The OBBBA was signed on July 4th a year ago. This is a great summary of some of the changes it will make. The SNAP changes (4 million lost coverage and counting) are already happening. Medicaid changes were timed to occur after the midterms, but may be even worse.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved

Omran, aged 3, died of a chest infection because all 11 clinics his mother took him to, increasingly frantic, had no medication. All the antibiotics were funded by USAID in Sudan www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Three women in Afghanistan died when their USAID maternity clinic closed. One bled to death, the other’s baby got stuck inside her. Their midwives were fired when USAID funding ended www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

Negar lives in Takhar province, Afghanistan. Her newborn twins died last year when she had to deliver them at home because the USAID maternity clinic closed edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

the modern right's two biggest factions are people who are so antisemitic they like islam and people who are so islamophobic they like jews

“the Green-adjacent trans-lovers that fill his cabinet”?? The Labour Party viciously threw trans people under the bus and is now to the right of where the Tories were just 5 years ago. At least acknowledge this basic fact in your column that you allegedly file as a professional politics-knower

read more about this: boltsmag.org/louisiana-im...

In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Trump ran on mass deportation (including of people on parole and TPS) and “remigration” (of people here many years, w/ US born children, refugees!) and no more immigration from “shithole” countries. Focusing asylum “abuse” and “criminal aliens” has always been diversionary. It’s been this!!!

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

and like the british transphobes can whine all they like about me calling this a "ban on existing in public." but there's a reason i will not travel to the uk, not even to stop over in the airport. can i be assured of my ability to function in public in such a country? no.

and of course the logic is orwellian. "because some people might be uncomfortable with your presence, you must actually be banned from public spaces, or at least yourself made to feel intensely uncomfortable." black is white, there are five lights, and we have always been at way with eastasia

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

in the guidance on trans people, right where they say transphobia is not transphobia, they felt it necessary to add that homophobia is not homophobia just a little glimpse into the future

This is also a really clear explainer of all the different Trump crypto grifts

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

I am just so upset by this. Everyone must read.

Amazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

c'est abominable. et l'europe s'en fout apparemment complètement. www.lorientlejour.com/article/1502...

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

Monstrous racist. Still astounds me, even after more than ten years of relentless repetition. Just the worst person imaginable to be president.

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

Le niveau d'ignominie de ces journalistes, c'est effarant ! Et bravo au maire qui serait en droit pour bien moins que cela de s'énerver et de porter plainte !

IR people who decry gender studies or arguments are fish refusing to believe the study of water is important.

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.” Must-read. apnews.com/article/trum...

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

Will Wilkinson wrote about this a few years ago modelcitizen.substack.com/p/the-densit... @wlknsn.xyz

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

My latest In Gaza, an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ foretold wapo.st/4rrkWAb

Look at the photos. The thing I heard often working on the USAID Gaza response from our partners in Gaza was the field of dead bodies - men, women, children - that fanned out around IDF checkpoints in the Netzarim corridor. Shot by IDF soldiers for no reason (unless "for fun" counts as a reason).

This is such a good illustration of how the ACA enhanced subsidies worked. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?! This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple. Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Stuff like this was obviously at stake in 2024 but received virtually zero coverage in the media, who decided that Tim Walz' trips to China in the 1980s was a more important issue to Americans

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.