Imran Maskatia retweeted
I wrote an essay that’s been on my mind for a very long time.
It’s not the whole story, but it’s a snapshot that chronicles what I’ve personally witnessed and experienced over the last several years.
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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My favorite person in the world just started a Substack: The Inner Ascent 🌱
After losing both parents in back-to-back years — her mother to cancer in 2024 and her father in a tragic accident in 2025 — she discovered that three “roots” held her through the devastation: faith, community, and purpose.
Drawing on her medical training, neuroscience, and her own lived experience, she’ll write weekly about building the inner infrastructure that helps people not just survive hardship, but grow through it.
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Replying to @AskRobinhood
@AskRobinhood Hey Robinhood, I'm a longtime customer and generally very happy. When will you allow us to gift stock and other assets to charity, ideally with no fees (since it's a charitable donation)? All other major brokerages have this feature.
It would be even better if you could open up API integrations to giving platforms like @DaffyGiving. That would make life so much easier for those of us who give to charity and would enable more donations to get to those who need them.
Imran Maskatia retweeted
OPINION: Trump’s attempts to redefine terrorism to fit his agenda are the outgrowth of a selective concept that political actors have been carrying out for decades, Shirin Sinnar writes. sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…
Imran Maskatia retweeted
🎙️NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE
"In Edward Said's Shadow"
Said famously wrote most of "Orientalism" at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows @asdillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth & @ShirinSinnar discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book
🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#e…
Today is the first #StanfordDayofGiving. Please support the valuable work at the Markaz Resource Center by donating at dayofgiving.stanford.edu/cam…. All gifts up to $5000 will be matched for the next 24 hours.
Imran Maskatia retweeted
Anti-Irish
1840s–1850s
Portrayed as drunkards and troublemakers and racially inferior.
“No Irish Need Apply.”
Anti-Chinese
1870s–1880s
Viewed as job-stealers and blamed for economic woes, called a “Yellow Peril”
“Not a Chinaman’s chance.”
Anti-Jewish
Late 19th to mid-20th century
Stereotyped as greedy, controlling finance
"Gentiles only."
Anti-Italian
1900s–1920s Dismissed as anarchists, criminals, or racially “unfit”
“Wops, go home!”
Anti-German
1917–1918
Suspected of espionage and branded as enemies
“Don’t speak the Hun’s tongue!”
Anti-Mexican
1930s–1950, 2020s
Blamed for economic competition and social unrest
“Go back to Mexico”
Anti-Japanese
1940s
Deemed disloyal
"A Jap's a Jap"
Anti-Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian, etc.)
1970s–1980s
Derided as dirty and burdens on society
"No more boat people!"
Anti-Arab
2001–2002
Cast as potential terrorists or extremists
"Go back to the Middle East where you belong.”
Anti-Indian
2024-2025
Portrayed as third world invaders, job stealers
[check twitter]
Imran Maskatia retweeted
Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/titl…
Imran Maskatia retweeted
Anyone else see a dragon to the northwest?
#MeteorologicalObservations
#CAwx
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DAY 32 introducing members of the 2024-25 CASBS class
@ShirinSinnar is in an ideal community to probe, from a legal institutions context, the construction of terrorism as a category & set of ideas for conceptualizing & responding to political violence
👉 stanford.io/4e0Wuzr
Imran Maskatia retweeted
SLS Professor Shirin Sinnar speaks on political rhetoric following Trump's assassination attempt for @KQED. Listen in at the link below.
stanford.io/4bSBdpw
Imran Maskatia retweeted
Announcing Residency No. 5: The XR Residency.
We’re bringing together the best XR builders in the country:
↣ 6 weeks
↣ 12 spots
↣ $100k in credits
↣ A desk at our SF lab
↣ Consideration for investment
Kicking off August 18th.
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NBC Confirms 2024 Paris Olympics Will Be In 4K tvanswerman.com/2024/07/10/n… via @TVAnswerMan

























