Kavitha Rajagopalan

Long hours of travel... Syrian families return to Syria after the recent events in Lebanon, facing new hardships amidst plummeting temperatures and a lack of basic necessities like food, water, and shelter.

The Bronx Biennial's Curators Want You to Take in the Boogie Down Orchids, Indian and Dominican food, and more recommendations for things to do.

LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT is Hell Gate's nightlife recommendation column.

This time: Orchids, Indian and Dominican food, and the sprawling world of New York fine art.

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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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JUST IN: US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order reut.rs/3NjQxW0

When I think of the sacrifices he and others made, the torments they endured for this right…

I've lost track of the number of scholars, students and organizers who came up to me after my talk last year (where I began to share these ideas at the intersection of reproductive justice and black feminist oracle) and this year (where I focused entirely on spirituality and knowledge production) +

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Also ignores the fact that there are major Christian populations in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Some with explicitly Christian government structures and rituals.

Syrian nationals urge Supreme Court to keep ruling in place allowing them to stay in the United States A group of Syrian nationals urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in New York City that allows them to remain […]

Syrian nationals urge Supreme Court to keep ruling in place allowing them to stay in the United States

The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial It felt like the world as I experience it: no clear path, but enough moments of beauty to convince me to put one foot in front of the other.

Oh hey it's @arunadsouza.bsky.social on the Whitney Biennial

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Meanwhile every upper class white liberal you meet has a stash of weed gummies in the house.

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

US Sinking of Iran Ship Piles Pressure on India’s Modi, BE Says The US sinking of an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast expands the deepening Middle East war to India’s doorstep, unsettling New Delhi’s calibrated approach to the conflict as Iran vowed to avenge...

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Lmao it makes me wanna see men in Amar Chitra Katha gold gear riding chariots. Propaganda music is effective!

Philadelphia schools explore classroom AI as educators focus on responsible use A North Philadelphia classroom is offering a glimpse of how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape daily teaching.

“Penn recently received a grant from Google to bring more school districts into the program.”

NEW: A source from the Iranian Kurdish group Komala denies reports that it launched a ground offensive into western Iran.

Source: www.rudaw.net/kurmanci/kur...

Sounds like Farah Pahlavi just rebuked her own son. #Iran

Eye opening read

A map showing casualties. Iran – killed: 1,045, injured: hundreds Israel – killed: 11, injured: hundreds US soldiers – killed: 6, injured: 18 Bahrain – killed: 1, injured: 4 Iraq – killed: 2, injured: 5 Jordan – killed: 0, injured: 5 Kuwait – killed: 4, injured: 35 Lebanon – killed: 50 injured: 335 Oman – killed: 1, injured: 5 Qatar – killed: 0, injured: 16 Saudi Arabia – killed: 0, injured: 0 United Arab Emirates – killed: 3, injured: 68

Al Jazeera has a useful tracker of who is getting killed and injured.

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Burn baby burn

Every other post in my feed is either "Kurdish militias are not involved in Iran" or "Kurdish militias are involved in Iran."

This war is hyper, hyper-misinfo / propaganda saturated - far more it seems like than usual conflicts, even in very recent history.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing ...

"Understanding ecological change may depend as much on listening as on measuring." Nice @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social column on traditional ecological knowledge and shifting baselines
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Ghida Krisht I arrived at the school shelter today with a rapid needs assessment form, prepared to document the situation. Once inside, I felt the limits of documentation in the face of reality. The shelter is...

Friend in Beirut, Lebanon needs our help with donations to support this grossly underfunded displaced persons’ shelter.

They need around 800 /1000 beds ($15 - mattress, $10 - blanket, $3-5 - pillow).

#Iran Reach out to her here (and please share):

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Sadly my biracial Black and Indian daughter self hates for being tall and thin with a butt that can’t be seen from 3 blocks away. Literally cries for over it. Teen girls! I wish they could love themselves.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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Qatar has rejected Iran’s claims that Tehran targeted only U.S. interests

Vertical green facades have become increasingly popular in urban environments over recent decades. Leonard Ng attributes their emergence to good intentions, such as counteracting the diminishing presence of nature as cities develop and expand. www.ecogradia.com/podcast/chal...

Widespread power outage in Iraq

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Loads of my friends and I are used to late STEP notifications about security threats to US citizens abroad and political climate evacuation from the Middle East, but this is the most bizarre clusterfuck anyone has experienced yet