Talib/طالب

christian 🤘🏽!! is this @MIAuniverse’s complete rejection of western positivism ? or something else ?

💡guide to dtla by @NewArabella

If you had to read one thing today, make it this powerful @lrb piece by @weizman_eyal on the assault on Gaza and its precedents in colonial genocides through what Lemkin called ‘the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups’ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…

Eight decades, 12,000+ songs in 20+ languages across different genres a true singing legend. A versatile queen. Rest in peace, Asha Bhosle ma’am. May your soul rest in peace

Congratulations to Despy Boutris, whose poem "'California Poem'" is a runner-up in the 2026 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize contest! zps.la/47RVuwt

Leave it to Edward Said to speak on the legacy of Habermas.

@Equatormag is so so good. If you're not reading pretty much everything they publish, you are missing something. Start with this most recent, three-part symposium on the Iran War. equator.org/articles/death…

Stuart Schrader (@stschrader1) on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them go.nybooks.com/4aCtUnj

madhuri getting the netflix treatment !

After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @OsmanSamiuddin) travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man. equator.org/articles/the-h…

For @thebafflermag I wrote “If You Read This You Are Gay,” an essay about manosphere streamers, teaching writing after Charlie Kirk, the dismantling of the New School, reading slowly, and the impossible desire for cultural coherence. thebaffler.com/latest/if-you-…

on inglewood

yesss gimme the verbal

@styledinred tom selleck

what do you call this genre of men?

.@LRB has produced an excellent podcast series called "Aftershock" that revisits its coverage of the War on Terror. A must listen lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

Chappals (leather slippers) have a lot to teach us about the material and metaphysical violence of the caste system. Chandu Maheriya studies this humble item of footwear: equator.org/articles/your-…

Asad Haider was a very clear, unflinching, thinker.

I am very sorry to hear about the passing of Asad Haider. He really believed in what he did. RIP

Announcing the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize finalists! Congratulations to authors Marie Gottschalk, Anand Pandian, Carter Sherman, and Brando Simeo Starkey, whose excellent nonfiction explores community, human connectedness, and social cohesion: zps.la/4pXdKep

The so-called West reduced to a series of lawfare/warfare states ruling over civically hollowed workfare/consumer societies. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…