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Today in @thenation.com we have harrowing, unforgettable accounts of the Israeli massacre that killed Anas al-Sharif and 5 others—from three journalists, including al-Sharif's cousin, who were there. Unfathomable that the world's media doesn't care about this. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
What's the one thing keeping me going these days? Glad you asked. It's watching Andrew Cuomo repeatedly punch himself in the face for our enjoyment. www.discourseblog.com/p/andrew-cuo...
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welcome home
The UN has broken through Israel’s ban on data collection & declared famine (for 1st time in the ME) Palestinians in Gaza-including Lujayn in @thenation.com -have been documenting this reality for months www.thenation.com/article/worl... Thanks to @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for publishing this
Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.
trump (one minute into clandestine meeting) it's me, donald trump! i'm spying on you!
yeah maybe put trump's application for that undercover job at the bottom of the pile
"What I do know with pure certainty is that if there is a heaven, Donald Trump is not going there when he dies. I don’t believe in the place myself, but if that surprise is waiting for me in the great beyond, I know in my bones that Trump will not be there." www.discourseblog.com/p/donald-tru...
This is just some of the horror that Ali and his family endured when Israeli troops destroyed their home in Gaza City. This is happening over and over and over again in Gaza. Please, please, please read what Ali has to say. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Last year, Israeli soldiers destroyed Ali Skaik's home in Gaza City and held him for hours, stripped, blindfolded, injured, and at gunpoint. Now Israel is invading Gaza City again. And Ali is terrified. Read his testimony in @thenation.com. It is unforgettable. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"To argue with Grok is to argue with a Speak and Spell about what sound the horsey makes." Classic from @therafischwartz.bsky.social on some of the real dummies of our time: the people who shout at a robot www.discourseblog.com/p/the-men-wh...
multiple sclerosis now
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as someone who has done gaza fundraisers i can say from experience: this is because gofundme etc often won't allow money to go directly to palestinian accounts. you need someone outside of palestine to help. if this guy was actually concerned about helping instead of being a dick he would know this
Every time @thenation.com publishes the writing of Lujayn, a teen in the Gaza Strip, I hold my breath while reading. If you read one thing today, make it this: "Don’t you dare preach “child protection” to our children while they are bombed and starved in front of the whole world."
"Please forgive my anger and my sadness, but I swear there is no pain greater than watching an infant who doesn’t even have energy to cry gasp its last breath before the world’s eyes." I'm A Teenager In Gaza. And I Am Starving. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"What hits you first is the exhaustion carved into every face. The sickly pallor. The terrifying weight loss ravaging everyone—yes, including me." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
i think there’s a reasonable chance that trump could emulate the former president of turkmenistan and order that one of the months of the year be named after his mother en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renamin...
ofc, though Brown does not say this outright, we know: "the war in Gaza" did not do this. Israel did.
A fact you should never let leave your mind. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-enragi...
Today in @thenation.com, we have another piece by @mohamhawish.bsky.social that's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. This one's about the pain of being exiled from your homeland, possibly forever. Anything Mohammed writes is a must-read. So please read this. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
I struggle to convey how sickening this all is. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-enragi...
when everything's fine
telling people "you will have to be killed in a hurricane because of israel" is definitely going to make them like israel more
Canada, France, Britain, and others offer Palestinians the same poisoned chalice they have offered for decades: recognition without sovereignty, statehood without power, liberation without freedom, writes Ahmad Ibsais. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
. @kathkrueger.bsky.social wrote about the upcoming campaign books that will make your book club hate you and make you hate yourself www.discourseblog.com/p/the-worst-...
for a better piece about zohran and the cops, read this from @alexvitale.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...
gonna be a huge fall for books nobody ever wanted to read
the very kindest thing you can say about it is that it's terrible journalism
he is literally helping to cause the catastrophe!! the united states is a key reason there is a famine! what in the fuck are you talking about! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Actually, we don't need to waste time on the precious feelings of powerful people who are only saying "gee, something's not right in Gaza" two years into a genocide. It is literally too late for this bullshit. (Me in @discourseblog.com) www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...
what can you even say to this www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"I’m barely eating. There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” Today in @thenation.com: Mothers in Gaza are trying to keep their kids from starving to death. But they're starving too. Please, please listen to them. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
this opens with a graf solely about what a ceasefire would mean for israel. palestinians who are suffering from genocide and starvation get no mention. a pretty good summation of how the nyt views this situation.
Love for Palestine is on walls, sidewalks, bridges, street corners, and a million other places all over the world. You just have to keep an eye out. www.discourseblog.com/p/love-for-p...
If he becomes mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have to tackle New York City's biggest beast: the NYPD. @alexvitale.bsky.social has some suggestions for how to do just that.
he's probably sad bc hulk's organs are too fried for him to harvest
so how's peter thiel's health these days, no reason just curious
would have been great to read gawker on hulk hogan's death
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if you see a parent saying "you know maybe my kid should go to columbia" in 2025 you have an obligation to yell at them
please do not send your children to this school
this is why the rahm emanuel-gavin newsom "just give everyone a little transphobia as a treat" theory is such amoral bullshit: because they are feeding into an explicitly eliminationist movement
"battling an unspecified illness" 😐
the liberals have gotta stop saying shit like "respectfully, i dissent," this is not a situation that calls for the slightest amount of respect!
ok come on now
idk what the big deal is with the epstein thing. who hasn't written "we've all got secrets wink wink" to their notorious pedophile friend
important context: @jscros.bsky.social is crashing at my house. i asked what he had to work on today and he said "i need to write a blog for discourse" "what about?" i asked "dunno yet" he said that was like 2 hours ago. This is what the blog mines teach you www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...
