Dr. Rita Shah

If I see one more person who can't hold "Khameini was bad for Iranians" and "the US and Israel are worse for Iranians" in their mind at the same, I SWEAR TO GOD

"...you might as well go full Mussolini and invade some random-ass country on a whole other continent. We saw how that ended up for ol’ Benito. And while I offer no predictions about Trump’s ultimate fate, I would encourage him to keep his feet presentable for when he is hung upside down by them.”

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Yes.

Congressman Thomas Massie and Congressman Ro Khanna will move to force a Congressional vote to block President Trump’s strikes on Iran.

Americans? Please call your reps.

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

I cackled.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Rep. Al Green holds up a sign saying "Black People Aren't Apes" in respnse to Trump posting a video on Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. This comes a year after Green was ejected for interrupting Trump's joint address.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40+ days for no reason.

That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses. 

When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens?

I don’t what to do with the fact that someone I cited is on love is blind… #AcademicSky

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Can’t wait for someone(s) to do a full breakdown of the imagery, messaging, etc of that incredible (and incredibly political) halftime show.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

“God bless America”… and then naming every country in the continent. Fuck yeah.

the halftime show is a master class in joy as resistance

It's music video-level production (the camera work alone!), and yet somehow they're filming it live.

this is outstanding camera work

I understand none of this. And yet, I understand all of this.

Remarkable to see sugarcane plantation work depicted in the Superbowl halftime show.

There is SO MUCH bad in the world. Flava Flav being a massive supporter of women/girls sports is one of the things keeping me going.

it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

"A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant."

They killed her, exonerated her killer without an investigation, then tried to illegally investigate her.

New disgusting ICE tactic to harass people protecting kids.

We are all Realists now, yes?

This quote should be posted in every 1L classroom in every law school.

Those cases in your casebook? They are not “the law.”

They aren’t IRRELEVANT to it, but they are just a jumping-off point. Which is a point I think we generally stress too infrequently.

*cries in always carries passport because living in a border zone*