Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian Muslim Mayor of NYC, quoted Jawaharlal Nehru's 1947 Independence Day speech in his Nov 4, 2025, victory speech, "...when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." My heart is full! 🫶✊

“This is what democracy looks like.” “This is what America looks like.” NYC

Totally insane and wildly dangerous. Children will die, and Florida will export communicable diseases to the rest of the country and the world.

With marches for Gaza to continuously raise voices for breaking the siege and liberating Palestine in many parts of the world supporting these efforts. Heartening to see a Montreal4Palestine march pass through my neighbourhood with people in balconies cheering on the efforts of protestors! Free 🇵🇸

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam

Tonight on Ideas at CBC Radio One, 8:05 pm. In the context of the No Kings movement in America, listen to a re-broadcast of my PhD thesis episode by Ideas, offering a new reading of Hobbes and what we can learn from him in these highly anxious times in democracies today! www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Tonight on Ideas at CBC Radio One, 8:05 pm. In the context of the No Kings movement in America, listen to a re-broadcast of my PhD thesis episode by Ideas, offering a new reading of Hobbes and what we can learn from him in these highly anxious times in democracies today! www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

The system is rigged. After scamming the American people out of healthcare, food, and educational assistance two weeks ago to fund tax breaks and boondoggles for billionaires—Trump and the GOP are now trying to rig the system to deregulate crypto. We’re fighting for the working people!

I am once again asking you to have 1/10 the indignation on behalf of Palestinians being subjected to genocide that you do for Canadians abused by ICE

Imo we have a system of grace and forgiveness for the rich and powerful and merciless, arbitrary harshness for most other people

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

PLEASE SHARE: Given the situation in the US, University of British Columbia is keeping their international undergraduate application portal open and will continue "to review admissions from international students, both transfer and direct-entry students, and likely will until the middle of April"

Bernie has been a very good opposition figure in 2025, but at this late date he's not suddenly going to become better on immigration than he's always been, and he's always been mediocre on it.

Trump bringing back "Free Speech" in America. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...

You’ve got male!

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Denver has come out to see AOC & Bernie tonight. But, IUPAT President Jimmy Williams just set the crowd alight 🔥 “I have a message to the Democratic Party: GET OFF YOUR ASS! “We are not gonna poll our way out. We are not gonna consult our way out. We are gonna organize our way out." 👏

Things are scary CBC Interview with the Indian PhD student in Columbia who had to flee to Canada to escape detention in light of the crackdown on students protesting against the genocide in Palestine. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

Today is #McGill24 which means that gifts to the RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship attract matching funds for maximum impact. Please support this vibrant student intellectual community in political theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0F... crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/RG...

The United States said it will resume sending military aid and intelligence to Ukraine, as Ukraine agreed to a Trump administration proposal for a monthlong ceasefire.

New — Rashida Tlaib, Mark Pocan, Nydia Velázquez, Delia Ramirez, Ilhan Omar, Jasmine Crockett, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, Lateefah Simon, Al Green, Gwen Moore, André Carson, Nikema Williams, and James McGovern call on the Trump administration to release Mahmoud Khalil:

the only important thing is the Palestinian film NO OTHER LAND is an Oscar winner.

Amidst the humanitarian crises of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants south of the border & the anti-immigrant sentiment in advanced democracies today, a nuanced public philosophy piece on mobile migration by Dr. Anna Milioni, postdoc at @lecre.bsky.social enainstitute.org/en/publicati...

Broadcasting now on CBC Radio One on Ideas in the Afternoon in the context of the historically biggest take over of oligarchy of American democracy. My take on Hobbes on anxiety contextualised for American democracy on inaugation day. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Former GRIPP fellow @vertika.bsky.social on CBC Radio tonight (and also available here online) discussing Hobbes and anxiety www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

I am pleased to share a preview of the overarching argument of my PhD dissertation, featured on CBC Ideas, to be broadcast nationwide on CBC Radio One tonight at 8:05 pm, with a repeat broadcast in the series Ideas in the Afternoon on Jan 27th at 2:05 pm. Episode link at www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

wind howls in an empty rice sack how like a man ~ Peter Levitt, One Hundred Butterflies

And they go further, to call for an end to Israel's assault on Gaza, in line with international law.

The Canadian Political Science Association has denounced McGill for siccing the police on student protesters.

My colleague and partner, Hasana Sharp, has calculated the workload that the McGill administration is attempting to impose on her in lieu of settling the TA strike: 225 hours by May 7 -- 4 56-hour weeks -- above and beyond her existing workload. Her letter to the admin is here:

Grocery store quote from the woman at the cash who saw my McGill ID, on knowing I am doing a PhD in Political Sc., “Oh Politics! That’s too bad. I don’t like the politics. The political today is that there is a UN ceasefire and the US could still do nothing to stop the war. Well, good luck to you.”

Sitting at my desk opening my copy. Wondering why so many people happily repudiated their own constitution. It’s going to be a long fight.

The firecrackers have no sign of stopping. BJP's carefully planned orchestrated extravaganza through a mobilized army of Modi bhakts is passed off as a genuine national celebration vindicating centuries-old unfulfilled religious aspirations. #Jan22

The BJP's exclusionary religious politics is about elections, and yet they have succeeded in making millions believe that it is about Ram.

Bayat to Habermas: "My concern here is not about how to judge “Israel’s actions” from a legal perspective, but how to fathom this moral coldness and indifference you exhibit in the face of such staggering devastation. How many more lives should perish before they become worthy of attention?"

A little Québec beauty to brighten your timeline.

A number of political scientists are calling for an immediate ceasefire in the current Israeli-Palestinian war, and an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza to allow in aid sufficient to address the territory’s acute humanitarian crisis. You can read and sign the petition here: Polisky

Had a great evening thanks to @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social attending Adam Gopnik’s Homecoming Leacock lecture on The Tyranny of Achievement and How to Defeat it. It’s incredibly inspiring to listen to a great orator and storyteller. Now the Real Work of Mastery starts—Accomplishment over Achievement 😊

Evil was banal and it still remains horrifyingly banal. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Imagine if we lived in a country where the remarks of powerful senators and presidential candidates got as much scrutiny from the mainstream media as those of random college students with no power or influence...

Out of the movies that used to be screened in college when I was in undergrad there was one that deeply touched and broke my heart. When I watched this 15 years ago I did not fathom Palestine would still be occupied and the world witness genocide in 2023. #The Lemon Tree youtu.be/e_j1llK3Fco?...

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay, and a reminder that the legacy of centuries of oppression and theft from Native people is their vast overrepresentation in state prisons. Via @prisonpolicy.bsky.social

New inspo for motivating push for dissertation completion. Haven’t seen a better combo than Taylor Swift with Hobbes!

Saying hello on Bluesky with my first post on this Labour Day to reiterate that on this day let’s remember to stand with all workers fighting for a just wage, the right to a safe home and a dignified, respected life and fight unending profit-making greed. #afaircontractforall