My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion

For those interested, here’s a partial transcript from the meeting

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…

Marion Stokes was afraid people would rewrite history, so she recorded over 800,000 hours of TV over 35 years

She is my hero. Absolutely fearless.

"Now I am beginning to comprehend why Stefan Zweig and his wife committed suicide in 1942. It was not so much that they expected the Reich to last a thousand years. It was rather that they did not wish to live in such a monstrous world. Just breathing the air felt like a crime."

For killer whales on the hunt for herring, two is better than one. bit.ly/4lbfHkD

Workers found a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations at a South Carolina nuclear facility, but no wasps were found huffpost.com/entry/radioact…

Leading Israeli author David Grossman calls Gaza war a 'genocide' haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Millionaire Texas rancher fatally gored by buffalo during South Africa hunting trip trib.al/6vuQ7bt

summer vacation lmao

Oh it’s my fault? Shit. Thought maybe the nuclear armed regional super power whose armed forces have besieged 2 million people, mostly women & children, had role. My bad. Seriously your are unwell. Put down your phone and go seek professional help for your guilt and shame.

Banner day for cetacean humor

This is what "Pepe's" hands looks like after harvesting tomatos all day. He has the option of wearing gloves, but they slow him down. When you're working piece rate you can't afford to be slowed down. He needs to make every penny he can during the peak season. #WeFeedYou

A reminder: the humanities subsidize the sciences (and athletics, business schools, med schools) at all colleges and universities.

So you agree? Murdering journalists is a genocidal act and something fascists do.

It was socialists--A. Philip Randolph & Bayard Rustin--who organized the March on Washington and wrote the slogans for these signs, not liberals. Randolph: "liberalism is in collapse...its voice is timid and afraid. There is little, if any, fight left in it for civil rights..."

“The term ‘species loss’ is, like ‘climate change,’ a bloodless abstraction. What it names is not. Any single species—here chum, but where you live perhaps a moth or a newt or an oak tree—is greater than itself.” —Bathsheba Demuth go.nybooks.com/47CZSjn

🎶 the day, the muuu-sic, died 🎶

Amazing how much less of a freakout this has caused than Zohran’s proposal for a few publicly owned grocery stores.