Khaled Quzmar, former head of Defense for Children International-Palestine, discusses his organization’s decision to close after a five-year harassment campaign by the Israeli government. jewishcurrents.org/how-israel-s...
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack a crack in everything thats how the light gets in
Brad Lander gestures with palm facing upwards at a rally in front of City Hall. Person in the background holds a sign reading "AI rots your brain"
@bradlander.bsky.social at today's @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally at City Hall Park. Organizers including @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social are calling for a morartorium on "A.i." in the NYC public schools.
NEW YORK CITY: May 4th, join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study & strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Featuring our own Mariame Kaba. Register here ⬇️
My love for our mayor is matched only by my intense shame at our senators
the Ghost of Leonard cohen
My book Against Money, coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, is coming out from University of Chicago Press on May 5. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Bumping this again, because it is extremely important. Giving the powers that be even more opportunities to limit free speech, especially at schools, is outrageous, and this bill should not be signed by @mayor.nyc.gov or passed again by the City Council. 🧵 with details below.
My kids, obviously
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
Drop everything and listen to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social being interviewed about her new book on the Jewish Labour Bund in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Absolutely riveting history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
"If Swalwell was guilty, his accusers would file charges" is a thing I keep seeing. But here's the thing: it's absolutely NOT how the system works.
ONLY PROSECUTORS CAN FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN THE US LEGAL SYSTEM.
People are complicated. I just love the answer for some representation of people over 35 on this app
Gonna lean into my Gen X dotage and choose door number 3: some combination of Ralph Nader and Joe Lieberman
Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
if you’ve got kids who are getting into Artemis, do yourself a favor and get this one, perhaps the most beautiful picture book I ever read with mud kids.
yes And if you are say an upper middle class liberal who would vote for higher taxes on yourself for the greater good and your moral sense you should understand this! But people think others have interests while they have politics and morals
This happened when they put a shelter in an abandoned dorm right near our place. Lots of fear mongering and once it was built the only neighborhood chatter to Donate toys at Christmas.
I wrote about Oedipus and the relevance question and listening.
I’m a critic of “first narratives” but a sucker for space—and yes, it is historic on a species scale (and given all women have done to birth and rear humanity) to see a woman astronaut, finally, see Mother Earth in her fullness with her own eyes
No one in the replies remembers the incredible shrinking woman?
I just finished reading Ross Perlin's beautiful, brilliant Language City. If NYC earns its self-regard, it's only because of its immigrants and their descendants, and those of the internal refugees from the Jim Crow south. take that away and we are nothing
when Trump got in the first time, the Times sent a reporter to our cc and asked a few students if they were going to protests or doing their schoolwork, and then concluded that protesting was for the elites. We invited her to our sanctuary protest a few weeks later but her invite got lost I guess
This is extra offensive for 2 reasons:
1) Students at my campus are organizing like crazy to stand up to ICE. It is inspiring.
2) The last time they protested a war the NYPD stormed the campus, beat a bunch of them up, and then the city installed perimeter fencing that has been up for 2 years…
I'm still thinking about the one I got about "who speaks for the working class" starring a professor from Princeton and professor from the New School
some amazing educators at my community college have students edit/write articles for a research class. amazing work out there in the colleges if you know how to be creative and where to look
I found all of Dahl's villians scary as child, especially the aunts in James and the Giant Peach. And, Willy Wonka is kind of a villain as well
Please amplify: today @cuny.edu faculty, students, staff and the @psc-cuny.org delivered 5000 letters to @cunychancellor.bsky.social condemning political blacklisting at CUNY and calling for the rehiring of the Fired Fourth.
esp. since today's 12 yos have already moved on, lol