Kimberly Katz

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

Herzl Halevi was IDF COS until March. He confirms that 10% of #Gaza's population have been killed or injured, more than 200 K people, just the same count as the #Palestinian Health Ministry's.
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The mendacity is breathtaking - blaming universities, which bent over backwards to host Kirk’s hate-speech TPUSA events, spending thousands on extra security with minimal student interest, over the objection of the many targeted by his attacks & forced to watch him pocket their student fees… 1/

For some, the further up one ascends, the less moored to reality, ethics, and justice they become.

Ezra- Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things.  What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence.  When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours.  Marisa

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good.

Happy Labor Day!

#DefendHigherEd

Talk about not knowing how to read the moment…

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW

by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social

justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.

If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

Dems are Clintonians playing the game of alternating with Republicans for the sake of corporations. They think right now it is the other team's turn so they don't want to speak out of turn. Anyway the corporations they serve are fine either way. Same as letting Netanyahu genocide the Palestinians.

BREAKING: A plane just crashed in Covington, GA, leaving two dead. That’s the seventh plane crash in recent weeks.

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

The muted market reaction to Trump's tariff and Treasury threats suggests that investors discount whatever he says as the ravings of a confused, weak old man. And this is working to his advantage!

🚨 Must-read analysis from @mattduss.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com on Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

It is 100 percent their fault. They intentionally shut out AOC in favor of an old white guy with cancer. They turned Harris's "fuck those people are so weird" campaign vibe into standard James Carville pablum. It is their fault. And we are all paying the price.

@democrats.org might also drill down on the fact that the drunk, misogynistic SecDef is nowhere to be see.

If the @democrats.org were serious, they would hammer the fact that co-presidents Musk and Trump can’t keep Americans safe.

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik

Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

Now that Trump claimed the ceasefire as his victory, Netanyahu will have problems going forward if he scuttles this.

Biden: "The Palestinian people deserve peace and the right to determine their own future. Israel deserves peace and real security. And the hostages and their family deserve to be reunited."

Apparently elected Dems were disappointed not to hear from more immigration advocates/activists that the Laken Riley Act was bad.

Elected Dems, if you really need *us* to tell you that expanding ICE detention + letting TX dictate imm policy is bad pls step aside NOW for those who already get it

Hitting all the far-right approved talking points I see. Celebrating aggression just before Mr Dictator and his lawless crew take over is not too subtle