Tyler Kingkade

How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed Former staff members in Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program say it encouraged a healthy dialogue, but critics accused it of antisemitism.

The Religion and Public Life program at Harvard's Divinity School attracted a devoted cohort of students, and signed up famous folks like Maggie Rogers, Alice Hoffman & André Holland as fellows.

Then it fell apart after it was hit with antisemitism accusations.

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How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed Former staff members in Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program say it encouraged a healthy dialogue, but critics accused it of antisemitism.

NEW: Harvard's Divinity School created a program on bringing peace to religiously-influenced conflicts. It attracted a devoted cohort of students, & traveled w/ them to the West Bank

But after it was accused of antisemitism, it fell apart

This is how it happened

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After Cleveland Clinic expanded to Florida, patients say surprise fees followed Hospitals can charge patients hundreds of dollars in facility fees — even for routine outpatient appointments. Some residents of Florida’s Treasure Coast have had enough.

The Cleveland Clinic defended its use of facility fees -- for instance, one woman my colleagues spoke to paid a $174 facility fee for a 15 minute meeting with a gastroenterologist -- as an “appropriate practice” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Saw “Fantastic Four” and it is good, plus no homework required to understand the plot.

Also curious what scientists will think of it — it’s the first Marvel movie that had technology and space ships more like “Apollo 13” than “Star Wars”

Dead children, malnutrition and a lack of aid: Gaza's humanitarian crisis worsens Hundreds of Palestinians in the enclave have been killed trying to collect aid, while dozens of people, including children, have died from malnutrition.

"Even we, the young ones, can barely walk due to lack of food,” said Walid Abu Mohsen, a father of seven.

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documentary directors really be like, I gotta get me some drone footage of the town this happened in

How the deadliest hours of the devastating Texas floods unfolded This part of Texas Hill Country is known for flash floods. Why were so many people caught off guard when the river turned violent?

14 of my colleagues helped put together this story on how the Texas floods unfolded - down to the details of what girls at the Mystic camp were eating for dinner before the warnings came in

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A Michigan State University store accidentally armed teachers with small knives this week

This is the description of someone detained by ICE, who says she still supports Trump

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Israeli strike kills a 5-month-old girl and her parents in Gaza “A 5-month-old baby girl: Here are Netanyahu’s targets,” Yaqeen's uncle said after Israeli strikes killed or injured at least 50,000 children in Gaza, according to UNICEF.

"Yaqeen was conceived in war. She died in a fireball."

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Federal Judge Tells LAPD to Stop Shooting at Journalists U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera blocked Los Angeles police from using less lethal munitions and other crowd control weapons against reporters—and told them to stop arresting journalists.

"A federal judge just had to remind police that they shouldn’t shoot at journalists" newrepublic.com/post/197885/...

Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave

power not to the people i guess www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Inside the Univ. of Virginia gun incident that drew DOJ's ire In a letter released after President Jim Ryan resigned, the Justice Department questioned U.Va.'s handling of an alleged hate crime against a Jewish student.

Newly-obtained records and interviews reveal how the DOJ pressured UVA over a student's disciplinary case, calling the university's handling of it "disturbing"

This is a key piece of the DOJ probe of UVA that largely escaped national attention

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Inside the Univ. of Virginia gun incident that drew DOJ's ire In a letter released after President Jim Ryan resigned, the Justice Department questioned U.Va.'s handling of an alleged hate crime against a Jewish student.

NEW: Trump administration officials pressured UVA to terminate a student disciplinary case. 10 days later, UVA did just that.

This was part of simmering controversy - that had not received national attention - around an alleged hate crime moving through the courts

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Interim U.S. attorney orders Times Union removed from media list The Times Union published a story last month about interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III listing a boarded-up residence in Albany as his address.

Interim US Attorney appointed by the Trump admin lists a boarded up house as his residence. After a local paper reported that, he ordered his press office not to send news releases to them

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“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..”

@niemanreports.org #Hellsite
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DHS used anonymous pro-Israel site to target activists for deportation, agency says in court DHS said at a trial Wednesday that it used a list from the site, which has been accused of doxxing people whom it sees as being anti-Israel and antisemitic.

A senior DHS official said today in court that "It’s true, many of the names, or even most of the names" of pro-Palestinian college students and scholars targeted for visa revocation came from the Canary Mission website www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Me: I'm not going to support Amazon and buy stuff I don't need during its Prime sales

Also me: oh fuck a case of Poppi is only $18!!

Under Obama, Trump 1.0 and Biden, the Ed Dept did not say who filed a complaint to prompt a federal investigation, but that now appears to be the norm under Trump 2.0 -- latest example today of an investigation into whether schools banning Native American mascots is discrimination

I'll be very curious as to how many grad students, law students, med students, etc turn to private student loans;

private student loans currently only account for about 10-15% of all outstanding student debt, but they have no caps on monthly payments nor any forgiveness programs

Trump kicks off a yearlong celebration of America's 250th anniversary in Iowa On the eve of the July 4th holiday, Trump said "there could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago, when Congress passed the one big beautiful...

Yes it was a headline on the homepage (see above in thread).

Not trying to pick a fight here btw; just saying I think we did a decent job covering this one speech. If you'd like, compare to local coverage of it www.kcci.com/article/trum... www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

for comparison...

I call on Oxford University to release all records they have on me. I sent them my ACT scores for funsies when I was 17

So, he’s saying Columbia should release admissions records on someone who they did NOT admit to their university??

The Trump admin is trying to make ordinary, robust reporting practices into a crime.

Every time they accuse reporters of being nefarious by doing their job, they chill investigative reporting.

Nothings going to scare me away from my daily hot dog

I've never seen the federal government issue findings that a university violated a civil rights law without saying what it wants the school to do to fix it -- as the Trump admin did with Harvard today www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.

In light of the SCOTUS decision this week, and w/r/t class action suits, this case I wrote about earlier this month suddenly becomes more relevant www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's unclear what the gov't will do. The agencies are supposed to, as of right now, restore funding as the case proceeds. But the Trump admin could appeal and ask for a stay pending appeal, meaning (if approved) the UC researchers wouldn't get their money back yet

Next hearing is July 2

The harms that Plaintiffs have suffered—and Plaintiffs and the public will continue to suffer absent preliminary injunctive relief—are significant. Plaintiffs have shown that the grant terminations have brought their research to a grinding halt, will likely result in layoffs, and may lead to the total loss or paring back of projects that were years in the making. This harms the public interest as well as Plaintiffs. For example, Thakur and her team were within months of completing a three-year project aimed to “help protect communities across California during wildfire smoke events.” (Dkt. No. 10 ¶ 25.) Using highly spatially and temporally detailed maps, the research seeks to identify “where smoke exposure may be very high” even when “daily exposure averages” are not. (Id.) Without restoration of funding, her research, with immediate “direct clinical and public health relevance,” cannot be completed and will go unpublished

The judge also pointed to research by the plaintiffs that was cut off -- particularly one studying which communities were at heightened risk for health problems from wildfire smoke