Happy to know that our Mayor and First Lady are safe, but horrified that there was such a disturbing threat of violence outside their residence.
Vile displays of Islamophobia will never be tolerated in our city.
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
I’m surprised it was the anti-ballet/opera comment that got him and not his “fall of western values” bullshit he was saying about KPop Demon Hunter.
That boy has a conservative heel turn in his near future. I just feel it.
Thanks for this heroic work, Dan, may it have the needed results.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
Monstrous.
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching.
Pressurized pure oxygen.
Raw camel milk.
Under RFK Jr., the FDA has taken down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
The thing about Timothee Chalamet choosing to shit on ballet and opera is that his mom “majored in dance at LaGuardia High School and attended Yale University on a ballet scholarship. As a child, she danced with the New York City Ballet and later went on to perform in several Broadway musicals.”
Ben Stiller asked the White House X account to leave “Tropic Thunder” out of its deranged propaganda video, saying ‘War is not a movie.’ The montage, which mixes movie scenes with real Iran footage, is offensive to anyone with a brain.
Condoleezza Rice was just seen walking into the White House, according to reporters on X
1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.
It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.
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That’s not true. But Mao Zedong swam across the Yangtze River to avoid an interview with Chotiner.
Guardian US opinion: Good riddance to Kristi Noem. Her replacement won’t be an improvement.
I wrote about Kristi Noem’s exit from DHS. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mullin would be the first cabinet member since the 1950s without at least a bachelors degree.
The thrill of submitting a test page and having it come back okayed!
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
