Neda Ulaby

I don’t believe Trump cares enough about public broadcasting to make himself chair. There are no celebrities involved. No Broadway musicals. You can’t see yourself on TV. He wouldn’t want to tarnish his brand by chairing a bunch of earnest nerds.

Detroit is rich in fantastic Arabic food, thanks in part to its proximity to Dearborn. Try Saffron De Twah or the upscale Leila.

Embarrassingly, the @nytimes.com flunked its own Vogue test- Wasserstein depicted Mount Holyoke women #sevensistersfail

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

Citing "the concerns expressed by many of our brothers and sisters regarding fears of attending Mass due to potential immigration enforcement actions by civil authorities," the Bishop of San Bernardino issues a decree dispensing the faithful in his diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass.

An incredible American tragedy.

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

In a public statement, interim U-M President Domenico Grasso stated the University will be terminating contracts for plainclothes security on campus.

It’s incredible but not surprising how much western media is blacking out one of the most recognizable and important activists in the world in Greta Thunberg going to Gaza on a single unarmed boat with food for starving children.

It should be an hourly story with huge ratings and clicks.

Five favorite B&W movies:
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Psycho
Touch of Evil
Shock Corridor
Ikiru

pitching my comic idea to DC: aquaman's new archnemesis is called Man Ray. no, not a half human half manta ray monster. Man Ray, the surrealist painter and photographer. he just challenges aquaman's preconceptions about formalism

Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

I was surprised to see the @nytimes.com didn’t give credit to @npr.org’s @bobbyallyn.bsky.social, who reported this first:

3 detained, released in FBI raid on Ypsilanti home The raid happened around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 23. A pro-Palestinian protest group is on scene alleging the raid was against some of its members.

www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Totally major but not A list.

One of the many things I loved about Sinners was that MBJ was the only huge star. I get tired of the same actors over and over and the cast was a revelation.

If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you The VA says it's about to shut down the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

The VA says it's about to shut down the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

Half the World’s People Depend on Rice. New Research Says Climate Change Will Make it Toxic - Inside Climate News Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other ...

Seems bad.

"Half the World’s People Depend on Rice. New Research Says Climate Change Will Make it Toxic"

insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...

Incredible. Disheartening.

My Saluki overlord

What are words or phrases in English and other languages expressing the impulse to pull away from the overstimulation and stress of contemporary life? I know about hikikomori in Japanese; are there others?

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained

"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene..."

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's full story:
zeteo.com/p/scoop-emai...

The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First. It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

Seeing Anthony Roth Constanzo as Rinaldo at the Detroit Opera tonight made everything all better for a while.

5319 Ellis Rd, Ypsilanti Twp, MI 48197 - 3 beds/1.5 baths (REALCOMP) For Sale: 3 beds, 1.5 baths ∙ 2289 sq. ft. ∙ 5319 Ellis Rd, Ypsilanti Twp, MI 48197 ∙ $625,000 ∙ MLS# 20250010850 ∙ MCM Gem meets Homestead Life on 14 Acres, 12 Minutes from UM Stadium! (No...

I want one of my friends, or a future friend, to buy this midcentury modern llama farm 10 min from my house here in Michigan: www.redfin.com/MI/Ypsilanti...

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

Many of the lefty people I know eyeballing properties in other countries seem blithely unconcerned about the effects of their gentrification on local communities. Already, Portuguese and Mexicans, among others, have been priced out of great swaths of their own cities.

Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.

Finally got to this, and guessing the jawdropping line “That’s Jim Crow, literally” would’ve been too much even for the Succession writing room. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

There’s something so Hitchcockian about the notion that the birds may get us in the end.

Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) | On the Media | WNYC Studios The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises. 

not the first to say it, but thanks to @micahloewinger.bsky.social and the @onthemedia.bsky.social team for this smart look at what perils might await public media

Thankful to be sober. It’s liberating AF not to be drinking AT anyone or anything right now.