yeahhhh there’s no way i would be visiting the us right now if i were from another country, let’s be honest
I finally watched this quietly powerful movie. “For me, a lot of acting is withholding…Withdrawing and leaving space for the audience to do the work. Letting the audience interpret the emotions that you’re transmitting nonverbally. My favorite film acting is acting in repose, acting in reflection.”
"Numerous employees have reported to me that their bank accounts are at zero or negative," said AFGE TSA Council 100’s Johnny Jones. “No funds for daycare, no funds for food. They just want to know why the hell they can’t get paid when we have money to shoot missiles into other countries."
Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.
“A federal judge in Washington on Saturday ordered that Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, be granted more information and be allowed to participate in a planning meeting about the future of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts”
“When you’re targeting water infrastructure, you’re directly affecting a civilian population,” said Mohammed Mahmoud, Middle East Lead for the U.N. University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. “That's absolutely a war crime to attack infrastructure that civilians are so dependent on”
“International law prohibits attacking or destroying infrastructure indispensable to the survival of civilians. That includes water infrastructure…
Still, the episodes on Qeshm Island & Bahrain “appear to not be inadvertent or collateral damage, but an intentional, direct targeting of those systems”
“Desalination facilities are complex, and extensive damage could take a long time to repair.
While countries like the United Arab Emirates have tried to build up strategic water reserves, analysts say that some stocks would be depleted within days.”
“…they hung on each others’ necks and wept; and the loud cries of “My brother! My dear brother” [were heard] …one was in the British [army] and the other in the American service, totally ignorant until that hour that they were engaged in hostile combat against each other’s life”
What a moving moment. Maguire “suddenly darted like lightning…and resolutely plunged into the stream.
At the very same moment, one of the American soldiers… dashed into the water… The wondering soldiers on both sides, beheld them eagerly swim towards the middle of the river, where they met”
“Damage to a single large desalination plant, including a plant shutdown, could have immediate and widespread effects on the region, said Menachem Elimelech, an environmental engineer at Rice University.
The Al Dur plant in Bahrain, for example, supplies over one million people with water each day”
A minor point in the grand scheme of Trump's unhinged approach to... everything, but saying it is "easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine or deliver a close range missile somewhere, does somewhat contradict his claim of destroying 100% or Iran's military capacity.
Days after declaring total victory and boasting that no other military could match the US, Trump is now begging other countries — including China — to send warships to stop his Iran war from spiraling into catastrophe.
A galactic humiliation.
I get messages from high schoolers regularly asking about the future of science.
“Mr. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for Affinity Partners, his investment firm, according to five people with knowledge of the talks who were not permitted to speak publicly about the discussions.”
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
“Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment. Even a state prisoner on a hunger strike has more rights to make medical decisions.
Those rulings give the state vast control over pregnant women.”
“Both women had three prior C-sections… And both women are Black.
They had argued that compelling them to have C-sections violated their rights to make medical decisions. Hospital staff said their medical decisions threatened the health of the fetus. It would be up to the courts to decide”
“Although Makayla was fully vaccinated against measles, she also had autoimmune encephalitis, a disorder where the immune system attacks the brain's cells, according to the Cleveland Clinic. This condition — with which she was diagnosed at 5 years old — left her especially vulnerable to infections”
“When the government and the financial system mandate that we buy a product, there’s a special obligation to make sure the pricing is fair,” said Doug Heller... “To me that is an absolutely solid reason, just like we don’t allow pricing based on race or income or ethnicity or religion”
“The choice to use credit scores in pricing means that those lower-credit home owners in risky areas are effectively subsidizing more affluent high-credit homeowners who also live in risky areas,” said Nick Graetz, assistant professor of sociology at the University for Minnesota”
“That can mean owners of identical homes… pay wildly different rates to insure them. For most people, it’s now just as expensive to have a credit score of “fair” as it is to live in an area likely to experience a disaster like a hurricane or wildfire.”
“While those with poor credit histories often can’t purchase homes at all, people with “fair” scores, which range from around 580 to 669, are paying twice as much in some places as people with “excellent” scores of about 800 or higher. And the gap is growing.”
This reminds me of the time when we ate at the “kitchen view” counter at the restaurant of a 3x James Beard award winning chef and it was an incredibly uncomfortable experience because he spent the whole time yelling at everybody in the kitchen
“Dominique Crenn, the first woman in the United States to head a restaurant with three Michelin stars, said it is well past time to change the notion that performing at the highest level in the world’s top kitchens requires humiliation, intimidation or violence.”
I just had virtually the same conversation with my nephew (humanities edition) - he’s graduating college in May and had wanted to go into academia but says it’s totally infeasible with so many departments not taking grad students and funding drying up.
We’re losing an entire generation of scholars.
Our local news coverage of the attack on the temple in West Bloomfield is light years ahead of national coverage.
Detroit, Dearborn, and SE Michigan is not utopia. However, there is a very long history of interfaith cooperation here. Many of us mourn for and with our Jewish and Muslim neighbors.
“A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from demanding detailed student admissions data from colleges, a mandate that a group of 17 Democratic state attorneys general have argued is unlawful.”
The radical anti-tax activists have driven up our national debt to make themselves richer.
It's the same playbook private equity has used to get rich killing companies.
It is time to build our future instead of looting it: bethfordemocracy.com
“At the end of Thursday, many of the smallest children at Temple Israel remained oblivious to the terror… Another parent said that her 3-year-old son was cheerful, happily recounting that he got to ride on a yellow school bus. It was a great day, he told her.”
