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
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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
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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
#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography
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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
You don’t think Adorno is political enough because your standards are too low! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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“Nurses should take over’
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Nurses should take over’
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
Amen.
Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
#MedSky
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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...
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
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
no al pinche muro e360.yale.edu/features/jag...
As Jaguars Recover, Will the Border Wall Block Their U.S. Return?
Decades of conservation efforts in Central and South America are starting to pay off, with increased protections for jaguars and the corridors that connect them. But the construction of the border wal...
e360.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
no al pinche muro e360.yale.edu/features/jag...
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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
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.
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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
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.
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"
"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
People were asking earlier about people’s most conservative belief…
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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
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.
En derin uyku gaflettir
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
En derin uyku gaflettir
a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates
everything is awful but I have one of the world’s greatest license plates ever made triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/04/e...
Exclusive: We interview the guy with the #1 Venus Flytrap License Plate - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
triangleblogblog.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates
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📢 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
"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
📢 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
"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
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
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...
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"the trick is not to care when she kisses me."
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"the trick is not to care when she kisses me."
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass
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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...
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
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...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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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
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.
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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...
"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
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...
"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...
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“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/...
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
“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/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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did somebody say slop
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
did somebody say slop
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
really good reporting, really sad and terrible reporting.
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
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
really good reporting, really sad and terrible reporting.
really good reporting, really sad and terrible reporting.
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-...
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
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-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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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
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
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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
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