Esty Schachter

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

NEW: Alabama is executing a man next week, Anthony Boyd, who was convicted entirely based on contradictory eyewitness testimony, including from a co-defendant who says he was pressured to testify under the threat he'd get death himself.

@laurengill.bsky.social breaks down the case with days to go:

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Review: ‘The Weekend’ a charming world premiere at Barrington Stage The multilayered play “The Weekend” by Ben Diskant closes out Barrington Stage Company’s season with a clever, entertaining love story set in Stockbridge.

Just back from catching The Weekend at Barrington Stage Company:
barringtonstageco.org/the-weekend/
Agree with Steve Barnes @timesunion.com review: www.timesunion.com/theater/arti...
"Acted with fluidity and nuance by a faultless cast"
Huge props esp. to MCC favorite Sasha Diamond

war-ravaged

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? 

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. 

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026

This is a fantastic way to educate children

It’s a form of resistance.

Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more.

These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

That '70s Movie Podcast is back with Five Easy Pieces:
open.spotify.com/show/7bTN0NQ...
Tune in and find out . . .
How Jackson Browne summarized the movie with a few lines from "You're Bright Baby Blues"
And why its Not that diner scene which is the key to the whole movie, but, actually, this one:

A Friend's Death to Mourn, and to Serve Time for - Bolts An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. His case highlights a particularly harsh doctrine in American criminal punishment: felony murder.

An Alabama teen was shot alongside his friend, then prosecuted for his killing. Felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge defendants with the death of an accomplice, even when the killing was committed by someone else.

"My sentence of life without parole... means I will likely never physically spend time with many of my family and friends ever again. But through these phone calls, I can still rely on their emotional support and encouragement... Without them, I would be lost."

22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

He needed air. The price was $539.

When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

@knecessary.bsky.social

Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social

This administration has proven time and time again that they simply do not care if their policies cause children to die, whether from USAID cuts, measles, or now in this case.

This would be an expensive nightmare to practically implement, Libya is an active war zone with a current pop of only 7 million and in no shape to absorb refugees, and American-led ethnic cleansing should be flatly unacceptable

Casar: "I think any other country looking at us goes, 'Oh my god, what happened to America? How are these billionaires allowed to have such enormous conflicts of interest while they run the government?'"

May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. Expository text: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

If the person in charge of health and human services stands up and calls diabetes an “exotic disease” and says he has never heard of lupus or crohn’s… he should immediately be fired for gross incompetence.

This is eugenics. He’s going after disabled people so they don’t have to pay to treat them.

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In Haverford, 80-somethings and 90-somethings take to the road to protest Trump They saw the Holocaust, WWII and Vietnam, and these senior protesters on Philly's Main Line have seen enough of Trump.

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The DOJ cut grants today for "funding for gun-violence prevention programs, crime-victim advocacy and efforts to combat opioid addiction." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Unbelievable.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The best thing to ever happen to Pablo… Leaving ESPN

He’s good at this!

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles

3 years ago in Bologna I saw David Levithan on a book banning panel warn that book banning would eventually move across the pond. Some folks dismissed the idea, pointing out that the politics of Europe are different. And now today... : www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Cornell Sues DOE for ‘Unlawful’ Cuts to Indirect Costs for Research Grants University administrators announced in a Monday statement that Cornell joined a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Secretary Chris Wright which cut research grant funding for indire...

Cornell too!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...