Please join us in congratulating the 2025 ABA Young Birders of the Year, Killian Sullivan from Gahanna, Ohio, and Elias Markee-Ratner from New York, New York!

Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...

JVP does it again!!

Introducing “Elie v. U.S.” Politics / March 7, 2025 Introducing “Elie v. U.S.” A preview of Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Elie Mystal Share Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Ad Policy Representative Al ...

My dear friend @elienyc.bsky.social has a new newsletter—“Elie v. U.S.”—going live via @thenation. It's great and you should subscribe. Elie's words are some of the only things keeping me going these days. Now you can get them in your inbox every Friday.
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A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.

Wherein @elienyc.bsky.social YC does a close reading of all that is wrong, misleading, unconstitutional, and deeply fucked up about Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Honestly, it's even worse than I thought. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

TikTok’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court Most of the justices seemed unpersuaded by TikTok's arguments against the ban on the company—but that doesn’t meant TikTok is gone forever (cue Donald Trump…)

As the great @elienyc.bsky.social predicted last week in this piece @thenation.com, the Supreme Court has ruled against TikTok. Since SCOTUS didn't offer any explanation as to why, you can read Elie's piece to get a sense of what they may have been thinking.
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An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen Biden's decision to commute Allen's death sentence deserves praise and gratitude, but the president should go even further—and free an innocent man.

Profound thanks to @dr_yusefsalaam for this incredibly powerful piece appealing to Joe Biden to use his final days as president to pardon Billie Allen, a man who's been fighting to establish his innocence—and win back his freedom—for most of his adult life.. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Ok, the Mo’s of The Nation is brilliant! We need to make that term official.

The Fire This Time California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.

As wildfires scorch LA, I find myself thinking a lot about this piece that the great @BenEhrenreich wrote just over 6 years ago. It haunts me in a deep and painful way—another unheeded warning that was, itself, an echo of so many other unheeded warnings.
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Oh, this is heartbreaking and terrible. I am pummeled for you, Mohammed.

The Supreme Court Prepares to Take Its First Shot at Contraception A case just added to the high court’s docket takes on the question of whether Medicaid can be used to pay for services at medical providers that also perform abortions.

And so it begins: having overturned the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court has officially docketed the first case that could undermine the right to contraception, specifically for poor Americans. It's a doozy. Here, @ElieNYC explains as only he can. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Guide to Some of the Key Movers and Influencers in Trump's Orbit While showboats like Elon Musk and RFK Jr. get all the attention, the real power in a second Trump term is likely to be wielded by quietly effective bureaucrats and policy intellectuals like these men...

Today @thenation, the brilliant @lehmannchris & @elivalley team up to provide an enlightening—if somewhat nauseating—guide to some of the key influencers in Trump's orbit. These folks may not be household names, but you should definitely get to know who they are.
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What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, post-apocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.

This weekend, @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social's film THE END goes wide across the US. It's dreamy, unsettling & deep has hell—literally: it's set in a salt mine. This interview of Oppenheimer by Peter Sellars is a wild tour through the minds of two brilliant artists. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My Brother, Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, Died Because He Fed Gaza’s Starving Citizens His killing by Israel sent a chilling message that no one is safe, including humanitarians who stand in the way of Gaza’s erasure.

For 14 months, Mahmoud Almadhoun kept hope & humanity alive in north Gaza with his soup kitchen, medical clinic, and small school. His life was proof, writes his brother, that even in the darkest moments, some rise to serve others. Rest in power, Chef Mahmoud. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Search for Special Case–Baby 1 Who was buried in the lonely grave in New York’s potter’s field? The year-long search led to a lost world in the history of AIDS.

In 2009, I found out about a child who was buried in New York City's potters field and was described as the first child to have died of AIDS in the city. This is the story of my search to understand who the child was—and to tell a lost story about HIV/AIDS.
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