this is happening, currently. at this moment Israel is bombing the very small area of Gaza they ordered everyone to evacuate to.

im sobbing at these kids celebrating cillian's oscar win bless their little hearts 😭💗

went to the past lives bar and oh-

BREAKING: The #2030Census and federal surveys are getting new checkboxes for “Middle Eastern or North African” & “Hispanic or Latino” after White House’s Office of Management and Budget approved the first changes to U.S. government standards on racial & ethnic data since 1997 federalregister.gov/public-inspect…

With the release of Cowboy Carter, I send congratulations to Rhiannon Giddens , Robert Randolph , Tiera Kennedy , Brittney Spencer, Tanner Adell , Reyna Roberts , Willie Jones , and to our matriarch, Bad Case of The Country Blues Documentary and her family. I pray this moment gives you all wings…

🎉Spencer Education Journalism Fellows have been announced for the 2024-25 academic year. Congratulations to sequoia carrillo, Fabiola Cineas and Dani McClain — the 17th group joining this distinguished program. To learn more about the fellowship, visit: spencerfellows.org

kvelling for Fabiola Cineas, so so well-deserved x.com/columbiajourn/…

Very excited and grateful to be joining this Spencer Fellowship class!

I AM FINE

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is urging states to make undocumented children pay to attend public school. The conservative think tank w/ close ties to Trump is looking to challenge the landmark Supreme Court decision, Plyler v. Doe chalkbeat.org/2024/04/09/ply…

I wrote about the lady making mortgage payments on her Chevy Tahoe -- and the insidious world of scammy car loans -- for Vox vox.com/2024/4/10/2412…

What if we converted all those vacant, decrepit strip malls around the country into new housing? 🏠 I wrote about the idea, which is not far-fetched at all vox.com/the-highlight/…

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

Congratulations to this year's Spencer Education Journalism Fellows, sequoia carrillo, Fabiola Cineas, and Dani McClain! While at Columbia Journalism, these journalists will deepen their pool of knowledge and complete an ambitious journalistic project. Learn more. spencerfellows.org

sharing this because of the dialogue about who is "safe" at Columbia: many white people in + around campus have been completely racist towards Black students and staff, especially those who wear keffiyehs. Calling students monkeys, saying they (we) can't read, find Gaza on a map

Great piece from Fabiola Cineas on the long history of suppressing Palestinian activism on college campuses in the US. There has always been a Palestine exception to free speech in schools across the country: vox.com/24138285/colum…

Palestinian families are forcibly fleeing eastern Rafah after the Israeli military threatened to use 'extreme force' there. World leaders have repeatedly warned against a military offensive in the city, where more than 1.5 million displaced people are sheltering ⤵️

Pure genocidal rhetoric. No debate about it. "There are no uninvolved there." There are over a million people in Rafah, over half a million kids.

$81M in 24 hours is an incredible number. But even more crazy—60% of donations to VP Harris came from first-time 2024 donors!

BREAKING: Vice President Harris raises $81 million in 24 hours since President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her, setting a new presidential donation record. apnews.com/live/biden-tru…