Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com

On Wed, Dec 3, I’m honored to moderate a conversation with @esmat.bsky.social on his brilliant new book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization. Workshops 4 Sudan fundraise for @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social. My goal: raise $1000; donor match doubles it.

In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion Join us! 10 December 2025 15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST via zoom Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...

A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect a year ago today. Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.

🚨 COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 At LaGuardia Airport, there are several rumored and one confirmed ICE arrest of domestic travelers. If you are at risk of detention or not sure, exercise caution while traveling. Make a safety plan in case of detention and consult an immigration attorney.

Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Want to support baristas on ULP strike? Head to nocontractnocoffee.org and: 🖊️sign our pledge to stop buying Starbucks while baristas are on strike ☕️ make a customized graphic to show your solidarity 🪧 find a picket line near you

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)

Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance. prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...

AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET! Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed! @proftwolf.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

Several Chicago newsrooms have been quietly collaborating to bring big ICE stories to the forefront. In this story today, we found that feds used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times during immigration raids — even after a judge said to stop.

Cooked 🍳

The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

As if we need more reasons to hate FIFA

Terminal drop off to Gate at Hartfield-Jackson Intl in under 15 mins = a highly favored and blessed person (me) 🧿 See you soon #ASA2025 looking forward to writing by the sea 🌊

To say this is to ignore how the UNSC has done the same with Haiti over the past 2 decades

How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-un-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians

Anyone in San Juan this week or next connecting around increased military aggression in the Caribbean? Please connect me to any orgs or actions if you know of them.

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

"Fortunately, Assata left us with a map, a rich archive of her travails, aspirations, and insights, written in her own words" -Orisanmi Burton proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...

The party of genocide was never going to protect you from the other party of genocide.

NEW: Voters didn’t just elect a socialist mayor in New York City. They also voted in progressive candidates in several of the state’s largest cities, flipped county legislatures blue, and chose a new Democratic assemblymember in US Representative Elise Stefanik’s backyard.

The more I've personally thought about these issues, the more I think we should all be looking at UPs not (just) as funded but as directly FUNDING fields that unis have all but abandoned. Monographs cost more to make than they earn. UPs are putting $$ DIRECTLY where unis don't.

Hi friends 👋🏾 I'm raising funds for North Kordofan ERR, which is in dire need of support. The situation in areas like Bara, Sheikan & Alrahad is extremely dire. Summary in the thread below. Every little bit helps: paypal.me/BSonblast Ven/Cash: BSonblast #KeepEyesOnSudan

"The court could not be more clear—the Trump-Vance administration must stop playing politics with people's lives by delaying SNAP payments they are obligated to issue."

My latest article, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," was just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4MBPN...

The kind of hater energy I’m bringing to today.

Mutual aid for Tiffany Willoughby Herard at UC-Irvine American Studies, for defense against disciplinary charges stemming from her participation in protests against the war in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1562...

I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.

I asked my students last semester and this semester to practice handwriting for their note taking (in class and for homework). Today, they were doing some intensive note taking in small groups so I said it’s OK if it’s easier to type. 4/5 groups still chose handwriting. And it’s readable, y’all.

Please consider signing this petition calling for Professor Dixon’s reinstatement. www.change.org/p/reinstate-... @aaup.org #academicfreedom

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Diplomatic isolation at #UNGA is worth what when governments continue to provide Israel with material support every day of every week?!

I feel like I am misremembering this not being so 'quietly' scaled back... but it could've been one of a dozen things that happened with the gutting of CDC.

writing residency. kingston. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives august 27— september 21 at MoMA. co-curated by maya s. cade and k. austin collins www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Israel is reviving its E1 settlement project that would split the Palestinian West Bank in two, forcing countless Palestinian families into homelessness. This is what ethnic cleansing looks like.

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

Wondering if folks have any favorite texts (criticism, visual art, reporting) on hurricane katrina. Looking to kick off the oceans class with it since we commence our work together the week of its 20th anniversary.

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

Does anyone know if June Jordan's More than Enough, her manual for land reform in Mississippi, completed in 1971, but never published (it was rejected by the publisher that commissioned it), is available anywhere? There's an excerpt from it in Civil Wars, but anything (or all of it) anywhere else?