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Malini Ranganathan

@maliniranga.bsky.social
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Associate Prof, American U. Critical geographer writing on caste, race, and planetary ecologies.

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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Listen to the latest episode of The Caste Pod with Nico Slate on transnational solidarities! thecastepod.org/episode-6/
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Prism @prismreports.org · 11/05/2026
“Co-workers wouldn’t eat with him. They would say, ‘You are impure, untouchable.’” NY bill confronts caste discrimination at work & in public institutions, reports @yashicadutt.bsky.social. South Asian New Yorkers spoke of losing jobs or being turned away from places of worship because of caste.
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New York bill confronts caste discrimination residents face at work and in public institutions, advocates say
South Asian New Yorkers shared their experiences of losing jobs or being turned away from places of worship because of their caste
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We start by positioning our concept of raced finance within a set of conceptual categories: racial capitalism, race, and racialization, drawing inspiration from @maliniranga.bsky.social, Nikhil Pal Singh, @tilley101.bsky.social, @robbieshilliam.bsky.social, @ulasince.bsky.social and others 3/n
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Delighted to have had this conversation with @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social and Juned Shaikh on caste, capitalism, and the city. Also congrats to Ajantha for sustaining a fire "Caste Pod" series~ so much good stuff already and more to come! Take a listen here: thecastepod.org/episode-8/
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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Catch the latest episode of The Caste Pod on caste and urbanization with Malini Ranganathan and Juned Shaikh! thecastepod.org/episode-8/
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Episode 8 – The Caste Pod
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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roshan @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
the recording of today's episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with @maliniranga.bsky.social about caste-labor-climate politics in india and beyond, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Episode 23: Caste, Labor, and Climate Politics with Malini Ranganathan
Podcast Episode · The Rift · 12/07/2025 · 47m
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
In this episode, you will hear: Natalie Koch, @maliniranga.bsky.social and Leonardo Fontes, as well as the host @gfearn.bsky.social.
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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We need action and sanctions, not just statements 'condemning' Israel. Israel has denied food, water & fuel to 2 Million people & bombed them incessantly for nearly two years. People are on the brink of starvation & the health system is destroyed. Truly shameful bbc.com/news/article...
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Gaza: UK and 27 other nations condemn Israel over civilian suffering
Israel rejects a joint statement which says the suffering of civilians has "reached new depths".
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
In the most ambitious multilateral action since the start of Gaza genocide, a coalition of cross-regional states gathered in Bogotá has agreed to six coordinated measures to restrain Israel’s assault. Read their full statement online.
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The Hague Group
On 31 January 2025, nine nations — Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, convened by the Progressive International, met in The Hague, the Netherlands…
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Million percent this
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🎙️Lessons from the #Emergency: "The main lesson should have been that rule of law must be strengthened... In Southasia, the rule of law is somewhat contained because leaders certainly do illegal things, but retain some legitimacy," says Christophe Jaffrelot
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Christophe Jaffrelot on the Emergency and India 50 years later
On 25 June this year, India marks 50 years since former prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India. This was the third time that the emergency had
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Farm Bill Fairness @farmbillfairness.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As the granddaughter of farmers who were forcibly removed from their land, Sha'Von Terrell believes agricultural work and organizing is her calling. Visit www.FarmBillFairness.org to watch the interview as part of our partnership around racial equity and climate justice in US agricultural policy.
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Sujatha Fernandes @sujathaf.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I'm grateful to tell the story of my great-grandfather, a lascar who drowned on the job, and my family migration to Mumbai, Sydney & NYC, alongside stories of today's migrant workers in those cities struggling to stay afloat amid precarity & climate disasters.
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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…
"Violence" in Social Movements • 111
They Will Call You Violent
If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent.
Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of im-prisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Please god, let no one pry the fingers off the phones of these man-childs.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 31/05/2025
The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
5 years. Since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, US cops have killed 6,000 - 12,000+ people — “setting new records for deadly police violence nationwide” Police violence surged most *in Trump states* and states that refused to enact ‘reforms’ policedata.org www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
An aerial view of a George Floyd billboard; text: Minneapolis site where Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin in 2020 faces tense debate over how best to honor his legacy; by Melissa Hellmann; Sun 25 May 2025 07.00 EDT
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Climate and labour injustice in urban India are the product of the same framework of capitalist exploitation. This is a superb piece on emergent red-green alliances in Delhi this past May Day 2025: theleaflet.in/environment/...
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The heatwave brought about an unexpected red-green solidarity this May Day in Delhi
Climate and labour injustice in urban India are the product of the same framework of capitalist exploitation. Yet India’s law and policy approaches to the entangled issue of environmental and labour r...
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Haaretz's editorial "We Cannot Look Away From the Images of Children Killed in Gaza" - Cue 1, 2, 3, American and Israeli Zionists calling Israel's major newspaper "antisemitic".
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'm looking forward to reading this from @michellec1979.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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The Global Journey of Racism
In The Global Journey of Racism , Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and ...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In this incredibly dark time, it's been breath-giving to teach Environmental Justice to graduate and PhD students. Here's a reunion of students past and present at Rock Creek park this past weekend!
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 22/04/2025
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you want to grasp the true moral rot endemic liberal Zionism, this Chotiner interview with Deborah Lipstadt makes everything all too clear. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 20/04/2025
This is literally a direct quote from over the top villain Jafar in Disney's Aladdin lmfao
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Honored to win the Carnegie Fellowship for my project that centers the costs of borders here, in Palestine, & elsewhere & argues that their violence not only dehumanizes those who move against them but erodes the rights of all within the nation that built them 1/ www.carnegie.org/awards/honor...
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Heba Gowayed | Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Super fun to be the "Alumna Spotlight" of UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group - just in time for the 50th anniversary celebrations early next month erg.berkeley.edu/malini-ranga...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
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8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine. Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Now more than ever, we need to connect dots between far-right regimes, their supremacist and fascistic agendas, and their fueling of grossly unequal racial ecologies. Honored to be delivering a keynote explaining what "climate scapegoating" is to a dedicated group of graduate student writers at SIS.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Read this / must read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
And this is why you never capitulate to fascists.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Justice Sotomayor
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...
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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Another brutally hot day in Asia with many stations >45C In India and Pakistan. 46.5 Nawabshah, Pad Idan and Sibbi. 45.6 Barmer,45.4 Jaisalmer Hundreds of stations are several degrees above their highest temperatures ever recorded in early April in Middle East,Iran,Pakistan,India and Central Asia.
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I wrote about Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a prominent WA state organizer abducted by ICE last week He won an historic union drive and helped get heat protections & overtime pay for farm workers ICE pulled him over, broke his car window & put him in a detention center newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating
ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...
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Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together
The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The way I like to say this, with a play on the title of a book by Astra Taylor: The Liberal International Order Never Existed, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
USA: Cesar Chavez Day celebrates a lifetime fight for justice for farmworkers www.capradio.org/news/npr/sto...
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Cesar Chavez Day celebrates a lifetime fight for justice for farmworkers
Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the life and legacy of the labor rights icon.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/03/2025
Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me. Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My essays this week: Why Trump is Scared of Students www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-...
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Essay: Why Trump is Scared of Students
I was standing between a line of riot police and students who wanted to march from Cairo University to the nearby Israeli embassy, the first time I tasted tear gas.
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Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We had a double authors-meet-critics session "Capitalism, Criminality, Corruption: The City in India and Latin America" at the @geographers.bsky.social 2025 meeting--a timely space to discuss the (mis)uses of corruption discourse, growing oligarchy & ethnonationalism, and political mobilization.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today's the day -- join us at the AAG annual meeting at 4:10pm for the Antipode Lecture, “‘Mary, don’t you weep’: Reclaiming Anishinaabeg Women’s Histories of Detroit” by Kyle T. Mays @geographers.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/03/12/2...
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