"Graduate students are not abandoning academia. They are asking whether the academy, as it is currently structured, deserves their trust. That is not a political question; it is an institutional one. And it is one that universities cannot afford to leave unanswered."

It's ME(Jaime)@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excellent; well worth a read. 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho

Kuzhali Manickavel talks with Publishers Weekly about Tamil words for queerness and the feeling of not being able to figure out why you're existing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Untranslatable: PW Talks with Kuzhali Manickavel

The debut novelist’s ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School’ (Angry Robot, Oct.) infuses a subtle coming-of-age tale with the paranormal.

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“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.” — Jane Kenyon

Looks super interesting! "Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection of crime. Driven by anxieties about 'native mendacity,' newly minted forensic analysts focused on uncovering faked evidence planted by South Asians. ..."

Mitra Sharafi@mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Books Network podcast now out with @saumyadadoo.bsky.social on my new book: Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026) - New Books Network share.google/OCQqe8gmR6vh... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #legalhistory

New Books Network podcast now out with @saumyadadoo.bsky.social on my new book: Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026) - New Books Network share.google/OCQqe8gmR6vh... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #legalhistory

Where I decode what it means to be ‘Goa based’ for settlers.

Being (Goa) Based

Postal Posturing in the Settler Economy

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#OtD 8 Nov 1875 pioneering Chinese revolutionary and feminist Qiu Jin was born in Xiamen. She started a girls' school which was actually a training camp for revolutionaries to overthrow the Manchu royal family. After a failed uprising she was beheaded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1084...

#OtD 24 Sep 1968 14 men (including five priests and a minister) raided a federal office in Milwaukee, took 10,000 draft cards, and set them on fire with homemade napalm in protest of the Vietnam war. Learn more about opposition to the war in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...

In this report, taped at a conference at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies in New York City, learn more about the role of labor and worker organizing in the fight against authoritarianism: bit.ly/40EdLJN #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Unions #MovementStrategy

Can't thank @thedigradio.bsky.social enough for teaching me about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism. This interview with Mohammed El-Kurd hit me the hardest thanks to its more personal tone, but also great are: Mouin Rabbani, Richard Seymore, and Ussama Makdisi. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd

Podcast Episode · The Dig · 27/11/2023 · 1h 3m

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Below are highlights from Day 4 of our @aaup.org v. Rubio trial. knightcolumbia.org/content/dhs-...

firstdays.saada.org/story/cm-naim my most favorite first day on SAADA. Rest in power Professor Naim.

C.M. Naim's First Day

It was a date in mid-September, 1957, when the Pan Am round-the-world flight I had caught in Calcutta reached San Francisco.

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flowers for Prof C.M. Naim (1936-2025) إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُون

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

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More power to Mahmoud and all the others who are facing the wrath of this regime, whether in detention or fleeing from it.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

keep throwing money at the problem but that is the very problem! people will always win.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Some of New York’s wealthiest financiers are uniting against Zohran Mamdani, with a plan to raise $20 million to fight the surging progressive candidate

I have been screaming for publicly owned grocery / agriculture infrastructure for years (UBI for food would build community, take pressure off of people's budgets, & solve the foodbank crisis). the NDP/Libs/Cons tax break pissing match in the election was infuriating. THINK BIGGER. DO BETTER.

Ricochet Media@ricochetmedia.bsky.social · last yr.

In New York, #ZohranMamdani built a multi-generational populist movement promising to freeze the rent, provide free buses, and establish publicly-owned grocery stores — and won. Could that happen in #Canada? New column from Jared Walker: ricochet.media/politics/zoh... #cdnpoli @c4tf.bsky.social

Oh well then that's fine.

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · last yr.

A land of contrasts

ICE agents acting like the most after-school-PSA stereotype of creepy child-predators imaginable, what a surprise

RootsAction@rootsaction.org · last yr.

A local NYC baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents during a recent practice. Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer! Shoutout all of our local heroes!

“These people—the Times, Clyburn, Summers—are so scared, so unable to conceive of a world without them and their worldview at its core, that they will, every time, choose the monsters they have known for generations over anyone they can’t imagine gaining access to.” —Rebecca Traister

Peter Sterne@petersterne.com · last yr.

Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

A new reservation policy brought in by India’s BJP-led central government attempts to shift Jammu and Kashmir’s politics to the ruling party’s benefit, and has left the union territory’s newly elected administration in a tricky spot, writes Burhan Majid

India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower Kashmiris

IN DECEMBER last year, the government of Jammu and Kashmir announced the formation of a panel to review the Indian union territory’s policy for reservation in g

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Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

"Refugees," a stunning early lithograph by African-American artist Robert Blackburn, one of most accomplished printmakers of the 20th century

This is the third iteration of Queer Cinema for Palestine, "No Pride in Genocide," QCP began as a campaign to boycott TLVFest and give queer and allied filmmakers the opportunity to present their work in solidarity with Palestine. Program and free registration: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

“Take a breath man, it’s not that serious.” Unbelievable statement an ICE agent told a man who collapsed after being handcuffed following his immigration hearing. The overzealous agents had the wrong man & would have kidnapped him had his attorney not insisted in reviewing the arrest warrant.

ICE takes people into custody outside court in San Diego

The man was just exiting from the courtroom with his attorney when an agent grabbed his arm and several more surrounded him.

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Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike

President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.

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