Aatif
@aaiqbal.bsky.social
NYC law stylist | Previously HLS Yale | twitter.com/aaiqbal | mindly.social/@aaiqbal
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I don't like ever handing shit to Jerusalem post but they absolutely cooked here.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I don't like ever handing shit to Jerusalem post but they absolutely cooked here.
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a good and necessary read for many
December 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
a good and necessary read for many
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Amazing reporting from @katiemangan.bsky.social and @peterelkind.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
How the government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Amazing reporting from @katiemangan.bsky.social and @peterelkind.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
previously unreported documents and interviews... reveals the extent to which the government violated legal and procedural norms to gin up its case against the institution
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This is what can happen when faculty collectively fight. We don't have to rely on the president of the university to have a backbone, especially at public universities.
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is what can happen when faculty collectively fight. We don't have to rely on the president of the university to have a backbone, especially at public universities.
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This is where politicization matters: when you have ideologues leading this work, and civil servants who know they will be fired if they do not deliver on fishing expeditions, harder for them to stay ethical.
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is where politicization matters: when you have ideologues leading this work, and civil servants who know they will be fired if they do not deliver on fishing expeditions, harder for them to stay ethical.
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Say what you want about Epstein, but he took the concept of intellectual diversity seriously
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Say what you want about Epstein, but he took the concept of intellectual diversity seriously
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The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
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The judiciary is so compromised
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The judiciary is so compromised
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This is what he is like with *the press* - people who have some power over him.
I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.
I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is what he is like with *the press* - people who have some power over him.
I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.
I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.
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“The report is not an attempt to adjudicate the experience of antisemitism but instead to demonstrate how Title VI…has been used to create an enforcement apparatus that sidesteps long-established AAUP-recommended procedures of shared governance & compromises academic freedom.”
— Rana Jaleel
— Rana Jaleel
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“The report is not an attempt to adjudicate the experience of antisemitism but instead to demonstrate how Title VI…has been used to create an enforcement apparatus that sidesteps long-established AAUP-recommended procedures of shared governance & compromises academic freedom.”
— Rana Jaleel
— Rana Jaleel
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When your spouse is the social one, and decides she doesn't want to go to a social obligation/event because she's tired from her marathon walk, it's important to modulate your response carefully: supportive but not to obviously enthusiastic and relieved
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When your spouse is the social one, and decides she doesn't want to go to a social obligation/event because she's tired from her marathon walk, it's important to modulate your response carefully: supportive but not to obviously enthusiastic and relieved
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Shoutout to Project Star Wars 4K77 for doing what they did.
Holy shit, it’s official. We’re getting the 1977 version of #StarWars, remastered, in theaters! www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Shoutout to Project Star Wars 4K77 for doing what they did.
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If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.
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Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."
2/ The Hegseth-approved contingency plan:
The U.S. military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
The U.S. military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."
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Those survivors, who supposedly failed to "cease all combat activities" by trying to radio for help while clinging to flaming wreckage after their boat suddenly exploded for reasons completely unknown to them, died having no idea they were ever in "combat" with the US Navy at all.
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Those survivors, who supposedly failed to "cease all combat activities" by trying to radio for help while clinging to flaming wreckage after their boat suddenly exploded for reasons completely unknown to them, died having no idea they were ever in "combat" with the US Navy at all.
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It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's a campaign of terror.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental.
It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience.
Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.
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The whole point of drawing absurd districts like this that deny citizens of Nashville any representation is to not have to spend money or resources on defense. The midterms are going to be wild.
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The whole point of drawing absurd districts like this that deny citizens of Nashville any representation is to not have to spend money or resources on defense. The midterms are going to be wild.
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he's gotta go
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
he's gotta go
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I don’t think it’s necessarily great that the CIA operated Afghan military squads but we certainly did do so and we made commitments to those people and we failed to keep faith with at least our moral responsibilities in this case.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don’t think it’s necessarily great that the CIA operated Afghan military squads but we certainly did do so and we made commitments to those people and we failed to keep faith with at least our moral responsibilities in this case.
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the turing test did not adequately account for the human tendency to believe that anything which affirms or validates their preconceptions is "intelligent"
May 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
the turing test did not adequately account for the human tendency to believe that anything which affirms or validates their preconceptions is "intelligent"
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And it's not like they haven't been told, over and over and over again, about the totally appropriate legal path that they could and should take:
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | NU AAUP Dispatches: It’s time to take the Trump Administration to court
Opinion Contributor Prof. Heidi Kitrosser discusses how Northwestern should respond to funding freezes by the Trump Administration.
dailynorthwestern.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
And it's not like they haven't been told, over and over and over again, about the totally appropriate legal path that they could and should take:
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/29/o...
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BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".
horrible.
horrible.
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".
horrible.
horrible.
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”Free speech culture” means that when a prominent activist calls you a “retarded pussy” you should not call it out because that’s cancel culture. You should just engage in better debate! Try going on a podcast.
Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
”Free speech culture” means that when a prominent activist calls you a “retarded pussy” you should not call it out because that’s cancel culture. You should just engage in better debate! Try going on a podcast.