Esther Kaplan

This honestly encapsulates the whole enforced consent AI regime

Walking Bruce Lee’s Oakland with Jeff Chang Chang, the hip hop historian and cultural critic, has written a vivid history of the martial arts legend and his worlds. He takes us on a tour of Lee’s days in Oakland.

Such a fun conversation with the brilliant cultural critic Jeff Chang about Bruce Lee's time in Oakland.
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Not a headline we’re seeing in the US press.

The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting

"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."

I reflexively clicked on the WaPo this morning after reading the NYT’s Iran coverage, to see how it differs, and then remembered…oh…never mind

Hitting hospitals and schools. My god.

“No imminent threat.”

There’s no more stark expression of power than taking a life

At least 63 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

Three years in a row.

I knew you were but wasn’t sure if that was still true. Beautiful image

Are you freelance?

Not enough of a moral panic if you ask me

I just don't think Flaming hot Cheetos are objectively mediocre

Of all the recent combing through the files by journalists, this Julia Carrie Wong story does the most to advance our understanding of how this trafficking ring actually worked, and of course it involved "nice" CBP agents.

All the speed skating wipe outs! Anguish!

Congrats to @hannahbeckler.bsky.social @dakincampbell.bsky.social @rosemarieho.bsky.social Erica Berenstein & the whole team on today’s Polk Award for this powerful and timely series!

Congrats @andykroll.bsky.social!

Wow that footnote is something! A brief history of our times

That’s more than a quarter of the entire Democratic Caucus, which feels like the beginning of a sea change

This whole thread, from a newly minted immigration attorney in Minnesota.

14-year-old soccer player just watching the last “12 minutes” of the half waiting for Bad Bunny to come on:

“Did someone make up football while they were drunk?”

Was she organizing people building the rails?

“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official said in a statement.

So at almost 9pm some lowly White House staffer took over Trump’s Truth Social account to post a racist meme?

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"Official U.S. military film footage, for example, shows ace of spades 'death cards' being placed in the mouths of dead Vietnamese people in South Vietnam’s Quảng Ngãi province by members of the 25th Infantry Division."

Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Federal agents left behind “death cards” after capturing immigrants in Eagle County, Colorado, recalling a practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War

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I'm just stuck on the fact that what Bezos spent on his wedding could keep all 300 reporters employed for a year.

It increasingly seems our elected officials are the only ones unaware of what time it is.

Wild thread from last night’s city council meeting in Surprise, Arizona

“I don’t think I will ever get out of the habit of looking outside or looking into people’s cars with tinted windows,” she said. “I don’t think I will ever get over seeing somebody in any kind of authority’s uniform without my heart dropping.”

“‘I had to tell him, If something happens, I know it’s going to be scary, but don’t worry because I’m going to come for you and I will find you,’ his mother, Amanda, said.”