America's oldest public school, devoting itself to trendy world-boiling brain-frying nonsense. Shame!!

ok so...yes, we all know how politically problematic Shaabaan Abdelrahim is...but, leaving aside the hosni mubarak praise in this song, the rest of it holds up pretty well twenty years later! your daily dose of early 2000s silly nostalgia. 😂🖕🏽 youtu.be/mOPtpYPvT68?...

another excellent article by Tariq Dana #Palestine #militarization merip.org/2025/10/the-...

Every political reporter should just ask “is that another lie” as a followup to every statement made by anyone in this administration.

Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.

made an administrative error (mostly my fault, but partially their fault) that's almost certainly gonna cost me four grand, not to mention causing me to waste about six months of my own time, and I feel so extremely dumb! it's mindboggling how I can be this old yet still fuck up so bad. 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of protesters that state media said were attempting to "storm" a police station in Morocco. The interior ministry said over 400 people have been arrested and nearly 300 injured during the protests roiling the country u.afp.com/SWtG

started a Korean romance-drama about a 3star Michelin chef who goes back in time 500yrs to become a tyrannical emporeror's personal chef - as silly as this show sounds (and is), every single dish she prepares looks amazing 😍 so I am obviously gonna have to watch the whole season

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Woot!

'Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a policy of extortion by Israeli forces against families in Gaza, presenting them with catastrophic choice: either collaborate with the Israeli army, or face mass killing, starvation and forcible displacement' euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

thought I would make a photobook of my aunt's totally destroyed house, thinking it would be a nice thing for her and her kids to remember it like that instead of as a pile of rubble...turns out, seeing the old photos has upset her greatly, so it seems I'm an insensitive asshole!! oops? 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

The pundit's most irritating and contemptible claim is that you can do a runaround for the difficult work of politicking, negotiating between dif interests etc by declaring you know what policy is Popular, and can deliver Victory through its straightforward, tradeoff-free adoption.

The open corruption of the Department of Justice into a tool of dishonest oppression against people who have crossed Trump isn't just on Trump or his minions. It's on every Republican in the Senate, in the House, and on the Supreme Court.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

amazing how very, very few politicians in America dare to speak basic common sense as forcefully and clearly as this guy did on a comedy show last night. youtu.be/tj3OcfMS4AU?...

The third story in this series is out!! Indah Nuritasari describes how her Indonesian community news outlet in Philadelphia has built trust, community, and safety for its growing community with many asylum seekers from a persecuted minority group. nonprofitquarterly.org/immigrant-me...

dreaming of being busy and having literally anything useful to do for other people...everyone wants to be free but having no work at all is really not the blessing it may appear to be (and not only because of the lack of income)

We waited so long for this moment!

can it be, finally?! 😮🤯😍🥳 www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-s...

You got me a bath bomb? Didn’t one of those kill Marat?

My Uni Lausanne historian colleague @boscha.bsky.social researches the colonial (and, yes, racist) past of Switzerland, as in the link below. As a result, he has been personally attacked by the (far) right Swiss German newspaper @nzz.ch . Please sign in support here. framaforms.org/support-for-...

Report: Human Remains from Colonial Contexts in Switzerland. An Overview This report provides an overview of the issue of human remains held in Swiss museums and makes recommendations in the areas of research, financial support, and restitution. www.infoclio.ch/en/report-hu... @boscha.bsky.social

today is the autumn equinox but I am absolutely not prepared for summer to be over. 🍂

World's top arms firms. AFP Infographic charting the world's largest arms corporations according to revenues in 2023, the latest available data on the SIPRI Arms Industry Database

From Emptiness to the Song Within I Maha Ahmed, gouache on paper, 2019 www.aancollection.org/en/artist/wo... #art #painting

bag lost on a direct flight with zero connections! 😂 some guy on the tarmac in cairo did not have his coffee this morning, clearly.

For transferring money to friends, please refrain from using PayPal. Don't put money in the pocket of Peter Thiel. He despises you anyway. Find another method, or simply use Signal payments.

My “death of consensus reality” t-shirt is raising questions that nobody else asked because they saw a different t-shirt

sounds like a virginia political ad from 1937

wtf is this shit? 🙄😂😂😂👎🏽

nothing more beautiful in this world than flowers and the sea 🌊☀️

Uncle Roger got married to a desi American lady! www.vogue.com.au/brides/weddi...

Worker morale in higher ed is (with good reason) almost universally terrible now. Probably fine long-term for institutions that only function because of said workers.

Reminds me of the Vanity Fair puff piece on Asma al-Assad, “Rose of the Desert” that was published just before the start of the uprisings.

My two cents, special discount

Participatory propaganda rules everything around me

Meanwhile…

Most of those killed are Africans, and US media considers their deaths not to be newsworthy or reportable (as Pope Leo XIV has noted)

like if you find yourself pointing out the inconsistencies, hypocrisies, whatever, you have fallen into the tar pit you should just observe the fact that they're being inconsistent and don't give a shit about being inconsistent and just mark them as hostile, because they are

I'll be on @democracynow.org this morning to talk about assassination of Charlie Kirk & what his org, Turning Point is: a transformation in rightwing youth politics away from ideology per se toward fascistic cult of personality devotion to Trump. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

Lot of people saying it's already as bad as it can get, what have we got to lose. I get it--it's violence all the way back in US history, and it's getting worse right now. But no, it's not as bad as it can get. Pick your war zone. That's as bad as it can get. Let's not let it get there.

Trump and Israel sending a racist biker gang of mostly disgraced ex-US soldiers, that exists to cosplay as Crusaders, to Gaza to distribute "aid." Sure sure sure. www.bbc.com/news/article...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Also contains overseas campuses of several leading US universities, like Northwestern and Georgetown.