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Julia Elyachar

@jeelyachar.bsky.social
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Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good background on Yemen’s return to war by Ahmed Nagi @crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/middle-e...
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Yemen’s War is Returning | International Crisis Group
Exchanges of fire between the Houthis and their domestic opponents – as well as between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia – have rekindled hostilities in Yemen and adjacent waters. The chances of containme...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 02/09/2026
great job here - in the very dynamic political economy program at berkeley - a dream gig! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05425
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Assistant Professor – Political Economy – 50% Political Economy and 50% in a Related Discipline
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW IN MER 319: "The Grandmother's Anger--Theater at the Margins of Occupation" Playwright Lekaa Sharaf speaks with Maria Kastrinou about her play, "Ancestral Rage" written from the occupied Golan Heights during Israel's genocide in Gaza. buff.ly/Jg0v47z
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The Grandmothers’ Anger—Theater at the Margins of Occupation
Playwright Lekaa Sharaf speaks with anthropologist Maria Kastrinou about theater in the Golan and the art of listening amid ongoing occupation and genocide.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please read this entire report www.972mag.com/qusra-siege-...
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Qusra is where Israel’s lies about settler violence hit a wall
Settlers have been besieging a Palestinian family for 10 days in an effort to seize their home. The army’s unwillingness to stop them tells the whole story.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“An analysis published in 2025 thus poses a question that has become considerably more urgent in 2026: is it not time for Arab governments to reconsider the future of their relationship with the United States?” Ali El Din Halal reviews my book from Cairo english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inn...
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Is the era of American hegemony in the Middle East coming to an end? - Opinion
Political analysts have been debating the consequences of the US war on Iran, which began on 28 February 2026, the agreement that followed, its subsequent collapse, and the resumption of military oper...
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In this sense, the drivers perform essential forms of labor for the city...as phatic labor, workers who produce "communicative channels that can transmit not only language but also all kinds of semiotic meaning and economic value." The concept of phatic labor, proposed by @jeelyachar.bsky.social..."
Without people like him the city would come to a halt. Letters and documents would stop being delivered and people would remain helplessly stuck in traffic. In this sense, the drivers perform essential forms of labor for the city, not just as service workers...but also as phatic labor, workers who produce "communicative channels that can transmit not only language but also all kinds of semiotic meaning and economic value." The concept of phatic labor, proposed by Julia Elyachar, builds on an early observation in anthropology.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Judge if you want, I meant every word of this rant: open.spotify.com/episode/48ND...
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Free Football from FIFA
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 28/06/2026
“Military factories work for peace and prosperity,” an advertisement in the Egyptian magazine Akher Saa, June 14, 1961.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: This is my short introduction to a new series I'm very excited about (and already have pieces written for): The Hierarchy of Finance in a Capitalist Economy. www.crisesnotes.com/a-new-series...
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A New Series: The Hierarchy of Finance in a Capitalist Economy
For a long time I’ve been thinking about doing a series about the concept of a “hierarchy of finance”. This phrase refers to the fact that different households and institutions have access to financin...
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"For the past two decades, the Gulf has pumped credit and equity into the US tech ecosystem. But new AI arrangements signal that these countries are beginning to onshore critical elements of tech infrastructure." Colin Powers on the Gulf's bet on US AI. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/nvi...
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Nvidia in the Gulf | Colin Powers
The Arab monarchies turn to Silicon Valley
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29/05/2026
This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...
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June 2: Senate Faculty Conversation on Education White Papers
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My conversation with Aamer Ibraheem at the School of Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social online book talks has dropped www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBGM.... This is one of my favorite conversations so far about dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic....
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On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My piece on diagnosis, disability, lifespan, and music came out today in the Huffington Post! Thanks to everyone who helped me write it -- including Millie. @dukepress.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/rare-g...
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My Profoundly Disabled Daughter Isn’t Able To Speak, Walk Or Feed Herself. I’ve Had To Make Peace With Not Knowing Why.
“She’d had a normal birth and what looked like a normal early infancy.”
