Tara Rana

Take a Ride on New York City’s Future Train Line The Interborough Express, a new rail line that would link Brooklyn and Queens, could change the face of the city.

This is a very cool feature about a very cool transit project! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Power loss at W.4th St has caused major subway outages.

But MTA does not post updates here.

So help spread the word on service status:
* B/C suspended
* No A b/n Columbus Circle & Jay St
* No D b/n Atlantic Av & 34 St-Herald Sq
* No M b/n Delancey St & Forest Hills-71 Av
* E & F severely disrupted

Why I’m Banning Student AI Use This Year Chanea Bond will ban AI this year to give her high school English students the opportunity to develop foundational skills that she believes the tech can hinder.

Teacher @heymrsbond.com banned AI in her English classes last year. We’re about to post an update on how it went—so first, read last year’s article to understand why she adopted the policy. 💻

#EduSky #EduAI #ITeachEnglish

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“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present Discussion of teaching East Africa Africa in World History

After my annual summer break, I'm back with a new series on teaching East Africa in world history. This first post is free and introduces some resources and themes we can use when teaching East Africa.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-mixed-popu...

it is real weird how Zohran Mamdani is constantly asked about antisemitism but none of the other NYC mayoral candidates are relentlessly asked about how they will deal with ongoing Islamophobia and hate crimes against Asian Americans

LISTEN: A Father and an Immigrant and a Criminal A weekday newsletter to keep you up on New York.

In the latest episode of LIT NYC, host Katie Honan talks with author Radha Vatsal, a speechwriter at city hall by day, to discuss her new novel about old New York, No. 10 Doyers Street.

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court panel finds President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block.

I wish this piece was on the front page and not the opinion section, because it's more fact-based than the majority of the reporting I've seen on the state of boys and men.

How it is for GM is how it is for the USA.

A vibrant orange slice of Thai Tea Tres Leches Cake topped with whipped cream and sliced almonds.

The marquee dessert at Golden Diner, in Manhattan’s Chinatown, is a Thai tea take on tres leches cake. Get the recipe: https://trib.al/V77zoZw

Bingo. This has always been the fire @repjeffries @senschumer etc. are playing with. If you don’t show up for Zohran good luck asking young/progressive voters who aren’t die hard to show up for your/your preferred candidates down the line.

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Lasker could easily be ignored during the period that Faliceer was posting. That is no longer the case. On Substack, Crémieux has more than 23,000 subscribers—good enough for 14th in the science category. On X, his account has more than 260,000 followers. One is Vice President JD Vance. Others are major figures in the right-wing tech world (Joe Lonsdale, Chamath Palihapitiya, Marc Andreessen) or members of the Trump administration (FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, White House crypto and artificial intelligence “czar” David Sacks, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill).

A reminder that Substack platforms Nazis, right in the middle of MoJo's profile of Jordan Lasker and his influence in Trump's world.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is it possible that we come out of the other side of this debacle with the legalization of millions of peaceful and hardworkimg undocumented people and more abundant pathways to citizenship? Will the pendulum swing toward reason and humanity?

Fenway Park is an iconic American institution, and it’s the workers there that make every Red Sox game special.

The team is extremely profitable. They should treat their employees with respect, pay them decent wages and negotiate a fair contract with the union.

Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze University announces move as it tries to restore $400m in funds frozen over alleged failure to protect Jewish students

More and more people are calling the Israeli genocide of Palestinians what it is -- genocide, by Israel.

But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.

My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A legal defense fund has been established for Bajun, please contribute and share as you are able. gofund.me/f8447424

Impressive stats from NYC where 96% of voters report that filling out their Ranked Choice ballot was easy & 76% of voters want to keep or expand use of RCV!

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's student loan program, not a single conservative justice uttered a WORD about the (unreasoned) universal injunction that the lower court imposed to halt the policy nationwide. Makes you think.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

Democratic state AGs suing the Trump administration over $6 billion+ in K-12 education funding appropriated by Congress that the states say was supposed to be available 7/1 for the upcoming school year buff.ly/5xRO9Pn

He mostly seems like a traditional Democrat. He’s for workers and housing and fairness and believes there’s a role for government to protect the public interest. That’s just a Democrat.
Some of these other democrats are selfishly worried about their own turf, status, and ego.

what could be an important 2026 Dem primary:

"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).

30% tariffs on your fruit and vegetables, despite USMCA

So, let me get this straight--it's "holy" for parents to ask the government to protect their kids from books with LGBTQ+ characters, but it's "evil" for parents to ask the government why it didn't do more to keep their kids from drowning in a flood.

Yup. And I’ve written before about how after the Klan took power in Colorado in the 1920s, they tried to dismantle the entire public health system in the state. The idea was that they would rebuild each org with Klan members in charge and with a klan mission.