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My latest piece at @thenation.com takes issue with the conventional wisdom that the Dems don't know how to fight Musk's GOP brownshirts effectively. They know how. We know this because they've been waging that kind of ruthless fight against the left for 25 years. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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THIS!!! "So here’s my proposal: those Pride parades that Chuck Schumer and all of these other Democrats love going to? Maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to attend until they show that their 'support' for the LGBTQ community isn’t complete bullshit."

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BREAKING: DAWN has filed a historic ICC referral urging an investigation into Biden, Blinken, and Austin for their complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. #ICC #Gaza #Accountability Read more: dawnmena.org/internationa...

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“What university leaders must realize is they are coming for your funding, no matter what. They are coming for the Department of Education, no matter what.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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If you're learning Arabic here is a relatively simple, very famous 4-line poem with literal translation, a recitation, and some notes. Feel free to ask questions. Here's the text. It's al-wāfir meter.

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They're going after the LGB too. We told you so. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/k...

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Ex-AIPAC staffer says AIPAC would use "Arab-looking" kids to spy on Arab-American organizations & try to get people fired from Jewish organizations:

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Have confirmed the same. Truly fucked up. And, should go without saying, illegal.

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

The courts are not going to stop them. It’s time for another approach, though no prominent leaders have suggested any.

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments

I… I have concerns.

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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 15 days ago • 934 comments

Thank you! So happy to share my book! Keep refusing! #WeRefuse Happy Black History Month!

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Dear God please start making the headlines in America as boring as those in Nottingham

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Thanks to this video for flagging this anecdote for me. This is why I get frustrated at journalists who forget basic high school math. You don't need to play poker to get what Musk is doing. This is the basic proof for why the house always wins, even if the dealer is a bad player.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Here's part 2 of the Better Offline DeepSeek eps. I explain how the emergence of DeepSeek has become an existential threat to the future of OpenAI and Anthropic - and how it shows that Silicon Valley is washed and incapable of innovation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Someone at Trader Joe's never studied the Middle Ages...

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Ballighūhā Bechara Abdallah Khoury (d. 1968) tell her, if you reach her sanctuary, that I died in love, her sacrifice and remember me to her with all favor/beauty then perhaps she will weep over me, perhaps she will and accompany her to my grave, for my bones crave that her feet step upon them

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#DailyArchaeology This medieval tower was built at the entrance (Propylaia) to the Athenian Acropolis in the 13th century by the Frankish rulers of the duchy of Athens. Heinrich Schliemann successfully campaigned to demolish it in 1874 This photo gives a sense of how modern our ancient sites are

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There was also a mosque inside the Parthenon

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

You can click this button, donate $50, and help a young Syrian scholar preserve an ancient Christian monastery, and then feel just great all day because you've done a random act of kindness and also helped preserve the past! ❤️✨🙏

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I could not sit silent while an elected official who spreads hate & lies that are getting trans people killed pretends to care about the future of the Internet. So I spoke up during Rep Nancy Mace's speech at the Project Liberty Summit & I would do it again www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...

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Safia Latif @safialatif My painting of a Palestinian orange tree x.com/safialatif/s...

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The magical city of Byblos, Lebanon.

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WATCH: How are activists organizing to stop the global weapons flow to Israel? Plus, the news roundup from @norabf.bsky.social, the resistance report with @jonelmer.bsky.social and discussion on breaking news with @aliabunimah.bsky.social and @asawinstanley.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUyM...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Please tell everyone you know that @intifada.bsky.social built a tool to help keep us from doomscrolling. It's a daily update on Palestine and it is amazing. electronicintifada.net/updates

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Every time, it's like I'm seeing the name of a cousin: “I knew you adored your sisters’ daughters, always posting their pictures on social media. I’ve never seen an aunt love her niece as much as you loved Misk. Your older sister, Aya, said you were everything beautiful in your family home.”

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Fascinated by people who can't understand the basic concept of an ongoing pandemic. I, like millions of other extremely high risk Americans around you, are extremely extremely high risk and medically vulnerable. MASK UP and stop drinking up right wing covid denialism.

submitted 96 days ago • 48 comments

Arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic. I mean, They asked “do you love her to death?” I said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life” and “Because my love for you is higher than words, I’ve decided to fall silent”

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When your hair is wavy/curly, there's a fine line between messy romantic waves and evil witch who lives in the woods.

submitted 99 days ago • 9 comments

Sign at the site of Uruk in modern day Iraq

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Israelis don’t want to admit that they are actually everything they accused Palestinians of being

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

I wonder how many people have me blocked from a Kairi list and think I'm blocked for a good reason and not bc I was put on a list by an anti-arab racist for defending my friend in Palestine who she attacked lol

submitted 97 days ago • 7 comments

A project long in the making: an Open Access collection of translated Arabic and Persian texts from c.600-1500 CE on varied aspects of sensory history throughout the Islamic world. Includes Qur’an, hadith, al-Jāḥiẓ, Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, Rūmī & many more t.co/eRir2mywLl

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Going down a rabbit hole on Iraq's Marsh Arabs (as I periodically do) and came across this fascinating piece examining normalized transgender identities in the Marshes in the early 20th century

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

hey look i can post The Meme and Trump isn't even in office yet

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Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends. Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.

submitted 97 days ago • 204 comments

New Release! 📚 A Demon Spirit: Arabic Hunting Poems, by Abū Nuwās, translated by James E. Montgomery contains hunting poems which convey power relations of the hunt. Explore the work of one of the greatest Arabic poets, now available from the Library of Arabic Literature.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

hello bluesky im deena! im an egyptian comics artist. i wrote, illustrated and translated a graphic novel called shubeik lubeik. it is about buying and selling wishes in a world that regulates and puts a price on everyday people’s wants and needs. its not very different to our world.

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Something looms there beyond these heights. I need a prophet’s tears for sight. Words are the diviner’s, the interpretation mine— They quarrel: one speaks in knots which the other unwinds. -Mohammad Abdelbari, "What Zarqa' al-Yamama Didn't Say"

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Again sending around this starter pack courtesy of @viewfromargus.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

submitted 97 days ago • 42 comments

What more could you want from the Middle East Medievalists Bluesky than a Middle East Medievalists starter pack? Connect with Middle East Medievalists MEMbers on Bluesky. If you are a MEMber of MEM and want to be included, let us know. go.bsky.app/PFgkbsW

submitted 101 days ago • 16 comments