“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
I'm out of words here
It’s raining oil in Tehran. They have set fire to, bombed &polluted our city. For those who do not die in the blazes they set or in the buildings they bomb, so many will develop chronic health problems. This is the US/Israeli recipe for erasure of a people - the “Gaza playbook” x.com/fpleitgencnn...
Exclusive: US Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two US officials said — a rare use of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country amid protests over the killing of Iran's leader reut.rs/4u6iscA
"The strategic initiative has a bigger plan for us all. You’re suffering now, but if you fight through the pain and work extra hard in support of the new strategic initiative, you’ll taste the sweet afterlife of a successfully executed strategic initiative."
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
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In a new essay for Public Books, François Furstenberg—”the aging history professor”—marvels at the glassy, atria-adorned buildings rising up on the Johns Hopkins campus—funded by donors, costing more than the donors gave.
"The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'"
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this new year’s eve, as “third world” is wielded by the racist, xenophobic incarceration machine called homeland security, a reminder that self-proclaimed Third Worldism was about imagination, building worlds of flourishing for the most people, & a direct confrontation against authoritarianism
IHC declares religion-based advertisements for sweepers and sanitary workers unconstitutional, calling them discriminatory and degrading.
Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Dec-2025/...
#IslamabadHighCourt #minorityrights #Pakistan #discriminatoryjob #Ads #sanitationworkers #Constitution
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”
🚨Tenure-track job🚨
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
There a one-year Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi position in my department at Chicago open, for a visiting role from Jan-December 2026. Tell your Hindi teaching friends!
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
"more than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decade"
I contributed a short essay to the new issue of ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, as part of a forum along with Abdulkader Tayob and Humeira Iqtidar responding to SherAli Tareen's book "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire".
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The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Narendra Pachkhédé on C.M. Naim who "refused both the nostalgia of the diaspora and the sentimentality of cultural nationalism. His was a critical love – tender, exacting, and utterly unsentimental."
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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congrats! this looks amazing
