basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 6hnews.mcmaster.ca/red-wilson-8... what future?????news.mcmaster.ca$8-million gift from Red Wilson will launch Futures Institute at Wilson CollegeDiscover how Red Wilson’s $8M gift will support the Futures Institute at Wilson College and help McMaster students explore ideas shaping the future. 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalDavide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 11/09/2026I dug through Canadian media archives to pull out a sample of the bloodthirsty commentary that dominated pages post-9/11, including from: Christie Blatchford, Rosie DiManno, Margaret Wente, Mark Steyn, Andrew Coyne, Marcus Gee, Rex Murphy and Paul Wells. www.readthemaple.com/remembering-...readthemaple.comRemembering Canadian Media’s Post-9/11 BloodlustThe media was responsible for helping create an environment where people begged for war, racist laws and attacks on civil liberties. 08448
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026heard some of this over the years from a family member who works there, but the full picture is quite something. that brainworm life 010
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026lawn signs are up! countdown to reelect @nrindernann.bsky.social in ward 3. the flowers have taken over though, october is for the asters 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“The destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people is decimating the guardrails that protected us all. Private sovereignty is advancing steadily, while national sovereignties—Venezuela, Cuba, and Lebanon—are undermined and others—Palestine—are preempted from being realized at all.” Noura Erakat:bostonreview.netExit and ExceptionThe Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order. 01510
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroketheguardian.com‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating strokeThe Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved 419353
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026dylan fagan on witchcraft - deadly words in the breakup of the indonesian new order muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 011
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Such a depressing political reality right now… 1021738
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warnNew report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms 10301131
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026jill lepore, artificial education www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comArtificial Education | The Harvard CrimsonMachine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. 032
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comNetanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensifyIsraeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists 321036487
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026laysa li-'irq zalim haqq brill.com/view/journal... what if the law did not convert time-based possession into legal title????brill.comNo Legitimate Right Arises from a Root Planted by an Oppressor: A Comparative Study of Islamic Property Legitimacy and Adverse PossessionAbstract This article undertakes the first systematic comparison between the Prophetic legal maxim laysa li-ʿirq ẓālim ḥaqq “No legitimate right arises from a root planted by an oppressor” and the Ang... 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5rm5G8l 046
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...themorningnews.orgAnnie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning NewsWriters aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. 1629966
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner" 13814
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalStanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Debt and Refuge is out! "By foregrounding subjectivity rather than victimization, Debt and Refuge elegantly reveals complexities of gender and displacement—whether in the context of developmentalism or war." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography ow.ly/EHc050ZNBZx #ReadUP 073
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalZahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comEPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power PlantsThe US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. 115753528
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/09/2026A retired archaeologist and his friends unearthed remains inside a Dutch church that may or may not belong to D’Artagnan, the French historical figure upon whom Alexandre Dumas based the main character in “The Three Musketeers.”nytimes.comHow One Man’s Quest for a Musketeer’s Bones Got Him Locked Up 99930
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026randy being fancy archive.is/KdPrjarchive.isWelcome to nginxIf you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. 001
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026aged well 216126
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026my kingdom for hwdsb schoolbuses that only run <30 min late 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026'Gaza's Gravediggers' argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel's genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity:newarab.comWho enabled Israel’s genocide? Norman Finkelstein answersBook Club: ’Gaza’s Gravediggers’ argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel’s genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity 0134
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/09/2026In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...mondoweiss.netIsrael starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones,… 04028
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The great ships in Bruegel's Icarus, like the wax & feather wings, exemplify extreme technology and mankind's hubris. Bruegel was rather skeptical about modernity. Today is his day. 720041
Reposted by basit kareem iqbal祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So delighted our university campus store removed the books section to make space for what really matters 8513
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026the giller prize without genocide money is just canada reads is this something 000
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026the school board is encouraging teachers to use copilot to make things easier. instead grade 8 classlists were hallucinated on day 1 reading reviews earlier this week, came across two published in reputable journals clearly generated by ai. delusions of grandeur at the end of the genre alas 041
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Eliot lowkey foreseeing the vibes of social media 5619
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalDoug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-de...middleeasteye.netGaza’s destroyed sewage system linked to ‘rare’ algae bloom shutting Israeli desalination plantsFive of Israel’s six water plants shut as scientists probe whether Gaza wastewater fuelled the bloom 1114
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026jeffrey sacks - thinking about the law and genocide in palestine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... reading adania shibli's MINOR DETAIL against the production of legal personhoodtandfonline.comThinking about the law and genocide in PalestineThis article offers a reading of Adania Shibli's 2017 novel Tafṣīl Thānawī (Minor Detail) in relation to the law and genocide in Palestine. Taking as a point of departure the reflection on language... 000
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026makhlouf - spectral afterlives: ghayath almadhoun and paul celan's palestinian migrations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comSpectral afterlives: Ghayath Almadhoun and Paul Celan’s Palestinian migrationsGhayath Almadoun’s 2017 “Al-Ḥalīb Al-Aswad (Black Milk)” borrows its title from a master trope of Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge (Death Fugue),” arguably the single most canonical poem about the world of ... 010
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026not a city functioning how we want, but a city functioning how we deserve 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026This is the government of Canada’s scientific finding. It is true. It is also a terrible message. Here’s what’s also true: 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...ctvnews.caChanges to Canada's climate now 'irreversible,' federal report saysThe impacts of climate change in Canada are now largely irreversible and average temperatures are expected to rise by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century, a new government report warns. 291055528
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026organizing (with @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social and milad) the final event before my year of khalwa 063
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026AAA and AAR schedules both out, feeling the fomo 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025James Baldwin wisdom 27837381
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is so terrifying. Will this finally motivate us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? 30493117
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026there's nothing wrong with loving theory, by @kukukadoo.bsky.social archive.ph/wFrlr "the books and essays that make up this genre can be as much palinode as polemic" YESbsky.app 000
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2026Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 aje.news/2xzmvt 2404212
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... joud's new article - the gulf states, hellishtandfonline.comWine and Zam Zam: governing food, drink, and Islam in DubaiThis article explores how the UAE – and the emirate of Dubai in particular – regulate food and drink with the aim of governing Islam. It lays out how a series of food-related initiatives have left ... 030
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026agamben (july 27 2026): trump and netanyahu do not come from outside www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agam...quodlibet.itGiorgio Agamben, Stato e anomia II - QuodlibetEdizioni Quodlibet - Volumi pubblicati, Appuntamenti, Recensioni e Anteprime - Acquista con sconto del 15%, spedizioni gratuite in Italia per acquisti sopra 29 euro. 020
Reposted by basit kareem iqbalThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/08/2026Michael Ondaatje’s disregard for the established boundaries through which genres were defined taught writers to spell out their own liberation in a similar fashion. Read one writer’s reflection on Ondaatje’s influence. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vPIYZPnewyorkermag.visitlink.meThe Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early WorkMichael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation. 0172
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"I approach this topic from the perspective of being a flawed yet practicing Christian ... Regarding the accusation that we were selling to Israel: we are guilty as charged" haldimandpress.com/pro-palestin... how foul, next doorhaldimandpress.comPro-Palestine protesters target Cayuga business over Israel shipments | The Haldimand Press 100
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026mcmaster embarrassing itself mmai.degroote.mcmaster.ca/full-time-ma...mmai.degroote.mcmaster.caProgram: Master of Management in AI and Analytics | Master of Management Programs at DeGroote 151