Saturday Digest Vol. 2, Issue 8

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“My first instinct is to laugh, but then I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they were ridiculous.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Kenneth Noland, The Clown, 1959. Oil on canvas.

Today’s Digest features stories about a limited ceasefire in Russia and Ukraine, a Columbia University student named Mahmoud Khalil who was arrested and detained without charge by the U.S. government, and the risks posed to Rhode Island’s food banks by federal funding cuts to SNAP and other food security-related programs.

I went on Bill Bartholomew’s podcast on Tuesday, March 18 to discuss the Trump administration’s recent arrest and detention of multiple immigrants, including the aforementioned grad student Mahmoud Khalil as well as a doctor named Rasha Alawieh, a nephrologist (kidney specialist) who had been living in Rhode Island and working for Brown Medicine, the non-profit medical organization affiliated with Brown University’s medical school.

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