🎶You never take me to Bangladesh🎶

this might actually be how we achieve world peace

Groundbreaking new research confirms what at least half the population has known forever: America penalizes women's weight in both hiring and dating www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

How big is America’s “obesity penalty”?

GLP-1s offer a rare insight into the social and economic effects of carrying extra weight

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Houthis and the Blowback

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Iran-backed Houthis say they will blockade a waterway on the Red Sea. And, the FDA continues to investigate Taylor Farms lettuce as a source of the Cyclospora outbreak despite a retracted test. n.pr/4fdZ0W3

The Egyptian basketball team is currently playing in the FIBA WC qualifiers Their players look like the cast of an 80s sports comedy where the plot features some green card shenanigans and zaniness ensues

Him losing out on the golden boot is the cherry on top 🥰

Lamine Yamal é campeão da Copa do Mundo.

🇪🇸 ❤️ 🇵🇸

In case you needed another reason… ¡Vamos la Roja! 🇪🇸🇪🇸

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

I imagine him saying "come on" with the appropriate pitch and inflection

sirosenbaum.bsky.social@sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

My daughter, reacting as any good diasporic Egyptian should

We lost an absolute giant in the scholarly community. Dr. Esposito did much to counter the errant public perspectives on Muslims and Islam in the aftermath of 9/11--and he uplifted a generation of scholars trying to do the same. May his memory be a blessing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/memori...

In Memoriam: Professor John L. Esposito (1940–2026)

It is with profound sadness that I share the passing of my dear friend and colleague, Professor John L. Esposito, on July 15, 2026, one of the most consequential scholars of Islamic studies and interf...

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*Bill Simmons voice*: Are we sure the colonizer is the bad guy?

Ah, so close. Almost got it.

Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 3w ago

JD Vance: "AI is gonna unleash a lot of wealth creation, but if that all goes to some segment of people, you're gonna have communism."

A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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This is embarrassing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

TAPPER: I know you don't want to talk about any other issues out of respect for Lindsey Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime bc I do have a lot of other questions TRUMP: Sure. We're trying to have CNN go on a normal path T: I'm on a normal path right here, sir TRUMP: Good. You are.

One accomplishment of the late Qatar Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, was the establishment of @AJArabic as a dominant media force. Why did he do it? What has Qatar gotten out of it? How did it succeed? My analysis from The World Through Arab Eyes, here: www.brookings.edu/articles/al-...

Al Jazeera: Why It’s the Most-Feared News Network

Discover why Al Jazeera is considered the most-feared news network in this chapter by Shibley Telhami.

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Norway may get Egypt’d here

You may be tempted to call this chutzpah. It wasn't. It was not nerve or audacity that drove these settlers to DETAIN A SITTING US LEGISLATOR. It was impunity. They knew, with CERTAINTY, that nothing would happen to them.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4w ago

Israeli Jewish supremacist settlers armed with US made rifles detained a sitting US Congressman in the occupied West Bank and held him hostage for more than an hour before being forced to release him.

A rare endearing (and super nerdy!) "well, actually"

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

am officially in the camp of VAR exists only so they can influence games to produce desired outcomes

I’m rooting so hard for Colombia 🇨🇴 I hope they put this team of wannabe Europeans in their place I hope they score 5 on them so that there is no opportunity for FIFA and the refs to fix it And, of course, in case there was any doubt, it’s otherwise Dima Maghrib 🇲🇦 all the way

Updating my intro to STS slides to make VAR my chosen example for why technology is never "just a tool"

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4w ago

am officially in the camp of VAR exists only so they can influence games to produce desired outcomes

It’s no use The world order The soccer order When the powers that be want a result, the they’ll engineer it and swear it was the right and fair outcome The Egyptian players have nothing to be ashamed of and every reason to hold their head high It was and always is… Ta7ya Masr 🇪🇬

This is less blatant than the Trump thing but it is nonetheless corruption

Ball don't lie.