lawn signs are up! countdown to reelect @nrindernann.bsky.social in ward 3. the flowers have taken over though, october is for the asters
basit kareem iqbal
@biqbal.bsky.social
anthropologist, editor at mcmaster university. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (https://fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-hb-9781531510312.html). bookmarking in the wasteland
“The destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people is decimating the guardrails that protected us all. Private sovereignty is advancing steadily, while national sovereignties—Venezuela, Cuba, and Lebanon—are undermined and others—Palestine—are preempted from being realized at all.” Noura Erakat:
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
bostonreview.net
‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
theguardian.com
dylan fagan on witchcraft - deadly words in the breakup of the indonesian new order muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
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muse.jhu.edu
We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
theguardian.com
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
theguardian.com
laysa li-'irq zalim haqq brill.com/view/journal... what if the law did not convert time-based possession into legal title????
No Legitimate Right Arises from a Root Planted by an Oppressor: A Comparative Study of Islamic Property Legitimacy and Adverse Possession
Abstract This article undertakes the first systematic comparison between the Prophetic legal maxim laysa li-ʿirq ẓālim ḥaqq “No legitimate right arises from a root planted by an oppressor” and the Ang...
brill.com
"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5rm5G8l
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
themorningnews.org
"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner"
Debt and Refuge is out! "By foregrounding subjectivity rather than victimization, Debt and Refuge elegantly reveals complexities of gender and displacement—whether in the context of developmentalism or war." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography https://ow.ly/EHc050ZNBZx #ReadUP
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
bloomberg.com
A retired archaeologist and his friends unearthed remains inside a Dutch church that may or may not belong to D’Artagnan, the French historical figure upon whom Alexandre Dumas based the main character in “The Three Musketeers.”
How One Man’s Quest for a Musketeer’s Bones Got Him Locked Up
nytimes.com
my kingdom for hwdsb schoolbuses that only run <30 min late
'Gaza's Gravediggers' argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel's genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity:
Who enabled Israel’s genocide? Norman Finkelstein answers
Book Club: ’Gaza’s Gravediggers’ argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel’s genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity
newarab.com
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...
Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones,…
mondoweiss.net
The great ships in Bruegel's Icarus, like the wax & feather wings, exemplify extreme technology and mankind's hubris. Bruegel was rather skeptical about modernity. Today is his day.
So delighted our university campus store removed the books section to make space for what really matters
the giller prize without genocide money is just canada reads is this something
the school board is encouraging teachers to use copilot to make things easier. instead grade 8 classlists were hallucinated on day 1 reading reviews earlier this week, came across two published in reputable journals clearly generated by ai. delusions of grandeur at the end of the genre alas
Eliot lowkey foreseeing the vibes of social media
