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Chris Marrewa

@chrismarrewa.bsky.social
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Religious and Intellectual Historian of South Asia, Diver, Photographer, Wanderer. ACLS Fellow 2024-2025. christinemarrewakarwoski.wordpress.…

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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We are live streaming a genocide and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social decides to suspend students for protesting it. I am ashamed to be an alumna of this university. Ya 3aib ashum, Columbia, ya 3aib ashum.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I recently made a trip to the New England Peace Pagoda in Massachusetts. What a fascinating space of religious pluralism that combines indigenous nations sacred objects with Buddhism and extreme non-violence and anti-nuclear activism.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
Ann Coulter commenting that "We (meaning the U.S., presumably) did not kill enough Indians."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel. Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Proud to be a part of this. It was great canvassing for Mamdani and meeting and talking with my neighbors. Looking forward to continuing to support Zohran!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NEW from Columbia Board of Trustees as the school meets Trump’s demands: “We engaged with the agencies that serve as our regulators on issues that matter both to them and to us.”
“Dear members of the Columbia community,

As the Trustees of Columbia University, we are entrusted with the responsibility to ensure that the University has the leadership, structures, and resources to fulfill its mission and maintain its values.
We have and continue to support Interim President Armstrong's approach, including today's presentation of the University's progress and deeply thoughtful actions. We are grateful for her principled and courageous leadership during this unprecedented time, and for the steps she has and is taking to strengthen our institution.
Members of our community and external stakeholders have raised concerns about a multitude of issues, such as antisemitism, discrimination, harassment, and bias. We take these concerns seriously, and we are committed to creating a better environment on campus. We are confident that building on the progress and ideas outlined today will help us achieve these goals.
There are many, inside and outside of our community, who are wondering about and characterizing our decision to hold discussions with the federal government. We engaged with the agencies that serve as our regulators on issues that matter both to them and to us. Our goal has been to demonstrate the…”“…We have and continue to support Interim President Armstrong's approach, including today's presentation of the University's progress and deeply thoughtful actions. We are grateful for her principled and courageous leadership during this unprecedented time, and for the steps she has and is taking to strengthen our institution.
Members of our community and external stakeholders have raised concerns about a multitude of issues, such as antisemitism, discrimination, harassment, and bias. We take these concerns seriously, and we are committed to creating a better environment on campus. We are confident that building on the progress and ideas outlined today will help us achieve these goals.
There are many, inside and outside of our community, who are wondering about and characterizing our decision to hold discussions with the federal government. We engaged with the agencies that serve as our regulators on issues that matter both to them and to us. Our goal has been to demonstrate the significant advances we've made, discuss the plans for the months ahead, and present Columbia-driven decisions made in accordance with our values and our mission. Where this work aligns with recommendations of others, we believe constructive dialogue makes sense.
We are dedicated to protecting Columbia University's bedrock principles of academic excellence, open inquiry, and the deeply held value of free expression.
The Trustees of Columbia University”
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It was never (just) about illegal immigration for MAGA...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Columbia administration stop sending platitudinous emails that send your alumni into a blind rage challenge
Some platitudinous junk that some interim university president's staff tossed together and sent some alumni that doesn't mention the university's existential crisis or its consistent resolve to throw students, faculty, and reason under the bus in vain attempts to placate an authoritarian federal government
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 19/03/2025
The page went dark as Columbia caved to the Trump administration’s anti-Palestinian and anti-immigrant attacks.
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Columbia Admissions Guidance for Undocumented Immigrants Vanishes From Site
Columbia’s admissions guidance for undocumented immigrants went dark as the school caved to the Trump administration’s attacks.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
Happening in NYC today! See you there.
A flyer which reads

