Juan G. Ramirez

History PhD student @Georgetown. Capitalism in North Africa, especially Tunisia. @CC_Columbia and @ccasGU Alum #firstgen 🇵🇸

[Juan G. Ramirez @juan_g_ramirez]

مقطع من التقديم الذي ألقيته في شهر ماي بجامعة مولاي إسماعيل حول الأصول الرأسمالية الاستعمارية للسياحة في تونس

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

ICE arrested our beloved professor Vahid Abedini.

He is Farzaneh Family Assistant Prof of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma's @OklahomaU's Boren College of International Studies @oucis

Dr. Abedini was boarding a flight on his way to attend the Middle East Studies Association (@MESA_1966) in Washington DC when he was detained and put to jail. Nov 22.

He has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa —a non-immigrant work visa granted to individuals in “specialty occupations,” including higher education faculty.

We are praying for his swift release.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

This is the biggest scandal in higher education right now. Why isn’t it on every front page?

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

New @FT report reveals that Boston Consulting Group (@BCG) modeled shipping Gazans to Somalia so Israeli businessmen could turn the Strip into a tourism and manufacturing hub.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

NEW: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team—referred to internally as the “Tiger Team”—rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers set fire to the St. George Monastery and the Christian cemetery in the Christian village of Taybeh, West Bank—one of the oldest Christian sites in Palestine.

[historians4palestine @hist4palestine]

🚨 AHA Members: It’s Time to Vote For Change. Our leadership must become responsive, accountable, and outspoken Hear prominent scholars here explain why and how to democratize our profession and why you should support our coalition’s candidates for leadership in the AHA! 🧵

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

An URGENT appeal from the priest of the Church of Taybeh expressing deep concern over the increasing and repeated attacks by Israeli settlers, targeting the town's land, holy sites, and properties, amid official silence that exacerbates the sense of danger and lack of protection
https://t.co/RUeO7WVahV

[Juan G. Ramirez @juan_g_ramirez]

Poetry Unbound and Padraig have gone some way towards breaking On Being’s silence on the genocide. But the recent episode with Yoshi Fisher and Looay Wattad only added to the disappointment.

[Juan G. Ramirez @juan_g_ramirez]

On Being rewired my mind and introduced me to perspectives that still ground me. I know the moral clarity that can guide Krista Tippett’s journalism. This is what has made On Being’s sideways treatment of Palestine and Gaza all the more disappointing @onbeing

[Fan Ms Rachel At Songs @msrachelforlitt]

It’s time for everyone to say something. #FreePalestine #Gaza

[Fidely @Fideladely]

World Council of Churches denounces Israel’s apartheid and occupation, calls for divestment and sanctions https://t.co/kSseuz1AXh

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I’ve seen the silhouettes of so many people—so many children—burning alive, that I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach.

WE
MUST
STOP
THIS
MASSACRE.

May the Palestinians forgive us.

[mj @mollikajaisingh]

the columbia college class of 2025 is booing through the president's speech

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be freed from ICE detention.

Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump admin two months ago.

Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.https://t.co/qLv8varIhE

[Fidely @Fideladely]

I’m Badar Khan Suri’s wife. ICE took him from us on bogus charge https://t.co/E2PXs5CSVC

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

A new paper published in Nature — one of the most respected science journals — finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for 67% of global warming.

The rich are burning our planet.

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Any views on 2m starving Palestinians being killed & burnt alive in tents?

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Justice Sotomayor with bone-chilling warning today: “The implication of the Government's position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before re-moval. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation's system of laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise.

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

“To Columbia—an institution that laid the groundwork for my abduction—and to its student body, who must not abdicate their responsibility to resist repression �� I ask you, who is truly at risk here?” writes Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, in his op-ed. https://t.co/CFI2wwxova

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Elon bought Twitter for $44B, and sold it to his own company for $33B. He can write-off that $11B loss on his taxes.

Teachers can only write-off up to $300 worth of their school supplies on their taxes.

This is what a tax code written to benefit oligarchs looks like.