asmaa malik | اسمأ
@asmaam.bsky.social
journalist and professor | she/her
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There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
March 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
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It's hard to engage seriously with this kind of thing when it's so deeply out-of-touch with where Canada *is* right now.
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It's hard to engage seriously with this kind of thing when it's so deeply out-of-touch with where Canada *is* right now.
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So much of what I see people saying, from annexation fears to imagining Canada embracing economic refugees from the US, is rooted in a version Canada that hasn't existed in decades.
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So much of what I see people saying, from annexation fears to imagining Canada embracing economic refugees from the US, is rooted in a version Canada that hasn't existed in decades.
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For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history.
It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.
It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.
March 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history.
It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.
It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.
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Oh. My. God. Worse and worse!
March 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Oh. My. God. Worse and worse!
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Today sitting in the knowledge that racism’s power is in its theft of time & spirit. Onwards. Thanks to all those who called Hochul’s office yesterday, please continue to do so (518) 474-8390.
Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.
Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today sitting in the knowledge that racism’s power is in its theft of time & spirit. Onwards. Thanks to all those who called Hochul’s office yesterday, please continue to do so (518) 474-8390.
Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.
Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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About Hunter College: Cancelling a Palestine Studies job search because the ad mentions settler colonialism is genocidal thinking. This framework is central to understanding Palestinian--as well as Zionist--historical writing over the last century.
It's ideological denial of the right to History.
It's ideological denial of the right to History.
February 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
About Hunter College: Cancelling a Palestine Studies job search because the ad mentions settler colonialism is genocidal thinking. This framework is central to understanding Palestinian--as well as Zionist--historical writing over the last century.
It's ideological denial of the right to History.
It's ideological denial of the right to History.
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Deepfakes, AI Slop, and disinformation are part of MAGA 2.0’s political communication strategy.
This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza…
It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians.
It’s propaganda for genocide.
This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza…
It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians.
It’s propaganda for genocide.
Backlash after Trump shares AI-video of Gaza with skyscrapers, topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers
Backlash after Trump shares AI-video of Gaza with skyscrapers, topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers
Video posted on Truth Social shows real estate plan for Gaza with US president and Benjamin Netanyahu sipping cocktails
Donald Trump is facing a backlash on his Truth Social platform after sharing an AI-created video of him sipping cocktails with a…
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Deepfakes, AI Slop, and disinformation are part of MAGA 2.0’s political communication strategy.
This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza…
It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians.
It’s propaganda for genocide.
This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza…
It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians.
It’s propaganda for genocide.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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"We will break international law. We will do war crimes"
Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?
Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?
President Trump, delivering remarks at a joint news conference at the White House, with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, says Gazans could be relocated to as many as 12 sites "or it could be one site" while the "US will take over the Gaza Strip."
February 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"We will break international law. We will do war crimes"
Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?
Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?
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Where are the news outlets shouting from the rooftops? “Mainstream media is having as much trouble covering Trump’s firehouse of chaos as it did covering his campaign.” @sulliview.bsky.social Read on below.
Important read from the inimitable @sulliview.bsky.social
The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare
The reporting is essential. But what about the ability to make sense of the chaos and sound the alarm?
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Where are the news outlets shouting from the rooftops? “Mainstream media is having as much trouble covering Trump’s firehouse of chaos as it did covering his campaign.” @sulliview.bsky.social Read on below.
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The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’
Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6
February 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6
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Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-professor-files-grievance-termination
Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination'
Former Columbia University professor Katherine Frank told Middle East Eye her departure was spurred by wider 'anti-Palestinian' sentiment
www.middleeasteye.net
January 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-professor-files-grievance-termination
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This is critical data on the harassment and targeting of 384 media workers by Honest Reporting Canada since October 2023. At #CanadaPressFreedomProject we are recording these as chilling statements. This should be a major concern for anyone with a stake in #pressfreedoms in a democracy.
New Canada Press Freedom Project data:
HonestReporting Canada has targeted at least 384 individual media workers with almost 700 publications since Oct. 2023. CPFP is tracking these incidents as “chilling statements” in our database of press freedom infringements:
HonestReporting Canada has targeted at least 384 individual media workers with almost 700 publications since Oct. 2023. CPFP is tracking these incidents as “chilling statements” in our database of press freedom infringements:
HonestReporting Canada Chilling Statements Archives - Canada Press Freedom Project
canadapressfreedom.ca
January 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is critical data on the harassment and targeting of 384 media workers by Honest Reporting Canada since October 2023. At #CanadaPressFreedomProject we are recording these as chilling statements. This should be a major concern for anyone with a stake in #pressfreedoms in a democracy.
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I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
REPORTER: Are you saying this crash was somehow was the result of diversity hiring?
TRUMP: It just could have been
TRUMP: It just could have been
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"
And see what happens.
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
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The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
January 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.
No acting FAA head has been appointed.
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Thinking the country that groomed dictators all over the world cannot become a dictatorship is so naive. Honey, they wrote the book and made the movie adaptation. Wake up!
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thinking the country that groomed dictators all over the world cannot become a dictatorship is so naive. Honey, they wrote the book and made the movie adaptation. Wake up!