02:50 Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities - Center for Human Rights in Iran (news.google.com)
01:26 Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’ (news.google.com)
08:06 I endured the Melania film so you don’t have to – my only regret is not buying popcorn so one of my senses was entertained Caitlin Cassidy (www.theguardian.com)
02:50 Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities - Center for Human Rights in Iran (news.google.com)
01:26 Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’ (news.google.com)
11:30 From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Force - “What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is really like the ‘Black Mirror’ version of how federal forces have been used in the past, where the federal agents are coming to do the violence, not protect against violence,” Garrett Graff says. (www.newyorker.com)
06:15 Miami’s Haitian Community Braces for Deportations - The Trump Administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti puts hundreds of thousands at risk of returning to a country in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
05:26 Are Democrats Right to Cut an Immigration Deal with Trump? - Congress has justifiably been criticized for rolling over to the President. But how it actually uses its leverage involves genuinely difficult trade-offs. (www.newyorker.com)
03:00 The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump - The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis - As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act - Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies - Also: the dream-pop of Hatchie, Elevator Repair Service tackles “Ulysses,” the theatre-district pub Haswell Green, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com - Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 Operation Trump Rehab - After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 America!: Mamdani Goggles and Other Products to Maximize a Brief Surge in Idealism - Maternal Labubus and whimsically shaped surveillance drones available now. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 The Dry January Hangover - What began, in 2011, as part of a British woman’s half-marathon training has turned into a global phenomenon. Dr. Oz, and others, weigh in on whether the trend is actually useful. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 “Heated Rivalry,” “Pillion,” and the New Drama of the Closet - Two new releases—one about a secret, slow-burn romance, the other about a quietly kinky relationship—build on a long history of depictions of the love that dare not speak its name. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA - Republicans have built local networks that outlast campaigns. Can Democrats turn protest energy into lasting power? (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 How to Figure Out Your Life - Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have shaped his thinking about how to live a less harried, more enchanted life. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 April Bernard Reads John Ashbery - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something." (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center - How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter - Traditional meteorologists speak in potentialities and probabilities. A new type of social-media influencer takes a different approach, exaggerating possibilities and fomenting hype in the lead-up to a big storm. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises” - Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred. (www.newyorker.com)