Ishaan is a Washington post global affairs columnist 👇🏽
Canadian-American. Loves peace, justice, nature. Common sense government for the people, by the people.
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Talking to himself in the mirror?
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
Watching FarmAid. Sadly needed more than ever under this administration.
Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.
Lock him up!
“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Comedy may no longer be legal, but far-right crime and corruption definitely is.
How totally short-sighted. What do they mean? Keeping us safe from home grown cis gender young white men?
I guess my Dad was Antifa. He served in the Royal Canadian Airforce during World War 2.
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Show me a single speaker at a Democratic convention who called for putting a Republican to death, writes @davidcorn.bsky.social.
According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/
Sounds like an evil person to me. Perhaps she should read the words of Jesus.
Pete would have been an awesome choice!
US House Democrats call on FCC chair to resign after pressuring Disney reut.rs/3K64BR7
An astute quote by someone who was targeted by a gang of evildoers.
Mike Pence: "We gotta be careful about putting America on trial whenever we see evil overtake the heart of any individual. In this case, absent additional facts, there's one person responsible for Charlie Kirk's assassination."
We all must do our part.
ON BARI WEISS’S PODCAST AHAHAHA
You issued a direct government threat to a private company to suspend/fire their employee or there would be consequences. You said that. You made that threat. It’s on tape. You violated the First Amendment. And your ass should be taken to court immediately.
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” -Benjamin Franklin
In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech on.ft.com/468hpio
Gee, I wonder why. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Since when are Americans told who, and how, they should mourn? youtube.com/shorts/s-miU...
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
"Where is the world? Where are the Arab nations?" This Palestinian girl broke down as she described an Israeli attack that targeted her family’s shelter in Gaza City.
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Tears
A mostly dead ocean by 2050 UC Santa Barbara researchers project that human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, with warming seas and fisheries collapse leading the charge www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Of course they do. Why is this so had. Sheeesh!
Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
Wonderful use of tax dollars. Invest in children and families. Meanwhile, Indiana announced cuts to underfunded child care vouchers. 20% of child care centers are closing.
Not enough. He should be fired.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
This white Right on white Right crime in America is a problem.
Israeli forces bombed a residential building, causing fires to spread in an intense night of Israeli attacks on Gaza City. The army says its forces are “increasing the pace of attacks” and told hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move south.
The shooting just turned out to be about gang rivalry, it seems. A tragedy that happens too frequently among young men, leaving their families to grieve.
He was in the electrical apprentice program for the last 3 years at Dixie Technical College in Utah. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Journalist should be fired. Basic Journalism 101 says confirm 2 sources before publishing.
This is abhorrent.
From Elon Musk's Grok AI…
Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.
For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases. Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine. That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Judging by their rulings, the conservative justices of the Supreme Court believe that the use of race to improve political and economic outcomes for minorities is intolerable, but using race as a proxy for who does not belong in this country is permissible.
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Disgusting opinion.
The Speaker of the House: “Yield man! Let the troops come into your city.” The latest reminder that my former political party is utterly un-American.
Very sad. Happening in Indiana. All for money.
Forgetting that many Latina people have lived in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for generations before “white” colonists.
“But all is not lost. And one thing that doesn’t seem to be lost is the public. Trump isn’t popular. And even for a wannabe authoritarian, unpopularity can be a weakness.” www.thebulwark.com/p/baghdad-be... www.thebulwark.com/p/baghdad-be...
Also, the Supreme Court decision in 1935 was unanimous, with liberals and conservatives agreeing that the president did not have this power. It's been on the books for ninety years, but John Roberts of course doesn't give a damn.
Yes, it is a crime. Duh.
Front page today's @latimes.com, at the peak of Covid US summer wave www.latimes.com/california/s...
Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers www.nytimes.com/interactive/... “One of the chief criticisms of ICE’s jail partnerships is that…most immigration violations are a civil offense, and about a third of people arrested by ICE this year had no criminal history.”
Good. Maybe the investigation will prove how safe they are and how many lives were saved by vaccines.
NEWS: A federal appeals court ruling upheld the law I led to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. I submitted an amicus brief to the court arguing for the constitutionality of this law. This is a major victory for seniors and affordable health care.
This part.
Come on over to Blue Sky, Jerome. I used to follow you on that other one and you always made sense.
> @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This administration wastes money daily. Obviously there should be enough to restore SNAP cuts.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
The Tennessee Legislature is evil and supports violence.
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Russia, Russia, Russia!! HOAX!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
CW: Sexual assault Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefianc...
Wondered why our local Walgreens was looking so forlorn recently
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
Trump did this
Sadly, this onion headline will never get old
No one voted for this.
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isn’t any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority. Trump makes America less safe everyday.
Cruelty is the point.
🤬 Russia struck a residential building in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region with FAB-250 guided bombs, according to the local administration. The fire spread throughout the entire residential building.
More than 20 years ago, N.C. legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties. But after only four of those counties were mapped, lawmakers gave in to developers who said it could harm property values. (Published May 2025)
Interesting and plausible solutions.
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Morning sun on the Ohio River.
If you believe that a white woman who is a convicted child sex abuser and trafficker is innocent and honest, but a Latino father who had to be released because they could find no evidence against him is guilty and a liar, then it isn't law & order you believe in, it's child abuse & white supremacy.
I think DOGE pulled it. It was only up one year. We are middle income, retired. Perfect for us.
Didn’t those used to come in cereal boxes when we were kids?
About 8 in 10 Americans, 79%, say immigration is “a good thing” for the country today, an increase from 64% a year ago and a high point in the nearly 25-year trend. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now, down from 32% last year.
www.cbc.ca/news/gaza-re...
From the Guardian…
What we should be worried about as a human race.
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
We used the free IRS program. It was very easy and impressive. Good use of tax dollars.
Modern American fascism will manifest as masked federal thugs taking people to concentration camps viewed through footage on your phone that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one being brutalized and taken away.
Or new way to tax the corporations we give tax cuts to.
A new poll from UMass Amherst found that 47% of 2024 Trump voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/some-tr...
Small businesses like this shop in Minneapolis are the foundation of our local economies. Trump's tariffs are crippling them.
Best buds.