al-Mutaghatris
banner
al-mutaghatris.bsky.social
al-Mutaghatris
@al-mutaghatris.bsky.social
PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in SWANA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!

#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You don’t think Adorno is political enough because your standards are too low! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Sebastian Truskolaski,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Critical Theory · 11/24/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
“Nurses should take over’

Amen.

Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

#MedSky
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
These are among the oldest forests on earth, but they're running up against the new world of climate change--firefighting help badly needed!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
Fire Threatens Iran’s Ancient Forest, a World Heritage Site
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
People were asking earlier about people’s most conservative belief…
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
En derin uyku gaflettir
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
how am I supposed to resist brainrotting on YouTube when they're coming up with content like this every single day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfn8...
How Soviet Housing Actually Worked
YouTube video by Farol
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
"the trick is not to care when she kisses me."
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain?
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
Looking into the water crisis in Iran has taken me to the fate of Lake Urmia, c.1270m altitude in the country's northwest, shrinking owing to water overuse for decades. A restoration plan started 10 years ago appeared to help briefly, but aridity since 2020 has reversed gains. Landsat images.
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
My latest, for @foreignpolicy.com:
"Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying."

Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...
An Unusual Election in Iraq Offers the U.S. an Unusual Opportunity
Baghdad is turning away from Tehran. Can Washington capitalize on it?
foreignpolicy.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
did somebody say slop
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
really good reporting, really sad and terrible reporting.
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
who does this remind you of? "The main opposition to Erdoğan, represented by the CHP... Often forming positions reactively without a concerted effort to mobilize the public, the CHP has relied primarily on the court to challenge the AKP."
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Strongman Illusion - Dissent Magazine
Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition.
dissentmagazine.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow!

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by al-Mutaghatris
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM