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Founding director, Asian Media Initiative @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Global migration + Asia-Pacific. Pediatric transplant mom.
More states are offering native language assessments to #EnglishLearners: 35 + DC as of last year, up 4 states from 2020
Yet 15 states still don’t offer standardized tests in ELs’ home language & other gaps remain, new fact sheet explains
#ELL #EL #MLL
🔗 www.migrationpolicy.org/research/nat...
After years of fighting, street vendors in NYC are finally getting the dignity they deserve—and the ability to vend without fear of criminal charges‼️ #VendorPower ✊👏
https://hellgatenyc.com/free-the-vendors/
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
Iran is finalizing plans to impose “security duties” in the Persian Gulf on oil tankers and commercial ships that belong to countries allied with the US, an Iranian source with knowledge of the leadership’s strategy told CNN. The source insisted that the Strait of Hormuz is “closed” even if US President Donald Trump says it is open. “We hold the screw of the global oil price in our hands and for a long time the US will have to wait for our actions to control the price. Energy prices have become unstable and we will continue to fight until Trump declares defeat,” the source said.
chat is this good
Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.
Oh my god
I wish narratives of anti-colonialism focused more on the many ways South Asians refused to fight imperial wars. Punjabis fomented mutiny of Indian troops in Singapore in 1915. A Baloch regiment refused to sail to Mesopotamia in 1915. Muslim soldiers refused to fight near Islam’s holy sites in 1916
Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
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Morgan Laffer reports on years of systematic abuse and the new government’s inadequate efforts to uncover the truth, as new testimony lays bare the machinery that hid Syria’s missing children and destroyed their identities. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
Spoke to @thenewarab.bsky.social for an article on the rise of Mojtaba Khamenei and how #Iran's hardliners are in the process of cementing power. www.newarab.com/analysis/ris...
An important read from @jenniferchowdhury.bsky.social on how Black Americans rebuilt Islam in the 20th century and how Ramadan is an American religious observance: www.port-of-entry.com/p/how-islam-...
NEW: Iran’s president is elected by popular vote, but his power is subordinate to the (unelected) supreme leader. Even with that caveat, the decision-making of the office has been steadily eroded over the years, writes Menahem Merhavy for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.
India once sought technological autonomy. A new book argues its strategy has instead entrenched reliance on global tech firms https://restofworld.org/2026/dwaipayan-banerjee-india-technology-book/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1773067863
ICE is converting an 825,000 sq ft warehouse near Hagerstown, MD into a detention facility for 1,500 people. The taxpayer spending so far is $215 million. Here's what you need to know. 🧵
NEW: The Gulf billed itself as an island of stability. The war in I ran shattered that image. Dina Esfandiary and @alamer.bsky.social join @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss what comes next. newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-...
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:
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If someone came to my country…Jfc as if she really doesn’t know the power and direct impact US policies and actions have on everyone, and which Ireland…does not have.
Truly bizarre. “nation state” is a W European (white) idea, supposed to predate and also eclipse empire but then western nation states extracted wealth from most of the world, invited new nations into the liberal order, saddled them with debt, now blame immigration for the loss of western homeland??
Water plants, dams are usually not targeted.
It’s really low by the US and Israel to do that. You might as well bombard an elementary school… oh wait, you did that already
@bafriedman.bsky.social nails it
Two Indigenous authors use Coyote — teacher, trickster, healer — to explore trauma, family and identity in their new books. A FāVS read worth your time. bit.ly/4umKtgg #IndigenousAuthors #ReligionNews #BookRecommendations
IRGC warns of retaliation during US-Israel attacks on energy infrastructure A spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will retaliate if US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure don’t let up. In a statement carried by Iranian state media, the unnamed spokesperson accused the US and Israel of targeting civilians and fuel and energy facilities and claimed the IRGC has “refrained from any similar action”. Gulf countries should tell the US and Israel to stop, the spokesperson added, or else “similar actions will be taken in the region.” “If you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game.”
man.
Leqaa Kordia, in her own words, for @zeteo.com.
Leqaa should be free. Her captors, and whichever outside organization collaborated with them, should be the ones in cages.
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.
