We are live streaming a genocide and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social decides to suspend students for protesting it. I am ashamed to be an alumna of this university. Ya 3aib ashum, Columbia, ya 3aib ashum.

I recently made a trip to the New England Peace Pagoda in Massachusetts. What a fascinating space of religious pluralism that combines indigenous nations sacred objects with Buddhism and extreme non-violence and anti-nuclear activism.

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel. Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film

Proud to be a part of this. It was great canvassing for Mamdani and meeting and talking with my neighbors. Looking forward to continuing to support Zohran!

NEW from Columbia Board of Trustees as the school meets Trump’s demands: “We engaged with the agencies that serve as our regulators on issues that matter both to them and to us.”

It was never (just) about illegal immigration for MAGA...

Columbia administration stop sending platitudinous emails that send your alumni into a blind rage challenge

The page went dark as Columbia caved to the Trump administration’s anti-Palestinian and anti-immigrant attacks.

Happening in NYC today! See you there.

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

As an alumna of #Columbia and former faculty, I categorically stand with #MahmoudKhalil and our other students right to protest the ongoing genocide. I urge my colleagues to do the same. We must come together and defend our rights or we walk silently and cowardly into fascism.

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

The United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of Russell Vought to serve, once again, as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The vote was 53-47. Vought was an architect of Project 2025.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

What a great man and great loss.

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Hey @schumer.senate.gov, where are you at my dude? I know you ain’t at the office. I been calling.

This.

I work for a Canadian university, and I have to use two-factor authentication to get into everything, the email, university resources, grade portals, my course websites. Meanwhile the entire US federal government's systems seem to be handed over to the neo-Nazi robber baron of our age

How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

It's really about claiming the right to assert raw power at every single level: economically, militarily and inside the family. It's mass social engineering. This brings us to the concept of chosenness, which is at the dead centre of this admin -from the tech oligarchs to the white nationalists.

Dear Delhi friends, next Saturday is the launch of the Hindi edition of Allison Busch’s Poetry of Kings, Keshav Sunahu Prabin. My dear brother, Dalpat Rajpurohit has worked with Vani Press to make this a reality. Please join me at Pragati Maidan to celebrate this wonderful tribute.

Hey, this is a great time to become a member of NPR if you aren’t already. Contrary to what a lot of folks think, almost none of their budget comes form the federal government!

NBC- Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll refused a DoJ order that he assist in the firing of agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, pushing back so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he’ll be dismissed. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Alternative headline: "Billionaire Cabinet Pick of Billionaire President Gives Richest Man in the World Control of Your Retirement and Healthcare" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A rapist President would of course seek to protect his fellow rapists

Trump just paused all federal grants and loans. In his memo, he claimed to be “ending wokeness.” ​​ “Wokeness” to him is attacking community health centers, Medicaid, disaster relief, child care programs, nutrition assistance programs like SNAP, WIC, and school lunch programs. Unacceptable.

Trump just ripped away Medicaid from millions of Americans. This could get people killed.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

Yes, I am openly hostile to fascism. I believe in teaching critical thinking, I care that my students are treated with the respect we all deserve, I teach them the difference between propaganda and reality. I teach history. If that makes me an enemy of Vance, I can live with it.

What insane times we are living in.

Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

Jordanian officials have rejected US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Gaza and move 1.5 million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt, describing it as the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tbw364

Boycotting Target is the correct thing to do. We also must ensure the Black & other minority-owned businesses that sell their products in Target are supported. It’s important to note that Target is rolling back the program that brought so many of these brands to their stores. 🧵

Comrade card for 1/26/2025. From @ruha9.bsky.social.

I’m thrilled to hear that the Hindi translation of Allison Busch’s book, Poetry of Kings, will be released at the Delhi Book Fair. So many thanks to Dalpat Rajpurohit for his tireless work on seeing this project through and I look forward to being at the launch.

Great thread by @yaelrice.bsky.social.

My name does not appear on this op Ed because I am not Jewish but I sure do share their opinion and their condemnation of Tuesday’s class disruption and antisemetic flyering in Fayerweather Hall. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Amen.

So, who's going to start a pro-democracy media network along the lines of this one to reshape public anti-authoritarian culture? Does such a thing exist? If any org wants to do this, we scholars will help you connect to the best theorists of democracy, media, religion, etc. to make it happen.

Also, I highly suggest balancing out your reading these day. I’m adding Korean healing fiction to my otherwise terrifying religious nationalism roster. Feel free to send book recommendations for both genres.

Whoa Nelly. It’s been a week.

Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference

In honor of the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Allahabad…

'Soul of my soul': Iconic Palestinian grandfather killed by Israel in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soul-my-soul-palestinian-man-killed-israeli-attack-central-gaza