imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

According to the World Health Organization, more than 16,500 sick and wounded people need to leave Gaza for medical care. This comes as Israel says that the partial remains returned by Hamas do not match the two hostages remaining in Gaza.

Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep

I’m not as smart as most journalists. So take this with a pinch of salt. But here’s a suggestion. Ask Mike Johnson about the [horrible thing that Trump did that violated the Constitution, pissed on Congress, and was a lie] from LAST week. And then let him hang when he says he still hasn’t

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli forces have now killed at least 244 Palestinian journalists since the genocide on Gaza began in October 2023 making it one of the deadliest conflicts for media workers in modern history. (Gaza Notifications)

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.

There is no ceasefire Even if there was a ceasefire, it doesn’t erase all their crimes against humanity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

Dr Assal Rad— "If Ms Rachel has to keep saying stop killing kids DURING a ceasefire, it’s not really a ceasefire."

Meanwhile, a new report from Human Rights Watch finds the Israeli government’s forced displacement of 32,000 Palestinians in three West Bank refugee camps in January and February amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf. Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

a lot of our issues comes from the failure to speak plainly. the mainstream media is filled with too many people who wanted to be creative writing types and pack their work with literary flourishes meant to entertain instead of inform, while the political class has too many lawyers trying to obscure

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it. Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document— "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Gosh.

Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not

In a September 2017 email, Landon Thomas Jr.—then a New York Times international finance reporter and consultant—alerted Jeffrey Epstein to an active NYPD investigation targeting him. The probe was reportedly headed by Detective John Connolly and may have been connected to Donald Trump.

😎🪴🌵 Tylenol causes autism they say, meanwhile the current Amerikan president’s EPA is about to approve Epyrifenacil, a forever chemical tied to cancer and birth defects, to be sprayed on our corn and wheat… all bc his EPA chemical-safety office is run by a former pesticide lobbyist

This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?

I thought perhaps I was getting a little too angry with Schumer. Then I read @billscher.bsky.social’s latest. Now I feel like I was not angry enough. If he’s right, Schumer caved to *protect the filibuster.*

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

#AOC: “What makes the leadership of this moment so crucial, is about trust and cooperation — we will need to work together and as a team in order to usher our country through this very dark time.” AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture

Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.

Schumer may have voted no but people are tired of the DC dance. ✅ The 8 senators admit they kept him in the loop ✅ The 8 senators that voted yes are not up for reelection ✅ His No. 2 voted yes We need a new politics with new faces for working people.

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?" Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Great, cannot wait to wake up to fundraising emails with subject lines like “we’re not giving up!” asking me for $3 after completely letting us down.

the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.

Agreeing to this deal demands a primary challenge.

entirely possible some senators experienced some flight issues getting home and decided selling out the entire American healthcare system for the poor was a reasonable trade for fixing it

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.