One of many great details in Marc Martorell Junyent’s piece for Democracy in Exile on the EU’s anti-migrant agenda (including its rotten deal with Egypt): disgraced former head of Frontex Fabrice Leggeri is running for European Parliament with Le Pen’s National Rally: dawnmena.org/the-dangerous-…

Read—and listen to—two new poems on Palestine by Yahia Lababidi

How is it that
life carries on,
as they cry for us,
from under the rubble?

dawnmena.org/waking-nightma…

“For xenophobic politicians pushing for a race to the bottom, one refugee on European soil will always be one too many.”

Marc Martorell Junyent on the dangerous myths behind the EU’s push to contain migration, including its recent deal with Egypt: dawnmena.org/the-dangerous-…

So, I come from the part of New York that Congressman Mike Lawler represents.

I've been writing to him since 2023, in the hopes that, I don't know, he would hear something.

This is how that went: 🧵

No victory awaits Israel in Rafah. Only more death and destruction haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0….

This NPR editor decries the loss of its “open-minded, curious culture” but then, grafs later, sounds like a Likudnik complaining about how NPR covers the death toll in Gaza, where nearly 14,000 children have been killed by Israel since October. thefp.com/p/npr-editor-h…

“Even regime loyalists, who in the past saw Iran's presence as strategic, now call it ‘occupation.’ … The Russians are unwelcome too.”

Lina Sinjab لينا سنجاب on her return to Syria: bbc.com/news/world-mid…

The priority, in fact, was dropping 2,000-pound bombs on urban areas.

It's the truth.

'If the President has a policy of never conditioning aid to Israel…it sends a message to the bureaucracy: When you come to me with facts or legal decisions I don’t like, there’s going to be debate…and then they will probably be overturned.” -Sarah Elaine Harrison newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

“Washington is now arming a combatant that the Security Council has ordered to stop fighting, an uncomfortable position that helps explain why the US insists Resolution 2728 isn’t binding. And that reality isn’t lost on the rest of the world.” @attackerman.bsky.social nytimes.com/2024/04/10/opi…

“the most performance-driven uniform in the history of MLB” forgot about every team’s Wet Guy: deadspin.com/every-baseball…

Paraphrasing Trump into coherence is one of the most enduring mistakes that the press makes. Just transcribe his literal words on, say, abortion, so people can be like, Wut?

“Attempts to intimidate both professors and students, or silence them outright, are becoming normalized in a blatant attack on the values that underpin academic freedom,” writes Brendan Ciarán Browne, on the “Palestine exception to free speech.” Democracy in Exile dawnmena.org/i-was-a-target…

What, me worry?

When you cashed-in on your White House service more brazenly than anyone probably ever and are comfortable in Miami knowing Congress won’t investigate you: nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/…

“The goal of toppling Hamas cannot justify abetting a famine that could claim tens of thousands of lives or more… Israel has crossed lines that seemed inviolable before Oct 7. In the process, it has implicated its allies, especially Washington.” crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…