Did actual f*cking Jeff Bezos write this absolute trash?! (The irony is that this article is just the WaPo dropping the mask of not being the mouthpiece of billionaires and fascists).

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today in absolutely and always Fuck ICE.

“And for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”

Looking forward to traveling *all the way up to Evanston❗* next Wednesday to speak on my book, Pious Labor, at the new Languages of Islam workshop through the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Details here!

Apparently the gap btw “centrist liberal” and “full blown klan” is closed by the radical demand that Palestinians be seen as people and buses should be free

Yup. And riding a bicycle teaches you to vibe with the city, but also that the car people are 100% very actively trying to kill you.

"What I need you to know is we are organized. What I need you to know is that you need to get organized. What I need you to know is they are coming. What I need you to know is you can stop them... This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"

Highly recommend bringing your dog to your academic conference.

“No public criminal charges have been filed against anyone in connection with the raid … The Tribune has been able to confirm the identity of only one immigrant taken into custody by federal agents that night: a 41-year-old pizza delivery man… who has no apparent criminal history.”

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

ICE continues their terror campaign today as people protest in mass. Border Patrol was seen in Blue Island, and at the O'Hare rideshare lot again. Sightings in southeast side. A truck with a smashed window in Villa Park. Right now, they're hunting people on the southwest side.

Delighted that Pious Labor (@ucpress.bsky.social and Three Essays Collective) has been awarded the South Asian Muslim Studies Association biennial book prize! faculty.thecollege.asu.edu/samsa/announ...

“On the question of intent, much fudged and fettered by those legal minds who wish to keep the high standards for genocide untainted by Palestinian blood…” 💯. The only way to deny genocide in Palestine is to believe that Palestinians aren’t equally human.

h/t @fiona-webster22.bsky.social

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

ICE out of Chicago NOW.

Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

“A masked ICE agent inside the fencing shot a pepper ball from about 50 feet away, hitting Rezai’s truck, which had its driver’s side window down, ‘causing the chemical agents to engulf the inside.’”

My first Chicago half marathon to mark the start of the new academic year! 1 hr 55 min 42 sec time; not bad for being pretty undertrained (an international move will do that 🤷‍♀️).

Hundreds of immigrant detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz are missing. The Trump Administration keeps us in the dark because they don't want us to see how they’re violating our rights, tearing our families apart, and attacking our communities. We need answers! Where are our neighbors?

Like everyone else, I've deleted my academia. edu page and I'm in the process of shifting over to Knowledge Commons. I'm still figuring out how it works, but my articles and book can all be found there and on my personal website. hcommons.org/members/aman...

"Compared to the first year of the first Trump administration, arrests of noncriminals have increased 500 percent." www.justsecurity.org/121122/us-de...

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

“AI has always been a marketing phrase that erodes scientific inquiry and scholarly discussion by de- sign, leaving the door open to pseudoscience, exclusion, and surveillance.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 6/🧵

Netanyahu officially approved a settlement plan last week and announced his intentions to greenlight other settlements just like it. Together, these plans would end the West Bank as a geographic and political entity. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/if-i... #Palestine #Israel

Pious Labor (@ucpress.bsky.social ) reviewed in the AHR by @farinamir.bsky.social . I've been fortunate that the book has been read by several thoughtful and generous reviewers, and I'm especially thrilled to see this one. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... 🗃️

If we’re mourning a victim of political violence in the US this weekend, it should be Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

BREAKING in Chicago: "ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers" by @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social “The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” @ramirez.house.gov said Saturday.

What a thoughtful man Mahmoud Khalil is. A must read. Was moved to know that while in detention he was reading Edward Said and Viktor E. Frankl www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My next book, Out of Empire, is now under contract with @uncpress.bsky.social! The book provides a social historical perspective on the hijrat of 1920, during which tens of thousands of Indians left their homeland in search of freer lives in an independent, Muslim-ruled territory: Afghanistan.

An early example of testimonials in Urdu advertising! For the homeopathic treatment Amrat Dhara, which will help you with "any struggle in life," in a 1931 edition of Sadaqat (Kanpur). The advertisement features "a few letters of the 36,000" that they claim to have received from users 👀. 🗃️

You could house Chicago's homeless four times over with the money Trump's occupation of the city will cost PER DAY. Read more: interc.pt/4mEgE6q ✍️ @nickturse.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

"Since the 1950s, area studies programs have quietly informed disciplinary practices across the humanities and social sciences." 2024 ACLS Fellow @amandazillo.bsky.social shares why area studies matter in @insidehighered.com: bit.ly/4lXw5p5

SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Brilliant - and sadly necessary - defense of the value of area studies from @amandazillo.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

In @insidehighered.com I explore how area studies have positively reshaped the humanities & social sciences in the US since the 1950s. Their loss would impoverish knowledge production across our universities, and our universities must step up to defend them. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Our students and colleagues keep disappearing, and most of us don't seem to care.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

The Israeli military carried out a double-tap strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza. Among those targeted and killed: at least five journalists that worked with Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC News, and the Associated Press.

Seeking a Sindhi translator (paid) for work on a short text! If you have any leads, please have them email me (my name @ uchicago. edu).

‘Brave reporting by the likes of Anas al-Sharif, an al-Jazeera journalist killed by Israel on 10 August with five of his colleagues, is systematically dismissed and discredited.’ Stefan Tarnowski on Palestinian journalists: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

In the conservative states, they cut languages because "useless" and "indoctrination." In the progressive states, they cut languages because "budget cuts" and "restructuring." In all states: languages do need to be cut. (Hint: They don't, actually. This is a bipartisan ideological project.)

There a one-year Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi position in my department at Chicago open, for a visiting role from Jan-December 2026. Tell your Hindi teaching friends! networks.h-net.org/jobs/68970/u...

It's really hard to handle everything around you being guided by the imaginary vibes of people who are afraid of subways and writing their own emails.

The 1st prof to be officially sanctioned under IN’s “intellectual diversity” law. IU doesn’t bother trying to claim the prof violated anyone’s rights - merely that he included “personal opinions” a student disagreed with, and is known to be a vocal critic of Israel on campus