Professor Steve Tamari is a historian of the early modern Middle East. He is a Palestinian Quaker from Jaffa and Little Rock. I look forward to a statement from the American Historical Association.

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance

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JUST IN: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken performing 'Rocking to the Free World' at a venue in Kyiv, Ukraine.

one of my favorite weird facts

In the same category as when Enver Hoxha declared, ‘the Albanians, along with the Chinese, make up 1/8th of the world's population’

Carefully saving the deleted section in a new document, just in case I need the worst paragraph ever written for future work

Peter Dutton confirms that under Coalition international student caps the Group of Eight unis would incur a much larger share of the pain than under Labor's plan. peterdutton.com.au/leader-of-the-…

What would you do on a $1M salary? I’d go to the dentist. Fix the car. Buy my kids new shoes. Fill my non-PBS medication script. Save for a first home. Average VC salary is $1M+. Absolute kick in guts. This ain’t fair. drive.google.com/file/d/1otDKyq…

First person in the family to become an academic: Cons: - No money - No investments - Questionable career prospects - Wearing a backpack Pros: - more peer-reviewed articles than siblings

Every VC speech will now come with an apology for the uses of the words excellence (machismo/disablism), discovery (racist/imperialist), vision (disablist), rankings (neoliberal hellscape), &c

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sings “American Pie” by Don McLean to state dinner guests at the White House, April 2023.

"Defeat U.S. Cultural Aggression," c. 1960s. This badge was manufactured in the mid-1960s. It was acquired by donor (to Museums Victoria) during his period of draft resistance and other anti-conscription activities between 1965 and 1972.