Misty Copeland took her final bow as an American Ballet Theatre principal dancer on Wednesday, a role she's had for the past 10 years.

There we are.

(I forgot to link the free version. Here it is: archive.is/rfoT1)

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading.

Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd.

Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal Thursday The proposed structure would comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform wasn't sold to U.S.-based owners this year.

🚨 Trump will sign an executive order today to hand TikTok over to his friend Larry Ellison. The White House confirmed that users' data will be stored at Ellison's Oracle and the algorithm would be "retrained."

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.

God take me not the whiskey 😭

The age old question The blog of Neil Steinberg

“What if it's not about immigration? Not about borders. Or citizenship. Not crime. Or culture. … What if it's really about creating a faceless paramilitary force that follows no law, and is accountable to no one, except one man."
–Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social

period reminder that incomprehensible piece of shit jerry falwell helped invent the evangelical objection to abortion so that they could gain enough political power to claw back gains made by Black Americans and other marginalized groups achieved during the Civil Rights era of the 1960's

It’s getting harder and harder to tell The Onion apart from news outlets…

At some point I noticed he was drifting. More and more antagonizing marginalized groups, more obstinate refusal to acknowledge privilege, more conspiracy theories, and so many episodes about aliens. It lost it’s appeal eventually

I used to listen. I never thought of him as insightful, but I did feel like he had interesting guests and approached conversations with earnestness and curiosity that made for some (not all) great conversations. I haven’t listened in years though.

'When the ancient slave, crucified by his master, writhed in ineffable agony, when the serf collapsed under the rod of the corvée overseer or under the burden of labor and misery, at least the crime of man against man, of society against the individual, lay open, exposed, atrocious in its nakedness, blatant in its brutality. The crucified slave, the martyred serf, died with a curse on the lips, and his dying gaze met his tormentors with hatred and a promise of revenge. Only bourgeois society draws a veil of invisibility over its crimes.' - Rosa Luxemburg

Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.

yeah pretty much www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...

I’m always looking for good explainers I could show students, and this report is great and the viz work makes me miss when websites had graphic design

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English UN's Francesca Albanese slams US sanctions as retaliation for exposing Gaza war crimes

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NC Gov. Josh Stein vetoes bill allowing private schools to let teachers carry guns In a statement, Stein said the bill would “make our children less safe.”

I am so fucking tired

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I can’t help but imagine 10th grade history students discussing this image 60 years from now as an illustration of striking cruelty, political manipulation of anti-immigrant fervor, xenophobia, and really sloppy looking propaganda at a key historical turning point in the global balance of power…

Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

An absolutely monumental piece from @polgreen.bsky.social this morning. Appreciate the research, array of sources, and nuanced thinking on the complicated issue of migration.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

Some of you have already succumbed to fascism. You've lost your sense of humanity. I hope you find it again.

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

State Department Revokes Bob Vylan's Visa Over Glastonbury Performance The Department of State revoked Bob Vylan's U.S. visa following their performance at Glastonbury, where the duo advocated to 'free Palestine.'

Revoking an artist's visa for their speech, no matter how controversial, doesn't make us safe.

The government should not be policing the artistic or political expression of citizens, visitors, or anyone else.

The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.*
The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship.
That way led to war once.
My latest in @thenation.com

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders