Mamdani may have done more to shatter anti-Muslim stereotypes in a few months than decades of anti-Islamophobia campaigns and policies

Remember when Germany admired Greta Thunberg so much that "the Greta of data privacy/corporate accountability/Africa etc" was a regular shorthand for virtue? The second Greta applied the same universal justice principles to Palestine, that admiration vanished overnight.

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

For the first time in 25 years of Gallup polling: Americans report having more sympathy for Palestinians than Israelis in "the Middle East situation" As anyone worth listening to on survey design will tell you, this is NOT an informative standalone question--but the trend speaks volumes

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold

"They just left him."

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My Facebook feed is suddenly but slowly pushing more anti-Danish content, e.g. Denmark discriminating against English and non-Danish speaking job applicants. In light of the Greenland issue, the timing doesn’t feel accidental.

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously! leonardeducation.org/the-palestin... (HT @nsdoud on X)

The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization

The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom. As people of conscience at institutions of higher learning, we believe that support for justice in Palestine and free Palestinian futures

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Cool, so the message from UMN to students is that they can use AI to summarize, answer questions, edit writing, and write code. This really doesn’t jibe with the university giving professors autonomy over how we want AI used (or not used) in our courses.

Voici mon article sur Hannah Arendt dans le monde arabe, publié dans le magazine français Philosophie. Vous pouvez également le retrouver sur mon site web. amroali.com/2025/07/refl...

I have a piece (in French) on Hannah Arendt in the Arab world that has just been published in a special edition of the French philosophy magazine, Philosophie. Unfortunately, it is paywalled, but I'll later publish the English version elsewhere or on my site. www.philomag.com/philosophes/...

Insane that Israel will be able to compete in the world cup and olympics while systematically murduring every Palestinian athlete.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Trying to keep track of the number of athletes murdered in Gaza but it’s hard since there are more every single fucking day.

هو فين ممكن ألاقي مسلسل 'أهل إسكندرية' بتاع بلال فضل اللي اتمنع في 2014؟ في مكان ممكن أتفرج عليه؟

Next week in Bologna

The Al Saoud Library is a gem of Casablanca. Well-resourced and elegantly situated, it overlooks the ocean, a feature that should be mandatory for all coastal cities. It brings knowledge and nature into quiet harmony.

Passport officer at Muscat airport: "Welcome to Oman, it seems it's your first visit to Oman, hopefully it won't be your last," he said smiling. You see how easily hospitality can be done? This trait is becoming rare at many airports that greet you with frowns & interrogations.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

All I understood from this is that the Trump administration will be coming soon to the University of Buffalo with knives and pitchforks

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · last yr.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be

The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests

In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

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Unspeakable evil. "Twenty-four hours before she was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna’s life in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began would be debuted at a French independent film festival that runs parallel to Cannes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

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“You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you.” - Cavafy #Alexandria

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…

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“Overseas arrivals to the US from all origins dropped 11.6% in March, the government data showed” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

US sees biggest drop in Australian visitors since Covid as travellers avoid Trump’s America

Almost 4,600 fewer people went to the US in March compared with the same time last year, according to government data

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Alexandria in an infinite loop 🌊

Brace yourself for public figures to be even smaller and more cowardly than you thought possible, and some neighbors and family, too. (Even if you thought they couldn't disappoint you any more than they have.) But we can't give ground. This is deliberate evil. They're testing how far they can go.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research

A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last yr.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US