al-Mutaghatris
@al-mutaghatris.bsky.social
PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in SWANA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
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A veteran moving to the Pacific Northwest, then driving to DC to stage a mass shooting of government agents? Sounds like he assimilated into American culture pretty successfully.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A veteran moving to the Pacific Northwest, then driving to DC to stage a mass shooting of government agents? Sounds like he assimilated into American culture pretty successfully.
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On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal, author of THE RAGING ERIE, Mark Ferrara, talks about the history of the Erie Canal and its legacy in New York. buff.ly/bahfUnt #ListenUP
The Erie Canal Marks 200 Years | All Of It | WNYC
This weekend marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal on October 25, 1825. The canal had a major impact on the economic and maritime power of New York City and Sta...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal, author of THE RAGING ERIE, Mark Ferrara, talks about the history of the Erie Canal and its legacy in New York. buff.ly/bahfUnt #ListenUP
a perfect example of my theory that Americans absolute zero knowledge of Indonesia, one of the most important countries in the world, is bananas
Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World’s Largest City, UN Report Says
The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
a perfect example of my theory that Americans absolute zero knowledge of Indonesia, one of the most important countries in the world, is bananas
I stopped engaging with DSA once the DC chapter voted down a proposal to have a committee to organize social events and fun engagement. Socialist politics without fun and community is a dead end dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
dissentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I stopped engaging with DSA once the DC chapter voted down a proposal to have a committee to organize social events and fun engagement. Socialist politics without fun and community is a dead end dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group told the BMAG’s story in a landmark retrospective, the first of its kind to center this vital juncture in the development of modern Arab art. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Taking Back the Baton | Ali Hassani
What initially appears to be a dialogue between geometric form, architectural allusion, and figuration transforms into a preadolescent coup d’état by scythe qua jumprope. It is, after all, Baghdad’s p...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group told the BMAG’s story in a landmark retrospective, the first of its kind to center this vital juncture in the development of modern Arab art. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
hell yeah
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
hell yeah
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When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
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You don’t think Adorno is political enough because your standards are too low! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Sebastian Truskolaski,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Critical Theory · 11/24/2025 · 58m
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You don’t think Adorno is political enough because your standards are too low! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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“Nurses should take over’
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Nurses should take over’
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
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These are among the oldest forests on earth, but they're running up against the new world of climate change--firefighting help badly needed!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
Fire Threatens Iran’s Ancient Forest, a World Heritage Site
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These are among the oldest forests on earth, but they're running up against the new world of climate change--firefighting help badly needed!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
no al pinche muro e360.yale.edu/features/jag...
As Jaguars Recover, Will the Border Wall Block Their U.S. Return?
Decades of conservation efforts in Central and South America are starting to pay off, with increased protections for jaguars and the corridors that connect them. But the construction of the border wal...
e360.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
no al pinche muro e360.yale.edu/features/jag...
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Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
People were asking earlier about people’s most conservative belief…
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
People were asking earlier about people’s most conservative belief…
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WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.
En derin uyku gaflettir
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
En derin uyku gaflettir
a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates
everything is awful but I have one of the world’s greatest license plates ever made triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/04/e...
Exclusive: We interview the guy with the #1 Venus Flytrap License Plate - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
triangleblogblog.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates
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📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky
how am I supposed to resist brainrotting on YouTube when they're coming up with content like this every single day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfn8...
How Soviet Housing Actually Worked
YouTube video by Farol
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
how am I supposed to resist brainrotting on YouTube when they're coming up with content like this every single day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfn8...
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"the trick is not to care when she kisses me."
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"the trick is not to care when she kisses me."
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
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In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain?
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Looking into the water crisis in Iran has taken me to the fate of Lake Urmia, c.1270m altitude in the country's northwest, shrinking owing to water overuse for decades. A restoration plan started 10 years ago appeared to help briefly, but aridity since 2020 has reversed gains. Landsat images.
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Looking into the water crisis in Iran has taken me to the fate of Lake Urmia, c.1270m altitude in the country's northwest, shrinking owing to water overuse for decades. A restoration plan started 10 years ago appeared to help briefly, but aridity since 2020 has reversed gains. Landsat images.
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My latest, for @foreignpolicy.com:
"Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying."
Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...
"Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying."
Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...
An Unusual Election in Iraq Offers the U.S. an Unusual Opportunity
Baghdad is turning away from Tehran. Can Washington capitalize on it?
foreignpolicy.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My latest, for @foreignpolicy.com:
"Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying."
Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...
"Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying."
Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...