Trump makes the cover of the new issue of Le Point, as a consensus builds across Europe that he was recruited by the Soviet intelligence services in the 80s and continues to be under the influence of their Russian successors.
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Trump makes the cover of the new issue of Le Point, as a consensus builds across Europe that he was recruited by the Soviet intelligence services in the 80s and continues to be under the influence of their Russian successors.
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
i can’t… Are even MAGA people stupid enough to buy this?
I hope so and soon
A leaked video 2001 shows Netanyahu talking about how Israel intentionally strikes Palestinians 'We must hit the Palestinians hard ,take them to a state of panic and fear, and the world will not say anything.' How he deceived the US to break the Oslo Accords, and how Americans
“AIPAC is not dedicated to peace. They're dedicated to inducing maximum support in America, the White House, the Congress, and the public media for whatever policies the Israeli government has..” — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to warn us
This was his quote a couple of weeks ago: “There is a genocide that is occurring in Gaza …. And at some point in the not-so-distant future, we are all going to be looking around and realizing that we failed the ultimate moral test of our time.” Hope he goes far as a leader.
States not recognizing Palestine: Trump and Netanyahu States recognizing Palestine: all the others
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
NYT runs a story, but it essentially buries it, as with all prior demonstrations.
UPDATE Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot says. "Palestine will be recognised by Belgium at the UN session! And firm sanctions are being imposed against the Israeli government," Prevot wrote on X
The National Guardners
News from DeSantisstan: sidewalk and crosswalk wars still running hot
C’est exactement ça!
NÚMERO DE JORNALISTAS ASSASSINADOS, POR GUERRA. 👇 rsf.org/pt-br/mais-d...
The amount of people I have had genuinely tell me that Arab Americans "pretended to care" about Palestine and Lebanon and Syria last year is mind boggling. Likewise, people seem to genuinely act shocked when Mexican-Americans care about Mexico and Mexican identity. Are these people fucking stupid?
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
Look at the actual shift in demographics. Pew research is one source.
This stuff is easy enough to google and confirm. Thank you henhulks. You are correct.
Were you to ask Leavitt etc, they would identify themselves as patriots whose beliefs rest on the country’s foundation. But with their talk of demons and evil, they are framing reality in a way that would justify Donald Trump’s campaign for fascist power. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/tragedy-br...
Christian Nationalists are a hateful minority and they should have no power in politics or administration official mouthpieces.
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I don’t know them. I just followed Bagley. Thanks.
Notable statements by an important expert on the implications of the genocide in Gaza www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
taken in combination with billionaire destruction of news across the globe @jonhutson.bsky.social’s thought really hits @heidicuda.bsky.social called it “journalist genocide” which also sadly feels 🎯
Third news story I reposted this morning. Hope this realization is here permanently and results in meaningful efforts to stop Israel’s genocide.
Israeli campaign in Gaza meets definition of genocide, say scholars on.ft.com/4mH73M6
Wow!
I had great hopes for TikTok after seeing this video...
If the majority of a nation wants their representatives to stop arming a genocide but those representatives refuse, it means they are not afraid to lose votes. By voting for the "lesser evil" for decades you didn't honor the right to vote so many fought for, you devalued the only currency you had.
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
“…Israel’s military action has killed 63,000 people, damaged or destroyed most buildings in the territory and forced nearly all its residents to flee their homes at least once. A global hunger monitor relied on by the United Nations says parts of the territory are now suffering a man-made famine…”
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
“The 1948 UN convention, drafted in the aftermath of the Holocaust, defines genocide as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. It obliges signatory states to act to prevent and stop such crimes…”. Exactly what Israel is doing.
Thank you for my entertainment dose for the day.
Lolol
If you are curious, please borrow the book from the library. This person does not need another cent of your money.
"Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid. The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime." www.972mag.com/palestinian-...
“..symbolic gestures are worse than useless, as they buy time for the regime committing the crimes and drain urgency from the only remedies that matter: ending the genocide, sanctioning the perpetrator, isolating the apartheid system, and insisting…on equal rights and the right of return. “
Hundreds dead after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan.
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
life is better in a union! celebrate and organize today "68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s." news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
Conceivably, pro-Israeli pressure alongside old fashioned racism.
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First day of teaching today, and I'm going to tell my students that taking liberal arts classes at a time when a lot of the country wants the liberal arts to die is an act of resistance. Reading books and taking the time to sit with them and refusing easy answers is an act of resistance.
Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Breaking | The Journalist Islam Abed, correspondent for Al-Quds Today channel was reported killed today by Israeli attacks in Gaza City.
I was reminded of this event in histor and re-read this article and...boy...it's depressing. How is this ever going to end? They've got the whole world by the balls israelpalestinenews.org/when-george-...
