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The best art/craft can make us uncomfortable

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Eric Otieno Sumba remembers Marie Nejar, the last Black survivor of Nazi Germany. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: ‘The repression is growing, but so is the resistance’ - The Guardian

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This speaks to me in so many ways.

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Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi, fresh out of U.S. detention, walks the graduation stage https://gothamist.com/news/columbias-mohsen-mahdawi-fresh-out-of-us-detention-walks-the-graduation-stage

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We’ve endorsed Food Aid for Gaza, an open call from the Jewish Community to support food aid for People in Gaza and an end to the Israeli Government's food aid blockade. Will you take a minute to sign on & share? www.foodaidforgaza.org

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Opinion | To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction - The Guardian

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I knit a couch throw.

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My latest YouTube tutorial to go live - Knitting Backwards with German Short Rows! #KnitSky 🧶 youtu.be/kjzvHehjOFA?...

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#knitsky @romidesigns.bsky.social is offering her #Colorica sweater (dk weight!) for just $2 through May 11. Romi’s designs are so gorgeous I already own several of her ebooks. She (& I) would love you all to take advantage of this special deal. Happy knitting! 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his US citizenship helped launch a $1 million fundraising campaign to strengthen the legal safety net for immigrants in Vermont on Thursday, a week after a federal judge freed him from custody.

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My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

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I need to research knitting beginner books! Not how to knit books, but guides to techniques. Like a beginners guide to brioche, mosaic, cables, that kinda thing. Books that guide you through a new technique, step by step. Any recommendations? TIA! (pls repost if possible too, ta 😘) #knitsky 🧶

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Another MAJOR turnout among many protests throughout Washington, D.C. today. Folks are standing up against the use of the Alien Enemies Act. #Protests #DayOfAction #MayDay

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Sharing a little family history in the letters of @lrb.co.uk

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Thanks to Elon Musk and his nighttime crew of computer hackers and misanthropes at DOGE, the door is closing on chances for countless young adults with disabilities to live with dignity and self-sufficiency. We must stop this fanatical destruction of opportunity for young people with disabilities.

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forward.com/opinion/7127...

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That’s my senator!

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The Republican “SAVE Act” isn’t just unnecessary (citizenship is already a voting requirement) — it would also disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens who don’t have passports or access to their birth certificate, or who recently changed their name. It’s dead on arrival in the Senate.

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Expected and short sited www.wired.com/story/nist-t...

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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

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The week Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the regime, I was reading King Lear. I tried to make sense of it for @thenation.com . www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Good story from the New York Times here on some of the medical research that is threatened by the cuts to federal funding to universities www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

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“Who has the right to have rights?” Khalil asked. “It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is not an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

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OK I teased this the other day--here's me and Jessie Lee Rubin (my daughter) in the Guardian: "Columbia University is now at the vanguard of our political...moment, serving the Trumpist agenda of 'free speech except Palestine' and 'free of DEI except Zionism'." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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I’ll be on WBAI’s “Beyond the Pale” in a few minutes to discuss our friend Mahmoud Khalil www.wbai.org

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Just in case you still thought that the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters was about protecting Jews, Laura Loomer et al. have just made the entire Heschel School, PK-12, a target because its admin is married to the judge who halted Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation. forward.com/fast-forward...

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National museums in the UK are hamstrung by outdated and confusing laws around restitution. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, argues that it’s time for politicians to give them greater autonomy over their collections

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Scenes from the coffee shop. Swatching with vintage Ber-Mel Shetland Floss (color Regency This prep for @woollygoodedinburgh where I’ll be talking about Shetland wool and knits in the US.

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