Monday (tomorrow!) we'll host @drdadabhoy.bsky.social
to talk about the original Indiana Jones film, George Lucas & Steven Spielberg's 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark and the imperialism and orientalism that pervades the celebrated movie:
the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia
religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...
feels weird-but-good to work on a hopeful piece about Islamophobia?
thanks to @drdadabhoy.bsky.social for breaking down how this campaign did (and didn't) disrupt anti-Muslim racism in NYC's mayoral election
There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program.
Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.
Hajj begins on June 4. Here is a 3D tour that walks you through all the key steps of the annual Muslim pilgrimage.
We have a tradition at HMC where students write Valentines hearts to faculty, and I just got mine. I love that I am tiring my students into #FeministKilljoys
I feel like I’m going crazy witnessing how easy it is for people in the imperial core to ignore the genocide they are complicit in. Must be nice to have blue sky as your safe space.
The news overnight is devastating, possibly the worst night yet of the US/UK/EU backed Israeli genocide. Civilian centres are being bombed relentlessly in Gaza, while armed militias attack civilians across the West Bank. This is *Western terrorism* — of the highest order.
While Palestinian mothers collect the limbs of their dead children, Zionist mothers talk of how asking the killers to stop offends and upsets them. Not standing against this madness makes you complicit in it.
This is not only incompetence but it reveals that US media is colluding with the government.
If you are (rightly) mad at the Democrats it’s worth noting how this shit is used to protect them from challenge.
Chuck Schumer admits that he doesn’t work for the American people but for a genocidal entity.
Tell that to Israel who has killed thousands 🤡
You’re stupid.
Genocide is not accountability. You’re a ghoul.
First, pull funding from Columbia and start to lock up its students. Second, threaten other universities with the same.
All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom.
The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, which means a lot of Dems voted for her. During a fucking constitutional crisis.
GOLDMAN: “We have cut our 2025 US growth forecast to 1.7% Q4/Q4 — our first below-consensus call in 2½ years — and raised our US inflation forecast, both on the back of more adverse tariff assumptions. By contrast, our Euro area growth forecast has risen .. especially for 2026 - 2027 ..” [Hatzius]
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities. The letters are addressed to all U.S. universities that are presently under investigation for Title VI violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination. “The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws.” The schools that received letters from the Office for Civil Rights include:
American University Arizona State University Boston University Brown University California State University, Sacramento Chapman University Columbia University Cornell University Drexel University Eastern Washington University Emerson College George Mason University Harvard University Illinois Wesleyan University Indiana University, Bloomington Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College Lehigh University Middlebury College Muhlenberg College Northwestern University Ohio State University Pacific Lutheran University Pomona College Portland State University
Princeton University Rutgers University Rutgers University-Newark Santa Monica College Sarah Lawrence College Stanford University State University of New York Binghamton State University of New York Rockland State University of New York, Purchase Swarthmore College Temple University The New School Tufts University Tulane University Union College University of California Davis University of California San Diego University of California Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley University of Cincinnati University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Michigan University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of North Carolina University of South Florida University of Southern California University of Tampa University of Tennessee University of Virginia University of Washington-Seattle University of Wisconsin, Madison Wellesley College Whitman College Yale University
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
Columbia’s mission is to teach, create, and advance knowledge. For over 270 years, that mission has been grounded in an enduring and essential commitment to freedom of expression, open inquiry, and generous, respectful debate. Today, we were notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University. The federal agencies cite “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care. But let me be very clear: Columbia is taking the government’s action very seriously. I want to assure the entire Columbia community that we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns. To that end, Columbia can, and will, continue to take serious action toward combatting antisemitism on our campus.
Email from Columbia President Armstrong makes clear that admin still has no idea what it’s dealing with. No amount of “serious action to combat antisemitism” (read: punish Palestine activists) will satisfy the Nazis. They see universities as an enemy institution to crush underfoot.
Israel committing more war crimes.
Have you seen how US presidents have treated leaders of non white nations?
Obama had the audacity to tell African leaders not to "blame colonization" for their economic problems, while wealthy nations like the US were plundering the continent and proliferating their drone warfare there.
Europe out there earnestly wishing to change the world order and replace the US as ‘world leader’.
Per usual. Destroy the world four times over and still think you or the US should lead.
Take the back seat.
There are more ways to relate to this world than self-appointing ‘a leader’.
It doesn’t matter if you say Ramadan Kareem or Ramzan Mubarak, the ummah is united in its joy at welcoming in this blessed month when our beautiful Qur’an was revealed to the prophet and we have been enjoined to fast. May our prayers be answered and our fasts accepted. Ameen 🌙
