unrescued hostages have been a useful fig leaf for people who defend Israel while simultaneously claiming some sort of liberal morality. Fetterman’s been gnawing on his giant’s nails as Netanyahu vaporizes or starves the hostages down to single digits as part of exterminating all life in the area
American contractors are murdering Palestinians at ‘aid’ sites and they are treating it like a fucking game. “I think you hit one.” “Hell, yeah, boy!” Monstrous. apnews.com/article/pale...
This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq. archive.ph/tfOaG
Great work, everyone Axios: Immigration crackdown ripples through economy www.axios.com/2025/07/02/t...
When you're forced to go to summer camp but you really don't want to participate
Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)
Big ups to the various prominent Democrats who went on tv this week to say Mamdani is some kind of dangerous extremist, way to #Resist
Last year was the deadliest year for journalists ever recorded, and 70% were Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
i heard some rabbi was complaining last night about calling trump's deportation cages "alligator auschwitz" and there is honestly nothing more offensive to the memory of the holocaust to interpret "never again" to mean "you can never again compare different atrocities to this one, which is mine."
Hey sorry brother gonna need you to axe the football program, you’re gonna need that money for the Edward Said solidarity pavilion
Research dollars are for winners, not Spineless Blob University who vents trans people out an airlock at the first email from a government attorney
A lot of reporters are going to wonder why the public doesn't understand what's in the Defund Healthcare and Make People Hungry Act, when a lot of them spent the spring proudly buying shares in Trump's Atlantic CIty casinos
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!! [As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
My neighborhood is full of well meaning liberals who adopt don’t shop and it’s fun almost getting nannied by misunderstood house hippos notwithstanding their heavy doses of trazadone and Prozac
the next Democratic administration should take all the money and equipment allocated to ICE and give it to the IRS instead i want anonymous masked goons in tacticool loadouts raiding every office park in Delaware
I think it rocks that when Democrats win by dramatic margins they’re like “Let’s do a healthcare plan written by the Heritage Foundation and not include a public option” and when Republicans win it’s just 4 years of the Temple of Moloch from Metropolis
current projections: 1) mao 2) stalin 3) hitler 4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk 5) winston churchhill 6) pol pot 7) idi amin
The nexus of jihadist and wannabe hooker is confusing. Anyway, more proof of how important it is that our representatives fight for access to mental healthcare
Looking backwards, of course, anytime someone talks about Nazi Germany and what they did, there is always the proviso that some Germans did not like it
The President of the United States was at a FEMA funded concentration camp in Florida today selling merch and saying we should arrest the Democratic nominee for Mayor of NYC and also jail some "bad people born here". It is only July and he took office at the end of January. It's here baby
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
The first people stripped of their German citizenship and made stateless was a list of 33 people published on August 25, 1933. 39,006 people were stripped of their citizenship during the Nazi regime. The final Ausbürgerungsliste was published on April 7, 1945, a month before the end of the war.
A Muslim New York Mayor with left-wing humanist politics poses no threat to American Jews. People coming to believe that there is an inherent and zero-sum conflict between Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans sure does though!
beyond rax's point, the idea that a woman is "not very muslim" because she doesn't dress conservatively is just so insane, like americans really know fucking nothing about the quarter of the planet that identifies as muslim
Hilary Clinton was. Which is part of why it’s so bizarre that the people in that orbit keep opining about what the party must do to succeed
The cafe, one of the few businesses to continue operating during the 20-month war, was a gathering spot for residents seeking internet access and a place to charge their phones.
It’s like a pro wrestler winning b/c some third dude ran out and knocked out his opponent with a steel chair when the ref was distracted
When Musk gave a Nazi salute: all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath
Excited for my new job
Winning an election in 1992 with a historic third party spoiler has broken these people’s brains forever
You will be first!! (To have affordable rent)
AIPAC—not a group.
a political elite class that hates its own voting base isn’t really democratic in real sense, they’re just aspiring aristocrats. we need to show them all the fucking door
jesse singal about to start writing articles about people who regret getting naturalized
“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,” says the Trump State Department, even though I’m pretty sure I saw Itamar Ben-Gvir visiting Mar a Lago just a few weeks ago.
Honestly might be useful to see what they come up with just so everyone can know for certain those ideas are radioactive dog shit
Ending Medicaid to build concentration camps
The false thing that people keep saying that bothers me most right now is mostly about Zohran, trans people, immigrants, etc. But good for you for sticking up for the DNC I guess
To the extent the DNC is being unfairly maligned by association here, it is their rotten luck for being intimately associated with a moribund bunch of geriatric sociopaths who are doing little or no active good, and significant active harm, as we hurtle towards fascism
Stacking the courts & slashing the social safety net to fund a police state & tax cuts for billionaires only needed a simple majority. Trump stealing power from the other branches doesn’t need any vote at all, just inaction. Yet Democrats needed a supermajority for democracy reforms & most policies
bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this
The “Zohran did a prank in college!” coverage is especially awesome in light of his opponents being a guy who accepted duffel bags of Turkish lira and a guy who sexually harassed half of Albany
[Mads Mikkelsen Hannibal voice]
HANNIBAL: You spoke of rats. ERIC ADAMS: Rats have no place in our city. No swag. HANNIBAL: The rat scurries in filth seeking a crumb. Hated and hunted, he reproduces triumphantly. Is that not swag? ADAMS: Doctor Lecter, you have a lot to learn about the definition of swag.