17 Monday, March 10
4PM
Jacob K. Javits Federal Building
26 Federal Plaza, NYC
EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION!
RELEASE
MAHMOUD KHALL
HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES
MON. MAR 10 • 4PM
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As an alumna of #Columbia and former faculty, I categorically stand with #MahmoudKhalil and our other students right to protest the ongoing genocide. I urge my colleagues to do the same. We must come together and defend our rights or we walk silently and cowardly into fascism.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 06/02/2025
Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of Russell Vought to serve, once again, as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The vote was 53-47. Vought was an architect of Project 2025.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What a great man and great loss.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social
front page of NYT today
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hey @schumer.senate.gov, where are you at my dude? I know you ain’t at the office. I been calling.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I work for a Canadian university, and I have to use two-factor authentication to get into everything, the email, university resources, grade portals, my course websites. Meanwhile the entire US federal government's systems seem to be handed over to the neo-Nazi robber baron of our age
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/02/2025
Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's really about claiming the right to assert raw power at every single level: economically, militarily and inside the family. It's mass social engineering. This brings us to the concept of chosenness, which is at the dead centre of this admin -from the tech oligarchs to the white nationalists.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Dear Delhi friends, next Saturday is the launch of the Hindi edition of Allison Busch’s Poetry of Kings, Keshav Sunahu Prabin. My dear brother, Dalpat Rajpurohit has worked with Vani Press to make this a reality. Please join me at Pragati Maidan to celebrate this wonderful tribute.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hey, this is a great time to become a member of NPR if you aren’t already. Contrary to what a lot of folks think, almost none of their budget comes form the federal government!
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NBC- Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll refused a DoJ order that he assist in the firing of agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, pushing back so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he’ll be dismissed. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings
Brian Driscoll pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed. He has so far not handed over the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Alternative headline: "Billionaire Cabinet Pick of Billionaire President Gives Richest Man in the World Control of Your Retirement and Healthcare" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A rapist President would of course seek to protect his fellow rapists
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump just paused all federal grants and loans. In his memo, he claimed to be “ending wokeness.” ​​ “Wokeness” to him is attacking community health centers, Medicaid, disaster relief, child care programs, nutrition assistance programs like SNAP, WIC, and school lunch programs. Unacceptable.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/01/2025
Trump just ripped away Medicaid from millions of Americans. This could get people killed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Yes, I am openly hostile to fascism. I believe in teaching critical thinking, I care that my students are treated with the respect we all deserve, I teach them the difference between propaganda and reality. I teach history. If that makes me an enemy of Vance, I can live with it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What insane times we are living in.
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EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports
The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory.
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...
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Research collaboration
The British Library offers opportunities for researchers to collaborate to create new knowledge, with a particular focus on the British Library’s collection, services and infrastructure.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/01/2025
Jordanian officials have rejected US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” Gaza and move 1.5 million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt, describing it as the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tbw364
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Boycotting Target is the correct thing to do. We also must ensure the Black & other minority-owned businesses that sell their products in Target are supported. It’s important to note that Target is rolling back the program that brought so many of these brands to their stores. 🧵
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Comrade card for 1/26/2025. From @ruha9.bsky.social.
Watercolor and sharpie. Gray concrete blocks on the left. Colorful blocks on right morphing into a tower of color and a pastel horizon. Words by Ruha Benjamin: Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot love without, just as you dismantle the worlds you cannot live within.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I’m thrilled to hear that the Hindi translation of Allison Busch’s book, Poetry of Kings, will be released at the Delhi Book Fair. So many thanks to Dalpat Rajpurohit for his tireless work on seeing this project through and I look forward to being at the launch.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Great thread by @yaelrice.bsky.social.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
time.com
The U.S. Companies Pulling Back on Initiatives
Target is the latest company to join the list.
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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My name does not appear on this op Ed because I am not Jewish but I sure do share their opinion and their condemnation of Tuesday’s class disruption and antisemetic flyering in Fayerweather Hall. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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Letter to the Editor: Faculty denounce class disruption and hate speech at recent protest
Over the last year and a half, many of us have publicly defended free speech and the right to protest as essential components of democratic societies and as rights that all students should be able to ...
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Amen.
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Elaine Fisher @elainefisher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So, who's going to start a pro-democracy media network along the lines of this one to reshape public anti-authoritarian culture? Does such a thing exist? If any org wants to do this, we scholars will help you connect to the best theorists of democracy, media, religion, etc. to make it happen.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Also, I highly suggest balancing out your reading these day. I’m adding Korean healing fiction to my otherwise terrifying religious nationalism roster. Feel free to send book recommendations for both genres.
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Whoa Nelly. It’s been a week.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16/01/2025
Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference
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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
In honor of the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Allahabad…
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