Ciudad Del Fuego: “Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people.” Here’s the latest on the Ciudad Juárez disaster from NPR.

+ Flinch, Not Clinch: The Atlantic: Netanyahu Flinched. “The question now is not only whether the protesters can keep their movement alive through the coming weeks, but also whether they will prove able to build a true pro-democracy movement, expanding its aims beyond this bill to address Israel’s other long-standing deficits. Whatever the next days bring, one thing is certain: The struggle for Israeli democracy is just beginning.” (America knows the feeling. Or at least it should…)

+ Luke Warm Idea: “‘Attention. Air raid alert,’ the voice says with a Jedi knight’s gravitas. ‘Proceed to the nearest shelter.’ It’s a surreal moment in an already surreal war: the grave but calming baritone of actor Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker of ‘Star Wars,’ urging people to take cover whenever Russia unleashes another aerial bombardment on Ukraine.” Mark Hamill lends ‘Star Wars’ voice to Ukrainian air-raid app. Even Yoda is like, “Make sense that doesn’t.”

+ Borders Not Bridges: “The Disney movie ‘Ruby Bridges,’ which tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of Pinellas County Black History Month lessons for years.” But not this year, because we’re going crazy. In other insane news, Wisconsin officials deem Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton song too potentially controversial for class concert. “Administrators also initially banned the song ‘Rainbow Connection’ from The Muppets but later reversed that decision.” (Ban that shit. Why take the risk?)

+ Failed Bankman: “FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business.”

+ Swim Cap: “The Maldives is 99% water and more than 80% of its 1,190 islands are just one metre above sea level. Yet many young Maldivians, particularly girls, do not know how to swim.”

+ It’s Got a Nice Mammouth Feel: “The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.” Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm.