Neda Ulaby
@ulabeast.bsky.social
Cultural trawler for NPR. Midwestern bohemian currently in Ypsilanti. Owned by sighthounds. Signal: ulabeast.70
So glad to have recorded the great Jim Burrows directing a TV show on NPR. RIP. www.npr.org/2012/09/24/1...
Making A Comedy Pilot? You Might Want To Call James Burrows
James Burrows has directed more than 50 pilots, including Cheers, Friends, Taxi, and Frasier.
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Quoted in this great NPR piece by @ulabeast.bsky.social that places the Washington imagery in historical context, with more helpful context by @nbshrum34.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social @bradleyonishi.bsky.social #america250
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoA painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened. n.pr/4wIUdCu
It was painful to see this piece on the need for schools like Deep Springs and Berea the very same week that Hampshire College graduated its last class and put its campus up for sale.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy university’s motto (which every student knows by heart) is “Not unto ourselves alone are we born,” and the majority of my students have done at least one internship at a local institution. This writer should maybe get out of her office a bit more.
My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Total fraud losses reported by adults of 60 or older increased from about $600 million in 2020 to $2.4 billion in 2024.
Troy woman, 80, loses money in scam after being told her son faced deportation
Total fraud losses reported by adults of 60 or older increased from about $600 million in 2020 to $2.4 billion in 2024.
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Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:
FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'
The FBI is teaching its agents that ordinary American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that Islamic charity is no more than a “fundin...
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Eric Holder@ericholder.bsky.social · 5mo agoBob was more than a colleague to me. He was a friend. I hope that Bob Mueller‘s family is comforted on this sad day by the pride that those of us who served with him all feel. We were all fortunate to work with this great American. Bob made the nation better. Rest in peace my dear friend.
"I swim in the light of your eyes. I lean on your shoulder, eat with you, and press your hand which lies like a bird in my hand, who has no desire to fly away. Where would it fly to? From me … to you." - Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, writing to his lover Tamar Ben-Ami, who died this week.
The Jewish Woman Who Was the Love of Palestine’s Most Famous Poet Died This Week
“Rita is an erotic poem. … Rita in all my poems is a Jewish woman.” – Mahmoud Darwish, in a 1996 interview with Israeli literary critic Helit Yeshurun. On Feb. 24, Tamar Ben-Ami, a Jewish-Israeli woma...
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I’m off for a week and oh wow, “History Lessons” by Zoe B. Wallbrook was *precisely* what I needed as a vacation read.
Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...
Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions
President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass.
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Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
Adjusting to a smart rescue dog (chonky dobie mix) after a dumb one (greyhound, beloved dingdong, RIP sweetie) has been quite the challenge.
Wake me up when People magazine puts Manny Jacinto on the cover
When I used to sort Susan’s mail as a production assistant, I saw a postcard sent to her from someone in prison. It said, “dear susan, whoever I hear your voice, it’s feels like an arm around my shoulders.” I felt that way too.
"Comedy is the greatest way to attack anything like a totalitarian regime. They can't stand it." —Ray Bradbury on Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" ...apropos of everything @ulabeast.bsky.social for @npr.org
How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism
It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.
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Tonight in DC, I walked past a restaurant blaring this on the outside speakers, and wasn’t sure if it was for Halloween or the government shutdown. youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4?...
The Specials - Ghost Town [Official HD Remastered Video]
YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO
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Something about a dog that is a little extra makes it extra hard to say goodbye. Zoom was a racetrack survivor and a beloved pet. Rest in power.
Today is my birthday, and you know how old I am? I’m “you’re such a pretty girl, why are you wearing such terrible clothes” years old.
I constantly forget what “stochastic” means and I’ve had to look it up three times in the past four days.
Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections:
In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice
Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's...
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I heard a Palestinian doctor compare the aid sites in Gaza to Squid Game. Twice a day, I get new alerts about dozens of hungry people, many of them surely parents of starving children, wounded and killed by gunfire when they’re trying to get food.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
I do not see appreciable differences between Labubu and Monchhichi
Embarrassingly, the @nytimes.com flunked its own Vogue test- Wasserstein depicted Mount Holyoke women #sevensistersfail
As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
Citing "the concerns expressed by many of our brothers and sisters regarding fears of attending Mass due to potential immigration enforcement actions by civil authorities," the Bishop of San Bernardino issues a decree dispensing the faithful in his diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass.
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