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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks to all who recognize the tremendous pressure #NEH staff are under. Remember: none of this would have happened had the National Endowment for the Humanities not fired two-thirds of its staff after terminating 1400+ grants. And they could still make things right.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In the last few years, I doubt the New York Times has platformed any activist/intellectual more than Chris Rufo. Although he tries in place, I don’t think Ezra Klein follows through nearly as rigorously as necessary in this interview./1 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

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Opinion | What Has Chris Rufo Wrought?

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is such a beautiful two-parter. The eminent Mughal historian Harbans Mukhia on his ancestral village in West Panjab, Pakistan in *Peshawar Review*

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Partition, My Father, and His Wife

By Harbans Mukhia (With a Unexpected Coda by Anjum Altaf)

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Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our latest Four Books post highlights scholarship that reframes how we think about South Asian religions—Sikh history, caste, Hindu–Muslim relations, and Islamic pasts and futures. Read here → buff.ly/ZA0YXpU What recent work has reshaped your understanding of the region?

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Four Books to Change Your Thinking About South Asian Religions - Reading Religion

By Anne Murphy There are times in a career when work in the field stops you in your tracks. With this “Four Books” installment, I’d like to present two

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Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm very pleased to share this project I've been a part of about rare historical photographs of the Pakistan movement and the 1947 partition of South Asia. The images were taken by Lahore-based photographer Muhammad Bakhsh Bhatti and generously made available by his grandson, Shahzeb Bhatti. 1/3

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Toward Partition and Beyond

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2025

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Trump saying people of color are naturally suited to farm labor sure sounds a lot like the slaveholders that said slaves were naturally inclined to servitude

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

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What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/07/2025

A Palestinian girl tells her father, “It’s okay,” urging him to risk their lives for food as Israel restricts aid to Gaza and shoots at those trying to reach it.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/07/2025

Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach "a point of no return." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...

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When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’

Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their…

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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Zohran Mamdani Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. What Does That Mean?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today is the day the NEH has been fully dismantled in all but name.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Now hiring! UC Press is looking for a detail-oriented Editorial Assistant to join our hybrid team in Oakland, CA! This is a fantastic opportunity to work behind the scenes on impactful scholarly and trade books. buff.ly/3Cd8znb #PublishingJobs #EditorialCareers

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Coming April 29, 2025 and available for pre-order, with 30% off (use code NYUAU30) when ordering from @nyupress.bsky.social. nyupress.org/978147982978...

Cover image: Judith Weisenfeld, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake. NYU Press. Save 30% when you use code NYUAU30 on checkout at nyupress.org.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hope you’ll join @dillivali.bsky.social, Steven Lindquist, and Anna Seastrand and I at the New Books in Hindu Studies roundtable at #AARSBL24 on Sunday!

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Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’m getting included in a lot of Buddhist circles, which is not always the case but I’m very excited. Here is a photograph from Saranpur (modern day Bihar) of an itinerant Buddhist monk from a colonial archive of photographs located at the British Library.

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