Got a project in mind for our special issue on ethnic studies+student activism? Apply to our workshop, Oct 11, to get feedback on your ideas and connect with others on the dreams and struggles embedded in this work. Space is limited; apply soon!

Do you ever write titles of articles or books in American English? For the love of grammar, "is" is a verb and ALL verbs are capitalized in titles. DO NOT LOWER CASE "IS" IN TITLES!!!!!!

Farmers bankrupt, firefighters raided, allies betrayed, the #CDC emptied and #Trump still finds time to order himself a Navy boat parade. #ukraine #Gaza #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

What is it called when government owns the means of production again?

Omar Bartov and I discuss the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land with Jonathan Hafetz on his podcast Law on Film. It speaks volumes about anti-Palestinian racism that it is impossible to stream or buy the film in the United States. www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...

Engineering Destruction conference July 29 - 31. Here is the program schedule and Zoom link. All panels will be streamed with simultaneous translation in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Please share! www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46811

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy 29-31 July online and at Birzeit This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia

Scholars fear that the the capitulation of universities is hurting an entire field of study at the time when it’s most needed. Thea Abu El-Haj warned that the special issue’s cancellation also sets a dangerous precedent...“it’s not going to stop with Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Afeef Nessouli and Steven Thrasher won a Pulitzer Global Reporting Grant to write a series of stories for the Intercept. This is their first story with reporting by Afeef who was the only American journalist in Gaza--he spent nine weeks there as a medical volunteer. theintercept.com/2025/07/21/i...

Moustafa Bayoumi: Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In the 1st episode of MERIP's new pod, Jim Ryan interviews Mona Tajali about her article “Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran” in MER 314: New Gender Frontlines. She discusses how feminist groups navigate repression at home and imperialist intervention from abroad. open.spotify.com/episode/5Bco...

The new issue is out! merip.org/magazine/314/

Hey @secdef.govpeeps.us @secdef.govpeeps.us THIS is what a war fighting hero looks like. Harriet Tubman is the best of us. When you peer in the mirror, you will see a cowardly incompetent loser. Don't ever forget that you are pathetic. Your best quality is your hairdo. #HairdoHegseth

"I collected ethnographic evidence—voice notes, text messages, emails and phone calls—from those enduring or witnessing reproductive violence...from the direct assaults on reproductive health and infrastructure to... sexual violence and its role in reproductive erasure." merip.org/2025/06/isra...

The UK government’s long-standing efforts to suppress details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA's post-9/11 #torture program face a historic challenge this week, as two #Guantanamo Bay detainees bring claims before a secretive British court. english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

Craig Mokhiber, a steering committee member of the Gaza Tribunal, discusses the Declaration that came out of the Sarajevo meeting. www.youtube.com/live/GoDKg-R...

Trump administration contends that Khalil, Öztürk, Suri, Chung, Kordia, and Mahdawi are so dangerous that the government must deport them for speech that is protected by the Constitution. Yet it also claims that “there is no basis for this Court to break new ground.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Shame on the faceless cogs of MIT who dare, without apparent shame, to violate the First Amendment in order to bar a distinguished student from telling truths at commencement. Oh cogs, your own children will mock and ridicule you. Shame on you. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

By advancing outlandish arguments in a wide range of cases, and to a judiciary controlled by a conservative SCOTUS, the admin is hoping to wear down the courts through sheer force of will. And it’s banking on the fact that...courts will assist the gov’s efforts www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Noura Erakat on how to understand and condemn genocidal realities. 💥💥💥 www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686

The EU has been shamefully silent on escalating repression in Tunisia, as authorities weaponize arbitrary detention and abusive prosecution. Tunisians are paying a steep price for the EU’s singular focus on migration and abandonment of human rights euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Rubio said the United States was not satisfied only with sending migrants to El Salvador. "We are working with other countries to say: We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings, will you do this as a favor to us," Rubio said. "And the further away from America, the better."

Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.) Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump admin is dominated by a Silicon Valley-Wall St nexus that wants a sleek state to maximize their returns; anti-New Deal conservs who want a shackled state to abandon social welfare; anarcho-capitalists, monarchists and fascists who want to shatter the state www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is about to do for NPR and PBS what he did for Canadian liberals...

Trump constantly complains about the existence of some shadowy “deep state”, when in reality he and his entire administration ought to be in a deep state of shame, considering the constant stream of errors and blunders that constitute their rule. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless. nymag.com/intelligence...

“Badar never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.” Nader Hashemi reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on his recent visit to meet with his colleague Badar Khan Suri in an ICE facility in Texas. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process. I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.

The latest count here is 320, with crucial new additions of UCSD and UCSB. (U Calif San Diego / Santa Barbara)

"We cannot give everyone a trial" before we decree them guilty and disappear them into a foreign torture prison, grunts our mad king. This kind of sovereign kingly abuse was banished by habeas corpus and the Magna Carta. Trump wants to make the Dark Ages great again.

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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They know they’re snatching American citizens, and that they’ll have to let them out. The point isn’t deportation- it’s to immiserate Latinos. Ten days is long enough to lose your job, miss your rent, get your kids taken. As New York cops say, “you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”

Clayton Dalton asked paramedics in Gaza what was hardest about their work. Responding to an airstrike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, said another. nyer.cm/Iz1ztSY

"These experiences of emasculation—failing to shield one’s family, witnessing women being dragged from homes in nightgowns or being publicly beaten by police—formed recurring motifs in the narratives of those who joined the armed struggle." merip.org/2025/04/syri...

Update on 287(g) from @austinkocher.com open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

The brand that Said helped fashion, Columbia’s trustees appear to be saying, must be dismantled, packed away, forgotten... To bring universities to their knees, first deny intellectuals that role. Start by picking off the one who exemplified it best. www.chronicle.com/article/said...

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

Love watching his constituents mowing the Grassley.

Tomorrow!

Same right-wing pseudointellectuals, new cause. What's the matter with Yoo? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bukele will not return the MD father the US regime mistakenly deported to his hellish prison. “Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said, claiming without basis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia—who has no criminal record in the United States—is a “terrorist.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

NEW: “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

The Trump admin is willing to condemn millions to civic and social death. Trump’s escalation of necropolitical rule is producing a fascist reality that threatens the legal rights of whole swaths of the population. The dead, after all, have no claim to rights. theintercept.com/2025/04/11/m...