There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable.

"I am not saying this lightly -- this will get people killed," said Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, who studies the history of medicine and health policy at the University of Rochester.

CDC's acting director is a former Silicon Valley biotech investor, while the chief of staff & chief operating officer are both lawyers, & an adviser is a onetime Republican congressional aide. They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.

Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up. Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇

Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

"The safety of the American people hangs in the balance." The attempt to oust CDC's Monarez is one more step in RFK Jr.'s "misguided efforts to overhaul the public health system based on myths and pseudoscience," says APHA. Read our full statement: www.apha.org/news-and-med...

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Donald Trump raided the home of my UN ambassador as punishment for his public criticism. Out of respect for the presidency, I will say nothing and paint another picture of a dog. by George W. Bush

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3

“We don’t erase history” says the sentient can of body spray who took Medgar Evers and Harvey Milk’s names off Navy ships

I think many people dramatically underestimated how difficult it was for the US to restrain Israel and believed that we were in a worst-case scenario already.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Not only did this scammer take $100K in his scam lying to kids, he also destroyed more than $28K of federally-purchased vaccines - taxpayers paid for - when vaccines first became available. It’s not just RFK and it’s not just “skepticism.” Our government is willing to lose money to promote antivaxx.

A 20-year-old American citizen from Tampa was beaten to death by Israeli settlers on Friday while visiting family in the occupied West Bank www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

The Austin/San Antonio NWS warning coordination meteorologist, Paul Yura, was DOGEd in April. "Yura’s final date of employment, April 30, comes just before severe weather season in Central Texas typically peaks in the month of May." h/t @theiconoclast.bsky.social

He is "an antisemite’s idea of a Jew, ...a rich and powerful figure with a sniveling persona, a man of no discernible values who scolds the masses for demanding too much, a politician who insists we not apply double standards to Jews while holding Israeli Jews uniquely exempt from international law"

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

perhaps worth noting that, while it's not ideal that kasmarcyk's injunctions apply broadly, the basic problem with them is that they are ignorant and lawless

Real question - is there an honest, good-faith case that Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic? Like, any evidence at all? Because I'm trying to track down the source of the accusation and I'm coming up with bupkis.

The pattern is to get very angry for a day or two, engage in some “reflection“ on what happened, decide it was everybody’s fault but yours, and reaffirm that there’s no point in passing the torch as long as you still have the option of being buried with it.

RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Words fail me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

NEW: Democracy is alive in Philly! Amazing scenes in Philadelphia as thousands hit the streets for the anti-Trump protest. #NoKings #50501Movement

Fucked up peoples lives, hollowed out America's ability to reach Iranians, and didn't even save a penny.

One of the things @kerryhowley.bsky.social describes people at DOD close to tears about is the possibility that Whiskey Pete will be in charge if, say, Israel were to attack Iran. Just some exceptional timing for publication of this, I guess.

The most important thing to remember about Donald Trump's vision of foreign policy is that he absolutely does not give a fuck, he wants to feel important and he has never thought about any of these issues for more than 30 seconds before getting bored and doing something else. Zero investment.

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

So it’s war — not a surgical strike.

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

A US senator is assaulted and cuffed for asking a question at a press conference held by the Sec of Homeland Security. We now live in an authoritarian regime where the political opposition can be detained and rounded up.

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]