This. Is. Just. 🔥🔥!
Maryland's faculty are never going to stop fighting until we all get the collective bargaining rights we deserve.
And our Maryland communities support us!
@senbillferg.bsky.social, @mddems.bsky.social, @mdhousedems.bsky.social, help us get SB6/HB106 passed this session!
We ain't stopping until we get the rights we deserve!
We hit the Fells Point area recently, putting up flyers around the neighborhood & in supportive businesses!
We need @senbillferg.bsky.social, @mddems.bsky.social, & @mdhousedems.bsky.social to help us get this bill over the line this session!
What an incredible event Wednesday night!
Higher Ed workers from all over Maryland came together to tell MD legislators why we need collective bargaining rights!
Hosted by @redemmas.org & sponsored by @aftmaryland.bsky.social, @baltimoreteachers.bsky.social, & @ydsa.org!
Did you know that almost all other Maryland state workers have the collective bargaining rights that give them a meaningful say in their workplaces.
@senbillferg.bsky.social, @mddems.bsky.social, & @mdhousedems.bsky.social, MD’s faculty deserve these same rights!
Who is leading the fight against the Trump admin attack on universities & our communities throughout this country?
Unions are!
@senbillferg.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social & @mdhousedems.bsky.social, help us help defend democracy & MD universities by passing our collective bargaining bill!
This week, our conversation with @annygaul.bsky.social about her book ‘Nile Nightshades’ 🍅 the first Desk Book Club selection of 2026 www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-tomatoes
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UAM is out in the community again asking Marylanders to send a strong message to @senbillferg.bsky.social & @mddems.bsky.social that faculty deserve collective bargaining rights now!
Let’s get this done this year!
Ig post from freeleqaakordia About her hospitalization
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Free Leqaa Kordia now!!!
We were collecting postcards from Baltimore constituents in Waverly Farmers Market today for @senbillferg.bsky.social & @mddems.bsky.social to show them the incredible amount of community support there is for faculty collective bargaining rights!
It was truly freezing, but support was hot!
In Annapolis today to fight for faculty collective bargaining rights w/ @aft.org, @aftmaryland.bsky.social, @aaup.org, @afthighered.bsky.social, @local6741.bsky.social!
Join us to tell @senbillferg.bsky.social & @mddems.bsky.social the time is now to pass this!
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A flyer advertising Anny Gaul's book talk at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies on February 6th at 12 pm, with an image of the book cover and the author
Book talk alert! I'll be talking about Nile Nightshade this Friday, February 6th at noon, hosted by Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies -- in person and online (registration link below).
01.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As always, the thing with discourse around huge spending on college sports is that *even if* a specific high profile school is net positive on its sports program, the vast majority of schools are in the red on pumping money into sports boondoggles and it’s a major budgetary problem across the sector
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
A photo of a farm worker holding up freshly harvested carrots with a text overlay saying there's no Thanksgiving without Farm workers. Donate during this season of thanks and giving to help fund change all year long
We can’t do Thanksgiving without farm workers: Make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long. act.seiu.org/a/thanksgivi... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw... #WeFeedYou
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As tomatoes became a popular staple in Egypt’s home kitchens, their “crazy” prices became a fixture of Egyptian life. Read an excerpt of @annygaul.bsky.social’s new book, “Nile Nightshade,” here:
10.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Many thanks to all those who helped make it happen (and to @jadaliyya.bsky.social for giving it a home online!); we’ll be updating it periodically so please reach out if you have sources, suggestions, or ideas to add.
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photograph of za'tar in a round container from above, against a keffiyah background
I hope the bibliography will serve as a resource to students, journalists, educators, scholars, and anyone else with an interest in understanding and advocating for Palestine through food.
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an image of several Palestinian cookbook covers
The list includes scholarship alongside cookbooks and works of art, film, and memoir. Assembled in the face of genocide, famine, attacks on olive trees and seed banks, the works on the list attest to Palestinian steadfastness & rootedness in the land.
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Introducing the Palestinian Foodways Bibliography: a collaborative effort to collate, document, and honor the myriad writing, research, and other forms of documented knowledge about Palestinian foodways.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46984
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
Thank you @wsj.com for the great review of NILE NIGHTSHADE: "Chronicl[es] how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life. . . . It would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms Gaul’s particular strengths." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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A stack of copies of the book Nile Nightshade by Anny Gaul
For every preorder reported in the form linked here between now and the publication date (10/28), I’ll donate $2 each to the Sudan Solidarity Fund and the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
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It’s soup season and Nile Nightshade’s publication day is almost here! Read on for an Egyptian lentil soup recipe, a preview of the book’s content, and info about an incredible new art installation (featuring tomatoes, of course) by Yasmine El Meleegy.
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You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚
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Photo of Nile Nightshade, by Anny Gaul.
Difficult to feel any joy in these times, but this beauty by @annygaul.bsky.social brought it. Coming October 28.
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This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE.
For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.
The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
U.S. Park Police officers are pursuing vehicles when D.C. police would not.
They have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Trump’s surge in federal law enforcement in D.C., court records show.
interview w/founder of the press coming soon.
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