New: Federal agents pulled a gun on neighbors observing an arrest in Washington DC on Tuesday. Witnesses say the agents (from several agencies) were arresting a man for having an open beer. "There's a whole surge, right, that's coming out of the President's office," one agent is heard explaining.

TX AAUP-AFT President Brian Evans: “They already got rid of faculty senates. There is no faculty group to circulate these proposals…If you really want a discussion, you want all 4 major stakeholders inside the campus community…that’s not possible. There’s no such mechanism anymore.”

Stay tuned for a longer essay on this topic. As they say writing is therapy (who says that idk)

Nobody get offended, I just joke to stave off existential dread

This story annoyed me so much as a kid. God do you see this? This is what you sound like

Teaching my kid about tekmil but turns out they already have the basics down

Christ almighty

The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.

Alf mabrouk @danaelkurd.bsky.social on bringing together this impressive volume with such a fantastic line-up of themes and contributors. This will become a go-to resource for many of us!

I got a preview of this book an can only recommend it - a treasure trove of knowledge and analysis. Congratulations to @danaelkurd.bsky.social and all contributors!

I envy the faithful

The Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World will be out this July Endorsement below by @argohdes.bsky.social

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Israel's Defense Minister declares Gaza 'voluntary emigration plan', a euphemism for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, to be implemented. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.

Bombs are falling on gaza the night before eid

Justice Department sues UCLA for the third time www.latimes.com/california/s...

Honoured to have had a small part in helping here, and grateful for the shout-out 🙏

Such a tender and thoughtful listen.

Chris Van Hollen says that Biden & other Democrats have enabled Israeli apartheid while pretending to support two states, so he calls for •Recognizing State of Palestine •End all taxpayer funded assistance to Israel •Impose sanctions •Blacklist complicit US officials •Endorse Arab Peace Initiative

Palestinian-American political scientist @danaelkurd.bsky.social, born to a Muslim family in Jerusalem, tells a snippet of her family's Nakba story involving her Israeli Jewish great-grandmother. Incredibly fascinating. open.spotify.com/episode/1hdS...

Unexpected breakthroughs like this one are the reason that the Federal Government funded basic research. This funding contributed to America’s post-war economic growth and created the world’s greatest system of higher education. Now, racist fools are dismantling the system to own the libs.

New It Could Happen Here @danaelkurd.bsky.social shares her family’s Nakba stories, the process of discovering an Israeli connection, and what she takes away from understanding intergenerational trauma. linktr.ee/ICHHpod

"Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website."

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

Well, this is an utterly insane thing to consider doing. Because the Middle East is too stable these days and people are too positively attuned to the US/Israel

For @coolzonemedia.bsky.social I shared a little sliver of my family's Nakba story, and how I found out more about an Israeli family member. open.spotify.com/episode/1hdS...

Israel's expanded 'orange line' incorporates a further 11% of Gaza's territory, with fears it is a prelude to permanent control over the Palestinian territory:

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Cry and do nothing

Most Orwellian war of my lifetime

We will never learn.

Ask yourself if you have this kind of commitment

The Accords are a sign of more violence and more war - the more signatories, the greater the conflict.

The manifesto left behind by the San Diego mosque shooters dedicates only a few paragraphs to the shooter’s hatred of Islam but pages and pages to their hatred of Jews, which would seem weird if you were a newborn baby deer who knew nothing about Christian Nationalism

"There's a big 'yes man' mentality. You get people telling the king what he wants to hear. And that goes for consultants too... they'll say what they think their Saudi clients want to hear – and then these things fall short." Youre telling me thats how authoritarianism works? I dont believe it.

In a phone call yesterday with eight Muslim countries, Trump said he expected them to normalize relations with Israel. Then, “there was silence on the line, and Trump joked and asked if they are still there.” www.axios.com/2026/05/24/t...

I was in Baltimore by coincidence the same time that both the Islamic Circle of North America conference and Deathfest were happening. I was very torn. The worst time ever to be a muslim metalhead

عارٍ من الاسم، من الانتماء ْ؟ في تربة ربَّيتها باليدينْ؟ أيوب صاح اليوم ملء السماء: لا تجعلوني عبرة مرتين! يا سادتي! يا سادتي الأنبياء لا تسألوا الأشجار عن اسمها لا تسألوا الوديان عن أُمها من جبهتي ينشق سيف الضياء ومن يدي ينبع ماء النهر

Netanyahu must be shaking in his boots from all these 'condemnations'! v.aa.com.tr/3945635

“I just blacked out. I couldn't handle it. It was so painful.” Zeteo contributor @recolston.bsky.social, who was amongst those detained by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla, recounts the abuse he endured at the hands of Israeli forces at Ktzi’ot Prison. Watch now — zeteo.com/p/inside-isr...

"As of today, Itamar Ben-Gvir is banned from entering French territory," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X on Saturday. The move reflects growing anger among governments around the world over Israel's mistreatment and abuse of flotilla activists heading to Gaza.

Just one example of Israel's heavy and crucial dependence on US support: Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data. wapo.st/4dVmjDc

There is a particular israeli official that resembles my stepmother and it makes it doubly triggering to read news about this person 😵‍💫🥴

They did more than taunt them

Have yall seen what the israeli army did to members of the flotilla...?

The fact that the “Axis of Evil” speechwriter has this perch at the Atlantic is a lovely illustration of how we got to our present moment.

US higher ed has problems, but mostly it is a miracle of big public investments generating massive returns in terms of economic gains, innovation, and exports. But God forbid the paper of record takes a break from joining in the populist assault of a great American success. bsky.app/profile/quan...

Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives. n.pr/4uRJkwk