Marvin Sapp + Zayn Malik + Sundance Moves to Boulder + Is Braiding Hair Bad For You? + Student Kidnappings + Signal War Plans + Rachel Zegler Supremacy
If I’m being honest.
IF I’M BEING HONEST.
If I had to choose between being trapped in a church and held at bible-point until Marvin Sapp cleared his $40,000 goal… or spend another day raw-dogging this news cycle?
Close the doors!
Anyway…
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Ryan Murphy Gets His Carolyn Bessette (Deadline)
Yolanda Stays In Jail (CNN)
Is Braiding Hair Harming Black Women? (Refinery29)
Sundance Film Festival Moves to Colorado (Denver Gazette)
Why Did Downtown Houston Secretly Remove Its Handicap Parking? (ABC13)
Hollywood PR Mean Girls Will Learn One Day (Variety)
Klarna, Now On DoorDash. Don’t Do It Y’all!!!! (JacobCapozzi)
Glass Blocks Are Cool Again (they’ve ALWAYS been cool) (AD)
Major Earthquake Rocks Thailand And Myanmar (AP)
…..Honestly, fuck the Dodgers for this one (L.A. Times)
Tufts University - PhD student and Fulbright scholar Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped from Boston and immediately disappeared to a remote Louisiana detention center. Her deportation has since been halted, though she remains in custody.
University of Alabama - Alireza Daroudi, an Iranian doctoral student who has never participated in protests, was arrested by ICE at his apartment in the middle of the night.
Cornell University - Ph.D. students Momodou Taal and Sriram Parasurama together with Professor Mukoma Wa Ngũgĩ filed an emergency request to stave off political detention and deportation.
New York University - “Well connected parent” momster Elizabeth Rand is pushing to get students deported
Harvard University - Jewish Harvard faculty denounce Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest.
Columbia University - A judge has ordered ICE to stop fucking hunting Yunseo Chung.
Fulbright scholars, former high school valedictorians, PhD students, none undocumented, no crimes committed.
Oh, also completely unrelated…
Elsewhere…
News “broke” this week that The White House is using Signal to plan wars, and had accidentally added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the thread.
