It's absolutely mind-numbing to see Dems fearmonger about an authoritarian who cracks down on free speech, ignores the climate crisis, gives Netanyahu free rein, cages migrant kids, is a threat to democracy and world peace... and not realize they're describing Biden.

Colleagues around the world, please read and sign this! docs.google.com/forms/d/1OkG8k…

Israel supporters are trained what to say in all of these cases. You can show them images of the IDF setting refugee camps and hospitals on fire -- where patients on IVs are burning to death -- and they'll say Hamas was hiding under the bed so Israel did nothing wrong.

We received Best Paper Award at ICLP (iclp24.utdallas.edu). Joint work with my amazing PhD student, Mohimenul (Mahi) Kabir. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.09744

I can guarantee you that a piece written as first hand testimony by 65 doctors who were in Gaza to save lives received about 10,000 times more scrutiny than a piece they would run with the rantings of your average pro-Israel college student.

Layla 🪬 OMG finally some good news!!!! So proud of you all and happy for you! It only took 13 months of harassment — but the headline here is you all persevered.

Israel Defense Forces 9,000 tons in 15 days to 2.4 million people = 0.25kg (0.5 pound) of food per person, you depraved genocidal morons! That’s an indictment not an accomplishment!

Will Shai Davidai see what Sibin did here?

To celebrate a Jewish festival, the Israeli regime has locked up all Palestinians in Hebron.

“Western values”

Congratulations to Kuldeep S. Meel on a Best Paper Award at the 40th International Conference on Logic Programming. The U of T Department of Computer Science associate professor and his PhD student were recognized for their research “On Lower Bounding Minimal Model Count”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb I’ve lived in this country for 85 yrs and have never witnessed such indifference to and even, in some quarters, joy at the suffering of another people. It makes me angry and ashamed to be American since we are enabling all of this horror to take place.

My unpopular opinion is that coddling soldiers who willingly enforce a genocidal project is not exactly the revolutionary take you think it is. Maybe instead of bending over backwards to empathize with the perpetrators, we could actually focus on the millions of oppressed people

The CAJ is deeply concerned about repeated online attacks against Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا — a former CBC radio reporter & award-winning freelance journalist — by Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari.  thestar.com/news/gta/toron…

I'm super-glad to be part of this. Lots of great things to do together with amazing people!

Everyday i wake up with this bitter taste in my mouth. This geopolitics on steroids with its utter disdain and indifference to human life has poisoned a certain sense of the human forever. we thought we were building the post-human as a more than human from the left,

I was in the US when Trump won in 2016. I was at a liberal arts college, and while there was legitimate fear among students about what was to come, liberals were mostly ashamed. I remember being fascinated by this shame; it felt shockingly distinguished from guilt. As though

I agree – this kind of thing is part of the ongoing transformation of teaching into unpaid and untrained social work – and it's not clear students even *want* to spend class time discussing the emotional fallout of the election. Feels like something faculty project onto students.