“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies ...

"You can’t unhear it.”

Acclaimed Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania discusses her new Oscar-shortlisted film, "The Voice of Hind Rajab," which incorporates the real recordings of the 6-year-old Palestinian girl's final pleas for help before she was killed by Israeli soldiers.

*taps sign repeatedly and more and more aggressively until I tap right through it*

Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.

The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the U.S. that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during President Trump’s first term, according to officials familiar with the matter.

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.

Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.

This is historic.

These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

Breaking News: The Trump administration demanded discipline and admissions policy changes at Columbia before restoring $400 million in grants and contracts.

Is the wifi slow over at the Senate? Because as @aoc.bsky.social points out there is a ton of extant polling indicating that anger in the Dem electorate in mounting and the dividing line is increasingly over combativeness. House members obviously got the news. Senate needs to visit America again.

Spoiler: At this rate, Columbia will simply cease to exist despite and because of their full compliance with fascism.

It’s great to see Chuck Schumer is retiring. Surly he doesn’t believe providing a cloture vote to the worst budget for veterans, the elderly and literally anyone with a pulse will result in him having job any longer.

the moon looks beautiful tonight, you could almost forget she’s about to be eclipsed and throw everyone into utter emotional turmoil 😂

UN aid chief says shocked seeing dogs fattened from eating corpses in Gaza <span class="field field-title">UN aid chief says shocked seeing dogs fattened from eating corpses in Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T07:33:51+00:00" title="13 March 2025 07:33 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 07:33</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Tom Fletcher, head of the UN’s humanitarian affairs bureau, shared his observations from a recent visit to Gaza with reporters.</p> <p>“It was much, much worse than I’d anticipated, and I’d really prepared myself for the worst,” Al Jazeera reported him saying.</p> <p>Fletcher said the devastation, the desolation in northern Gaza is even greater there than it is in the south, , which has now been entirely reduced to rubble.</p> <p>"There were no landmarks to navigate by. You couldn’t see what was a school, what was hospital, what was a home,” he told reporters.</p> <p>“One of the first shocking things I saw driving in is the dogs going through the rubble. And I said to my colleague who was with me, why are the dogs so fat? And he said, well, because the dogs are looking for corpses. And you notice that the people are thin, and then you see that for miles and miles and miles.”</p> </div>

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This Court should declare that enough is enough before district courts' bur- geoning reliance on universal injunctions becomes further entrenched. The Court should stay the district courts' preliminary injunctions except as to the individual plaintiffs and the identified members of the organizational plaintiffs (and, if the Court concludes that States are proper litigants, as to individuals who are born or reside in those States). At a minimum, the Court should stay the injunctions to the extent they prohibit agencies from developing and issuing public guidance regarding the implementation of the Order. Only this Court's intervention can prevent universal injunctions from becoming universally acceptable.

BREAKING: DOJ takes Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship to SCOTUS, asking the justices to limit three existing nationwide injunctions to the plaintiffs in the cases — a move that would allow the admin to start implementing an EO that several courts have said is plainly unconstitutional.

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Reaches the Supreme Court Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that had issued nationwide pauses on the policy.

Breaking News: President Trump asked the Supreme Court to partially lift a nationwide pause on his executive order targeting birthright citizenship.

DOGE employees become the deep state

Good on Politico Playbook for straight-up calling it what it is:

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Tracking work permit applications among eligible immigrants - The Hamilton Project Tracking work permit applications can illuminate how changes in the pace of immigration are affecting labor supply.

Re: Immigration

The Trump administration has (among other things):

- moved to end Haiti & Venezuela’s TPS designations
- shut down CBP One
- suspended Refugee Admissions Program

We've made a tracker to help see when these changes reduce labor supply: www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

LDF and @lambdalegal filed a motion to stop the Trump Administration from enforcing its anti-equity executive orders until a final ruling is made in our lawsuit, National Urban League v. Trump.
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A Black Studies Curriculum Is (Defiantly) Rolling Out in New York City Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the Trump administration approves or not.

New York City educators are embracing rather than restricting the discussions of race with a new K-12 curriculum, “Black Studies as the Study of the World.” This comes as the Trump administration moves to ban programs related to diversity and equity across the government and schools.

you know it when you see it

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Reading this thread from @marisakabas.bsky.social about Trump’s “final mission” for the education system in America, and I keep going back to this other thread from @farhanasultana.com on the devastating impacts of AI.

Now we all see it.

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Presented at my first International Studies Association Conference on South-South migration from a TWAIL framework. So many good sessions on migration with rich conversations on decolonial thought. #ISA25

Six Fired Federal Workers Temporarily Reinstated by Review Board The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions.

Six fired federal workers will be temporarily reinstated after a decision this week by the Merit Systems Protection Board, the first step toward what lawyers representing fired employees hope will be the restoration of thousands of jobs cut by the Trump administration.

Supreme Court Blocks Judge’s Order to Quickly Unfreeze Foreign Aid Work Payments Administration lawyers had said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.

Community-Based Models for Creating Connected and Integrated Communities | Rockefeller Institute of Government This webinar from the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy will showcase models that intentionally build connected and integrated communities.

Join the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy on Thursday at 6p for a webinar showcasing community-based models that intentionally build connected and integrated communities and activate skills of empathy and altruism. rockinst.org/rig-events/2...

Congratulations to the legal team at Democracy Forward and Asian Americans Advancing Justice on this important first win against the unlawful anti-DEIA orders.

BREAKING: A fed judge just issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in NADOHE v. Trump, the case against the Anti-DEI EOs brought by the Nat’l Assoc of Diversity Officers of Higher Ed, American Assoc of University Professors, Restaurant Opportunities Center United & City of Baltimore.

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.

Breaking News: President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer, a role that traditionally stays in place as administrations change.

The judge’s ruling temporarily halts any stoppage on federal diversity initiatives. Judge Adam B. Abelson wrote that orders by President Trump targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs violated freedom of speech protections.

Breaking News: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s crackdown on diversity programs, saying it violated freedom of speech protections.