It felt incredible to stand with faculty and students on the quad for a Nakba Day rally today. We grieved the dead and reaffirmed our commitment to fight for justice. I am so proud of what students and faculty have built here.

I am glad I still weep every time I have to do this. I hope I never lose that. I hope I never become callous enough to not see every digit as the loss of a lifeworld, an infinite arc of possibility of which we were all robbed.

Every couple of weeks I speak or write about Palestine, and I have to go through and update the counts of the dead and wounded and destroyed. A personal archive of destruction through my own writing and speeches. The horror of deleting numbers and adding more, martyrs as digits. I'll never forgive.

“Chicago is the most important organizing city in the nation. I came here to learn from you.” -Robin D G Kelley at UChicago this evening!

I finally have my copy of Homosexual Intifada!! Such an honor to have both a poem and a story in this collection of art by queer Palestinians. Here are some sneak peaks!! @interlinkbooks.bsky.social @intifadabatata.bsky.social out June 2nd, pre-order now! interlinkbooks.com/product/homo...

the primary and motivating centrist belief is that fascism is simply a reasonable response to the left “The progressive left drives conservatives into paroxysms of rage, particularly over issues such as race and gender identity, and conservatives return the compliment.”

!!! YES WHAT IF !!!

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

Why are we listening to this man? He failed to address inequality in any real way. He failed to end the US’s endless over investment in war, militarism—betraying the coalition that elected him. He expanded the powers of the presidency to kill overseas. He brought us here. I’m not interested.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

New York can have pizza rat, we’ve got pizza squirrel here in Chicago.

Restricted videos include last week's conversation with @jarrodshanahan.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, a panel discussion on disability rep in YA, conversations with @zanemcneill.bsky.social, @rechelon.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, and more. 2/

How do we think May Day went? What's next for labor & justice movements? Join @inthesetimes.com May 5 for laughter w/@atpburke.bsky.social & discussion w/@delia.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Jackson Potter @ctulocal1.bsky.social Jasson Perez & @milesklassin.bsky.social RSVP for *free* tix

I really wish we’d at least get the language right. It’s no an evacuation. It’s expulsion.

The contrast with Hasan Piker’s media treatment is fascinating

Zionists are mobilizing to keep a repressive anti-BDS law on the books in Illinois. Help us over turn it by signing this witness slip ASAP. Anyone in the US can sign. ilga.gov/House/hearin... Instructions below!

Our next story is up! Headed to liberated Bangladesh!

Thank you Chicago for that standing room only book talk with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social last night! San Fransisco - catch me in conversation with @samsax.bsky.social on April 30 citylights.com/events/molly...

Chicago! See you tonight 7pm at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social where I’ll be in conversation with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY

On the same day that the US’s lowest fertility rate in history was announced, I found out that my employer’s fertility insurance benefits are considered taxable income. So if insurance pays $20K for your IVF, you have to pay taxes on that $20K. The ruling class hates us all so much.

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

So excited for this! 6 pm @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

Super interesting trends, particularly declining social media use among young folks.

Overall social media use is also declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

Was so grateful to be in conversation with Stevie Wilson and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social at Haymarket House tonight. It was a full house and the conversation was beautifully facilitated by our friend Dana Blanchard. We talked about Read This When Things Fall Apart and how to stay human in these times

Walked into Always Here bookstore on Williams here in Portland, for the first time! Really great selection, superbly curated and arranged. Bought a couple of books. Would've bought more, but on long walks I can only buy two that fit perfectly balanced in my jacket pockets.

How do we reverse the suicidal course of capitalist society? Join a virtual conversation with Jarrod Shanahan, author of the recently published essay collection "Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help," and writer @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social this Sunday! Register at app.hi.events/event/7035/e....

It's 2026 and the US is still trying to move away from the slaveholder electoral system. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Among many great points, addresses false claims made by critics of the resolution 1) that the boycott petition excludes people based on nationality. False the boycott is of institutions. 2) that ASA hasn’t taken positions before. Also false. Ukraine, same-sex marriage and more.

Two Israeli sociologists on the ASA’s overturning of a member petition for Boycott. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/g...

Tomorrow (4/14)! @grundrza.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Register 👇🏽 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ICYMI: we're honored to join our friends at @inthesetimes.com and @jvp.bsky.social to host @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social at the store on April 23rd to celebrate HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: THE STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260423

We have 5 new stories set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE by @genderhorizon.com & @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social! Have you read them? We hope they will inspire you to dream & compel you to build. Read the stories. Learn about the call for contributions 👉 www.commonnotions.org/project2052

Watching the ASA boycott session session called by @soc4pal.bsky.social. Powerful words by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social: "ASA is choosing to make itself irrelevant"

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: “It Seems Like Blind American Ignorance”: The New US War on Iraq In the shadow of its wars in Iran and Lebanon, the US has conducted devastating attacks on the security forces of its Iraqi ally. Story by Nir Rosen & Hajar al Obeidi www.dropsitenews.com/p/iraq-us-wa...

Unbearable to watch footage from Beirut yesterday. Israel explicitly breaking the ceasefire to drag us back into a war that already cost the world so much. When will it stop? Only once the US withdraws all military, economic and political aid to Israel.

When I spoke to one of my displaced cousins in Beirut today, he said: “Now that Israel isn’t sending its warplanes to bomb Iran, they have a lot of extra time to bomb us”

my local gov halted new data center development and is pouring the net revenue from existing sites into affordable housing. this has been a far more productive use of the revenue than other localities, which have largely used to it cut property taxes (in a state with fairly lower property taxes)

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

No relief for anyone in Lebanon. Israel is hammering Beirut so that Bibi can appear independent of Washington to his fanatic murderous base, a base that can only be sated with Arab blood. Hundreds of casualties just in the last 12 hours. Israel is the most dangerously country on earth.

Presenting a paper coming up in NYC

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

WTF How is this a serious news outlet?

Only 50 of 214 House Democrats are calling to impeach a man who has openly declared intent to commit genocide in the most unpopular war in this nation's history. Truly this party has no desire to save itself. Baffling.

What is your college or university doing to support students whose entire families and hometowns have been openly threatened with genocide by the most powerful man in the world?

An effectual opposition party would be SO NICE right now.

I couldn't agree more

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Anyone who participates in any way in this evil, is also a war criminal. It is not just Trump. It’s the entire administration, the entire army apparatus from the bottom to the top. History will not judge anyone kindly for “just following orders.”