Prathap Nair

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Call for Pitches: looking for a review-essay on boys and men, connecting the Netflix series Adolescence; Richard Reeves’s work; Scott Galloway’s new book Notes on Being a Man; “To Be A Boy” podcast; Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (UK); Michael Smerconish’s CNN special; and related stuff.

Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze University announces move as it tries to restore $400m in funds frozen over alleged failure to protect Jewish students

More and more people are calling the Israeli genocide of Palestinians what it is -- genocide, by Israel.

But in the academy, we're being steamrolled by a machinery operating according to its own logic.

My ill wishes to everyone responsible for this oppression:

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thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Gaza will be as infamous as Auschwitz and this Genocide will be remembered with far more shame because the West covered it up and supplied the bombs.

A man sits quietly in the filtered light of a veranda, cradling a cat in his arms—an image rendered with restraint and tenderness in this large-scale watercolor by Lars Lerin. At Home exemplifies Lerin’s ability to draw intimacy from stillness. His layered washes and softened contours evoke not only the warmth of light on a wooden interior, but the deeper, emotional texture of solitude shared. One of Sweden’s most esteemed contemporary artists, Lerin is widely celebrated for his mastery of watercolor and his meditative, often autobiographical depictions of Northern domesticity and landscape. A prolific author and television figure, his reputation is grounded in the quiet integrity of works like this—where silence, affection, and time itself seem to settle visibly onto paper.

And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
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TWIBS: PA Punishes Angry Gay Grandpa — Assigned Last year, activist James Lantz, known online as Angry Gay Grandpa, was arrested for a demonstration in PA. Now, they want to take thousands of dollars from a man with terminal cancer for the sin of… ...

This is the kind of thing you'd see in a movie as a scene to establish how cartoonishly evil the villain is.

TWIBS brought to by @alyssaur.bsky.social

“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.”

“I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.”

— Francesca Albanese

Interesting paper on why people follow rules:

Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.

Stop travelling to America.

It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism

If you’re American, stop going to Florida

They built a concentration camp in 8 days

They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare

As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10

at this point if you still subscribe to the new york times and/or participated in their movie quiz and/or use wordle etc man what are you DOING

Screenshot of NYT subscription cancellation page!

I cancelled my NYT subscription.

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.

How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?

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TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:

I was a young Metro reporter at the Times in the 80s and watched how hard the "establishment" worked to defeat or horn in anything that smacked of progressivism in city politics.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Schlimm genug: Die Überwachungssoftware #Palantir wird in den USA gegen kritische Stimmen & eigene Bevölkerung eingesetzt.

Doch mittlerweile wird sie auch hier genutzt.

@afelia.bsky.social on point: "Es ist designt für Totalüberwachung. Es ist in seinem Grund inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie."

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones It comes after the UK Covid Inquiry revealed officials had deleted messages shared during the pandemic.

Keine einzige Regierung dieser Welt sollte WhatsApp nutzen.

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Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

The Payback, by Kashana Cauley. “Wickedly fun.” -Danzy Senna

Advance praise for the payback

Summary of book, “a novel of great fun and unforgettable fury.” -Megha Majumdar

Finished copies!

the main difference between the bush administration and this one is that the neoconservative ideologues have been replaced with people who want to see explosions on the tv

It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.