Today is a historic moment in Texas history.
@DoctorLalani and I share the honor of being sworn in as the first Muslims and the first South Asians in the Texas Legislature.
This moment marks a new era of representation in Texas.
@theintercept on why Elon should’ve just read some Chomsky: “He could have avoided his hilarious nightmare if he’d just read a few books with a radical perspective on the media. But people who do that tend not to become the richest person on earth.”
https://t.co/S0egTmMGOx
Congrats to recent MAAS grad Nooran Alhamdan on the publication of her deeply researched report "Refugees First: A New Approach to Middle East Peace" with @MiddleEastInst!
https://t.co/HXM1nqjc5E
Both Guantánamo Diary and the This American Life episode about Slahi record strange conversations between Slahi and his captors. The dialogue is unnerving in its chumminess, in its jocular, idiomatic intimacy.
"Bad Conversations"
By @malaika_tapper
https://t.co/dnItrnjYxX
This is a 3+ y.o. article but worth the re read. Preparing children for terrifying, low-probability events like mass shootings is not only traumatizing, but it misses the whole gd point.
In response to Abbot/Cruz’s heinous suggestion to arm & fortify schools: Don’t put this on the the kids
“Among modernity’s gifts was supposed to be childhood—a life stage in which young people had both time and space to grow up, without a fear of dying.”
https://t.co/6ecJJGG8DH
a nice two step here. support the proliferation of guns and the transformation of the united states into an armed society and then say "looks like we have to dismantle public education as it is too dangerous to send your children to school"
Incomprehensible? “Maybe Abbott just couldn’t find a word that means that it is very sad but not something he is interested in taking action to prevent from happening again.”
https://t.co/Yrm4NTtLMo
I'm not sure how you write a story about how great the schools in Highland Park, Texas, are without noting that they exist entirely to allow rich white Dallasites to maintain Jim Crow-style segregation.
THREAD
https://t.co/F7AQEKdYdi