A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
Elham Shirin
@eshirin.bsky.social
Writer + reporter covering nature, culture, and climate change. 📝 in The New Republic, In These Times, Sierra Magazine + others. www.elhamshirin.com.
"Among the students at the school was 6-year-old Fatemeh Yazdanpanah from the fishing village of Gurzang...Fatemeh’s father, Yaghoub Yazdanpanah, saw gifts for poetry in his daughter and he wanted to secure for her the best education he could find." www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
dropsitenews.com
"What are the politics hidden within our desire for artisanal sourdough bread and hand-thrown pottery?" aeon.co/essays/the-r...
The radical reasons why you dream of making things by hand | Aeon Essays
Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?
aeon.co
My favorite kind of journalism captures ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Or ordinary things--in extraordinary circumstances. Loved this profile of courageous Ramadan Yaqoub Ghaban, a 12-year old boy in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘I’m afraid they’ll bomb the cafe where I work, or bomb me’: a day in the life of a 12-year-old boy in Gaza
Ramadan, 12, works in a cafe on the beach. He remembers enjoying school, playing and family barbecues before life became about survival
theguardian.com
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
“People would be pretty shocked that what they’re using for their homework or to summarize emails is also being used by intelligence officers.”
Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
motherjones.com
The work of writer, intellectual, and historian Carlo Ginzburg—who died earlier this year—subverted the very idea of insignificance.
Carlo Ginzburg, 1939–2026 | Emma Claire Foley
Carlo Ginzburg’s work centered and subverted the very idea of insignificance.
thebaffler.com
So, now, I'm looking for what's next. If you know of any open positions--especially those involving editing science, news, or science news--I'd love to hear about them. Please let me know at clnschltz@proton.me
I'm really not sure how to say this, so I'm just going to say it: My contract at @biographic.bsky.social is not being renewed. As management let me know not long ago, the latest funding crisis--really, the latest in a string of funding crises--was just too much to handle.
"They are saying many of the things they said before but louder, and with guns. The targets of their bile are schools and homes and places of worship; butcher shops and doctors; and sporting events." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I’ve covered Islamophobia for years. Trump’s GOP has taken it to a new level.
The shocking vilification of Muslims is one of the most troubling storylines of the midterms.
motherjones.com
The 117 people who left Libya with Daniel did not share one fate. By the journey’s end, 79 had reached Italy, 35 had been returned to Libyan detention, and three had drowned. @cathyotten.bsky.social examines the hostile migration policies that shaped every outcome.
Found, But Not Rescued
Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?
inthesetimes.com
New: Copperhead Resources was just another money-losing Canadian gold prospector last year when Trump ordered NOAA to issue deep-sea mining licenses to unleash “the next gold rush.” Now it's seabed miner, one of mostly foreign firms aiming to cash in. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Companies Trying to Cash In on Trump’s Deep-Sea Gold Rush
Entrepreneurs are racing to secure seabed mining permits. Then comes the hard part.
bloomberg.com
Muslim women have spent 25 years navigating the effects of 9/11 — and a growing perception that their faith and visibility pose a cultural threat.
For many Muslim women, the racism and suspicion after 9/11 still hasn’t lifted
Muslim women have spent 25 years navigating the effects of 9/11 — and a growing perception that their faith and visibility pose a cultural threat.
bit.ly
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the repression it was used to justify has only deepened. In 2016, Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud documented how the government criminalized Muslims, immigrants and political dissenters.
How the U.S. Government Has Used 9/11 to Criminalize People of Color
In the 15 years since the attacks, heightened surveillance and security have cracked down on Muslims and immigrants.
inthesetimes.com
when lefty homeowners go up against market-rate senior housing towers, are they righteous middle-class activists fending off greedy developers or wealthy seniors prioritizing neighborhood character over ameliorating the housing crisis? are they David or Goliath? tinyurl.com/4xzkk8td
The Seniors Against Senior Housing
America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders.
tinyurl.com
A thread of some of my review essays. fathel.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Review of Genocide in Libya: Shar, A Hidden Colonial History by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida (Routledge)
In Genocide in Libya through decades of oral history and archival research, Ali Abdullaftif Ahmida traces the history of the Shar (evil in Arabic).
fathel.substack.com
My boss Mike Tomasky gets is exactly right today. Please read this superb piece. newrepublic.com/post/214367/...
Why Don’t Leftie Candidates Do Better Among Working-Class Voters?
It isn’t that non-college voters are more “moderate.” It’s something else entirely, and it will probably take about a decade to fix, if it’s fixable at all.
newrepublic.com
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
Once in a while you read a story that you come back to—for its humanity, for grief, for hope. Beautiful, heart-wrenching piece by @charlesbethea.bsky.social
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3mo agoIn 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
on.wsj.com
ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...
buff.ly
Norma Bowe, a nurse in New Jersey, runs a mobile health clinic that stops outside Delaney Hall detention center, where she provides blood pressure checks, stroke assessments and other care. Yesterday, she told me about the day she says she was assaulted by an ICE agent. My latest via @19thnews.org
This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
19thnews.org
My latest for @sierramagazine.bsky.social
Sierra Magazine@sierramagazine.bsky.social · 2mo agoLawmakers in Florida failed to come up with regulations to make working in the heat safer. Now, farmworkers have created their own set of rules. In an effort to improve working conditions, they’re connecting directly with retailers to put in place measures that would help them beat the heat.
WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
wired.com
"This sport, “the beautiful game,” is also an endless window into other realities and conversations far beyond the pitch...two of them have come sharply into focus: racism and the consequences of a sport seemingly ruled by algorithms and betting." pulitzercenter.org/blog/world-c...
World Cup Raises Tough Questions
Image Image courtesy of Gabriela Brenes. It’s not about Messi or Mbappé. It’s about looking inward. I was about 5 months old the first time my dad took me to a stadium for an amateur local football ga...
pulitzercenter.org
The Trump administration is scrapping a policy that has allowed international students and exchange visitors to remain in the US for as long as their studies last, replacing it with a four-year limit. Read more: bloom.bg/4fib1sh 📷: Sophie Park/Bloomberg
Undone by this haunting piece by @aprzhu.bsky.social. "The distances, the lenses, as well as the ghosts of loss, regret, guilt, and betrayal that haunt the anthropologist harmonize with the profound sense of displacement one feels in diaspora." offassignment.com/wids/april-zhu
Bad Witness: What I Didn't Say About Reporting on Chinese Christians in Kenya — Off Assignment
“I was born into Christianity as I was born into America. In my childhood, there was the church and the diaspora, and I could not imagine one without the other.”
offassignment.com