Lyana Khairuddin
@lyanakhairuddin.bsky.social
All views mine. 🏋🏽♀️📚🦥🌈. https://substack.com/@lyanakhairuddin
For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.
Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoFox Host: Not great news today when it comes to inflation. Up at 3.8%, so far a 40% spike in terms of grocery prices. Those numbers are up. Certainly not good news Mike Johnson: Not good news. We are keenly aware of it
The Voting Rights Act “has not been dealt a ‘blow’” by the Supreme Court, Vann R. Newkirk II argues. “The law is dead, and no matter what happens in the coming elections, politics in America has been forever changed.”
For a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy
A requiem for the Voting Rights Act
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🚨🚨 Just 2 days until deadline Apply now to be a part of the ARROW - AMwA Advocacy Institute (AAI) 2026: arrow.org.my/careers/arro... Deadline: 10 May 2026 | 11:59 PM ET 🔍Application open to nationals of eligible countries from Asia, Pacific and Africa.
My home state, Negeri Sembilan, is going through a kerfuffle: our monarch just got sacked! Unlikely to stick; dude's got a lot of real power. But it is technically possible because we are an elective monarchy, by tradition- and tradition means something, still. www.malaysiakini.com/news/773066 1/
Royal rumble: N Sembilan chieftains 'sack' ruler in tit-for-tat
Outcome likely to be determined by how a royal council interprets the state constitution.
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He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo agoGod help us.
📢 APPLY NOW - AAI 2026! Calling young women in all their diversities from Asia, Pacific and Africa region to the ARROW - AMwA Advocacy Institute (AAI) 2026! 🛩️ Apply here: arrow.org.my/careers/arro... A thread ⌛
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8mo agoMore than half of teenagers in the U.S. use A.I. tools for help with their schoolwork, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The results, the report said, indicate that teenagers think “cheating with A.I. has become a regular feature of student life.”
Despite the caricature his critics created, Jesse Jackson’s “political vision was always inclusive, always multiracial, and always opposed to bigotry and prejudice of all kinds,” Adam Serwer argues.
Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson
He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.
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You thought your unvaccinated daughter had a cold. It could be a week before she's diagnosed with measles. By then, the virus “has multiplied and descended upon her lungs, kidneys, tonsils, and spleen, down to the marrow of her bones.” Elizabeth Bruenig writes about how a child dies of measles:
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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This year, Ramadan coincides with the season of Lent. I am hoping for amplified blessings. 🙂❤️ Will mostly be off socials during this season. Ramadan kareem, selamat berpuasa!
This past week, I completed my 6-year term on the Programme Advisory Committee for @arrowomen.bsky.social . On my latest substack, I reflected on the current anti-rights climate & why we should never, ever take feminism for granted. open.substack.com/pub/lyanakha...
A good reference is Nixon’s “War on Drugs”. War is the wrong metaphor, IMHO. Understanding a problem and strategising how the treatment benefits majority of people should be the way to go. But some days I feel talking about logic & empathy is just shouting into the abyss. 😔
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 9mo agoRFK Jr. has talked about a war on sugar and a war on protein, a war on peptides and a war on vitamins. Benjamin Mazer writes about what happens when the “warrior ethos” comes to public health: theatln.tc/eWWttupM
RFK Jr. has talked about a war on sugar and a war on protein, a war on peptides and a war on vitamins. Benjamin Mazer writes about what happens when the “warrior ethos” comes to public health: theatln.tc/eWWttupM
When Trump purged the civil service, he did away with some of the employees who understood the government best: “What’s been lost isn’t just a sense of purpose,” Franklin Foer argues, “but a body of knowledge—a way of making the machinery of the state function.” theatln.tc/4DdD6aFE
DEADLINE TOMORROW: 🚨🚨Calling young people from Myanmar and Nepal! Leading up to the Women Deliver (WD) 2026, ARROW is hosting the 'InterSEXionality' webinar series. Apply: forms.gle/AcVVo4JV2iGS... ⏰ 10 January 2026 Eligibility: Open to young people from Nepal or Myanmar below 30 years of age.
Please do go watch The Voice of Hind Rajab. Currently showing in selected cinemas in Malaysia - listing until Sun 11 Jan. Remember Hind. ❤️ Protip: need to decompress after movie. youtu.be/JkeKrG0YONQ?...
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 17
YouTube video by WILLA
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open.substack.com/pub/lyanakha... Sometimes, we need to give in to grief.
Grieving The Year That Was
Resolutions are so old news
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Even some of Trump’s closest allies are unnerved by his brash approach to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Atlantic staff writers report: theatln.tc/EoPDM52d
This non New Yorker but fellow Muslim is teary-eyed watching this. ❤️
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 9mo agoNYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani sworn into office
Inspired by @barackobama.bsky.social , here’s a list of my favourite things for 2025: Best book read: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy Best song/on repeat : Cynthia Erivo’s No Good Deed (sorry, Idina!) Best Play: re-stage of Jit Murad’s Visits (all women cast & directed)
lyanakhairuddin.substack.com/p/no-good-deed Here’s The Wicked:For Good review you didn’t ask for.
No Good Deed
The Wicked:For Good review you didn't ask for but get anyway
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Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours. She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump. Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
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According to the UNFPA, there is strong evidence that CSE improves HIV knowledge and self-efficacy related to refusing sex or condom use and contributes to delayed sexual debut and increased condom use, thus reducing sexually transmitted infections, HIV transmission and unintended pregnancy! (2/2)
Resource hubs to learn more about Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)🙌🙌 Be a part of our #CSE4ALL campaign: forms.gle/FcyBcZDqo4Mr... #16DaysOfActivism (1/2)
Hello again, Sandakan. My last trip here was personal so it’s interesting to revisit with the work hat on. Sabah state election in T-5.
Would unfollowing NYT make an impact? This is due to the recent allegations of anti-Palestine editorial decisions.