Imagine if the media covered, and got as worked up about, Donald Trump and MAGA’s actual and open antisemitism as they do about Zohran Mamdani’s non-existent and made-up antisemitism. 🤷🏽♂️
It’s remarkable that it’s really hard to say what Democrats stand for other than that another country should be able to commit war crimes
Senate Democrats were quicker to endorse marco rubio than they are to endorse zorhan mamdani
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
I love the idea that they’re gonna find a podcaster who will get young people radicalized into supporting low interest economic opportunity loans for the IDF or whatever they stand for these days, good luck with that shit
the sequence of events from “we need to engage the youth! we need our own joe rogan!” to mamdani’s rise to “we need to crush mamdani and distance ourselves from him” is really something
SCOTUS is aiming to undo birthright citizenship and the VRA and keeps gutting the first amendment, while GOP is set to pass a bill that outlaws green energy and kills medicare, so Hakeem is ready to do what must be done: direct all fire at the charismatic leftist promising better through solidarity
last night the republicans passed a budget to turn america into a nation of roving masked thugs and concentration camps and this is what democrats are doing still on sunday morning news programs instead of telling their interviewers to shut the fuck up and stop changing the subject
The problem here isn't just the answer but the question. Mamdani has denounced antisemitism and clarified his position on this random slogan *other people* chanted at a protest numerous times. This is only a "tough question" if you think it's your job to repeat bad faith Republican attacks.
Feels like it says a lot about our current predicament that our elite leader factory had (has?) for a long time prominently featured a lady who is just constantly whipping out the calipers
It’s genuinely astounding how Americans do not realise how shitty we have it. And like our taxes are actually very high and the return is just DOGSHIT
i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
what really twists the knife for me is that the Trump administration has openly declared war on cities and immigrants, but when New Yorkers choose an inspiring immigrant in their mayoral primary, various DEMOCRATS come out of the woodwork to tell insane racist lies about him
taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
the Trump administration is openly waging war on blue cities and on immigrants, but when an inspiring immigrant wins New York’s mayoral primary, the Democratic Party suddenly jerks out of its lengthy coma just to turn the racism dial till it snaps off
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
During our meeting in New York today, Zohran Mamdani produced a large handsaw and cut a circle around my chair, causing me to fall through the floor to the level below. "Why are you doing this?" I pleaded with him. "Because I'm muslim and communist" he replied
Idk something tells me there may have been signs 🤷🏾♀️
Excited for Bill Ackman to put on the cape and cowl
Oh we definitely aren’t immune, since wanting to reign in Israeli war crimes even a tiny bit is what the chattering class calls “antisemitism”—leftwing Jews are somehow more antisemitic than Christian end times zealots under this new and somehow prevailing definition
I think it will increase antisemitism when, every time a candidate actually proposes improving people’s standard of living, a massive apparatus kicks into gear to say “the Jews have a big problem with this candidate!” Us becoming a default attack line against leftwing candidates is dangerous
As a Jew, grateful that my people can be used as ratfuck cudgel against any leftwing candidate. Love that for us!
He has REPEATEDLY condemned antisemitism. REPEATEDLYYYYY He ran hand in hand with a Jewish man!! He had a HUGE amount of support from Jewish New Yorkers!!! JEWS ARE NOT A TOOL FOR YOU TO USE TO HIDE YOUR ANTI-MUSLIM BELIEFS BEHIND
sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country
Susan Collins reminds me of that crime show cliche where the serial killer is weeping, just bawling as he strangles his ninth prostitute
They like Trump and want to help him rule, just like they helped him win! bsky.app/profile/kend...
I don't think the location was a factor. Highlighting the story as a major news event would be bad for Trump and our media likes Trump and wants to help him.
lol
If the GOP justices on SCOTUS thought universal injunctions were unconstitutional, they had multiple opportunities to set boundaries via egregious injunctions from GOP judges blocking Biden measures. They didn't. They waited until now to help their President send citizens to foreign gulags.
Warning signs flashing red - increasing dehumanizing rhetoric from a fascist authoritarian leader and his partisan allies
The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end
Asking if Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state is such a weird question because it already exists. No one is denying that. What they are actually asking is "does israel have the right to commit genocide" but that sounds bad when they say it out loud
Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
My favorite quotation about what laws are, and it's one I think of whenever this Supreme Court announces a decision, is "The law is whatever I write on a piece of paper," which is attributed to Iraqi political activist Saddam Hussein.
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
this is the aid scheme the US is backing and funding.
An aid worker and her 5-year-old son are among those killed in Israel's attack on Tehran's Evin prison where political prisoners are held. A prominent painter who was in the neighborhood was also killed in the attack.The IDF said it targeted the prison, as a "symbol of oppression for Iranian ppl."
if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer
The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others
*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Do love hitting refresh over and over again to learn what my rights are
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