Congratulations to Nathan Thrall whose book 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story' has won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Here is our extract from the book, published in September

theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

Noooooooo

Over 11,000 incarcerated people in federal prison are in solitary confinement. Since 2012, the government has conducted NINE separate studies on solitary, without the Bureau of Prisons implementing many of the recommendations of the reports.
prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

Despite threats from Johns Hopkins University, Pro-Palestine Demonstrators Remain dlvr.it/T6f8Kw #baltimore #blm

It's not just Gaza—Israeli forces are unlawfully killing Palestinians in the West Bank, including executing those who posed no apparent threat. Israel killed 2X more Palestinians in 2023 than in 18+ years & is on pace to kill more in 2024. New Human Rights Watch report🧵hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

This isn't Gaza or the West Bank. This is within Israel proper.

Dumb query: there's a person on Twitter, I believe an editor of a literary magazine, whose pinned tweet is basically: Tell me your profession, and I'll tell you what to name your beach house. Who am i thinking of?

Been amazed to see CAP go so hard on this. This is not Neera Tanden's CAP.

Nat Geo laid of all its writers, and most of its old editors. They’re now hiring social media managers, content strategists, SEO editors, etc.

Who needs writers when you could hire new staff to “assist managers [with] best-in-class creative social stunts”?

Also note that USDA's farm labor survey is based on interviews w/ farm employers, excludes contract labor (a big omission in CAFO country these days) and does not collect demographic information on workers. That's why USDA uses the American Community Survey for demographic info.

So honored by this. I hope it brings more attention to the plight of working migrant children. twitter.com/PulitzerPrizes…

And you're giving tjem free advertising because, why The New York Times?

I join many Jewish colleagues Dartmouth 🌲 in rejecting our administration's apparent belief that it can speak for 'Jewish safety,' much less increase it by permitting a SWAT team and riot cops to menace all regardless of identity. 1

Just crazy. Iowa is hemorrhaging nitrogen. The Boone and Cedar have been steadily rising over several days, while the Iowa has been consistently high. Just about everywhere you look on Iowa WQIS nitrate is elevated and/or trending up.

If folks would like to do the math on N load, the USGS gauge has flow in the Boone at Webster City at 3000 cubic feet per second.

A day in the life of the West Bank

The Lord's army isn't stupid: It pushes for mass expulsion of Palestinians haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

This is a Minnesota action, but Karst topography is present in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin too (right or wrong, we call it the Driftless).
In the Iowa portion, no rural water is available so everyone depends on wells.
EPA is failing the rural Midwest in so many ways.

Congrats! Such important work.

Among the dimmest of the quote-unquote tech visionaries. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Where is it written that the US has to support the Rafah assault? (Nowhere. We don't have to.) nytimes.com/live/2024/05/0…