Columbia University, main campus. Once an open thoroughfare, shaded by tall noble trees. Now closed to the public, the big trees torn up and replaced by stunted exemplars of other species, planted deep in the summer vacation, and yellowing, dying. In an novel, the metaphor would seem heavy-handed.

if you're a weirdo that needs convincing that dr. mitra is an extremely intelligent, prolific, kind, and generous professor and scholar that any institution would be blessed to have, this article will do it!!!! read it and then hire her!!!!!!!! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"We don't want them in Chicago." "The [DHS] statement, which was immediately quoted by media outlets, places much of the blame on Villegas-Gonzalez for his own death." "Bystander videos and eyewitness accounts, however, tell a different story." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

what democracy

Israel has bombed Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Qatar in the past 24 hours

BREAKING: At least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jyzzrz

NEW: The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has blown the whistle, saying Trump's DOGE team uploaded a database containing the hundreds of millions of Social Security records of most Americans to an AWS cloud server, allegedly without proper access controls or monitoring in place.

They're storming Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Where are all the "blame Hamas" people when this happens?

Grateful for this incredible review of *Disrupted City* by Rohit Chopra!

The President expresses his intention to deploy the military to occupy Chicago.

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While Israel's allies distract us all with talks of recognising a state of Palestine that can never exist, Israel is moving forward with defacto annexing more and more of the West Bank. They will start by dividing the WB in two. apnews.com/article/isra...

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to get a sense of scale, Manan Ahmed Alex Gil & Roopika Risam mapped secret ICE facilities in 2018, now expanding. see also the profoundly moving documentary “Borderland: The Line Within” on their project and the cruelty of ICE www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/m... xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/v...

Israel is now bombing Southern Lebanon.

Al Jazeera now has the number of murdered Palestinian journalists at nearly 270, my God www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

a makeshift memorial for journalists Awdah Hathaleen, Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammed al-Khalidi, Mohammed al Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher on Broadway & 116th

I think once again people are not taking the fascist president’s antics seriously enough

i would like you and every other journalist in the U.S. to describe it in words actually. shameful silence for far too long from far too many.

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

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

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

glory to the martyr Anas al-Sharif

just fell to my knees in a walmart

absolutely INSANE to explicitly say you are in the tristate area and that's... all the more reason that it's none of your business, actually? god i hate him

Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them. They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has been posting updates regarding the activists who were aboard the Handala. This post is regarding Christian Smalls, a Black American union organizer and co-founder of Amazon Labor Union.

I keep fantasizing about buying a newsstand... Cost: $36,000. My newsstand would be a Zine Distro.

Welcoming people into the tent means, like, YOUR NEIGHBOR DOWN THE STREET who respons to your protest sign, not your Congressman who voted to send billions of weapons to murder children, & not the NYT columnist who helped create the largest cohort of pediatric amputees in history. Don’t be dense!!!

So if you’re keeping score, this is 1938.

“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled”

For years, Prime Day has exacerbated worker injuries. Instead of cutting back, Amazon doubled the number of Prime Days this month. One warehouse worker told us, “I’m tired of there being an ambulance at my job site almost every night."

flowers for Prof C.M. Naim (1936-2025) إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُون

The paper is ACTIVELY campaigning against a political candidate while claiming it doesn't endorse locally. It's bullshit and it's lying.

I suspect these explanations are spin. They ran a story framed as “Mamdani faked being black” because they thought that was the story and it would be a huge scandal that would cripple him. Of course most of the senior editors agreed—being anti-progressive is clearly a credential internally there.

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.

every day is a good day to read @durba.bsky.social

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

earnest question: why is this the first time she's posting about this?

For the past few weeks I have been writing 'another massacre in Gaza' almost every single day. Another massacre in Gaza. Israel continues its final solution. Most Western states maintain normal relations with the genocidal state.

This quickly became the will you condemn Hamas of 2025 - he never said it!

Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station. A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready” 1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window: “You a U.S. citizen?” “Uh yes” then let me go..

Reminder that Rep Goldman voiced no concern for the safety of these Jewish NYers, who were subject to death threats, police brutality, arrest, imprisonment, & expulsion from school for exercising their 1a rights & articulating their Jewish values. On the contrary, Goldman vilified & endangered them

Also almost no one gets rich writing books. It's not the public's fault for not understanding this. Publishing is a black box by design. But let me assure you that if you average it out 90% of authors are making well below minimum wage for each book.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

The Sameer Project is running out of money. If you like fantasy and science fiction, pick up my anthology from this bookstore. All proceeds will go to them! Please, the people of Palestine are relying on you. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sul...

much to my chagrin