At this rate, Persian Gulf is going to be renamed Asim Munir Canal

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements after Independence by Julien Columeau

This is a very important new book, just out from @columbiaup.bsky.social: Julian Columeau's *Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements after Independence* (2026)

Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119 “People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”

This quote appears in a Paris Review interview with George Plimpton published in 1990.

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Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

“Mel Curth has been the target of a political movement that seeks to silence and/or oust LGBTQ people from academia.”

The Strokes ended their Coachella set with the song "Oblivius", highlighting US involvement in the overthrow/deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Omar Torrijos, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Juan José Torres, Martin Luther King Jr, Jacobo Árbenz, Salvador Allende, Jaime Roldós, and destruction in Gaza and Iran.

Essential steps. I am glad I was able to publish selections from CM in a book form in 2011.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

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A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

It was so intellectually rewarding to work with @global-ih.bsky.social on a special section on my book! The essays by @paulbabinski.bsky.social and @drjoeford.bsky.social extended the reflection temporally, while @saraharens.bsky.social and Richard Hibbitt made me reflect on my critical method.

At least 72,345 Palestinians have been killed, with thousands still under the rubble That's 1 out of every 33 people in Gaza At least 172,250 Palestinians have been injured, many with life-altering wounds That's 1 out of every 14 people in Gaza Since the October 10 "ceasefire" 766 Palestinians have been killed Since the October 10 "ceasefire" 2,147 Palestinians have been injured

horror

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
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Reminds ya that Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge

I wrote this on the parallels between Suez 1956 and Iran 2026 – and how we should not presume that leaders in the past acted in more sophisticated or dignified ways than leaders today

Is it common for presidents of universities to publicly call their students ignorant?

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

haha. no we will have a econ just properly branded as Billionnaire Studies

The persons include women and children. The trawler had departed from the border town of Teknaf in southern Bangladesh and was on its way to Malaysia.

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open our new college?

Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

‘The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves, with tens of thousands presumably buried under the earthworks, embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide.’

Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online early from the next issue.

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Durba Mitra, Jennifer Morgan, Gayatri Gopinath. Period.

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Three brand new smelling uncracked hardback books, 1. The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Prescod-Weinstein 2. DURBA MITRA THE FUTURE THAT WAS A HISTORY OF THIRD WORLD FEMINISM AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM 3. YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU POLICING IN THE AGE OF SELF SURVEILLANCE ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON

My latest book haul looking beautiful
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@profferguson.bsky.social

Darializa was just arrested along with 100 others.

We are sick and tired of our government telling us that we don't have money to feed and house our children, while spending billions to drop bombs on children halfway around the world.

We must have politics that invest in life!

Harvard, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Yale as top receivers of prestigious fellowships--

The Casbah of Algiers, a Museum in Ruins Despite years of neglect and marginalization, the crumbling Casbah is still the beating heart of Algiers.

New in @hidden-cities.com: Despite years of neglect and marginalization, the crumbling Casbah is still the beating heart of Algiers.

Abd-el-Kader Cheref on the Casbah's history, heritage, and place in Algerian culture and identity: www.hidden-cities.com/p/the-casbah...

page from Mir's *Remembrances*

Mir Taqi Mir is breathless even in his prose: عشق بسازد، عشق بسوزد