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Supreme Court will hear case on Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship The Trump administration asked the justices to take up the case on an expedited basis in September after lower courts found the policy unconstitutional and blocked it.

The hallmark of fascism is to strip citizenship from those it demonizes

Lack of citizenship makes one deportable. If other states don't permit you entry? In Nazi Germany, this is when concentration camps turned into death camps.

We already have camps (aka immigration detention jails).

BREAKING: The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel just voted to drop the hepatitis B birth dose from its recommendations.

This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy.

A disaster for public health.

Thereupon, by Fieldwork 9 track album

Can't get enough of @vijayiyer.bsky.social when his hands are on the Rhodes and the startling amount of deep spaces it conjures, so this new Fieldwork is key: fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereu...

Alam Khan, Vijay Iyer, Nitin Mitta • Sanctuary [EP]

out today

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happy @bandcamp.com friday

This new EP is beautiful. It sounds like the piano, sarode, and tabla were meant to speak to each other.

Also just released SANCTUARY, a new EP with dear brothers Alam Khan (sarode) and Nitin Mitta (tabla)

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Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

Context:

Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).

Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I don't remember who I saw link to this, but it's one of the better essays on teaching that I've read (where "better" means, at least partly, giving voice to something close to, yet alien from, my own experiences of teaching).

“Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith joined pianist Vijay Iyer for a set that radiated quiet intensity... a dialogue that felt both ritualistic and exploratory… the partnership achieved a perfect equilibrium, conjuring drama and form in a moving performance capped by a standing ovation.”

It's really worth pausing for a moment to reflect on just how badly education has been fucked under capitalism, in which students are increasingly no longer being assigned books or meaningful reading & analysis of any kind. In which gamifying "outcomes" overshadows, well, education.

deans, provosts, & presidents are increasingly overruling faculty recommendations

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“a group interplay you could compare to the whirling compressor blades of a jet turbine”

from N. Chinen’s Best of 2025

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happy vinyl holidays!

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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

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OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay that cited the Bible. According to a statement released Sunday, the university wrote it is taking these concerns seriously and has begun a full review of the situation. “The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter,” the statement read.

Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.

In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Universities are cooked.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

The Infinity of Jack DeJohnette The drums are almost beside the point: It was his absolute presence in every musical situation, across a half-century, that made him one of the creative giants of our time

"[Jack DeJohnette] is a person who for around 50 years, dating from his early work with Charles Lloyd and Jackie McLean, circa 1966, up through In Movement, released in 2016, managed to sound, at every point along this timeline, deeply and restlessly contemporary, forever on the edge."

Hasn’t he been saying this for ten years, starting with his “birther” campaign in 2015?

I’ll never understand the “shocked, shocked” vibe of these folks

Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case Request submitted weeks after Donald Trump called on Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister

He wants to be pardoned with no admission of guilt or wrongdoing. There is no public interest in dropping prosecution of his blatant corruption.

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11/29. 💧 Aqua Vitae
Vijay Iyer - Mutations (2014 - #jazz #repetitivemusic) 🌊 Mutation VI: Waves
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.

Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.

This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible