A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. Give and be matched. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

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One link, six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more, facing bitter conditions of winter while malnourished, displaced, severely ill. Help with essentials: chuffed.org/project/hope...

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 10 Palestinians since dawn, according to local sources on the ground.

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77 anos Nakba

Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day A major new report by U.S. academics analyzes Israel’s occupation of Palestine under the legal framework of the crime of apartheid. The report was intentionally released on Nakba Day — the day that...

Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day

On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.

Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...

"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

I'm going one by one, BUT if you know anything let me know!

We're gonna open up to volunteers for research and curation soon, promise. I'm just working on the data model right now with @moacir.com and @lindsaythomas.net and there's no better way to do a model than fighting data points 1 by 1.

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Very hard to read about Dakota pipeline oil spill this morning (!) after reading @nicke.bsky.social book Our History is the Future from @haymarketbooks.org. These protestors were always correct.

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."

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maybe we start clicker-training dems. give them a little treat any time someone says the word impeach and just see how long it takes

RIP my mentions but it’s so fascinating how the “you Palestine movement people cost Harris the election” crowd never ever talks about how undecided voters don’t seem to have been especially impressed by a leadership that spent billions on genocide while the cost of housing went through the roof

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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is incredibly bad. What the IRS would be saying to millions of people, if they cave to Trump’s extraordinary demands, is “don’t file your taxes, because if you do, we’ll use it against you.”

It would undermine and blow up generations of trust-building. It’s madness.

It doesn't take much to fund a humanities scholar's research, yet even that has ended.

This has been a discussion among many of us for years now. Funding for Humanities was already grossly inadequate; we never had anything to compare to the NSF and NIH. We had a little from NEH, a little from ACLS, but most of us were producing our scholarship with next to no resources. 1/2

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Betar: She was on our list. Many more jihadis are. We will be making a new submission Monday with approximately 1800 more jihadis. Submit to us candidates with proof for @ICEgov to consider! 🇺🇸

We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has now recovered the bodies of 14 Gaza health workers. Five Civil Defense personnel and one UN employee were among the 14 bodies, PRCS said.

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Letter to Armstrong: We recognize in the recent actions of the Trump administration a desire to assert political control To President Katrina Armstrong,

"We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia to reject such efforts to dominate universities."

Letter from History faculty at Columbia to President Armstrong (with complete list of signatories)

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

In so far as it's a sign, it's a sign that elite academics enjoy mobility that 99% of their colleagues do not, given the absurdities of the academic labor market. If you wanted the "direst sign of bad things to come," that was probably when Mahmoud Khalil got detained.

Let’s disappear people to foreign prisons based on allegations they committed crimes isn’t a slippery slope, you’ve already rolled all the way down the mountain.