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🚨 Joaquin Castro will introduce tomorrow the "STOP THE SETTLEMENTS ACT", the first ever bill which would ban trade with all illegal Israeli settlements, as well as impose sanctions on any foreign entity or individual which supports settlements in any way after Sept 30th 2026. It has 40 cosponsors.

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Castro, Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar to Introduce Sanctions on Drivers of Settlement Expansion | U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17h

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 21h

Miami is projected to be 60% underwater by the year 2060 due to climate change

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spent yesterday packing up a beloved and vitally important cultural organizations' library and archive and the precarity of knowledge and knowledge collectors in this world where a mime machine supposedly knows all knowledge is insane.

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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.

The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they just setting everything on fire

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications...

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 24/09/2026

Sleep well, everyone ... #AASinAsia2026 starts in the morning! AAS and LUMS are excited to welcome you all to this year's conference in Lahore and online. We'll see you soon!

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A protest organized by @jvp.bsky.social has just blocked traffic on First Avenue at 39th Street to protest today’s speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A student asked me in earnest if there are “different standards” for faculty & students, if once you get a PhD the standards are looser. The answer obv is no, but we’re now four days into silence from our administration.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so the university presidents cannot even run their corporate universities properly as corporate CEOs? they could have just ghosted

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.” gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.

The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And what a Hall of Fame cohort it is with @veenadubal.bsky.social!

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Scroll @scroll.in · 19/09/2026

“Several emigrants had returned to India from British Guiana & Trinidad during the period 1921-1938,” Ministry of External Affairs said. “They could not therefore adjust themselves in the altered conditions here and began agitating for being sent back to the colonies.” scroll.in/magazine/109...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 18/09/2026

Carlo Ginzburg’s 1979 book “The Cheese and the Worms” compiles the testimony of a sixteenth-century miller and amateur theologian accused of heresy by the Inquisition. As @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social writes, it reconfigured our idea of what gets to be historical.

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Carlo Ginzburg, 1939–2026 | Emma Claire Foley

Carlo Ginzburg’s work centered and subverted the very idea of insignificance.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, please read my book! I didn’t mean to pontificate toward that purpose but it does indeed offer an immense amount of intervention on this front!

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A Second Sight

"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed Since the nation’s foun...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first black-owned newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, was published in early 1827 by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm who, like many early Black journalists, really should be considered among the originators of contemporary U.S. media and muckracking.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One thing does unite all of these post-colonial cities: the past is being actively destroyed,” Asif said. “The task of the historian is to not imagine every beginning as new and to say these erasures are part of a process,” he added.

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Historian Seeks to Reclaim Memory of Ancient Pakistani City in New Book

A South Asia expert reaffirmed the need for continued study of post-colonial histories through physical and oral history in a new book.

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is an excellent piece on Slusser by @artcrimeprof.bsky.social containing an essential truth about US academics "Within days of her arrival, Slusser had convinced herself of the inevitability of the loss of Nepal’s past."

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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - South Asian History

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was just asked by AHR to review an article. I responded so:

Ordinarily this would be so up my street, but given the woeful behaviour of AHA vis-a-vis Israeli genocide in Gaza, I am boycotting everything that has to do with the organisation.

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The Border Chronicle @theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CBP One and CBP Home look like opposites, one framed as access, the other as self-deportation. They're built on the same digital infrastructure of control. New analysis from the Everywhere Border Project breaks down the continuum most coverage misses. Read full breakdown 🔗🦂📲:

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A Continuum of Control, from CBP One to CBP Home – The Border Chronicle

Although they appear to be opposites, CBP One and CBP Home are two apps of the same digital border system that manage and control migrants regardless of the presidential administration.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide.” www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...

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Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books

“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14/09/2026

Well, I guess we now have a better idea of how OpenAI have been engaged in the industrial-scale theft of academic research, but I have an even worse idea of why any university would tolerate this behavior.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when the mainstream media was full of arguments denouncing the notion that settler colonialism had anything to do with what is happening now. It was merely a "woke" concept. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project

Two languages. Two realities.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Frances Stonor Saunders. Who Paid the Piper? was an incredible book for any historian, let alone one in her early 30s www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Partition comes home to roost?

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would like to teach a class on the global 9/11 based on works like this "KARACHI AND THE LONG SHADOW OF 9/11" by Zia Ur Rehman

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anthropic senior staff e.g their research lead on "partnerships with the world's wisdom traditions" (how woke is that⁉️) went to the far-right Alliance for Responsible Citizenship 2026 conference to seek feedback on "moral oversight needed to keep powerful AI systems in check" can't make this 🤡💩 up

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