@monishabajaj.bsky.social
Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education University of San Francisco (views posted here are my own) Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury www.monishabajaj.net Pronouns: she/her/वह
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
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Applications for the summer/fall 2026 session of @thenation.com internship are now open!
🔴 $20/hr, 35 hrs/week
🔴 6 months long, starting June 22
🔴 application deadline April 19
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A screenshot of a large group of people facing a heavily damaged building. A few of them are scaling the rubble. A headline reads: "Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School" Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse
During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC
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A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...
thank you!
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A YEAR OF KITES is on sale at @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social February sale! @amberren.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/year-of-k...
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.
And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.
It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.
people.com/jeffrey-epst...
$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace"
$10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$135M for Trump's golf outings
The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/chicago-ofelia-torres-death-cancer-father-ice-custody
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Happy #pubday to A YEAR OF KITES: Traditions Around the World by @monishabajaj.bsky.social!
Travel the globe to see how kites are flown to honor gods and ancestors, bring good fortune, celebrate milestones, and unite communities.
On sale now!
www.monishabajaj.net/childrens-bo...
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
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In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]
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Educators in San Francisco are fighting for better health benefits, better wages, improved special education and more. Their fight to get SFUSD to invest in classrooms, educators and students’ futures is all of our fight.
Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco on strike!
AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."
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Monisha Bajaj on her new picture book, A Year of Kites
www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...
Thank you for this @brokentusk1.bsky.social 🪁🙏🏽💕
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A towel reading ICE OUT
From @theathletic.com: Activists at the Super Bowl handed out towels at the entrance of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara with the slogan “ICE OUT.” The other side of the towel has a bunny kicking a football that is inside a block of ice. nyti.ms/4quQynz
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Cover of book by Kiran Desai
Such a good book! 700 pages and I didn’t want it to end.
“If you don’t have love, you don’t properly exist. If you don’t properly exist, you don’t have love.” ~Kiran Desai
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
"We are all citizens with a voice, so we must speak. A lot of people like to say, 'I am apolitical!' How can you be apolitical in this world? My stance is clear," Kiran Desai tells Chintan Girish Modi.
Read the full interview: scroll.in/article/1090...
Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
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One legal expert said even up until recently, “it would have been pretty unthinkable” for ICE to come onto school grounds like agents did at Roosevelt High in Minneapolis.
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Kudos to Mayor Mamdani.
This is what economic justice looks like.
And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/
Thank you @scbwisfneb.bsky.social for the Member Spotlight! www.scbwi.org/regions/sfno...
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...
