Pope Leo XIV understands the assignment

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi and Spencer Ackerman respond to Trump's primetime address on the war on Iran last night.

The wonderful Jairus Banaji

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

Wonderful celebration of @durba.bsky.social yesterday that was a testament to the love, camaraderie, and intellectual fellowship that she inspires.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

Check out episode 5 of The Caste Pod with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute speaking about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastructures! newbooksnetwork.com/caste-and-te...

Tomorrow (March 30th) at 7:00 pm EDT, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social welcomes @durba.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book, The Future That Was. She will be in conversation with fellow Harvard Professor Brandon M. Terry. Don't miss this incredible, free conversation! buff.ly/XGxMvBQ

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

Eid Mubarak

Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

Today, at Duke History, I will be speaking on "Gender History in the Time of Gender Ideology," reflecting on the 40th anniversary of Joan Wallach Scott's "Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis" (1986) and the work of gender history now. history.duke.edu/events/gende...

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Listen to the first four episodes of The Caste Pod at thecastepod.org or newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-...!

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Episode 4 of The Caste Pod with Ravikant Kisana talking about upper caste liberalism is now live! thecastepod.org/episode-4/

Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran https://go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr

In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

Leqaa Kordia, in her own words, for @zeteo.com. Leqaa should be free. Her captors, and whichever outside organization collaborated with them, should be the ones in cages.

Oh look it’s the Hindutva doing the DNC-fascism two-step.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Check out first three episodes of The Caste Pod with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao (#1), The Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (#2), and Yashica Dutt (#3)! thecastepod.org

Episode 3 of The Caste Pod with Yashica Dutt! newbooksnetwork.com/coming-out-a...

While the bombs fall on the regime and its opponents alike, Trump and Netanyahu say that they come as liberators. Only they won't be the ones who do the dirty work. Encouraging the IRGC to sit on its hands and receive 'immunity' is the latest tell that the Iranian people's desires are irrelevant.

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Wow.

Listen to the second episode of The Caste Pod with the amazing Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, aka The Auntylectuals! newbooksnetwork.com/feminism-and...

We are proud of our AAUP-Harvard chapter and the astounding membership growth they have managed to achieve following their successful lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Justice✊

AMAZING NEWS:

Check out this week's newsletter! The Caste Pod | Scholarly Sources: Luca Cottini | Grad Student Spotlight: T. Yejoo Kim Subscribe & share with a friend! @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/feb-12

The people who thought Bad Bunny was divisive are, if anything, more incensed by “we are america,” in their terms it’s the most offensive and outrageous thing he could have said

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Now they're going for whole states. Diabolical. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"...having neither (facts of law), [Noem] pounds X (Twitter)." "Secretary Noem is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that." Damn. This is fire.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Just launched my new podcast -- The Caste Pod! Check out the inaugural episode with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao: thecastepod.org

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

Mood in minneapolis right now

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors