All cool, moms
Israel bans Al Jazeera and raids its offices. Meanwhile, the blasting of Rafah continues. / Semafor, Al Jazeera
Thomas Friedman: MBS put his country's worst religious extremists in jail, while Netanyahu put his worst religious extremists in his cabinet. / The New York Times [+]
Palestinian artists describe their daily struggle for survival. / The Art Newspaper
Unrelated: How to make newspaper blackout poetry. / The Kid Should See This
Zadie Smith on student protests: "The only thing that has any weight in this particular essay is the dead." / The New Yorker
A woman whose mother self-immolated explains why people set themselves on fire. / The Los Angeles Times
In terms of eliminating cervical-cancer cases, a proving ground is Alabama. / The Wall Street Journal [+]
An interview with the artist behind San Francisco's controversial Tetris house. "I take it really seriously as a designer." / California Sun
The new video for Washed Out's "The Hardest Part" uses OpenAI's Sora video model. / Vimeo
Rolls-Royce gets approval to build nuclear power plants in Poland. / World Nuclear News
A Dutch designer retrofits an old Volvo to run on fuel produced by a "plastics definery" mounted on the car's roof. / dezeen
"Decline by 9" refers to American children in third and fourth grade who are beginning to stop reading for fun. / Slate
In the UK, it's "quite common" among some teenage boys to record their partners giving verbal consent before having sex. / The Guardian
A high-quality mother's day gift guide. "Let's just assume they are all cool moms." / A Continuous Lean
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