Kai Lehikoinen

Living in The United States of Embarrassment A few months ago, I confessed to a close friend that I’d been imagining myself in a way I never had before in over half a century of living here in America: I’d been imagining myself as an expat.

Every day here seems to deepen the severity and magnitude of our never-ending national facepalm...

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Yes, absolutely. 😃

Judge Extends Protections for Migrants From Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua In blocking the end of deportation protections for more than 60,000 migrants, the judge said the Trump administration’s language surrounding the program had strayed into racist conspiracy theories.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from ending deportation protections for more than 60,000 migrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua, writing in a withering order that the administration’s language surrounding the program had strayed into racist conspiracy theories.

So true.

Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education This interdisciplinary book explores socially engaged art as a subject of study and its relevance in higher arts education institutions' third mission—giving back to society and engaging with the comm...

Congrats, Anthony, on your timely, valuable new book on ethics in socially engaged art! It aligns perfectly with my new book. Together, they make a vital contribution to the socially engaged arts field. Excited for the conversations this will inspire! www.routledge.com/Creativity-S...

Just out! My new book Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education is now available in hardcover from @routledgebooks.bsky.social

Explore how arts education can shape more inclusive, responsive futures! #SociallyEngagedArt #Creativity #HigherEd #ArtsEducation

Shameful

Appeals court allows Georgetown researcher, previously detained by ICE, to remain free The two judges in the majority found no grounds to disturb a lower-court judge’s ruling freeing Badar Khan Suri from detention in Texas.

A Georgetown University researcher arrested in March by masked ICE agents outside his Virginia home can remain free while he fights his deportation, a federal appeals court has ruled.

This should be fun! #political #hackers

Remember back in school when we all had to say the pledge of allegiance every day?

There was that part at the end.. “Liberty and Justice for all.”

That was a good joke.

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Russia to Replenish Its War Chest President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.

President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.

At this point, Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings should come with a Surgeon General’s warning: “May cause dizziness, gaslighting, and a complete detachment from reality.”

#BookSky

The image shows the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October 1996. This particular display, from October 11-13, 1996, was the last time the entire quilt was shown in its entirety, covering the vast expanse of the National Mall from the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol. It featured over 40,000 panels and drew approximately 1.2 million visitors.

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

What? It’s not intimately about Trump?

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press

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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

Breaking news: The move follows weeks of pressure on Harvard and other elite institutions in the US, including cuts by the Trump administration to billions of dollars of federal funding. www.ft.com/content/300e...

Our First Semi-Finalists are good to go! ✅

Basel 2025 starts TONIGHT at 21:00 CEST 🎉

what if Biden - who is actually Catholic - had done this? Or any politician anywhere on the planet, for that matter, while the church is still in mourning for the late Pope

SORRY, NERDS 5/4 1s DAVE BRUBECK DAY

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending it, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

"In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump’s ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians"
from Natalya Gumenyuk, @theguardian.com

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An Open Letter to Hateful White Americans Dear Hateful White Americans,

I wonder how someone with so many advantages and so much privilege still manages to feel oppressed, still imagines they are marginalized, still feels perpetually under siege by the world around them—a world that has always favored them.

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Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

“When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it,” Phillip Levin, an environmental scientist, writes, adding: “Science is only as resilient as the people who refuse to let it die.”

The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.