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Ironic that Israelis should be the Philistines

The email I got two LLM tells 1) the subject line said "A Thoughtful note on..." (which I get my share of appreciative emails and no one qualifies their own engagement as such) and 2) Each line of the email had this pattern "What stayed with me in ..." "As the New Year settles in...."

🙏🏽!

Iran Transformed | Arang Keshavarzian On February 28 Israeli warplanes assassinated Ali Khamenei, Iran’s leader, by dropping thirty bombs on his compound in Tehran. It was the opening salvo of

My essay for NYRB maps out how iran got to this point. “But January’s protests werenot just the prelude to a geopolitical contest. They offer a window intothe fortunes of Iran’s citizens, the changing structure of its state, & the trajectory of the regime the US now seeks to obliterate.”

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 ✊🏽

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”

Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

4/ NYU closed its student center stairs for YEARS to to prevent support for Palestine.

It enclosed its only plaza to prevent support for Palestine.

It banned graduation speakers to prevent support for Palestine.

No one can opine or express anything… in a UNIVERSITY!!!

Columbia is the richest school in the richest city in the richest country in the world, but you pay more in taxes than it.

Uptown needs a leader who will make corporations like Columbia pay their fair share, not a politician bought by them.

Join our campaign: act.darializaforcongress.com

They have turned this beautiful city into a wasteland. Those who do don’t die from bombs will succumb to unspeakable illness. Most of my close family is in Tehran

Just heard from a friend in Tehran who says reality is even worse than the pictures. When they hit the depot in Aghdasiyeh, he could hear and feel it from 15km away.

He says if he could reach internet he’d say: “today is the day the world shall end, as the scripture has foretold,” he says.

Protesters clash over Jake Lang pig roast at ‘anti Islamification’ rally in New York City An Upper East Side anti-Muslim rally led by Jan. 6 rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang erupted into chaos as a massive clash between protesters erupted outside of Gracie Mansion — the home of…

Islamophobia is so unremarkably present everywhere [roast pig to place where a Muslim Mayor lives or a goat??]

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

This dystopian future is here now.

"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.

www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

Steep Decline in Visas Issued to Students in India India has been the engine of the post-pandemic international-enrollment rebound. But visa issuances to students in India in May through August 2025 nosedived by 61 percent compared to the same time period in 2024. from https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-drop-in-international-students-last-year-was-worse-than-we-thought

this is a remarkable chart

Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

While the university’s Vice Chancellor Ujwala Chakradeo told The Indian Express that she was not aware of the event, Putul Sathe, a professor at the institute, told the Hindustan Times that the lecture had been cancelled because of “technical reasons”.

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Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

Cooking and Culture: A Conversation with Priya Krishna | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Priya Krishna will share her experiences as a cookbook author, food writer, and video host in a wide-ranging discussion with Durba Mitra.

At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

If Turkey falls, Pakistan. If Pakistan falls, China. If...

I'm baffled at how little attention the 2024 Israeli invasion-bombing-assassination campaign in Lebanon is getting as people analyze how we got into this war. What factor (more significant than US reticence, imo) kept Israel from fighting a regime-change war in Iran before now? Hezbollah.

Cover of The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea by Kiri Olivia Santer. The cover is black and features two boats at night on a dark sea. The larger white boat has lights on and reads “GUARDIA COSTIERA”. The smaller blue boat is full of people. The title is written in an off white in a sans serif font above. The subtitle is below the ships in a light grey. The author’s name is below in a yellow orange.

In "The Borders of Responsibility," @kirisanter.bsky.social outlines the legal systems that allow Europe to return migrants who cross the Mediterranean to their countries of origin and to evade legal responsibility for rescuing them. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/wLzdbX6

Lebanon is a tiny country, making these "evacuation" orders little more than a mass forced displacement designed 2 collectively punish & terrorize the pop. These "area bombardments" r also completely prohibited under intl law as indiscrim attacks that are not directly at specific military objects.

It is amazing to me that the US has just launched its biggest most illegal war since Iraq 2003, that has killed over 1000 Iranian civilians, and that is reverberating around the region and world and still, STILL, most people on this app are oblivious to it. This is a deeply self-absorbed country

Aerial photos of the destruction of the Senate house release by BBC Persian

Modern photo of the Senate Palace showing its iconic, Persepolis influenced columns. A man on a bike in the front.

The former Palace of the Senate, an architectural icon of Tehran, has been almost completely razed. Built in the 1950’s by Heidar Ghiyayee, it was the seat of the Upper Chamber in the Pahlavi period, for a short while the seat of the IRI Majlis, and then that of the Khobregan Council. Horrible!

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