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I interviewed the brilliant historian and editor in chief of the Journal of Palestine studies @srseikaly.bsky.social on learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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It Could Happen Here | iHeart
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens,...
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Gorgeous must-read piece by @srseikaly.bsky.social in Public Culture.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/05/2026
‘That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked about the extent of its connection with the Atlantic trade and the forms of racialisation that underpinned it.’ Youssef Ben Ismail: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Youssef Ben Ismail · His Favourite Camel: Slavery in the Islamic World
That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked...
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Thrilled to be speaking at the wonderful School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe @sarsf.bsky.social , on Tuesday May 19th @11 mt. sarweb.org/date/on-the-..., in conversation with the brilliant Aamer Ibraheem, former SAR fellow and incoming Ass't Prof. of Anthropology at @ucdavis.bsky.social
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On the Semicivilized - School for Advanced Research
Author Julia Elyachar will be joined in conversation by colleague Aamer Ibraheem to discuss her new book, "On the Semicivilized," a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—soverei...
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Race and Civilizational Difference in Syria and Palestine: Franz Boas, Physical Anthropology, and the American Expedition to Syria of 1899. Just published in Public Culture. If you can't access, please contact me for a copy. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...
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Race and Civilizational Difference in Syria and Palestine: Franz Boas, Physical Anthropology, and the American Expedition to Syria of 1899
Abstract. Starting with items on display at the Hall of Asian Peoples in the American Museum of Natural History, this essay tells the story of an expedition to Greater Syria (including today's Israel/...
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Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A must-listen in-depth roundtable on #Lebanon featuring Lara Deeb, Susann Kassem, and Habib Battah! www.merip.org/2026/04/the-...
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The MERIP Podcast Episode 21: Susann Kassem, Lara Deeb and Habib Battah
Today on the podcast three MERIP contributors discuss Lebanon’s tenuous, one-sided ceasefire with Israel. Even as officials in the Lebanese government have entered into negotiations with Israel, an un...
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump is dismantling the US Park Service. www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru.... h/t Brian Tyler Cohen on x. This follows up on the Feb 2025 establishment of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund to be capitalized with US Public Lands and Parks. Here we go. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
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Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands irresistible.
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My reply to the forum about "On the Semicivilized" @dukepress.bsky.social has dropped in @CSSHJournal. What, I ask, are the grounds for collective life with int'l order buried under the rubble in Gaza, Beirut, and Tehran? What are the horizons of political life and sovereignty today?
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Really look forward to being in conversation with Prof. Deborah Thomas about On the Semicivilized, at the Middle East Center of U Penn on Tuesday March 31. If you are in Philly, please come by! mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/...
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On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo | Middle East Center
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"This article outlines the multiple and uneven ways in which delivery riders are “put to work” in the platform economy... conclude that bicycle couriers are the twenty-first century’s sandwichmen in both senses: delivering sandwiches to the wealthy and human billboards traversing urban space."
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Josh Widera, "21st-Century Sandwichmen: How Bicycle Couriers Contribute to Urban Food Delivery Platforms" - Lateral
Bicycle couriers are key contributors to urban food delivery platforms. This article outlines the multiple and uneven ways in which delivery riders are “put to work” in the platform economy. Using the...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You absolutely don't ever have to hand it to Tucker Carlson.
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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Julia, many thanks for the kind words. I would just add that Aimee Genell’s much-anticipated monograph, Empire by Law, is coming out in July! cup.columbia.edu/book/empire-...
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Empire by Law | Columbia University Press
The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoma... | CUP
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Joanne Nucho @jnucho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'll add a few to this list, works of fiction. First one is by Emil Habibi, a relative of mine: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Se...
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The Secret Life of Saeed
This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.Saeed is the com...
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Joanne Nucho @jnucho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower,' set in a dystopian Los Angeles after there is no fuel left for cars or a functioning electricity grid, people are faced with a choice: live in homemade fortified gated communities, or sell themselves to corporate agro-farms.
