Zareena Grewal
@zareenagrewal.bsky.social
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Yale Prof, Anthropologist, Historian, Author of ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AUTHORITY, Director and Producer of BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
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buddyspell.bsky.social
Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere
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harmscommitted.com
"I think of Gaza as a hostage situation."

"When you compare what happened to me to what Israel does in terms of their policies towards Palestinians, you tell me who's the real aggressor, who's the real hostage taker."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist.
Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.
mondoweiss.net
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diplomatofnight.com
Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.
dov.bsky.social
What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.
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edzitron.com
AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over
Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.
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cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....
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michaelburns.bsky.social
looked at this article on stream today - highly recommended if you're trying to make sense of why so much of the discussion on political violence taking place right now feels . . . off.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
www.bostonreview.net
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zeteo.com
What does the Gaza ceasefire mean for Palestinians? Will Israel “get away with genocide”?

In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the announcement, and breaks down what still worries her.

Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...
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lalegault.bsky.social
Spain 🇪🇸 just approved an arms embargo on Israel 💪.
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diplomatofnight.com
The withdrawal line is different now, allegedly up to 600 meters closer to the borders of Gaza, as part of minor concessions given to Hamas in negotiations. This means for the first phase (however long it lasts) Israeli forces will remain in approx 50% of Gaza. It will then be "phased withdrawal".
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
I think it would be more accurate to say he wanted Israel to want a ceasefire and didn’t want to push them more than he wanted to see it. That’s the pattern with these left-Zionist people and that’s how they delude themselves.
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gthanku.bsky.social
5/3/21: AP hires Emily Wilder.

5/15/21: Israel bombs AP's offices in Gaza.

5/22/21: Emily Wilder posts this stmt about AP firing her bc she became the target of a harassment campaign painting her as antisemite etc for essentially daring to criticize Israel in college & see Palestinians as people.
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atherton.bsky.social
I'm professionally cautiously optimisitic on the ceasefire, in the way I was cautiously optimistic that a halt of 2000 lbs bombs in May 2024 was going to herald greater restrictions.

What is most different now is mainly that Trump is impatient and comically thirsty for a Nobel. Followthrough tbd.
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dov.bsky.social
It's truly brilliant how the American state is run by what I can only describe as a small group of child rapists doing everything in their power to dodge even theoretical accountability.
sanders.senate.gov
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States
diplomatofnight.com
Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE
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katzish.bsky.social
Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur
davejorgenson.bsky.social
The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal
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adamrothman.bsky.social
Dearest mother,
I take my phone in hand to dm u a few texts from the Portland front. The battle is lost. We have been forced to retreat by a giant frog, several furries, and a dance party. Please send TikToks to lift our spirits.
Your son
[Violin plays mournfully]