Nabalkattu
@nabalkattu.bsky.social
"A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
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my new thanksgiving tradition -- signing a lotta goddamn bookplates amidst the gobblin'.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
my new thanksgiving tradition -- signing a lotta goddamn bookplates amidst the gobblin'.
It's especially remarkable when the Canadian Minister of Immigration is of proud Middle Eastern immigrant background--the 'pulling up the gangplank' phenomenon?
As the story explains with horrifying examples, this is literally a question of life and death. The student has done everything possible. The university has actually done its part.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's especially remarkable when the Canadian Minister of Immigration is of proud Middle Eastern immigrant background--the 'pulling up the gangplank' phenomenon?
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They wouldn't be doing this if Prop 50 hadnt passed.
California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
They wouldn't be doing this if Prop 50 hadnt passed.
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
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I'm giving a lecture in Montreal in late February on one of my ongoing fascinations, the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a NYC mutual aid society for klezmer musicians and their families which had its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Venue & time info TBD!
klezkanada.org/year-round/y...
klezkanada.org/year-round/y...
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm giving a lecture in Montreal in late February on one of my ongoing fascinations, the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a NYC mutual aid society for klezmer musicians and their families which had its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Venue & time info TBD!
klezkanada.org/year-round/y...
klezkanada.org/year-round/y...
"Not only was the groundwork for the Trump administration’s descent into increasingly repressive and illegal tactics laid under Biden, but the investigation revealed that the framework for cracking down on student free speech was also in place before the pro-Palestine encampments."
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Not only was the groundwork for the Trump administration’s descent into increasingly repressive and illegal tactics laid under Biden, but the investigation revealed that the framework for cracking down on student free speech was also in place before the pro-Palestine encampments."
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Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
Kudos to Kennedy's handlers for getting him a cover shoot -- praying with a rosary! -- at the same time he's at the center of a 🤢 cyber infidelity scandal. No notes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
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⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.
The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper...
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.
The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper...
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Tucker Carlson out here just saying stuff that would get a Columbia student blackbagged
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Tucker Carlson out here just saying stuff that would get a Columbia student blackbagged
Academics: if there's going to be any leadership in the 21st century it's got to come from staff, students, and us. As the recent U of California and UMD actions show, "if you act like a union then you're a union"
Within @aaup.org, there's a lot of advocacy chapters who wonder what power they have without a CBA. We're here to say it doesn't matter. Organizing is organizing is organizing. You want the contract but if you act like a union then you're a union. I call this The Newsies Principle.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Academics: if there's going to be any leadership in the 21st century it's got to come from staff, students, and us. As the recent U of California and UMD actions show, "if you act like a union then you're a union"
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
implying the vast majority of Americans actually are close to Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly pedos who allegedly had their first wife killed
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
implying the vast majority of Americans actually are close to Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly pedos who allegedly had their first wife killed
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Today we reconsider the major work of Frank Moore Cross, perhaps America's most influential scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient epigraphy, at 4pm, Fairfax B (Third Floor) Sheraton with an epic lineup!
My college professor Frank Moore Cross described Phoenician, Aramaic, and Hebrew as "national scripts," but nationalism is about fitting a language and culture into a polity, and none of these were developed for one polity, as @josephinequinn.bsky.social showed w the many cities of "Phoenicia."
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today we reconsider the major work of Frank Moore Cross, perhaps America's most influential scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient epigraphy, at 4pm, Fairfax B (Third Floor) Sheraton with an epic lineup!
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Dreaming of dreams
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Dreaming of dreams
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So they facilitate and promote emigration to Israeli colonial possessions in the West Bank?
To all of the imbeciles here calling me a liar and telling me to do my "research". Nefesh B'Nefesh is a NON-PROFIT agency that helps North American Jews who want to participate in Aliyah. It is NOT a real estate brokerage. Its website shows communities in the West Bank but lists no properties.
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
So they facilitate and promote emigration to Israeli colonial possessions in the West Bank?
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
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it's an open secret that the washington post editorial board has been sleeping with the epstein files for years.
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
it's an open secret that the washington post editorial board has been sleeping with the epstein files for years.
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The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From.
The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
www.404media.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
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Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.
Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit?
The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.
Robert Kawashima, Peter Machinist, Alice Mandell, and Aren Wilson-Wright will examine Cross's influential ideas from the viewpoint of literature, epigraphy, the history of religions, and the history of scholarship.
S24-313 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Fairfax B (Third Floor)
Sheraton
S24-313 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Fairfax B (Third Floor)
Sheraton
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Robert Kawashima, Peter Machinist, Alice Mandell, and Aren Wilson-Wright will examine Cross's influential ideas from the viewpoint of literature, epigraphy, the history of religions, and the history of scholarship.
S24-313 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Fairfax B (Third Floor)
Sheraton
S24-313 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Fairfax B (Third Floor)
Sheraton
Did the religion of the Bible evolve, following an orderly development from Canaanite roots into Hebrew monotheism, inventing biblical literature along the way? Join us Monday at 4pm at the Society of Biblical Literature as we reconsider Frank Moore Cross's epoch-making arguments 50 years later.
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Did the religion of the Bible evolve, following an orderly development from Canaanite roots into Hebrew monotheism, inventing biblical literature along the way? Join us Monday at 4pm at the Society of Biblical Literature as we reconsider Frank Moore Cross's epoch-making arguments 50 years later.