Kristin Davis

Hopefully no rascally burglars pestered you while she was away. 🤣

Will keep you in my prayers. How is Mrs. F?

Glad you're getting better!

Oooooh... I'm marking "The Ossiphone" to share with my future history students. 🤓

You're here because you're cool. 😎 I am super great and getting better (on one hand... the other hand sees and feels too much, lol). 😭😂 How are you?

Hi Paul! Happy to see you here! 😃👋

Merkley Leads Historic Call for U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Statehood - Merkley First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a historic resoluti...

Senator Jeff Merkely leads the First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state

This is long overdue and a critical step forward.

www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-lead...

"You took with you almost everything that was ours, but you couldn't take with you our determined will to be free."

-Excerpt from one of Paolo Freire's Exercise Workbooks (Reading the Word and the World, 1987)

#paulofreire #solidarity #weshallovercome

The New McCarthyism: UC Berkeley Just Handed Over the Names of 160 Students and Faculty to the Trump Admin I'm beyond disturbed that my alma mater is wiling to destroy its reputation as the birthplace of the 1960s Free Speech Movement and put students in danger in the process, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes.

"What we should name in the face of abusive power is not our fellow citizens and residents but the acts of injustice that harm others and – for those of us who remain silent – ourselves."

Macron says France will recognise Palestinian state in September President Emmanuel Macron says France will formally recognise the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly.

Vive la Palestine!

I'll take this vision to dreamland. Thank you, David! 🤗

Why we need to retire the term ‘pro-Palestinian’ This media shorthand is increasingly used to conflate violence with acts of solidarity and protest against mass murder.

"To describe activism and peaceful protests against the genocidal violence in Gaza as “pro-Palestinian” is disparaging. Opposing the strategic starvation of a trapped population is hardly pro-Palestinian. It is pro-humanity."

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.

Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.

Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

Middle East Eye 📰 The largest body representing British Jews has suspended five of its elected representatives for two years after they criticised Israel's conduct in Gaza. In April 36 members of the Board of Deputi...

How much stronger and unifying would the following statement be if the 36 deputies had replaced "Jewish values" with "human values"?

“The inclination to avert our eyes is strong, as what is happening is unbearable, but our Jewish values compel us to stand up and to speak out,” they wrote.

Launching "Islam Today" Waging the intellectual Jihad of the Pen for justice and humanity against violence, disinformation, hate, and fear

I first created online content to combat post 9/11 Islamophobia.

Now as we see Gaza genocide, devastation of women in Afghanistan, war consuming Sudan, & war drums to invade Iran—I'm launching "Islam Today" to combat disinfo & hate

Check it out. (No Paywall)
islamtoday.substack.com/p/launching-...

We have a tough road ahead. It's never been more important to guide students to develop critical thinking skills, and yet the system being built around us is designed to crush those abilities. <sigh>

While unsurprising, the study gives us levels of measurement - Using LLMs to write essays decreases the learning value in all ways. Much as if you used machines to life the weights at a gym, it defeats much of the training and strengthening purpose, leading to weaker learning and development.

How can we teach caring about the stranger in new creative ways?

Precisely! I'm in my last year as a Secondary Education (History) student and I wonder what some of my peers are going to say when they're standing in front of their future students... "Um, hold onto that question while I check AI."

I see posts of professors fed up with students using AI.

Imagine being a student who watches peers constantly use AI in an English program.

I’ve no idea if my 3.96 GPA is because I’ve produced exceptional work or if I’m actually horrible but they’re like, “HUMAN WORK: A!” 😭😅

#AcademicSky

Israel's attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify you Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the 'birth pangs' of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force - and they will not end in Iran

Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the 'birth pangs' of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force - and they will not end in Iran.

Read my latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Btw, if you can see the grotesque injustice that is the National Guard violently occupying LA for even 1 day against the will of Los Angelenos, then you can certainly see the grotesque injustice that is the Israeli military violently occupying Palestine for 75 years against the will of Palestinians.

Thank you for allowing us to struggle with you, Qasim. 🙏

"...The most powerful form of Jihad is the Jihad of the Pen. To struggle against ignorance with education. To struggle against hate with compassion. To struggle against apathy with activism. That’s what I’m trying to do here—win the Jihad of the pen, the struggle against injustice." 🖋️🕊️⚖️

Ben Cohen is an old white guy worth $150M. He has no need to risk his comfort & get arrested for protesting a genocide all the way in Gaza.

But Ben has values lacking in most people of his wealth & privilege—empathy, humanity, & justice.

Ben Cohen is what a true leader looks like. God bless him.

The Nakba explained in five maps and charts The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Why the Israeli left's 'peace summit' is in denial about the Gaza genocide As Palestinians are starved and bombed in Gaza, the Israeli left gathers under the banner of 'dialogue' - a privileged distraction from genocide, not a demand to end it

"What is happening in Gaza demands explicit political statements and mass mobilisation - not vague appeals centred on Israeli captives or Jewish national security, but because infants and children are dying as the world watches."

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

The Truth About the India-Pakistan Crisis What you need to know about the crisis, its history, and what resolution might look like

The Truth About the India-Pakistan Crisis: What you need to know about the crisis, its history, and what resolution might look like

www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-truth-...

I love it when the comment section is so entertaining! Great find. 🔎

Trump wants to replace grocery aid for seniors with "MAHA food boxes" The Trump administration has a new plan to get "healthy" food to low-income seniors, but an anti-hunger advocate fears many will miss out.

"Every act of conquest implies a conqueror & someone or something which is conquered. The conqueror imposes his objectives on the vanquished, & makes of them his possession. He imposes his own contours on the vanquished, who internalize this shape & become ambiguous beings housing another." -Freire