Please join us in congratulating the 2025 ABA Young Birders of the Year, Killian Sullivan from Gahanna, Ohio, and Elias Markee-Ratner from New York, New York! Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...

JVP does it again!!

My dear friend @elienyc.bsky.social has a new newsletter—“Elie v. U.S.”—going live via @thenation. It's great and you should subscribe. Elie's words are some of the only things keeping me going these days. Now you can get them in your inbox every Friday. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Wherein @elienyc.bsky.social YC does a close reading of all that is wrong, misleading, unconstitutional, and deeply fucked up about Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Honestly, it's even worse than I thought. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

As the great @elienyc.bsky.social predicted last week in this piece @thenation.com, the Supreme Court has ruled against TikTok. Since SCOTUS didn't offer any explanation as to why, you can read Elie's piece to get a sense of what they may have been thinking. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Profound thanks to @dr_yusefsalaam for this incredibly powerful piece appealing to Joe Biden to use his final days as president to pardon Billie Allen, a man who's been fighting to establish his innocence—and win back his freedom—for most of his adult life.. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

As wildfires scorch LA, I find myself thinking a lot about this piece that the great @BenEhrenreich wrote just over 6 years ago. It haunts me in a deep and painful way—another unheeded warning that was, itself, an echo of so many other unheeded warnings. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

And so it begins: having overturned the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court has officially docketed the first case that could undermine the right to contraception, specifically for poor Americans. It's a doozy. Here, @ElieNYC explains as only he can. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Today @thenation, the brilliant @lehmannchris & @elivalley team up to provide an enlightening—if somewhat nauseating—guide to some of the key influencers in Trump's orbit. These folks may not be household names, but you should definitely get to know who they are. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This weekend, @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social's film THE END goes wide across the US. It's dreamy, unsettling & deep has hell—literally: it's set in a salt mine. This interview of Oppenheimer by Peter Sellars is a wild tour through the minds of two brilliant artists. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

For 14 months, Mahmoud Almadhoun kept hope & humanity alive in north Gaza with his soup kitchen, medical clinic, and small school. His life was proof, writes his brother, that even in the darkest moments, some rise to serve others. Rest in power, Chef Mahmoud. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In 2009, I found out about a child who was buried in New York City's potters field and was described as the first child to have died of AIDS in the city. This is the story of my search to understand who the child was—and to tell a lost story about HIV/AIDS. www.thenation.com/article/soci...