cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

⚡️Drop Site Daily | September 16, 2025 Israel invades Gaza City, Free speech crackdown on Charlie Kirk critics, Italian dockworkers threaten strike over Gaza blockade www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Too often, radical politics stop at the bedroom door. In conversation with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social shares how his new book, *Love in a Fcked-Up World* helps organizers build more caring, abundant relationships. Full interview: inthesetimes.com/article/love...

Zionists see that they've been losing support even on the right (i.e. Tucker Carlson, MTG, etc) , and they're appropriating Charlie Kirk and his murder to try to re-gain some of that base. Accounts like "Israel War Room" are stoking Kirk panic against Palestinians. Transparent.

And then there is this right-wing extremist Republican/domestic terrorist who shared his email address with all of us.

Given that I did not tweet about the Kirk murder or retweet anyone saying they were glad he was dead, why am I getting these emails every few hours? Why am I paying the cost of one white man killing another?

Chicago! Join @newlinesmag.bsky.social and Nighthawk tomorrow at 3pm for a conversation with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @brant-rosen.bsky.social about the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza. The event is free & open to the public, just register here to secure a spot www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gaza-c...

Join @newlinesmag.bsky.social & Nighthawk in Chicago Saturday 9/13 at 3pm for a public conversation between @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social ‬& @brant-rosen.bsky.social about the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza. Free & open to the public, but register here to secure a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gaza-c...

Chicago! Join New Lines Magazine and Nighthawk this Saturday 9/13 at 3pm for a conversation between @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @brant-rosen.bsky.social about the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza. Free and open to the public, but register here to secure a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gaza-c...

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1

"Spain’s economy is outpacing its European neighbours, with GDP expected to grow by 2.5% this year, far surpassing the economies of Italy, France and Germany, which are poised to expand 0.7%, 0.6% & 0% respectively." via @spottednewsoff.bsky.social

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.

My friend’s 6 year old asked her if we had socks in the 1900s. Brutal. It’s getting so brutal.

Palestinian activist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social explains the history of imperialist support for Israel’s colonial conquest of Palestine up to the current genocide, the Palestinian people’s steadfast resistance, and the urgency of global solidarity with their freedom struggle.

Always a pleasure talking to Ashley!

So much love and gratitude to @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com for sharing this book with the world!

“Recognizing Palestine as a state right now is political theater. What state? Palestinians have been left with so little control over our land, and no means to build sovereignty.” @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-a...

My weekly list of must-read articles, some thoughts from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social on the state of Palestinian struggle, and some brief musings about my newly sprained ankle and Trump's threats to send the military to Chicago.

“Demands from Palestinians and the movement have been clear and consistent, we need an immediate arms embargo. We need an end to the genocide. We need boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Anything less is fluff.” — @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Walked into a business and was surprised they were playing Arabic music, some niche Egyptian shit. A couple of minutes into a very awkward interaction with the patron, I realized the music was coming from my phone.

Join us on Wednesday (8/20) for our next reading group, on Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com! Wednesdays at 7pm eastern for six weeks

But it’s not perfectly segmented. I found myself crying at work and had to go to the bathroom and wash my face over and over again until I could take the next patient, and then hoped they didn’t notice my eyes.

Last week I posted on X that I felt I was leading two parallel lives. (full post below). Yesterday, I snuck up to my room between panels at an academic conference to weep over Anas Al Sharif and all our beautiful men whose lives Israel stole. When will we end this hell?

What has life been like for U.S. Muslims since October 7? Prof. Eman Abdelhadi (University of Chicago) breaks down the rise in Islamophobia and how a new generation of Muslim Americans is organizing across movements to resist fear and isolation. youtube.com/shorts/XclLW...

Media blackout on the eve of an invasion the whole world has condemned, by a state that’s been willing to do a genocide on livestream. What do you think comes next? Hearing reports of intensive bombardment. They’re leveling whatever is left.

Anas Al Sharif spent 17 of his 28 years living under a brutal blockade supported by your tax $. In 2008-09 and 2014, he survived bombings paid for by your tax $. In 2023-2025 he documented a genocide funded by your tax $. He was assassinated today with your tax $.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

So I was program chair for the association for the sociology of religion conference this year, and every time I see someone I’m like “how’s your conference??” I’m like the academic version of the anxious dinner party hostess being like “are you having a good time?!?”

I love the unspoken conference rule where if you see someone sitting at breakfast furiously typing you wait to say hi because let’s face it, their presentation is in half an hour and they’re making the slides.

Anyone else feel like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and me?

I’m on 7 panels in the next few days between ASA, ASR and SSSP. First up: a conversation on BDS at ASA…

Ugh. Working at a coffee shop where I'm overhearing a first date where his dopy ass just told her he's had the teacher's union protest at his house because he "supports school choice" (i.e. works for charter schools). Girl, get out. Get out now. There's too much gel in this hair, and he is evil.

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This book is a care package for organizers and activists. I wrote the first and last letters in the book and edited letters from beloved friends and co-strugglers like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @shaneburley.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, and many more.

Not me tearing up (read: fully crying) while writing my student/collaborator's job market letter...

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Congratulations! Such a fascinating paper topic. Though I think this is a better link to the paper for people who aren't affiliated with UChicago: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our paper in Gender & Society, "Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies" received the Arlene Kaplan Daniels award from @sssp1org.bsky.social! We're so honored! Read our paper here: journals-sagepub-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1177/...

Every time I do any kind of prison education program, I come out completely destroyed. I can’t get over that we live in a society that throws humans in cages for decades at a time.

What if we won? Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social) will offer "Writing Liberatory Futures: A Workshop on Speculative Fiction" on August 21st to benefit Gazan refugees in Cairo. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

Join us tonight!

so if I'm hypothetically working at a coffee shop that has several of my colleagues and also my graduate student collaborator, and said coffee shop starts playing boy bands from my childhood, and I involuntarily start singing along... I can't possibly retain any credibility right?

What does it mean to "recognize the state of Palestine" when for 8 decades Palestinians have been systematically robbed of land, life, infrastructure, and sovereignty. These statements by France and the UK show that protest & pressure are working, but they are wrongheaded 1/n

I was also given an education the Terminator movies and Star Trek Deep Space Nine! I am very grateful and now much more worldly!!

We need to understand that the reason of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is not because people doesn't care, it's because the United States of America has threatened for decades every nation on Earth who dares to question Israel's criminal endeavors.

By all means, critique people and orgs in our movement. But is your criticism structured to get them to do better or to just cancel them and thereby cut people and resources from our already struggling cause? Have you considered what next? Or where we’d be if those orgs never existed? Be serious.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.