Conservative affirmative action is wild. They just let anyone do any job no matter their qualifications, so long as they’re loyal.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

“In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right [the left]. It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

“about 14,000 babies will die in 48 hours if aid does not reach them”

In 1849, after William Thompson (the original "Confidence Man") was arrested, the New York Daily Herald had a whole column that was basically "poor guy. he should have worked on Wall Street--then the nation would have loved him instead."

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

I’m sorry, no. You mistake disappointment with hate. You can love something and be disappointed by it. In fact, it may only be love that could make you care and attend enough to see it become better.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

But our president believes that "the state" is inseparable from his person. So none of that counted. Trump demands gratitude *personally*, to *him*. And any gratitude expressed to America when Trump was not its supreme leader isn't just worthless—he sees it as a betrayal.

I'm reading Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" again and... it's a bit eery how similar that book and its backdrop are to the current moment? 💙📚 There's this question in the book not only of "can we survive another war?" but "what is survival if we've lost a common ground for shared meaning?"

Couldn’t be more grateful for offhand replies from Jamelle Bouie, like this one, which are more insightful and spot-on than any article circulating in a given week on the same topic

“I’m invoking my unique authority to tell you what scripture means. And what this scripture means is that you are subject to the church’s unique structure of authority” This is like Thomas More “how dare you understand the bible in English”-levels of power maintenance

I get the fascination in poring over this guy’s socials, but ultimately this is a story of two violences: one, a murder; the other, 30k+ claims rejected for profit by UHC that caused pain and often death. This guy’s wonky goodreads reviews may shift one story, but they don’t make a dent in the other

Shocked by the number of people commenting as if Jia’s article sides with the insurance industry or with the wealthy and privileged who see the murder itself as the story’s only violence. It’s a short article, folks, and no subscription necessary—just read it

does anyone know of a good #rustlang example project that produces both rlib and cdylib/wasm-bindgen artifacts, and, specifically, uses std/tokio async abstractions (channels, spawned threads, etc) with non-wasm targets and wasm-bindgen-futures (or other abstractions) when targeting wasm?