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
As always the brilliant @leylaamzi.bsky.social, is too generous. Neither the concept of semicivilized nor illumination of how this archaic term is intertwined with dilemmas of attenuated sovereignty, structural indebtedness, and the making of international law is mine-
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This must read book by the amazing @leylaamzi.bsky.social is now available in paperback. Can't wait to teach it
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
no matter what your priors are, Please shift them after Day19 For "Iran is winning" camp, US & Israel now waging war against energy infra & economic life, immiseration leads to regime change For "US & Israel are winning" camp,IR retaliations->more expensive & more bodybags bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt ... would not only significantly expand a city’s fiscal capacity to support its communities and environs, but also reclaim regional public finance from a parasitical and punishing bond market."
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Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point…
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I am not saying there should be a better, more competent unprovoked aggression against Iran. The war is unjustifiable, even were it winnable, which it does not look to be. I am saying that the Trump people were unwilling to do the basic work of preparing for the foreseeable consequences of their actions, work typically performed by belligerents who know how to, like, win. I am saying that not only is their agenda loathsome, they do not know ball.
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What a gorgeous set of essays responding to a prompt by Andrew Shryock about concept work from On the Semicivilized. dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic.... I learned so much and am so inspired by these scholars and the worlds they shared in the worst of times. Beyond honored.
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On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Compared to the last maximum disruption during the 1956 Suez Crisis (as a percentage of total liquids demand), this represents the largest oil supply loss in history, by a factor of TWO" Suez then. Hormuz now. The End of European Empire then The End of What now? www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Rapidan Energy Group Announces Gulf War III Is by Far the Largest Oil Disruption in History and Has Zeroed Out Spare Capacity
/PRNewswire/ -- Rapidan Energy Group, a leading energy market, policy, and geopolitical data and research firm based in Washington, DC and Houston, TX, has...
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Beneath all the reporting so far on the run-up to war is a simple truth: The President of the United States, a man who holds more power than any human being in history, is a complete rube, easier to manipulate than your average seven year old.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
US and Netanyahu's calculation that killing Iran's leadership and crippling aerial bombardment would bring Iran to its knees are a profound misreading. India's former ambassador to Iran has much clearer assessment
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:
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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's publication week! My new book takes a deep dive into how US policy on Iran has been made since the 1980's. It's a story of why US-Iran hostility has endured for now nearly half a century. Please check it out!
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Enduring Hostility | Stanford University Press
A timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven US-Iran relations.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Netanyahu wants Iran to have (1) Zero enrichment(2) 0 missiles (3) 0 proxies "Reformists argue concessions can be made on enrichment (including shipping out 60% enriched uranium) if the US is prepared to lift at least some sanctions. But even they are unwilling to negotiate over the missile program"
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So what would a Reverse Turing Test look like? Students are asked to read the following for Week 1 on Embeddedness and New Economic Sociology. Polanyi, The Economy as Instituted Process Granovetter, Economic Action and Social Structure Krippner, The Elusive Market
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
As someone who runs a lefty publication that activists read, let me tell you — X, BlueSky, and all social media are vanishingly inconsequential to our work. None of them drive traffic — most days ChatGPT generates more hits — and we all live and die by SEO and the loyalty of our newsletter subs.
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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NEW: "Reconstruction and Ruin" the Winter 2025 Issue of Middle East Report is now live! This issue captures the challenges facing ordinary people in the Middle East as the warfare politics of dispossession and division continue amidst efforts to rebuild urban landscapes.
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Reconstruction and Ruin
Winter 2025
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
Dear Mr. Nadeau:

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Sincerely,
E. B. White
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If you happen to be in London on Thursday, please consider attending this conversation about On the Semicivilized -- or any of the other great talks coming up in this series "Histories of Capitalism and Race" at SOAS.
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Marc Edelman @marcedelman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Trump: “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” Reminder: 550 million people worldwide speak Spanish, 45 million of them in the USA. Poor monolingual president. He doesn’t get it and can barely even speak English. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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Here’s the latest.
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
for those who missed the Bad Bunny halftime show, a long clip on reddit www.reddit.com/r/nfl/commen...
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From the nfl community on Reddit: [Highlight] Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, & Ricky Martin's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Explore this post and more from the nfl community
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