Dilshad D. Ali

This speaks VOLUMES.

First white South Africans arrive in U.S. under Trump’s radically redrawn refugee program - NPR

Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, h...

Death by a firing squad, as a fellow mother of a disabled adult son called it. Words cannot describe the outrage. www.npr.org/2025/04/12/g...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank - CNN

Every Ramadan, more US schools are embracing the needs of fasting Muslim students (RNS) — Public schools are learning to empower their Muslim students so they can be their authentic selves in a place they spend much of their lives.

If you look around, you’ll find public schools helping Muslim students feel comfortable fasting in Ramadan in ways that’s not proselytizing or detracting from the school day. In a time when DEI is in administration’s crosshairs, it’s a balm to the soul. @rns.org

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Crowdsourcing: would love to speak with anyone who has lead hajj travel groups or recently went to hajj, maybe plans to go - about these new hajj rules. Comment below.

What could be worse than the Muslim ban? Plenty. (RNS) — Trump's executive orders are open to interpretation, making it difficult for Muslim communities to discern what is smoke and mirrors and what is meant to deflect from something else.

The executive orders are coming fast and sometimes it's hard to discern what are real threats and what are smoke & mirrors. Two orders in particular are worrying Muslim, Arab, Palestinian and several other minority Amerian groups in this country. My latest for RNS.

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Medicaid Portal That Provides Federal Funding to States Stops Working, Officials Say The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government makes to state programs, and sowed uncertainty for patients, doctors, hospitals and others.

Ummmmm … you know who is helped by Medicaid? My profoundly autistic son D and his peers. Millions of others. Whether this part of the freeze was temporary or not, WTH? And that’s just one part of it.

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Why Costco Isn’t Joining the Backlash Against DEI — The Wall Street Journal Retail giant swats back at a conservative activist group, buoyed by loyal customers and staff

Heck yeah Costco!

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TikTok restoring services in US after Trump pledge TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users in US after President-elect Donald Trump said he would give the app a reprieve.

Banning TikTok was Trump’s thing in his first term. Now he’ll get accolades.

I get that this app is very important to those who have done good and have livelihoods because of it. It also has a bad underbelly. I wish sensible gun laws would get such attention/action.

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Fighting LA's fires from the sky - BBC News How helicopter crews are fighting wildfires in Los Angeles

What a story.

“The Cal Fire helicopter team had one job: slow down the fire so that their fellow firefighters on the ground could successfully contain the blaze. It is a task that their helicopters are perfectly engineered to perform.”

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Estimated Gaza Toll May Have Missed 25,000 Deaths, Study Says Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.

Death toll “may have been missed 25,000 deaths” - no kidding.
via @NYTimes

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Having a guy who is 15 months into arming & funding an active genocide brag about his human rights legacy is just about the most Orwellian and contemptible act of political theater I've seen in my life.

Israel and Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal - live updates An agreement to end 15 months of fighting has been reached after talks in Qatar, its PM confirms.

#ceasefire

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Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines — CNN Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...

Matching incoming administration vibes.

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Pentagon Releases Detainee Held at Guantánamo Since Day 1 The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison.

23 years held. Never charged.

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More than 170 killed after South Korean jet crash-lands at airport. Here’s what we know | CNN Scores of people were killed on Sunday when a passenger jet crash-landed at an airport in southwestern South Korea, with the aircraft careening down the runway on its belly before bursting into flames...

So so tragic. This after the crash of the Azerbaijani aircraft.

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Why Are Too Many Still Making Excuses for Faith Leaders Engaging in Sexual Abuse? - Interfaith America Without systemic changes in sexual and spiritual abuse, boundaries, precautions, communication, and vigilance is what we have in our toolbox.

News of AlMaghrib Quran instructor Wisam Sharieff being charged on acts of sexual abuse roiled Muslim communities. Why are survivors often pushed to forgive? Why do communities make excuses? My latest column for Interfaith America.

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There have been many horrible atrocities in history, but if you told me you could livestream the systematic shredding of children EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. for over a year and the world would just let it continue, I would've called you a liar.

Week 62 of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Shame on humanity.

A second grader called 911 to report a school shooting yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin. Let’s sit with that.

Faith, Disability and Leaving Home - Interfaith America This National Family Caregivers month Dilshad D. Ali hopes for more religious-centered disabled living communities.

How do you prepare your disabled child to move out of your home and let go of whatever faith & family traditions you’ve nurtured in their life? Is it stupid to worry about this when there are so many priorities to consider? My piece for Interfaith America:

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A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results. But scientists warn of big risks | CNN Deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists and entrepreneurs brave sub-zero temperatures, whipping winds and snowstorms to drill holes through the sea ice to pump out the seawater below and freeze it on ...

I applaud scientists for trying to save polar ice caps. But this is like trying to combat symptoms and not addressing root problems - which is out of the hands of these scientists and in the hands of world super powers who have royally mucked this up.

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How should nonprofits prepare for the 'nonprofit killer' bill becoming law? (RNS) — With Americans serving more than 1.5 million tax-exempt nonprofits in the United States, according to the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, House Bill 9495 should concern all of us.

My latest for @rns.org breaks down how nonprofits can prepare should HR 9495, called the “nonprofit killer” becomes law. And why this bill is so problematic.

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You don’t have to celebrate Christmas to enjoy a good Christmas movie now and again - I’m talking yippee ki yay Die Hard.

Good Monday morning to you all!

Not me tearing up over the Great British Bake Off semi final episode. It’s been a week.

Substack’s Great, Big, Messy Political Experiment The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars. But profits remain elusive.

I’ve watched several journalists and media personalities pivot to substack, and others looking to grow a niche audience. But will this company ever become profitable?

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It’s not surprising- extrapolate it across the country.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries

The Guardian defines the parameters of the warrants within international law.

Those states that are signatories to The Rome Statue must abide by the warrants and arrest them, regardless of whether Israel is a signatory.

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