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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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.
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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.
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My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
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At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
J.I. Staley Prize - School for Advanced Research
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
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My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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There Are Way More Cars That Share Names With Simpsons Characters Than You Think
www.theautopian.com/there-are-wa...
www.theautopian.com/there-are-wa...
There Are Way More Cars That Share Names With Simpsons Characters Than You Think - The Autopian
How many seasons has The Simpsons been on? All of them? Every season? Whatever the number is, it’s more than any other scripted television show, ever. Fine, I’ll look it up: it’s 37 seasons. Damn! The...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There Are Way More Cars That Share Names With Simpsons Characters Than You Think
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to be honest, if it hastens turnover of some of the less scrupulous ones then beyond so what you might even say good
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
to be honest, if it hastens turnover of some of the less scrupulous ones then beyond so what you might even say good
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WOW!
@RepThomasMassie tells reporters that Trump has tried to stop the release of the Epstein files to protect some of his donors, but also because "Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies."
@RepThomasMassie tells reporters that Trump has tried to stop the release of the Epstein files to protect some of his donors, but also because "Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies."
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
WOW!
@RepThomasMassie tells reporters that Trump has tried to stop the release of the Epstein files to protect some of his donors, but also because "Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies."
@RepThomasMassie tells reporters that Trump has tried to stop the release of the Epstein files to protect some of his donors, but also because "Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies."
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i had a suspicion that states rights would regain some salience if and when the states where rights came into question were states republicans cared about
Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina?
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
i had a suspicion that states rights would regain some salience if and when the states where rights came into question were states republicans cared about
"Paying for subscriptions for content has been fully normalized..Many would much rather pay normal people every month than fork out for yet another corporate streaming service.
And all of that is without even mentioning the important part: these new platforms are telling the stories nobody else is."
And all of that is without even mentioning the important part: these new platforms are telling the stories nobody else is."
This is exactly what I was sort of trying to connect to in talking about the new alt media, and my own history with alt-weeklies www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Paying for subscriptions for content has been fully normalized..Many would much rather pay normal people every month than fork out for yet another corporate streaming service.
And all of that is without even mentioning the important part: these new platforms are telling the stories nobody else is."
And all of that is without even mentioning the important part: these new platforms are telling the stories nobody else is."
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Rita Hester was a beautiful soul and a fixture of the Boston queer community who lived large and unapologetically. Her unsolved murder sparked Transgender Day of Remembrance, but her story is often forgotten.
Today, we celebrate her life and continue the work to end violence against trans women.
Today, we celebrate her life and continue the work to end violence against trans women.
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rita Hester was a beautiful soul and a fixture of the Boston queer community who lived large and unapologetically. Her unsolved murder sparked Transgender Day of Remembrance, but her story is often forgotten.
Today, we celebrate her life and continue the work to end violence against trans women.
Today, we celebrate her life and continue the work to end violence against trans women.
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🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
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UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
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Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost.
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
Unreal hearing on this earlier:
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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“Forgetting, & I wld even say historical error, are an essential factor in the creation of a nation.” —E. Renan, 1882, a hugely popular French Jew hater & influential nationalist (Mussolini wld become an admirer), who thought this a *good* thing. New motto of Trump NEH?
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Forgetting, & I wld even say historical error, are an essential factor in the creation of a nation.” —E. Renan, 1882, a hugely popular French Jew hater & influential nationalist (Mussolini wld become an admirer), who thought this a *good* thing. New motto of Trump NEH?
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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I am hearing that on his deathbed Donald Trump is receiving the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. He has accepted Muhammad al-Mahdi as the Twelfth and final Imam. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
Trump says he and New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani will meet in the Oval Office on Friday.
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I am hearing that on his deathbed Donald Trump is receiving the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. He has accepted Muhammad al-Mahdi as the Twelfth and final Imam. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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Progressive philanthropy largely ignored progressive and left media, because it relied on the continued operations of traditional, profit-driven media and it failed to acknowledge the role journalism might play in countering the right’s agenda.
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...
Progressive philanthropy needs to commit to funding journalism
Marginalized voices are facing new pressures amid industry cutbacks and increasing attacks from the Trump administration
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Progressive philanthropy largely ignored progressive and left media, because it relied on the continued operations of traditional, profit-driven media and it failed to acknowledge the role journalism might play in countering the right’s agenda.
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...
prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...