Ayesha A. Siddiqi

It’s not a coincidence that Trad is being pushed at a time when men perceive women & their labor to be less available to them; either through colleagues who won’t tolerate sexual harassment or romantic partners who won’t tolerate unfulfilling partnerships ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/review-lamb-…

I sort of vaguely knew this, but then you read the words and it's actually jaw-dropping

Okay, cmonnnnn

communists are called to answer for the sins of the soviet union any time we try to talk about bike lanes or free preschool meanwhile there is no longer anyone on earth standing between the united states and as many auschwitzes as they feel like doing

A 16 year-old boy is telling me now how he saw an Israeli soldier teaching his wife/gf shoot at Palestinians in the aid distribution centres today (she did start shooting at Palestinians randomly).

what settlement means: both parties came to a mutual agreement to not pursue further litigation what settlement does NOT mean: that he is innocent or that twigs lied about the abuse she suffered

i don’t think we can expect much from people who don’t even have the discipline to maintain a boycott of the nyt….

BREAKING HUGE WIN! 🚨 New York just announced that phone calls will soon be FREE in New York prisons, bringing around $13 million in relief annually to incarcerated people and their families. The new policy is expected to go into effect on August 1st. Spread the news!

I actually have no words, but read and let it haunt you forever. The world is sick beyond words.

ICE detain U.S. citizen outside grocery store—beat him with baton, shove his head into the ground & give him a concussion. "I told them where I was born, I had an ID, a social, a birth certificate," he said. "They didn't' care about none of that." Now in the hospital after his…

“It’s heartbreaking to be besieged, with no way in and no way out.” Egyptian activist Anas Habib locked the gates of Egypt’s embassy in The Hague to protest the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

Imagine surviving massacre after massacre, only to be killed by hunger. Which is worse? To burn alive in your tent, to be sniped as you seek out food, to be split into two pieces by a bomb, or to starve until you resemble a skeleton? In Gaza, death is not a matter of if, but how.

Israel killed Olina Nizar Bakron. She was bright and gifted, dreaming of becoming a doctor. Israel assassinated Olina and her dream, leaving her family in deep sorrow. Olina was only (9).

JUST IN: The House has cancelled Thursday votes, and will enter recess until September.

BREAKING: Mike Johnson shuts US House early to avoid Epstein vote, per FT

To be clear: the EU could *make* Israel open the gates to virtually unlimited aid into Gaza on a day's notice. Not doing so is a choice. (And I am talking about purely diplomatic and economic levers.)

OFFICIAL CUAD PRESS RELEASE: In a historic first, Columbia has suspended nearly 80 students for participating in a teach-in honoring Basel al-Araj. The announcement comes just ahead of the University's deal with the Trump administration and the Anti-Defamation League.

This man has been sent to an ICE dungeon for expressing his First Amendment right, missed the birth of his son - and the media is still trying to destroy him.

New: The United States says it will leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — citing its activity like focusing on sustainability & letting Palestine be a member state (which “contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric”)

We BEEN told y’all protests and boycotts were futile. You called us haters. Veterans of successful decolonial revolutions told y’all to strike. You ignored them and continued your parades. Now the Western Left claims defeat without ever having lifted a finger. What betrayal.

I do NOT deplore the violence on both sides. I support the armed struggle for liberation waged by a people whose choice is to fight or be disposed and exterminated.