Hussein Rashid, PhD
@husseinrashid.com
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.
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#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
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Literally all of these "new realities" are just Israel attacking the people they made the "existing ceasefire agreements" with and also civilians
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...
#Palestine #Israel
Israel is violating all its ceasefire agreements and escalating on all fronts
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
mondoweiss.net
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Literally all of these "new realities" are just Israel attacking the people they made the "existing ceasefire agreements" with and also civilians
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Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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MESA statement on the detention of Dr Abedini.
@mesa1966.bsky.social is one of the few academic organizations which has taken clear stands on important issues like the decimation of Gaza, tr*mpist attacks on academic freedom and administrative capitulation, and now this.
@mesa1966.bsky.social is one of the few academic organizations which has taken clear stands on important issues like the decimation of Gaza, tr*mpist attacks on academic freedom and administrative capitulation, and now this.
Middle East Studies Association
MESA has issued a statement expressing deep concern over the detention of Dr. Abedini, a MESA member.
mesana.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
MESA statement on the detention of Dr Abedini.
@mesa1966.bsky.social is one of the few academic organizations which has taken clear stands on important issues like the decimation of Gaza, tr*mpist attacks on academic freedom and administrative capitulation, and now this.
@mesa1966.bsky.social is one of the few academic organizations which has taken clear stands on important issues like the decimation of Gaza, tr*mpist attacks on academic freedom and administrative capitulation, and now this.
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The NYT, when the mayor says you ought to follow the rule of law
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The NYT, when the mayor says you ought to follow the rule of law
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The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
I literally taught the show today and had to check that it was, in fact, less than a calendar year ago. And a WTF lifetime ago.
Kendrick's half time show was THIS YEAR. It's been a long year
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I literally taught the show today and had to check that it was, in fact, less than a calendar year ago. And a WTF lifetime ago.
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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If I was a software company, I would:
1. Think long and hard about whether I truly needed any AI integration; not give in to FOMO and isomorphism, and
2. Make any AI integration opt IN
1. Think long and hard about whether I truly needed any AI integration; not give in to FOMO and isomorphism, and
2. Make any AI integration opt IN
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If I was a software company, I would:
1. Think long and hard about whether I truly needed any AI integration; not give in to FOMO and isomorphism, and
2. Make any AI integration opt IN
1. Think long and hard about whether I truly needed any AI integration; not give in to FOMO and isomorphism, and
2. Make any AI integration opt IN
Worth flagging this up--US scholarly orgs might usefully circulate primers for how to check if your work was used, how to join the suit, pluses/minuses of doing so, etc?
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I would not have known that my books are in the database if I hadn't seen this post. If you're a writer check yours!
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I would not have known that my books are in the database if I hadn't seen this post. If you're a writer check yours!
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No institution or person who caved or caves to Trump can ever be fully trusted again. This includes many universities and the people who run them and the owners of many news orgs. Remember their names and deeds.
*Every single* institution, organization, and individual who caved into Trump already looks worse for having done so.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now!
Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.
Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
No institution or person who caved or caves to Trump can ever be fully trusted again. This includes many universities and the people who run them and the owners of many news orgs. Remember their names and deeds.
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
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"The director of the Museum of the City of New York, Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, said she no longer needs to hire copy editors to work on annual reports. [She is turning to AI.]"
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The director of the Museum of the City of New York, Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, said she no longer needs to hire copy editors to work on annual reports. [She is turning to AI.]"
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
This should be embarrassing to admit.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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As a college student when this man was president Harvard I knew he was a misogynistic POS. Everyone did. He’s always been this person.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
As a college student when this man was president Harvard I knew he was a misogynistic POS. Everyone did. He’s always been this person.
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I don't believe he will vanish. He's a shameless hack. Hacks never have real shame.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I don't believe he will vanish. He's a shameless hack. Hacks never have real shame.
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"The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need."
wgntv.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need."
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Protecting the old white dude who is a threat because of a perceived sense of entitlement and worth is on brand for every institution including all universities.
Creating a culture where we don’t normalize this would be amazing.
Creating a culture where we don’t normalize this would be amazing.
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Protecting the old white dude who is a threat because of a perceived sense of entitlement and worth is on brand for every institution including all universities.
Creating a culture where we don’t normalize this would be amazing.
Creating a culture where we don’t normalize this would be amazing.
Seems even more relevant this week @harvard.edu
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Seems even more relevant this week @harvard.edu
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People who have the character to be brave now were brave earlier during earlier tests of character.
And aren't in positions of power, because that sort of bravery is seen as disqualifying from power.
And aren't in positions of power, because that sort of bravery is seen as disqualifying from power.
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
People who have the character to be brave now were brave earlier during earlier tests of character.
And aren't in positions of power, because that sort of bravery is seen as disqualifying from power.
And aren't in positions of power, because that sort of bravery is seen as disqualifying from power.
