Saturday, February 15, 2025

 


Trump threats to revoke status unsettle Ohio’s Ukrainians: ‘The stress is real’

Thousands of Ukrainians who call Cleveland home are in limbo as fate of temporary protected status remains murky


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-tps-ukraine-cleveland

Friday, February 14, 2025

 


Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover (from ‘The Guardian’)

Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/13/kennedy-center-trump-issa-rae-shonda-rhimes


Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery (in ‘The New Yorker’)
 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/danielle-sassoons-american-bravery

Thursday, February 13, 2025

 ‘MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST LET HIM DIE’ 


PART OF AN ARTICLE IN ‘THE NEW YORKER’ about Linda McMahon and the Department of Education:  

‘The future of the Department of Education—and of the students with disabilities who depend on it—will likely hinge less on the person appointed to lead it than on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste. Children, alas, are weak and wasteful by nature, to say nothing of a child who needs a wheelchair, a hearing aid, or a paraprofessional. Trump and Musk’s public statements are instructive here. In 2023, Musk fired a longtime employee of his who has muscular dystrophy and then ridiculed him on Twitter, falsely claiming that he “did no actual work.” (Musk later apologized and indicated that the employee could remain at Twitter; he did not.) As for Trump, according to a memoir written by his nephew, the disability advocate Fred Trump III, the President once commented that some disabled people “should just die,” and said, of Fred’s own son, who is nonverbal and uses a wheelchair owing to a rare genetic disorder, “Maybe you should just let him die.’

 

 'I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.'

-James Baldwin

Wednesday, February 12, 2025


Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment

https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-obey-in-advance/

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

 


‘Chaos’, ‘fear’ and ‘uncertainty’: US representative on Trump’s threats to civil service (in ‘The Guardian’)


Eugene Vindman of Virginia has taken steps to aid federal workers in wake of ‘dangerous’ recent Trump policies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/eugene-vindman-trump-administration-civil-service

 



Monday, February 10, 2025

 


Israeli Police Raid Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem

The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather than legal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/world/middleeast/israel-east-jerusalem-bookstore.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare