Rasha Refaie
@rasharefaie.bsky.social
Terribly Late Bloomer. Writer. I don’t know
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“Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.”
This is incredibly alarming. A complete overreach of university autonomy. Not to mention blatantly racist.
This is incredibly alarming. A complete overreach of university autonomy. Not to mention blatantly racist.
“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
apnews.com/article/colu...
apnews.com/article/colu...
Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...
apnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.”
This is incredibly alarming. A complete overreach of university autonomy. Not to mention blatantly racist.
This is incredibly alarming. A complete overreach of university autonomy. Not to mention blatantly racist.
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They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
www.providencejournal.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.
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Does anyone else wonder about No Other Land in the sense that, like, why do we need an Israeli narrator to make it acceptable to talk about Palestinian pain, land theft, and settler colonialism?
March 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Does anyone else wonder about No Other Land in the sense that, like, why do we need an Israeli narrator to make it acceptable to talk about Palestinian pain, land theft, and settler colonialism?
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Countdown to the inevitable AI both-sidesing of slavery or pedophilia
“Some Los Angeles Times opinion pieces will now be published with an artificial intelligence-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views on that issue, the paper’s biotech billionaire owner announced on Monday.”
LA Times to display AI-generated political rating on opinion pieces
Los Angeles paper’s ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Countdown to the inevitable AI both-sidesing of slavery or pedophilia
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Please spread this wide
March 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please spread this wide
the fort knox situation has a glut of GOLDFINGER scenes running through my mind, like it just figures we live in a world where that movie plot has become reality 😒
February 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
the fort knox situation has a glut of GOLDFINGER scenes running through my mind, like it just figures we live in a world where that movie plot has become reality 😒
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Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
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Taking the frei out of the Freie Universität
A large group of civil society and research orgs (incl the WiKo Berlin) have written a statement on the unprecedented political pressure on the FU Berlin to cancel the public lecture of Francesca Albanese and Prof. Eyal Weizman.
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-... (scroll down for English version)
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-... (scroll down for English version)
Statement zur Ausladung von Albanese: „Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität?“
Die Freie Universität Berlin hat einen Vortrag der UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese abgesagt. Der Freitag dokumentiert einen Aufruf von Wissenschaftsorganisationen und NGOs zur Verteidig...
www.freitag.de
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Taking the frei out of the Freie Universität
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Wait so Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved, tortured and conducted experiments on them, but actually made them wear a Star of David? That's... pretty wild.
February 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wait so Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved, tortured and conducted experiments on them, but actually made them wear a Star of David? That's... pretty wild.
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English is so beautiful. One man’s Ethnic Cleansing can be another’s Development Plan
February 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
English is so beautiful. One man’s Ethnic Cleansing can be another’s Development Plan
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Lebanon, Gaza, and Riad resist: is the Arab world changing before our eyes?
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A fascinating series of recent have demonstrated that the Arab world is capable of defying US and Israeli ambitions. What is this about? And why is this happening? Impressions from a politically very meaningful week
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A fascinating series of recent have demonstrated that the Arab world is capable of defying US and Israeli ambitions. What is this about? And why is this happening? Impressions from a politically very meaningful week
Lebanon, Gaza and Riad resist: is the Arab world changing before our eyes?
YouTube video by The Mizrahi Perspective
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February 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Lebanon, Gaza, and Riad resist: is the Arab world changing before our eyes?
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A fascinating series of recent have demonstrated that the Arab world is capable of defying US and Israeli ambitions. What is this about? And why is this happening? Impressions from a politically very meaningful week
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A fascinating series of recent have demonstrated that the Arab world is capable of defying US and Israeli ambitions. What is this about? And why is this happening? Impressions from a politically very meaningful week
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February 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Hold them accountable. None of Musk’s staffers will find work again in America. Thank you, WSJ!
February 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hold them accountable. None of Musk’s staffers will find work again in America. Thank you, WSJ!
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Elon Musk’s companies—Tesla and SpaceX—have received billions in government contracts and subsidies. Yet, this issue is largely ignored. Isn’t it time we started holding corporations accountable for the massive burden they place on taxpayers?
February 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Elon Musk’s companies—Tesla and SpaceX—have received billions in government contracts and subsidies. Yet, this issue is largely ignored. Isn’t it time we started holding corporations accountable for the massive burden they place on taxpayers?
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well that seems sorted then
The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
well that seems sorted then
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I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.
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Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.
February 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.
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"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."
January 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."