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2 weeks ago | 
aws.amazon.com | Satesh Sonti |Jonathan M. Katz |Grant Usage
Amazon Redshift supports querying data stored in Apache Iceberg tables managed by Amazon S3 Tables, which we previously covered as part of getting started blog post. While this blog post helps you to get started using Amazon Redshift with Amazon S3 Tables, there are additional steps you need to consider when working with your data in production environments, including who has access to your data and with what level of permissions.
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1 month ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Amy Dru Stanley |Jonathan M. Katz |Wendy Brown |Turkuler Isiksel
Freedom for Sale
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
▪ April 22, 2025
At a time when the Red Scare remained a palpable memory, a law professor named Charles Reich warned of government’s arbitrary power to withdraw the wealth it poured into institutions as diverse as universities, corporations, and welfare programs.
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1 month ago | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. You’re probably familiar with the case of Kilmar Abrego García. If you aren’t, you need to be: He’s the Maryland man the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported to a torture prison in El Salvador in March. It isn’t just that Abrego García has no criminal record. Since 2019 he has been legally protected from deportation under orders from a Trump-appointed immigration judge.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jonathan M. Katz
U.S. Foreign Policy Human Rights United States Luis Alberto Castillo tried to do it the right way. According to an affidavit filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Castillo, a 29-year-old Venezuelan citizen who had been living in Colombia, arrived at the Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 19.
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2 months ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Meaghan Winter |Jonathan M. Katz |Nick Serpe |Jawziya F. Zaman
How Sheriffs Undermine Democracy
An interview with Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. This is part one of a two-part post. The rest will be in an issue for premium subscribers, hopefully tomorrow. Be ready for it by upgrading now!In Munich, on Valentine’s Day, Vice President JD Vance gave what wags regard as a “major speech.” It wasn’t a long speech, or a particularly surprising one for those of us who’ve been watching and understanding Trumpist turn for the last ten years or so.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Jonathan M. Katz
“The Worst of the Worst”
Guantánamo represents a place beyond the reach of morality and the law, where America’s most dangerous enemies can be thrown, never to be seen again.
▪ February 4, 2025
It’s hard to shake the feeling that Donald Trump is racing through the playbook of early twentieth-century U.S. imperialism.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
The firehose is back. As during the heady days of Trump I, there are so many insane and dangerous things going on at once that it’s impossible to cover them all, which will no doubt be a theme of the next four to forty years. The gaslighting about shadow president Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at the inauguration parade has been well covered elsewhere.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Jonathan M. Katz
One of the many annoying things about Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House is having to rehash facts that should have been settled long ago. Here's one: in August 2017, after a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump claimed there were “very fine people on both sides,” praising the racists responsible for the violence. The backlash was immediate. Trump’s Republican allies distanced themselves. CEOs quit his advisory councils.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. Bari Weiss came to town last week for an event titled "Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Free Speech on College Campuses." It was built around a screening and discussion of a new short documentary on the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, which began sixty years ago this month. And, reader, it was weird.
