Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

I got tossed around, agents ripped my press credentials off, and shot me in the nuts if you are wondering how it’s going. After a rest we are back.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.

What have we done for life to abandon us this way What sin did we commit to deserve such misery This was once my home my memories my victories When will we wake from this nightmare I need you beside me for I feel powerless against everything This link is our only hope 😕 chuffed.org/project/sharif

I look forward to reading this work, especially the entries “Adjunct” “Academic Freedom” and “Ranking”

From Venezuela to Chicago, Trump is reviving the imperialist tradition of "splendid little wars" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

As the genocide in Palestine continues, it's important to hear from the youth about their conditions, their humanity, and their dreams. They are not numbers; Free Palestine. redemmas.org/events/pam-b...

Check out the MASSIVE crowd in DC marching to the White House to protest the federal takeover of the city! #FreeDC!

Neat tool from @forensicarchi.bsky.social for live tracking the #Gaza #flotilla. 22 ships currently sailing flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

The JWL Special Issue, Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, co-edited by @somishmash.bsky.social & myself, is out! A heartfelt thanks to my co-editor, the JWL staff, & our wonderful contributors. brill.com/view/journal...

NEW: Jewish settlers backed by government funding in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are attacking Bedouin villages with impunity, terrorizing residents into abandoning their land, reports Jessica Buxbaum for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...

Dr. Mimi Syed, an American emergency physician, speaks out after Israel barred her entry into Gaza for a medical mission: "The little bit of relief that us foreign doctors can provide, that has also been revoked and taken away from them. And it’s nothing but cruelty."

In the end, we’re going to have to make some choices about what R1 universities are: institutions of higher learning, pure inquiry, and broad-based research or money machines that blow in the wind with donors and the latest trends. Only one path is viable long term, in my opinion.

The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them. Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August. (Article and more photos to come later today.)

WOW! After months of the Trump administration saying that he would never be allowed back into the country — they brought him back. Then after months saying he would never be let free — he's back home. He still faces very serious criminal charges, and ICE may still move to arrest and deport him.

Congrats @andyhines.bsky.social! Thrilled to receive “University Keywords” in the flesh! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

“Time and again, Harp brings forth related attestations that point the finger at an industrial meat processor, posing as a patriotic institution, that lures in good working-class kids on one end and spits out nothing but bits and pieces on the other” - put this in bold in the recruitment ads

It’s not enough to get free weapons and political cover to carry out a genocide. Israel and its backers in the U.S. must also destroy any institution, no matter how long it has operated — like 60 Minutes here — that dares to moderately criticize the project once

Israel bombards Gaza City, where many are trapped, as ceasefire deal Hamas has accepted hangs in balance.

My new story “An Open Heart” is out in the @newyorker.com flash fiction series. It’s a long, strange sentence with stories within stories and a MySpace reference.

Before Oct. 7, settlers were destroying & stealing land in the West Bank village of Kafr Malik. Now, Palestinians cannot enter certain areas or risk death by Israeli settlers & soldiers who recently killed 4 residents in 2 days, Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand writes. prismreports.org/2025/08/12/k...

My book is 40% off until 8/22! And it’s my birthday on Sunday. 🎉🎉🎉Buy it. Gift it. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1870-c...

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal." Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

Hindu supremacists chase & terrorise a teenage Muslim girl, caught on CCTV, cops go after the victim & the Muslim bystanders who helped & defended her. Life in India for the last decade. Ethnostates are nazi states.

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho... A company with no business location, 39 employees and 40 odd million in previous contracts (somehow) gets 1.26 BILLION.

Trump’s Texas gerrymander would give Republicans nearly 80% of seats in state where he got 56% of vote This is direct result of John Roberts & conservative SCOTUS majority gutting Voting Rights Act & refusing to stop blatant partisan gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Another massacre targeting people waiting for aid in Zikim so far, around 25 martyrs and more than 150 injuries have arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Suárez said the Venezuelans spent the next 16 weeks being woken at 4am, moved between cells holding between 10 and 19 people, and enduring a relentless campaign of physical and psychological abuse. “There’s no life in there,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Harvard has just informed all employees that DHS has sent a subpoena requesting access to all i-9 records for Harvard employees and that they turned them over to the Trump admin with some exceptions

A list of top headlines on CNN right now. If this doesn’t tell you how bleak this country is don’t know what else.

I saw a woman sleeping on the asphalt And a child resting his head on a stone But I also saw a face rising from beneath the rubble There was no fear in his eyes Only a steady gaze, as if waiting for something he knows is coming.

Israel attacks ‘safe zones’ in Gaza as six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition.

“It’s not just the patients. We — the medical staff — are barely functioning. We struggle to stay focused ourselves.”

“[Eight states] route the information to ICE through varied paths that include a decades-old police clearinghouse and a network of post-9/11 intelligence-sharing hubs.” I mean, what could possibly go wrong? theintercept.com/2025/07/22/i...

Nothing says I did nothing wrong like a man with pardon power sending his personal lawyer to offer limited immunity to a convicted sex trafficker with a reputation for lying to see if she can clear things up abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag...