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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 3h

Oddly, he seems to have Israeli citizenship. (Whether he is mainstream Satmar or Neturei Karta he is probably not safe there?) Bottom line: Trump's DHS views itself as the ultimate authority on antisemitism, and in this role it will hide behind obfuscatory logic to deport the "wrong" kinds of Jews.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 4h

Islamic Jihad confirms to @sewella.bsky.social @apnews.com that it is cooperating with Dahlan and Hamas to form a unified list for the (supposedly) upcoming elections in November: apnews.com/article/pale... Hamas does not appear to confirm on record yet.

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Hamas, Islamic Jihad and an ex-Fatah official form an unlikely Palestinian electoral coalition

Islamic Jihad and Hamas have agreed to form an electoral coalition with a former top Fatah official who is close to the United Arab Emirates.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just screen recorded a tour through Google satellite imagery of Gaza, some of which was just updated with 2026 images. This is just over 10 minutes long and goes basically north to south through Gaza. It only captures a very small fraction of the destruction. youtu.be/mpTgjAhJ78U?...

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Google satellite imagery of the Gaza Strip

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe my brain is broken, but I don’t understand how anyone is talking about anything other than the Google satellite images of the south of Gaza. I have felt disassociated from humanity all day.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please look at the updated Google Maps satellite imagery of Rafah: maps.app.goo.gl/nkxomMi1d9zL... The total destruction goes all the way northwest to the sea, all the way up to Khan Yunis, where the destruction and killing continues today. It is all of southern Gaza. All of it.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Netanyahu did a promo reel saying he’d reveal “the truth” about Mamdani and then his actual speech was a standard NY Post editorial.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When did everyone start using the word “prefigurative”? I feel like I missed a memo.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nobody prepared me for the potty-trained kid‘s newfound excitement about potties anywhere and everywhere. We are visiting them all! I am visiting them all.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Screenshot from a post in r/JewishLeft below. Indeed.

“ If Israel is for all Jews, than how can it remove citizenship of Jewish citizens it disagrees with? Where do people go? Both Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor seem to be at least third generation Israeli. If one doesn't make oneself a good Jew, then, they deserve statelessness and galut, is what the Medinat is saying. We talk about how we wanted a home with no conditions for our permanent safety, but it seems we're still copying the people we lived amongst who gave us conditional citizenships and tolerated us only if we toed the line and knew our place. That is not a country for Jews. It's just a country for Jews They Like.”

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

None of these people appear to have anything with them except the clothes on their backs.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our bodies are so amazing sometimes — you’ll wake up with a stomach ache feeling 600 years old because your kid was up twice in the middle of the night and be like “I don’t even think I can handle a brisk walk” and then you’ll bliss out for the unexpectedly perfect 4 mile run.

Image of a tree-lined running trail along the Hudson River on a sunny day.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Affording books is tricky when you are a liberal arts college professor with a miniscule research budget. Of course, libraries/ILL are amazing but some books you need to own. How much of my salary for being a professor must go toward buying books I need in order to profess? 🫠

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:

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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We aren’t very good at flattening curves as a species so I am not super optimistic about this.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Somehow have gotten myself into a situation where I need to do elaborate dialogues in character voices for each of my kid’s stuffed animals in order to get the kid to climb into bed and, bro, I need an off ramp.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lion King screening in Gaza City. 📸: Omar Ashtawy for Getty Images.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hot oatmeal, cold brew, electronic beats, Connecticut coast getting prettier, I must be on the Northeast Regional headed toward my homeland (and APSA).🚆⛵️🌞🐚

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Parenting is finding a marker cap and setting it aside, then hours later finding a marker without a cap and trying to remember where you set aside the cap earlier, so in the meantime setting aside the marker, then re-finding the cap and trying to remember where you set aside the marker, and

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Instagram algo has determined I am here for all the Olivia Rodrigo Daisy Chain Fields content and, in fact, it is not wrong.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is an exchange of thoughtful essays on Zionism, anti-Zionism, Jewishness, idolatry, sovereignty, and spiritual & ethical fulfillment on Shaul Magid’s substack, if you’re into that sort of thing. Essays by Shaul, Irwin Kula, and Eliana Fishman. And there are more contributors forthcoming.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I read this several days ago and I couldn’t stop my mind from wandering to Hamas in Gaza. I am sure there are many, many contextual differences (I am certainly no expert on Colombia!), but mainstream reporting like this is valuable because it forces one to consider /1

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Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

Fighters in legal limbo after accepting ‘total peace’ plan of Petro government just days before hardliner Abelardo De la Espriella took over

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is insane. I can’t believe how long this video goes. From as much as I watched, Lander handled it well. These idiots don’t deserve him, and yes this sure does feel like antisemitism.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If social media and online discourse are any indication, Jewish leftist and anti-/non-Zionist thought is (re)surfacing and blossoming all over the place. There are truly some essential intra-communal conversations occurring in Facebook groups and even on Reddit.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just found myself reading this fascinating article on nationalist coalitions and strongman politics in Kenya in the 1960s by...Lupita Nyong'o's dad?! www.jstor.org/stable/722720 Apparently he is a well-known Kenyan politician and political scientist.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How long has it been since you looked up? I mean really looked up? If you just tried and your neck bones cracked, it’s been too long. Find a patch of sky if you can and don’t forget to look up* every once in a while. *and out! Out into the distance!

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ICE grabbed almost 50,000 of our friends, co-workers, neighbors, lovers, and strangers whom we rely on for our own well-being, simply for the reason that they are “migrants” and not “citizens.” This should tell us something about how nation-states divide us to rule us all.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a great conference at UM for poli/social science undergrads and recent grads to present and receive feedback on their research (while also sussing out their interest in pursuing a PhD). Application deadline is 10/5: lsa.umich.edu/polisci/grad... 🌽💙🌽

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Eldersveld Emerging Scholars Conference | U-M LSA Political Science

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two things can be true: 1) If you become incensed when a group of leading intellectuals express solidarity with political prisoners in Iran, you are effectively being a stooge for a notoriously repressive regime. Not a good look! AND

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have any of the other signatories of the Iranian political prisoners letter made any follow-up statements other than Robin D.G. Kelley, who has retracted his signature?

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time the IDF has stormed Jenin since April 2022 - the time at which Fathi's son opened fire on civilians in Tel Aviv, killing 3, - it has been kind of a miracle Fathi emerged alive.

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Who was Fathi Khazem, killed by the Israeli army in Jenin?

On Friday, the Israeli army killed Palestinian Fathi Zeidan Khazem, known as "Abu Ra’ad," during a raid on his Jenin home in the northern occupied West Bank.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pantsless potty training weekend is upon us and I feel like I have become an animal behavior zoologist

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I appreciate both Salem’s and Hage Ali’s expertise, but I think an article such as this should not exclusively quote analysts affiliated with US think tanks (CSIS and Carnegie, respectively).

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Lebanon’s Efforts to Tame Hezbollah Stall Amid Israel War

President Joseph Aoun took office with a popular mandate to reassert control after the militant group dragged the country back into war with Israel.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Israeli Forces Kill ‘Abu Raad’ Fathi Khazem during Jenin Raid www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forc...

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Amaro Nonino on the rocks is really just fine with me any season of the year.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Call me a pessimist, but I don’t think this is gonna get it done www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Quote from linked Reuters article: “BACK CHANNEL TO IRGC
In one glimmer of diplomacy, media reports said Trump had opened back-channel discussions with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has become more powerful during the war and controls large parts of Iran's armed forces and the economy.
Axios, citing two sources with direct knowledge, reported that former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke with an Iraqi Kurdish leader with close ties to the IRGC, and that through this intermediary the U.S. delivered a message to IRGC commander General Ahmad Vahidi. Fox News later reported that Trump confirmed the report in a telephone interview.”

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16/08/2026

People pretending to be shocked that the IDF doesn't remove settlers from Qusra are people who are acting surprised that the purpose of a system is what it does

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I just learned about this song from the closing credits on an episode of Hacks and now I can’t stop listening to it. So pretty it hurts! youtu.be/XMMP-T3EF8s?...

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Labi Siffre - Bless the Telephone (In Concert: Labi Siffre, 07/06/1971)

YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wearing Birks and slammed the pinky toe so hard on something it might be broken, or it might not. What a classic Greenwald summer move. Plus ça change

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