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Carolyn Walsh
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Academic with a knitting, dog, and gardening obsession. Also ❤️cats, historical fiction, feminism, and haiku, not necessarily In that order. Mindfulness practitioner in 🇨🇦
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Memo written by Rubio stated Khalil’s “current or expected beliefs, statements or associations” were sufficient evidence to remove a lawful permanent resident from the United States.

“Expected.” Sit with that.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views
White House has claimed that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ are counter to US foreign policy interests
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April 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
You are not powerless in this moment.
March 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ryoa.bsky.social
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
March 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Excellent conversation.
jewishcurrents.bsky.social Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · Mar 27
On the new episode of On the Nose, editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social speaks with Columbia professor & co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies Nadia Abu El-Haj about the shocking developments at Columbia.

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Higher Ed Under Attack
Editor-at-large Peter Beinart speaks with Columbia professor Nadia Abu El-Haj about the shocking developments at Columbia.
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March 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Art + Truth = ❤️
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March 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Reposted to add alt text to this wonderfully thoughtful letter.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social:

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
March 20, 2025 To President Katrina Armstrong and the Board of Trustees, As faculty members of the Department of History at Columbia University, we recognize in the recent actions of the Trump Administration a desire to assert political control over the university. Like many other American campuses, Columbia University has seen struggles over academic freedom and the right to protest in the past, including the dismissal of faculty during World War I that led to the resignation of historian Charles Beard; the 1936 expulsion of a student, Robert Burke, after his role leading anti-Nazi protests on campus; the 1968 building occupations; and the campus demonstrations over apartheid and ethnic studies in the 1980s and 1990s. The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now. We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia and around the world to reject such efforts to dominate colleges and universities. Such interventions jeopardize our ability to think honestly about the past, the present, and the future, and to do so with our students, who deserve every opportunity to learn and to think for themselves. Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible. [signatures continued –––>] [continued] Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History Frank Guridy, Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Ford Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities Pablo Piccato, Professor of History Elizabeth Blackmar, Mary and David Boies Professor of History Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of History Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History Camille Robeis, Professor of History and French Gregory Mann, Professor of History [end of first page. see posts in thread for the names of the 41 Columbia University historians who signed the letter]
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Seeking Buddha in Gaza
As a Buddhist, a Jew, and a supporter of the Palestinian people, religious scholar Linda Hess wears the checked Palestinian scarf called a keffiyeh and a blue Zen garment called a rakusu that symboliz...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Moth orchid, Phalaenopsis, this morning
Photo of newly opened moth orchid flower
March 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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March 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
carolynfrnl.bsky.social
Kafka Comes to CUNY — coreyrobin.com/2025/02/28/k...
Kafka Comes to CUNY
Three days ago, the New York Post reported that Hunter College was looking to hire a scholar in Palestinian Studies. The job ad read: We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens ...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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jjannot.bsky.social
Learn how to land the helicopter and be a #lighthouse parent.
#parenting #parentsky

www.deseret.com/family/2024/...
The case for 'lighthouse' parenting
"Lighthouse parenting is not a trend. It is what works," says pediatrician who coined the term.
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January 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM