Yes, the university's acting president did say that, but it's not correct. Here's @knightcolumbia.org's analysis of the Columbia settlement. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

Alaa is pardoned!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

The Legendary Children’s Librarian of Harlem Raised in a family of storytellers, Augusta Baker continued that tradition, imparting a love of books to readers of all ages. daily.jstor.org/legendary-ch...

Among the last films I saw in Iran was Three Days of Condor. With revolution unfolding around me, I was transfixed. I was 14; nuances escaped me. Still I was struck by the power of cinema to teach us about the world we live in, how we can overcome fear & try to create alternative futures.

Today with @haleaziz.bsky.social : Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn't violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is reported to be on a list of prisoners...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

"Imagine trying to evacuate from one place to another under endless bombardment while also trying to feed your family. The situation is beyond description." - reporting from Hind Khoudary

Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah resumed a full hunger strike on September 1 following unfulfilled promises made to him by national security officers that he would be released within days after his removal from the terrorist list. He is only drinking water. #FreeAlaa

Every time I get exhausted by elderly care, I think of what Palestinian elders are enduring. And I remember what a gift it is to care for our elders.

“A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it froze more than $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard, striking down the freeze in its entirety and delivering the University a major legal victory.”

The daughter of a former Nazi official and her spouse are under house arrest after a painting seized by the Nazis during World War II inexplicably disappeared from their living room wall.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

The UCLA and UCSF medical schools have been given 2 weeks to submit years of internal documents to a GOP-led congressional committee about alleged antisemitism and how schools responded, widening the government’s investigations into the University of California: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.

For Sidney Clifton, it had always been a dream to make things right. Her parents—poet Lucille & artist Fred—lost their family home, 40+ years ago due to foreclosure. In 2019, she reacquired the property: The Clifton House is now an artists’ creative hub. My latest: savingplaces.org/stories/lite...

Immediately after his "segregation forever!" line in his inaugural address, George Wallace asserted that the federal troops at Ole Miss -- sent there after a racist riot killed two and injured hundreds -- were needed more in Washington, DC. This is a very old, very obvious play from racists.

Professor Brinkley Messick left behind deeply researched, lovingly crafted, and beautifully written books. But perhaps his most enduring legacy remains his decency.

Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.

University of Chicago shutting down their Classics program is like U Mich shutting down their football program. Seriously they have a whole museum that was created to support that research. Insanity.

Trump administration must restore hundreds of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules

Prague, 1968 — photo by Josef Koudelka

Israel assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and his entire Al-Jazeera TV crew in Gaza today. CPJ warned of Israeli smear campaign against him, but few Western media outlets or journalists spoke out in defense of their Palestinian colleagues. Their silence is cowardly and shameful.

Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

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

I'm writing a new thing on deportation of refugees during the quota acts. This snippet from the final page of a refugee child held in immigration detention for over a year, only to be separated from his family and sent to a third country, alone, to avoid refoulement.

An Arkansas bill that passed forbids the use of "West Bank" by state officials (including faculty at public universities). They must use "Judea & Samaria". Link to bill here: arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocu...

Birthright Israel co-founder Charles Bronfman wants Netanyahu to end the war

Music for these times

Days before the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Aug 6 the conservative majority on Supreme Court is announcing its intention to kill what’s left of the country’s most important civil rights law

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, has cancelled plans to teach this fall in response to the school’s recent agreement w Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

"Hira: They didn’t read you any rights? Badar: Nothing, nothing, nothing. No arrest warrant. To this day they haven’t been able to provide an arrest warrant in court, because it doesn’t exist. They were playing from a playbook which has no rights."

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

WASH POST: “Mass starvation stalks Gaza… Nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating… rising deaths from malnutrition and starvation… Their small bodies are shutting down…”

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

"It was a massacre... the occupation opened fire at us indiscriminately" Akram Aker said troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones. "They encircled us and started firing directly at us," he said.

A true travesty

My 93 yo dad is beating me handily in backgammon 😐

It occurs to me SCOTUS gives no explanation, in part, to avoid establishing precedent that could benefit a future democrat, leaving these decisions to the whims of the 6 in perpetuity.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

“I voted for somebody that won something!”