Mahmoud Khalil, in oped dictated from detention, asks “progressive” Columbia faculty: “What will it take for you to resist the destruction of your University? Are your positions worth more than the lives of your students and the integrity of your work?” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Israeli police raided a pair of renowned Palestinian-owned bookstores in illegally occupied East Jerusalem over the weekend, confiscating books they claimed were “inciteful,” and arresting the owners.

“…in 2021, formal challenges to books in libraries began a sharp climb upward. By 2023, book challenges in Canada increased nearly four times the pre-pandemic average…Nearly half the book challenges in 2023 were related to 2SLGBTQ+ materials, up from 9.8 per cent in 2019.”

Huge news! 🎉 Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer. BDS works! We have power wherever we are. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

Anyone else on Pixelfed? Add me!

The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!

Straight up stealing this from @jacobwren.bsky.social so I can look at it more

Would that I could

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

Fit check

“Derek still seems to me the best as well as the most radical nature writer, because he refuses to exclude the body from his sphere of interest, documenting the rising tides of sickness and desire with as much care as he does the discovery of a sea buckthorn or a wild fig” (from O. Laing’s intro)

Are you on pixelfed? If so - you wanna DM with me and let me know what your experience has been? Merci 🙏

"Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task?" A virtual book talk with Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley on Feb 11 @ 7:30pm ET www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Developer creates infinite maze that traps AI training bots 🔗 www.404media.co/developer-cr...

Wish there was some kind of private account option so I didn’t have to spend 1/3 of my time on here blocking bots.

fuck yourselves you nazi morons

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

I will make a post I just need to read all the other posts ever made ever first.

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