"If you haven’t ever had an editor trying to juggle 20 different pieces of content in a day shoot down one of your pitches for being too boring, it is my opinion that you are lacking some fundamental guardrails in your intellectual development as a writer." www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...
should have said AT LEAST one year! at minimum etc
it is my firm belief that every aspiring journalist should be a blogger for one year. you're set for life if you can blog.
not sure what is so hard to understand about "politicians who repeatedly attack me or people i care about don't deserve my support" www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...
between the laughable columbia story and now this laughable arizona story, the nyt is truly not beating the allegations that its news side is actively trying to take zohran down
when you start constantly hanging out with fascists for the express purpose of throwing vulnerable kids under the bus, i think the rest of us should feel free to tell you to shut your mouth. enough of this crap. www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...
Wrote about how Gavin Newsom is a garbage person and he should stfu about trans kids and also go away more generally. Simple as that. www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...
blogged about gavin www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...
ME TOO
we san franciscans have been plagued by newsom ever since the late 90s. he has always, always been this guy.
as someone who has been hating on gavin newsom for over two decades, can i warmly welcome so many new members to the club
My friend Asmaa's family is still trapped in Gaza. Famine has taken root, war profiteers are bleeding people dry, and Israel's bombs never stop. Asmaa's family desperately needs money to survive. Please give what you can to their fundraiser. chuffed.org/project/1308...
no other country has a supreme court set up like ours. billions of people around the world make do without a supreme court like ours. delete it and start over!
instead of abolishing the department of education, i have a better idea: abolish the supreme court
area man begs to be punched in the face one more time
it's gonna be so fun watching cuomo get absolutely humiliated for the second time in six months
MSF survey on Gaza: almost half of those killed were children
this quote from a times reporter is perhaps the most telling: they wanted a buzzy story that would "get people talking," and even though all the talk is about how terrible the story is, they consider it mission accomplished.
this is incredibly disingenuous. the piece wasn't "here's some insight into the complexities of mamdani's heritage," it was "ZOHRAN FRAUD??!?!?!" this is a really obvious attempt to retcon a shoddy smear into something respectable
when i start trying to count all of the different bad things the times did with this story my circuits kind of overload
nyt doing its usual thing of punishing its employees rather than reflecting on why they’re mad enough to speak out publicly
“writes often about IQ and race”…is there another simpler set of words that could describe that?
the substance of that stupid nyt piece is far less significant than the decision to run it in the first place. suggests some very sleazy things going on behind the scenes
this is one of the weakest most laughable attempts at a hit piece i have ever seen in my life. embarrassing does not even begin to describe
will the democrats actually take meaningful steps to roll back this bill if they get the chance? survey says not likely. but that has to be the bare minimum demanded of them
like, if a democrat goes "this bill is awful, though there are some provisions about border security that make practical sense" they have to pay a political price for that. repeal the whole thing. line by line. salt the earth.
democrats are going to run hard on how bad this bill is. and it is definitely as bad or worse than any bill imaginable. but if they run hard on that, and win, then they actually have to vote to repeal every word of it. nothing less is acceptable
you'd be hard-pressed to find a more accurate representation of right-wing dem priorities
these announcements are always like a horrible sneak preview from the future. excuse me while i write "the supreme court will fuck over trans people again" in my june 2026 calendar
This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
if you hate the kind of people who destroyed GMG and want them to be mad, consider subscribing to Discourse Blog, a site full of writers they laid off! www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...
Here is a great blog from @jscros.bsky.social about one of the worst media companies that has ever existed. Private equity really is the devil. www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...
nobody has ever looked more uncomfortable than this man
lmao
this is why abolishing ICE is the *least* we should demand—because, by the government's own admission, ICE sits at the heart of the fascist agenda www.thenation.com/article/poli...
imagine spending all your time, in a world with this much misery, trying to destroy something it is very clear makes things better for people
dumbest possible world
sorry i have a completely different question. in your sea shanty group do you do the one that goes "oh the ocean waves they rolllll and the stormy winds they blow let em bloooow"?
If Israel's supporters want people to like Israel more, they should do everything they can to end the genocide. Instead, they want the genocide to continue unabated and pay no price for it. Sorry, that's not gonna fly! www.discourseblog.com/p/people-don...
Anti-Israel sentiment is often treated as if it's a) the product of mass antisemitism or b) weird hypnosis whose tricks we'll never understand. But the truth is pretty simple: people don't like Israel because Israel is committing genocide. That's it. www.discourseblog.com/p/people-don...
weird, i thought that if democratic politicians were seen supporting trans people they would immediately spontaneously combust, not uh be in line to be the mayor of new york
nothing dignified about a handout. now please excuse me while i take my free flight from nyc to toronto that is stopping in istanbul for some reason,
"she may have just [checks notes] destroyed the constitution but that doesn't mean we can't be friends" doesn't quiiite work
one would hope so!!!!
BillMoyers believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of the American experiment. His passing this week, at age 91, represents a profound loss for American journalism. But Bill would not want us to mourn. He would tell to fight harder than ever for journalism and democracy!
not sure we've seen anything this year but i think they do them like once a year or so when they're on the lecture circuit. like barrett and sotomayor did a whole joint appearance last year www.politico.com/news/2024/02...
not the most important thing but i really wish the liberals on the supreme court would stop giving those speeches where they go "actually behind the scenes we all love each other and we just have different points of view." like your colleagues are evil, please don't try to convince us otherwise
so letting parents impose their homophobia on public schools is ok. letting parents help their own children with gender-affirming care that doesn't affect anyone else is not ok. theocracy sure is fun
i wrote this before i saw that the court had just issued a horrible anti-lgbtq ruling. proves my point!!!! bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
also it's homophobic for the supreme court to always pull this shit during pride month. we need to make them wait until july!