Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

There exists no mathematical universe where people in the US without a visa contribute more than 2% of the total violent crime in the United States. It's in no way proportionate to the violence of ICE in our communities. This is all lies.

Hello 👋🏾 And the slow enunciation while shouting their compliment in my ear.

Do children have a right to exist? Do human beings have a right to eat without bomb strikes? Do people have a right not to be starved?

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

Although it was well known by July 4 and 5 that the floods were catastrophic, Ted Cruz remained in Greece, sightseeing at, among other places, the Parthenon. “As he walked past us, I simply said, ’20 kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?’”

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

Do children have a right to exist without being burned alive? Do women, and men, and teenagers have a right to fall asleep without being bombed? Do people have a right to food without being shot by tanks and drones and mercenaries and soldiers? Do human beings have a right to exist?

Years before Auschwitz, there was Dachau and while the Nazis were jailing and torturing their enemies, Hitler was talking about peace and not wanting any wars. As he invaded the Rhineland and shut down newspapers and clamped down on society, he was telling Germans he would keep them safe.

This is an attack on education and health, on knowledge and well-being, on the ability to think for yourself and have the strength to resist fascism. It is an effort to destroy your interior and private life beginning with your public access to specific freedoms and rights.

Biniam Girmay!

BREAKING: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations. An administrative stay on Friday morning blocks the Trump administration's efforts for now. A hearing is ongoing in D.C. this Fourth of July. Read the new habeas petition at Law Dork.

Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.

The alarm is real but $200 billion is not correct. The bill gives $170.7 billion in immigration-related funding to be spent through Sept. 30, 2029, of which $75 billion goes directly to ICE, including $45 billion for detention. A $3.5 billion fund to states could be used for some detention too.

AOC: Trump has insisted that this bill does not cut Medicaid. He has also said he doesn’t think I’m a smart person. It doesn’t take a smart person to know when you are being lied to. President Trump, you are either being lied to, or you are lying to the American people.

Chance that this guy—who onJan 6 told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”—could get a security clearance in normal times: Zero. Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Blood money. Someone I knew, like another sibling/son in our family, was a pilot on one of those flights. Boeing lied from beginning, using racist arguments. Repugnant. Boeing negligence killed people, flight after flight. Lie after lie.

“Is all this horror for us?” Abu Sultan muses. “It’s hard to believe that all this firepower in the sky is reserved for civilian families whose only concern is to save their children from bombardment and feed them so they don’t die of hunger.”

Never even made it on TV in most countries. There is definitely a concerted effort to hide the fact that the majority of the world absolutely hates this genocide

The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on nationwide orders in a case challenging birthright citizenship. We’ll soon see whether the Court chooses to uphold the Constitution or side with Trump, who has called the U.S. a “STUPID Country” for honoring a centuries-old constitutional right.

I am absolutely thrilled and humbled to be on this list with such incredible artists, writers, and scholars. I have never felt our work to be more urgent and I look forward to the time to do what this new project needs. www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t... @americanacademy.bsky.social

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Rümeysa Öztürk was ordered released by a federal judge in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending. She cannot be freed soon enough.

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.

When I was an undergrad at Columbia, the school was still recovering from what happened in 1968 almost three decades later. I wonder how long it’ll take to recover from this nonsense.

ART ON MY MIND is a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, exploring topics ranging from art in education and the home to the politics of space and imagination as a revolutionary tool Get the brand new Penguin Modern Classic edition here: lrb.me/3j3

The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved on Sunday the expansion of Israel’s war on Gaza, which reportedly include plans to reoccupy the strip indefinitely. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

Incredible! "Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance...to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi" www.theverge.com/news/658566/...

68 African migrants were killed in a U.S. air strike on Yemen and it’s mostly crickets in mainstream N. American media or “alleged” and “Houthis claim.”

#BreakingNews ‼️

Sen. Van Hollen says the Salvadoran government will NOT facilitate a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and that it doesn't plan to release him because "the Trump administration is paying … the government of El Salvador."

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

1/ “In his last message to a world that betrayed him… Hossam Shabat said, “I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

Run to get this book when it releases. Necessary and beautiful reading for our times, and every time.

New footage shows Israel killed 15 Red Crescent and civil defense medics — contradicting army claims that the ambulances were ‘suspicious.’ The video, recovered from a victim’s phone, shows troops targeting clearly marked ambulances and medics in reflective vests.

Ethiopian Music is one off my favorite genres. Seeing what Tubi is offering this month I came across Ethiopiques Revolt for the Soul. Thrilled to watch and learn more esp. of the time of The Derg. Must also recommend books The Shadow King and Beneath the Lions Gaze by @maazamengiste.bsky.social

Israel “must be held accountable for its crimes, the likes of which have no parallel in modern history”, a spokesperson of the Civil Defence told Al Jazeera, referring to the killing of 15 medics by Israeli forces in Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5brryu

- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2. - German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations - Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days