This PBS piece is really well done:

She was one of the reasons I repeatedly watched Annie as a kid- she was so incredible in it. What an enormous talent.

Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints" www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

Because it needs to be repeated: they pepper-sprayed a 1 year old

What an absolutely shocking thing to say out loud. If standing up ceding more powerful, what would be the result of this admission?

Diffusion of illiberal norms

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

Columbia knows

What is the status of this provision?

Diffusion of illiberal norms

#Canada announces that it has indeed lost its #measles elimination status. (Feels timely to receive the announcement while in Toronto, watching the #ASTMH @astmh.bsky.social session on recent outbreaks of emerging & re-emerging viruses, which kicked off with...measles) www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

What an absolutely shocking thing to say out loud. If standing up ceding more powerful, what would be the result of this admission?

Damning w/a hopeful end:"I am reminded..of what Sen RFK said..about ending apartheid in South Africa:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave"

10 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden, was born in Amsterdam. In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

This is a breaking news story.

Elected officials make it really hard to maintain even the tiniest sliver of hope

NYT: Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 By Alex Williams Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music. Gift link1

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Damning w/a hopeful end:"I am reminded..of what Sen RFK said..about ending apartheid in South Africa:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave"

Oh my god #KeepEyesOnSudan

this is a big and extremely dangerous deal. pegasus has been a tool of repression around the world. is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?

Oh my god #KeepEyesOnSudan

As horrific as the photo is, there’s something captivating about it. Taken by Allan Tannenbaum in Kuwait.

Civilian self-protection #KeepEyesOnSudan

The ICE budget is higher than all but about 15 militaries worldwide, and we’re seeing what kind of country that gives us. www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...

Tonight, Germany marks both the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht—the “Night of Broken Glass” (1938)—and the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). Hatred versus joy. Separateness versus unity. Oppression versus freedom. Death versus life. All in the span of just 51 years.

It is truly shocking how brazenly law is violated in multiple settings around the world

Iran, facing its worst drought in decades, is planning intermittent cuts to water supplies to try to stave off the evacuation of Tehran.

The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone. @arashtehran.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Gaza death toll tops 69,000. apnews.com/article/isra...

I'll say it again because this young man's emotional testimony continues to haunt me and because his fears are the fears of my students. We academics have to leverage our expertise to stop this trauma and tragedy.

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I'll say it again because this young man's emotional testimony continues to haunt me and because his fears are the fears of my students. We academics have to leverage our expertise to stop this trauma and tragedy.

It is truly shocking how brazenly law is violated in multiple settings around the world

Syria carries out preemptive strikes against Islamic State

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

Prediction: “Mayor Mamdani” will be mispronounced more than once.

Civilian self-protection #KeepEyesOnSudan

“We Are Still Here,” a new poem in Hidden Cities by Vaheed Ramazani. hiddencities.substack.com/p/we-are-sti...

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

As horrific as the photo is, there’s something captivating about it. Taken by Allan Tannenbaum in Kuwait.

Awkward for the rationale for war with Nigeria

Turkey has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and dozens of other Israeli officials on “genocide” charges.

Days without a federal judge finding DHS/ICE/CBP/FPS lies: 0

In the month of one of the most US of holidays where people gather over heaping plates of food to express gratitude