Any vote that isn't for the Democratic nominee is a vote for the disgraced sexual harrasser. Right? Blue no matter who...? www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Bluesky instantly blocked my first attempt at this list because it had [that word] in the title, which was somehow a breach of their ToS against discrimination. bsky.app/profile/npos... Content includes a small number of classic hasbara trolls and a less small number of blue-no-matter-who liberals.

Hundreds of thousands.

Teen Vogue writers have been resisting the president's disinformation machine for over a decade. It's frightening how many actual news outlets are being been shut down or subsumed into megacorporations. www.teenvogue.com/story/donald...

On Saturday night I click to take a look - the piece has nothing to do with what I wrote. This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/

And yeah as people have pointed out, the BBC article is actually wrong. It’s not alleged. It’s confirmed. And it’s rape.

The good news is they will still (as always) accept trans students. The bad news is they won't affirm that position for new fellows, for whom "following the Supreme Court’s decision...when we refer to 'women' we mean those assigned female at birth." Source: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Restrictions on food supplies to vulnerable populations, police crackdowns on antifascist protestors, social media and free speech curtails, institutions firing employees who speak out, AI surveillance and target selection... what is this, mid 2024?