Zareena Grewal
@zareenagrewal.bsky.social
Yale Prof, Anthropologist, Historian, Author of ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AUTHORITY, Director and Producer of BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT
Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
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This is a hugely important job at @knightcolumbia.org, and an opportunity to help chart the course of an unusually dynamic, effective organization that is already a leading defender of democratic rights, institutions, and values. Please send good people our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/chief-o...
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is a hugely important job at @knightcolumbia.org, and an opportunity to help chart the course of an unusually dynamic, effective organization that is already a leading defender of democratic rights, institutions, and values. Please send good people our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/chief-o...
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Israel's chief collaborator in occupied Gaza, the former ISIS member Yasser Abu Shabab, is reported to have been killed.
Yasser Abu Shabab, Militant Leader Backed by Israel, Killed in Gaza, Official Says
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Israel's chief collaborator in occupied Gaza, the former ISIS member Yasser Abu Shabab, is reported to have been killed.
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
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"Radical Histories of Decolonization," a new special issue of Radical History Review (153) is now available. View the TOC and read "Decolonization Now," the editors' introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/TipOXAq
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December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Radical Histories of Decolonization," a new special issue of Radical History Review (153) is now available. View the TOC and read "Decolonization Now," the editors' introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/TipOXAq
Buy this issue: buff.ly/UMGEDEr
Buy this issue: buff.ly/UMGEDEr
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A brief lesson in the history of U.S. soldiers who followed patently unlawful orders. slate.trib.al/1ft26Nq
Dear Troops: Please Don’t Go to Jail for Pete Hegseth
In his second term, Trump has gone from pardoning war criminals to making war crimes official policy.
slate.trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A brief lesson in the history of U.S. soldiers who followed patently unlawful orders. slate.trib.al/1ft26Nq
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Jeremy Scahill joined the Drop Site News livestream today to break down his latest report, “Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu,” co-authored w/ Jawa Ahmad.
He described how he personally met w/ a wide spectrum of Palestinian factions – from Hamas to secular...
@jeremyscahill.com|@ryangrim.bsky.social
He described how he personally met w/ a wide spectrum of Palestinian factions – from Hamas to secular...
@jeremyscahill.com|@ryangrim.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Jeremy Scahill joined the Drop Site News livestream today to break down his latest report, “Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu,” co-authored w/ Jawa Ahmad.
He described how he personally met w/ a wide spectrum of Palestinian factions – from Hamas to secular...
@jeremyscahill.com|@ryangrim.bsky.social
He described how he personally met w/ a wide spectrum of Palestinian factions – from Hamas to secular...
@jeremyscahill.com|@ryangrim.bsky.social
90% of Somalis in MN are citizens but the other 10% are vulnerable and are being selectively targeted by the Trump administration
NEW: NEW: The Trump administration is launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis region, according to an official with knowledge and documents obtained by the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
90% of Somalis in MN are citizens but the other 10% are vulnerable and are being selectively targeted by the Trump administration
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It's not like US television news is particularly pro Palestine, it clearly isn't, but Israel's behavior has been so atrocious and openly genocidal that even slanted news coverage on CNN makes Israeli behavior look awful.
Yeah I mean hell Christiane Amanpour has been showing footage of the totally obliterated neighborhoods of Gaza for literally two years, has done stories on the rapes at the Sde Teiman torture camp, interviewed Mustafa Barghouti, talked to Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's not like US television news is particularly pro Palestine, it clearly isn't, but Israel's behavior has been so atrocious and openly genocidal that even slanted news coverage on CNN makes Israeli behavior look awful.
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Jewish Insider is freaking out over Tennessee 7th because the Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn is pro-Palestine and factually asserts that Israel has committed genocide.
"Once someone wins their party’s nomination, the penalty for holding ideologically extreme views isn’t as costly as it once was."
"Once someone wins their party’s nomination, the penalty for holding ideologically extreme views isn’t as costly as it once was."
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Jewish Insider is freaking out over Tennessee 7th because the Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn is pro-Palestine and factually asserts that Israel has committed genocide.
"Once someone wins their party’s nomination, the penalty for holding ideologically extreme views isn’t as costly as it once was."
"Once someone wins their party’s nomination, the penalty for holding ideologically extreme views isn’t as costly as it once was."
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"Every administration had people directly connected to Epstein in top positions. Barr, Blinken, Acosta, etc. You can play 'six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein' but it's like, the guy down the hall. You don't have to look very far."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...
Jeffrey Epstein, The Difference Between Conspiracy & Conspiracy Theory, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Every administration had people directly connected to Epstein in top positions. Barr, Blinken, Acosta, etc. You can play 'six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein' but it's like, the guy down the hall. You don't have to look very far."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...
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*that signals Trump's desire to ban state AI laws
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
*that signals Trump's desire to ban state AI laws
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The exact plan isn't detailed in this article, but we know what the plan is: relegate as much of what the Department of Education does to the private sector so the rich can get richer — and because undermining education makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to rule.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
University of Texas silent on Trump compact as deadline looms
Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
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Saudi F-35s, congrats Brett McGurk it was all worth it, you did the thing, Lockheed Sealed Delivered
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Saudi F-35s, congrats Brett McGurk it was all worth it, you did the thing, Lockheed Sealed Delivered
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They're always weird, they never think they're weird, it's important to say they're weird. Grownups shouldn't tell other grownups they're demonic and you're a freak if you do.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
They're always weird, they never think they're weird, it's important to say they're weird. Grownups shouldn't tell other grownups they're demonic and you're a freak if you do.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Donate to Diana to ensure that Zohran's successor is a committed socialist!
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Reporting from Belem, Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org writes about Indigenous protesters who pushed their way into the main entrance of COP30's "Blue Zone," where Indigenous voices have been largely excluded.
Indigenous Activists to COP30: “We Will Fight to the Death”
Indigenous people lead COP30 protests against agribusinesses that “want to take everything.”
www.thenation.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reporting from Belem, Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org writes about Indigenous protesters who pushed their way into the main entrance of COP30's "Blue Zone," where Indigenous voices have been largely excluded.