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Hussein Rashid, PhD
@husseinrashid.com
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Culture Worker. Advocate. Consulant. Academic. Scholar of Muslims in the US, Muslims and US Popular Culture. Deep interest in Shi’i Justice theologies and Ismaili thought. Free range academic. https://islamoyankee-biolink.glitch.me/
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 5h
October 21 is #Columbiagivingday.

Instead of picking up the bill for CU’s corruption, donate to the Student Worker Aid Collective, an independent mutual aid fund run by workers.

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Upside down Columbia crown, crossed out with the words "No Kings." The words "Giving Day" on golden yellow ribbon. Text: $9 million to settle lawsuit for giving fraudulent data to US News ranking $200 million to Trump admin $750 million to patients abused by Robert Hadden, who CU protected for years Millions more for executive salary and union-busting consultants.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 22h
This jibes with my experience. People were supposedly finishing before we started from 49/50 around 1PM
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d
When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.
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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 1d
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To the Editor: I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body. I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate. For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema. Jason Jacoby Lee New York
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Odalis Del Carmen @odalisgg.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone out here know a scholar working on alt-right meme culture? Would especially be great if they have expertise in DH and/or social media network analysis!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible.

If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d
Damn a bunch of New Yorkers actually went to Times Square, this is serious.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 1d
The frogs have arrived. #NoKings #NYC
A person in an inflatable frog costume at the No Kings rally in Times Square New York
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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d
And the vine and the tree both prostrate (to God).

-Qur'an, Surah Rahman: 6
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 1d
I’m back at 51 and I got here before 11
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 1d
Waiting for #NYC #NoKings to start, so some sample photos. Including overhead drones.
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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 2d
"O humanity, be mindful of your Cherishing Lord"

-Qur'an, Surah Hajj: 1
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d
No surprise that someone who signed up for Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team doesn't know the occupation is illegal.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d
I love reading published works about how their dissenting views can’t be published. I don’t know man, you seem to be doing ok.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 2d
Man, Andy is in love with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social All he can do is talk about Mamdani’s life. My brother Z, get that TRO. This is serious stalker work.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d
The Democratic leadership chose Zionism over the American republic

That’s all they were willing to fight for
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 2d
archive.ph/UzFCa this article talks about the arrests on campus, but doesn't mention Cole. At the time, we all understood that it was him, not Rupp, that called the cops.
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 2d
The Spec seems to have made their archives unavailable, but they had great coverage at the time. www.wikicu.com/1996_Ethnic_...
1996 Ethnic Studies Demonstrations - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d
“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace
“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace
"It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious.”
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 3d
Cole who famously called the cops on students for protesting for Ethnic Studies? The world is truly upside down.
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yonat.bsky.social @yonat.bsky.social · 4d
Rabbis for Ceasefire has no plans for disbanding, now that a ceasefire has been called. In fact, it plans to redouble its efforts. religionnews.com/2025/10/15/f...
Amid a fragile ceasefire, left-leaning US Jews continue advocacy
(RNS) — Some left-leaning Jews want to continue to build pressure to ensure Palestinians have hope for a brighter future, one that guarantees them physical and political freedom.
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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d
So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 4d
Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>
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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 5d
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand
The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…
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