Really, NYT?

There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil. It cannot be business as usual. It’s time to strike.

It's hard to engage seriously with this kind of thing when it's so deeply out-of-touch with where Canada *is* right now.

So much of what I see people saying, from annexation fears to imagining Canada embracing economic refugees from the US, is rooted in a version Canada that hasn't existed in decades.

For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history. It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.

Oh. My. God. Worse and worse!

Today sitting in the knowledge that racism’s power is in its theft of time & spirit. Onwards. Thanks to all those who called Hochul’s office yesterday, please continue to do so (518) 474-8390. Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

About Hunter College: Cancelling a Palestine Studies job search because the ad mentions settler colonialism is genocidal thinking. This framework is central to understanding Palestinian--as well as Zionist--historical writing over the last century. It's ideological denial of the right to History.

Deepfakes, AI Slop, and disinformation are part of MAGA 2.0’s political communication strategy. This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza… It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians. It’s propaganda for genocide.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"We will break international law. We will do war crimes" Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?

Where are the news outlets shouting from the rooftops? “Mainstream media is having as much trouble covering Trump’s firehouse of chaos as it did covering his campaign.” @sulliview.bsky.social Read on below.

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6

Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-professor-files-grievance-termination

This is critical data on the harassment and targeting of 384 media workers by Honest Reporting Canada since October 2023. At #CanadaPressFreedomProject we are recording these as chilling statements. This should be a major concern for anyone with a stake in #pressfreedoms in a democracy.

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

Thinking the country that groomed dictators all over the world cannot become a dictatorship is so naive. Honey, they wrote the book and made the movie adaptation. Wake up!

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing—“clean out that whole thing” was his phrase!—but the NYT manages to make him sound like a humanitarian.

It’s a horror movie.

pretty big decline in the proportion of Indigenous journalists in Canadian media (from 6.4% in 2021 to 3.7%). while there's some variation in respondents every year, in 2021 there were 248 Indigenous journalists among 209 newsrooms; in 2024, 215 among 270 newsrooms.

what I was hired to do. I have some great colleagues. But there is STILL an aversion in journalism education to wrestle with the question of subjectivity and objectivity—and to sidestep the deep ethical and moral questions of our time. I got caught up in this by refusing to ignore the genocide.

Dear academics, look at Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s example and feel ashamed of claiming to speak truth to power. Some of you do, but most don’t

“As the enormous Republican effort to legislate against and police trans people makes clear, it takes a huge amount of work, violence, and coercion to enforce gender conformity — it is our job to make that effort harder at every turn.” theintercept.com/2025/01/22/t...

Sometimes I think the genocide was covered too much...like the vast amount of footage of dead Palestinians hanging out of destroyed buildings and survivors being handed their family members' body parts in trash bags was received in the West like a new TV show, not something that is really happening

truthout.org/articles/a-c... This message is of the utmost importance—please repost and share widely. In solidarity—

This is one of the most ghoulish things I’ve ever fucking read. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation

this is the neworktimesiest headline that has ever headlined

This is the cowardice of the Washington Post. Legacy media is failing.

I find life psychologically easier when i treat settler society (both the US and Canada) as an anthropological field site and not the home community i want to belong to.

Gaza, and fired at a man crawling to retrieve the body, as shown in a verified video by journalist Hassan Aslih. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Biden’s commutation is not a full pardon — Peltier, who was charged under dubious circumstances for the killing of two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, will remain under house confinement, likely for the rest of his life.

As one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist and political prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly half a century for a crime he maintains he did not commit. truthout.org/articles/bid...

Heartbreaking: Today afternoon in Rafah, the Israeli forces opened fire at a child and killed him. He apparently was riding his donkey heading back “home.” When a man tried to drag him away, he was shot at. Why why why why !!!!!??????!???? Trump: enjoy your inauguration, mr. Peacemaker. I’m sick.

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

The images of the palestinian prisoners being released...how do human beings do this to each other?

Trump at a rally -- Elon Musk rigged the election for me CNN -- crickets NY Times -- crickets Washington Post -- crickets The mainstream media has already given up and died