“The officer informed me that his director stepped in and told him that Maher would not be allowed to attend Wael’s burial.”

On a Wong Kar-wai short, by @izzyampil.bsky.social

idk white catholics r so gauche to me

they're surge pricing the pope death

Etel Adnan knew that words could bear witness to the unspeakable, even when the world looked away. In the face of Palestinian genocide, Isabella Hammad turns to her as a model of defiance. buff.ly/C5Ndatk

"The brodernist measures of 'challenging' literature are a constrained series of attributes: winding sentences, explicit references to entropy and math, metanarration, lonely and existential male protagonists, brick-length tomes, cringey sex scenes, the stench of once having read Nietzsche ..." 😭

"Among the victims of the wide-ranging offensive is a two-year-old girl, Leila al-Khatib, who was killed by Israeli fire during a raid near Jenin. The latest victim was an elderly man, 73-year-old Waleed Lahlouh, who was killed ... by an Israeli sniper while going back to check on his house."

Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025 🔗 www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...

Appreciate the spotlight on this but calling it “his government” is not ideal

No president in history—not even Trump in his first term—ever logged so many illegal actions in so short a time.

+ icymi my story "ellis, island" is now up on notch.ink 💎

recapped the week for @harpers.bsky.social 🫡

Now out from behind the paywall: @hzeavin.bsky.social on the Palestine exception in the classroom and the clinic. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

Before you forget Joe Biden ever existed, take a moment to reckon with the full horrifying scope of his moral and political failure in Gaza. My latest, for @thebaffler.com

Up now on @thenation.com: @malsaafin.bsky.social on the reported ceasefire deal, the horrors of the last 15 months, and the rocky road ahead. Beyond grateful to Mohammad for writing something so sharp and eloquent on such short notice. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

😇🤗💆🏻‍♀️😮‍💨 this gave me the same brain-in-the-bath feeling as max read on pamela paul maxread.substack.com/p/editing-th...

logical endpoint of my friend inviting everyone to her apt to watch uglies on her birthday:

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Top notch reporting at @hellgatenyc.com by @k80way.bsky.social. No whataboutism, just facts, common sense and empathy. I fear it’s all Jordan Neely is going to get. hellgatenyc.com/daniel-penny...

this thursday 😘