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Laleh Khalili

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social

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Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at [email protected]

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Laleh Khalili is an Iranian American Professor of Gulf Studies at University of Exeter.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 9d

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 5d

Cool. Thank you.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 5d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

Sure hope the Jewish groups that got behind, "DEI defines Jews as white oppressors, therefore we need to abolish it entirely rather than reforming it" are feeling good about that right now. www.timesofisrael.com/texas-school...

Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’

Decision made after Austin suburb's Leander Independent School District undertook review using AI; teacher says he suspects novel was pulled as it deals with questions of identify

www.timesofisrael.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Paria sans portefeuille @pariasans.bsky.social · 6d

"Political Scientist @lalehkhalili.bsky.social joins us to discuss her new book, #ExtractiveCapitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, out now from Verso."

#capitalism #cronyCapitalism #extractivism #inequality #books

The Global Economy Runs on Extraction / Lalah Khalili

Political Scientist Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss her new book, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy out now from Verso. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dor...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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chuckmertz.bsky.social @chuckmertz.bsky.social · 7d

This weekend on WNUR and @bewaretheradio.bsky.social:

@matthewboedy.bsky.social on Charlie Kirk's "Mandate," @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on "Extractive Capitalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), and a '22 talk w/ Donna Murch on "Assata Taught Me" (@haymarketbooks.org),

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 2 WEEKS!

We'll be launching the Transition Security Project, investigating US & UK military industrial complexes.

Join our online panel on war, climate crisis & the economy.

🎙️ @stephensemler.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch

A collaboration between Common Wealth and Climate & Community Institute to investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 8d

Does it have the same kind of major metapolitical vibes, or is it more about the more intimate relationships?

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 8d

Ok ordered. Have you read Omar El-Akkad’s American War

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 300 tickets sold!

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social

🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST

🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dearest Christina, the book has arrived and it is such a beautiful object. Thanks ever so much for including me. ❤️❤️❤️

Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh so excited.

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks to @brandonshimoda.bsky.social for pointing to Nour on twitter who's foregrounding innumerable ways to help Gazas directly—with water, food, medical care, rent. DM her there at @TF7_AAWLA if you want to help out. Honored to share this water truck delivery with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Aug 12

Try IranFarhang.com they are lovely and may be able to source it for you.

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Iranfarhang is an online Persian bookstore providing shipping worldwide. Browse from thousands of prominent books printed in Iran and make secure purchases from anywhere in the world. کتاب فروشی آنلا...

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you.

Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is what Gilroy calls "conviviality" in his Postcolonial Melancholia

Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Jun 13

Sophie's choice.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 13

This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all."

He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota.

www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

On Instagram, a pictured ICE agent says he is "not picky" about who he deports.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Jun 13

The Middle East is burning and BlueSky worries about the REF. I really can't bear it over here.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thankyou so much

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 13

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims.

It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests

The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jun 12

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic."

Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual]

18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 11

‘Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. And many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about frivolities like ethics or ecology and love the bomb.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the defence tech industry: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks so much!