Alia Hanna Habib
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If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.
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“This is just the beginning” — US Attorney Pirro
August 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“This is just the beginning” — US Attorney Pirro
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Sanders's first resolution -- SJ Res 41 -- would have blocked the sale of tens of thousands of fully automatic assault rifles to the Israeli government.
It failed 27 to 70.
Thank you to these 27 who voted YES.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
It failed 27 to 70.
Thank you to these 27 who voted YES.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
July 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Sanders's first resolution -- SJ Res 41 -- would have blocked the sale of tens of thousands of fully automatic assault rifles to the Israeli government.
It failed 27 to 70.
Thank you to these 27 who voted YES.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
It failed 27 to 70.
Thank you to these 27 who voted YES.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Abughazaleh: I am from one of those families. I do not want Israeli children to live in fear. And I don't want gazan children to starve to death. And there is no enemy of either state that could want me to wish that or excuse the starvation of children. It is that simple.
July 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Abughazaleh: I am from one of those families. I do not want Israeli children to live in fear. And I don't want gazan children to starve to death. And there is no enemy of either state that could want me to wish that or excuse the starvation of children. It is that simple.
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I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
July 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.
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They deemed this story newsworthy b/c the NYT & many of its elite white readers are still obsessed with race-conscious college admissions. Now after finally winning at SCOTUS anti-affirmative action folks can only attack it retroactively.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
July 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They deemed this story newsworthy b/c the NYT & many of its elite white readers are still obsessed with race-conscious college admissions. Now after finally winning at SCOTUS anti-affirmative action folks can only attack it retroactively.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
That’s why this seemed like a “story” worth risking it all.
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All of which to say: I can see why a political young man like Zohran might fill out his college application the way he did. Because if you are like me, you struggle to be known in this country. Our visual sorting is so simplistic and quite brutal.
July 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
All of which to say: I can see why a political young man like Zohran might fill out his college application the way he did. Because if you are like me, you struggle to be known in this country. Our visual sorting is so simplistic and quite brutal.
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I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
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this guy would squash Gillibrand like Shin Godzilla
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
this guy would squash Gillibrand like Shin Godzilla
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in search of someone who looks at me the way brad lander looks at zohran mamdani
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
in search of someone who looks at me the way brad lander looks at zohran mamdani
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I’m really excited about this — and about the chance to work with Allison Lorentzen and the entire @vikingbooks.bsky.social team!
The best guy I know just sold his (second) book and I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD!
“The Court We Need” — scheduled for Fall 2026 release. More important than ever.
“The Court We Need” — scheduled for Fall 2026 release. More important than ever.
April 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I’m really excited about this — and about the chance to work with Allison Lorentzen and the entire @vikingbooks.bsky.social team!
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Dr. Joanne Liu was set to speak at NYU Langone Health, a hospital affiliated with her alma mater. Then, she says, a university official told her it was being canceled because the presentation on humanitarian crises could be perceived as antigovernment and antisemitic.
N.Y.U. Langone Cancels Doctor’s Speech, Citing Anti-Government Tone
Dr. Joanne Liu, an N.Y.U. graduate, said the cancellation of her presentation on humanitarian crises was a sign of the climate of fear at U.S. universities.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Dr. Joanne Liu was set to speak at NYU Langone Health, a hospital affiliated with her alma mater. Then, she says, a university official told her it was being canceled because the presentation on humanitarian crises could be perceived as antigovernment and antisemitic.
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Honored to have How the Word Is Passed included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Century list alongside so many writers I love and admire.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Honored to have How the Word Is Passed included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Century list alongside so many writers I love and admire.
www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
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As Audre Lorde told us, “Your silence will not protect you.” The Center for Journalism & Democracy is hosting an evening of powerful dialogue about our eroding democratic and press freedoms with a powerhouse slate of speakers. Information is the currency of freedom. Join us.
Journalism Under Fire: Guarding Against Threats to our Democracy
Eventbrite - The Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard U presents Journalism Under Fire: Guarding Against Threats to our Democracy - Thursday, April 24, 2025 at Cramton Auditorium, Washington, D...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
As Audre Lorde told us, “Your silence will not protect you.” The Center for Journalism & Democracy is hosting an evening of powerful dialogue about our eroding democratic and press freedoms with a powerhouse slate of speakers. Information is the currency of freedom. Join us.
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A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
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I have hope for the future because of the kids. If you’ve never heard of DAYLO, get to know them. They are amazing!
@penamerica.bsky.social
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South Carolina Students Fight Back Against Book Bans: ‘As Students, We Have to Speak Twice as Loudly, Twice as Eloquently’ - PEN America
What started as a high school book club in South Carolina has become one of the most effective student groups fighting book bans.
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March 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I have hope for the future because of the kids. If you’ve never heard of DAYLO, get to know them. They are amazing!
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/south-caroli...
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/south-caroli...
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Almost a year ago, we were writing this letter. It gives me no pleasure to observe how accurately we assessed the situation and predicted the outcome if no one changed course. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...
Jewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism
Dear President Shafik,
www.columbiaspectator.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Almost a year ago, we were writing this letter. It gives me no pleasure to observe how accurately we assessed the situation and predicted the outcome if no one changed course. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I really enjoyed chatting with @aliahanna.bsky.social about my unorthodox career path for her newsletter:
My Weird Path to Becoming A Professional Writer #3: An Interview With Sarah Weinman
"Take advantage of whatever seems viable at any given moment, because it's probably going to evolve or disappear."
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March 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I really enjoyed chatting with @aliahanna.bsky.social about my unorthodox career path for her newsletter:
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
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This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.
The larger picture, as others have pointed out, is that the Biden administration and now the Trump administration have cast anyone who defends Palestine as "pro-Hamas" and anyone who defends the rights of the people saying it as "Hamas sympathizers" which makes it much easier to justify persecution.
My fear is that the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.
March 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.