Mercy. He was one of the greatest designers in the world.

Throughout two nights, on 9/5 and 9/12, author and film historian Donald Bogle will join TCM host Ben Mankiewicz to present 10 riveting films that explore interracial relationships on screen and examine how cultural attitudes have shifted over the years. It begins at 8pm ET with ISLAND IN THE SUN.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately

I wrote about America's favorite couple, NicOlandria, specifically Olandria for @thebarbedwire.com. I went in-depth about racial fetishization and colorism that Black women experience in the pursuit of love, and interracial dating in the South. #LoveIslandUSA thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/25/n...

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

“To the sum total of my life belongs the insight that there is no complete hopelessness.” Willy Brandt

Mississippi's new social media age-verification law has now forced BlueSky to block Mississippi IP addresses. Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom. My new editorial:

In 2023 the Mass. SJC held that a conflict of interest can arise when a defense attorney expresses bigotry against persons of their client's faith or race. law.justia.com/cases/massac... Worth thinking about.

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

they're moving them to aurora, co apparently

There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.

"A judge would not award her attorneys fees because he ruled that her team did not act "in good faith."[7]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...

@natpurser.bsky.social explains the FCC’s low-income support program, Lifeline, and highlights an upcoming opportunity to reform the Universal Service Fund to deliver more affordable internet services. To learn more, visit publicknowledge.org #internet #inflation #technology #fcc #education

Join the AEFP Policymakers & Practitioners Community Group for an interactive forum on Teacher Shortages & Vacancies in K-12 schools on Thursday, August 28th, from 1-2 EDT! Register today aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

any historians (legal or otherwise) in the DC area want to be a special guest in one of my sessions for this? politics.georgetown.edu/2025/08/21/m...

FTC sending letters to tech companies saying not to compromise encryption (great!) and framing encryption-busting mandates as part of the "foreign censorship" threat. (The latter is a complicated and nuanced issue for serious people. From this FTC, it's BS posturing.) www.ftc.gov/system/files...

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.

This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

climate impacts of gemini from google services.google.com/fh/files/mis...

what is "surface traveller"

In a quick escalation, six Republican-led states are set to send hundreds of their own National Guard members to D.C. to address “out-of-control” crime despite police data indicating otherwise. Over 2,000 troops are expected to soon be in the district.

OMG

The Catholic Church in Rome has been insisting on calling attention to the suffering in Gaza, even if you don't hear much about it stateside. Seven hours of names: 16 Israeli children and 12,211 Palestinian children.

For 15 yrs, I’ve co-organized informal, volunteer, peer mentoring for women in my college to help them navigate being outnumbered in dept, sexist colleagues, or professing while pregnant. We’ve been told to stop b/c it’s exclusionary. No word on if sr men vs jr men’s tennis matches also cancelled.

Lab evaluations of facial recognition claiming a high level of accuracy have been used to justify the technology's vast deployment, but they often ignore how the software could perform in diverse, messy and unpredictable real-world environments, Teo Canmetin, Juliette Zaccour and Luc Rocher write.

Christian Nationalists in Texas want the residents of Kendall County to vote in November to approve a proposal to incorporate a new town. The proposal would turn Patriot Academy's 177-acre compound into “Constitution City” — and the organization has ambitious goals. www.tpr.org/government-p...

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NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

Trump insisting on “ good moral character.” Like paying a porn star to keep quiet? Like adultery? Like convictions for assaulting a woman?

American demand for tropical wood used in motor homes is accelerating the disappearance of some of the world’s largest forests, conservationists say.

The demolition of what little remained of labor law continues. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

they got @anthropic.com and @microsoft.com ??

oh this is fun! atprotocol.dev/atproto-nyc-...

this just feels....out of touch...

this is wild

Well said. As scholars, as citizens, we must stand up for all of the evidence-based research, curation, and artistic expertise cultivated and presented at the Smithsonian museums.

11k reports and counting downdetector.com/status/starl... #starlink

starlink down (again) -- anyone else?

This is how you write an accurate headline in the Trump Era. Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"By teaching students how to work effectively with AI now, we’re preparing them for a workplace where AI literacy will be essential."

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in) Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”

War criminal has landed on US soil to a red carpet.