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“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”

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Exclusive: U.S. Marines fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi, officials say U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply ...

US marines did open fire. Took long enough for this to come out.

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Yes! (*The Future That Was* is also available to be read in all ensuing months)

Adil is always on point x.com/adhaque110/s...

US and Israel step up attacks on Iran as regional conflict grows Today, we're discussing the ongoing US-Israel military attacks on Iran, which has grown into a regional crisis.

If you have 50 minutes, Nilo Tabrizy, Ida Nikou, and I talked about Iran with KALW

UNESCO listed Golestan Palace (which predates the princeling and his grandfather's pretense to the throne) before and after US/Israeli liberation efforts

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
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#Sinology 🀄️📚

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

They are slaughtering our people and getting away with it x.com/dropsitenews...

Thank you Prof @msjamshidi.bsky.social for your posts.

We also went from 68 to faculty when I started tt to around 32 now while going up to 70,000 students. Our lecturers have held steady. Obviously classes are bigger. I can teach 100 students in 2 classes a semester at a so called r1

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

US went from "hearts and minds" to "assassin's creed" real quickly, no

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

I don't think the NYT reporters here know that they are -- this time, with typical deference and some delight in the derring-do of clandestine ops -- describing a close criminal partnership, collaboration in war crimes.
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Iranian media has confirmed, Ali Khamanei has been killed. The US/Iran gave the 86 year old ayatollah, who had been tortured by the Shah's govt and was a leading figure in the govt since 1979, the death he deeply wanted - they made him a martyr for the revolution.

Press TV Footage shows workers removing debris from a girls' elementary school that was targeted in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, resulting in the deaths of dozens of students. This backpack is the ...

Press TV: "Footage shows workers removing debris from a girls' elementary school that was targeted in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, resulting in the deaths of dozens of students.

This backpack is the only thing remaining of one of the martyred students." t.me/presstv/177231

#Iran

template comic from "get your war on", but there are no characters or dialog

Ana ❤️ Niyū Yūrk “I may be loved. I might be loved. I may have been loved.”

Ana ❤️ Niyū Yūrk with Hiba Abid

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.

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fantastic panel on the legacies of protectionist feminism on Day 1 of the BCRW Scholar and Feminist conference — one smart fiery polemical talk after another!

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.