"Captive Dreamer" appears not to know where Alexander Hamilton came from (he was born on Nevis and raised on St Croix, both in the West Indies, and came to New York on a scholarship to study at Columbia University, where he was immediately involved in student protests).
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
What is happening in Gaza is genocide. Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity. They must be held to account.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I have been working for 2 years on the Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World. 30 contributions. It's finally done and submitted. Stay tuned for publication, open access. I hope it's a useful resource for students, scholars, and everyone interested in the topic of authoritarianism.
The Isle of the Dead - Centre, Section
At least 78 Palestinians, including 32 aid seekers, have been killed since dawn as Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza City, aiming to seize the largest urban centre and forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south aje.io/7hkxxi
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.
Jacques Lipchitz, Mother and Child I, 1949 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125785
Polls consistently show that Jewish Israelis view Palestinians as less than human. This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide.
Fucking this. @wired.com has consistently put out good reporting. Sorry that thr Dems are aslo bad people, quit idolizing politicians and their associates. Not shocked that BlueMAGA would instantly pivot into hysterics about how @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is annoying on social media.
Something I didn't know: children in foster care are two to five times more likely to have autism or intellectual disabilities than other children nationwide. exelmagazine.org/article/the-...
Yes
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Israeli forces kill 78 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-78-palestinians-across-gaza-dawn
Israeli far right government weighs West Bank annexation in response to wave of recognition of Palestinian state and pressures by settler groups. Another report claims Israeli foreign minister informed Rubio of Israel’s intention to move ahead with annexation.
“If the model employer, the federal government, is unilaterally terminating high-performing Black employees, what hope is there?” President Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force have disproportionately affected Black women. Those losses are also rippling through the private sector.
Pakistan's eastern Punjab province is experiencing its worst flood in history, according to a senior official.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Secretary of HHS does not accept that germs cause illness. The logical conclusion of that is the worst pseudoscience of all: eugenics. He believes that it is not germs that cause illness, but personal failure (or if you're Chinese or Jewish he thinks bioweapons were designed to avoid you).
“The NSC’s staff is now fewer than 150 compared with around 400 in previous administrations. Trump ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz after three months, assigning Secretary of State Marco Rubio to handle the job along with his role as top diplomat.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
And Rubio, vying for the most spineless sycophant award amongst a field that’s pretty motivated, will do anything he is asked to do.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
They are doing this to give the blue MAGA crowd a script they can use to get over this whole inconvenient event. It works exactly like hasbara and reminds me very much of the press kit Israel sent to western Zionists on October 8th
If you see someone here or on X lecturing people on how dark money paid influencers is exactly what it takes to beat Republicans, understand they are aware of the "don't mention Israel" clause and are intentionally ignoring it (even though they are aware this is the part that has everyone upset).
Trump remains firmly committed to the mass deportation of the Palestinian population of Gaza so that Trump can pursue his plans to built a casino and resort there, together with luxury condominiums along the Mediterranean. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The "vote blue no matter who" crowd makes so much more sense now. The Black activists switching from explaining how intersectional feminism works to helping Karens spread the word that Palestinian lives don't matter make so much sense now. All the idiots in my mentions make so much sense now
Thank you @acepnation.bsky.social for standing with us. My time in the emergency department has shaped my commitment to ensuring the health of our communities. www.emergencyphysicians.org/press-releas...
As evidence of Israel's acts of genocide in Gaza mount, Israel relies for impunity now on only one nation: the United States. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
There isn't path to statehood, or a guarantee of territorial integrity, or a promise to withdraw from all of the territories, or the assurance of non-displacement, or an affirmation of the right to water, food, and shelter. There's "you will be expelled from your home forever and I will live on it".
This does not reflect a change of policy so much as a reiteration, for domestic audiences, of existing policy. Transit flights are still allowed and Israeli commercial aircraft still traverse Turkish airspace. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Richard Smith, Untitled, 1980 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1119187
Ha'aretz reporting today: - US put Witkoff's face on a proposal that was really from Netanyahu. - Egypt and other intermediaries pressured Hamas to sign. - Hamas agreed. - And...Netanyahu walked away from the terms he himself had demanded. For the umpteenth time. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
Mohamad Bazzi: "Trump can stop this famine – the US is Israel’s largest weapons supplier and most important political supporter. But he has chosen not to. Instead, Trump is backing...Netanyahu in his latest plan to sow more death and destruction by invading Gaza City."
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Over 63,370 killed in Gaza since start of genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-63370-killed-gaza-start-genocide
You’re saying that telling your constituents they don’t need healthcare because they’re gonna die anyway isn’t winning politics?
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump distracts to deceive. When it comes to the economy, Trump doesn’t want you to know the truth: our failing labor force & rising unemployment is *his* fault. Fmr. Sec. of Labor @juliesulabor.bsky.social talks Trump’s attacks on the independence of the Fed & the BLS. youtu.be/7WMea-UkakE?...