Rolling Stone recently ran a really terrible headline that lets a huge environmental bad guy off the hook for giving people cancer. I'm already ratioing them on Twitter but would appreciate some eyes here as well

it is verifiably not false? its on their website

Far more interesting than anything re Trump-Mamdani is the ongoing psychotic breakdown that some are having because Mamdani said that promoting immigration to occupied territories is not consistent with international law

Apropos nothing else, it seems that Nefesh B'Nefesh does in fact enjoy tax exempt status in the US. Actually existing US tax law would seem to imply that their assisting American Jews in moving to the occupied Palestinian territory is a pretty clear cut and dry case of not being a charity.

Spit in my face but don't call it rain = number one rule

Some people seem to be under the impression that there is such a thing as nonviolent settlement of occupied territories and there is not

What meaningfully distinguishes a self identified liberal Zionist from a Kahanist if the former can not even say that assisting in the settlement of occupied territory is a red line for them? It seems like then the difference between the two is not substance but rhetoric.

The idea that one has to be a Jew in order to have any meaningful understanding of what is or is not Zionism in theory or in practice is to more or less render the term meaningless. Like saying you have to be white to understand white supremacy or Hindu to understand Hindutva.

A basic principle of any public bailout should be that we own all your stuff now. The shareholders, directors, and officers who were in charge when the bubble burst don’t get a windfall later. If we want to sell valuable assets back to the private sector, we do so later at market prices.

Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals. Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.

“UwU those are just baby junior enlisted soldiers how can they possibly know if an obviously illegal order is legal UwU”

Honestly, kind of disappointed watching Crow on Face the Nation that he’s not willing to say point blank “Every soldier knows not to commit war crimes; you don’t have to consult the SJA before you refuse an order to commit war crimes.”

The state is not a tumour on a preexisting society that can be separated and extracted from it, it's a form of social organisation that forms part of a society.

As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.

It's wild that you can see the *exact moment* their brains collectively shattered I'm never not thinking about @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's suggestion that every billionaire get a humanities grad student assigned to monitor their media consumption and group chats

Also, feels like something we and the press SHOULDN'T drop, especially if we want to continue having a free press. This is a reaction to an Epstein question. There's clearly so much there. By letting this slide, we are definitely letting him get away with *something* AND further weakening the press.

Fix this 2028

JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

I saw a lot of people send the original article my way, which i did not share because it seemed like obvious bullshit. Now that has been shown to be true. I know people are worried about AI stuff, but try to be a bit more careful about what's real and what's not.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.

Important to note here that the FBI was able to access the chat because of an informant who was in the chat. Your Signal chats are only secure if you know and trust the people in them. But be careful not to spread this in a way that makes people think "Signal is not really encrypted." Unhelpful.

don't sleep on this one!

ok this is flat-out bad. Mamdani needs to fire Katz tonight. No palling around with red-brown fascism.

Wait, Ryan Grim's xeet about top vs. bottom politics was NOT a sex joke???

Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...

Good old Woz. Good for him.

This is like next-level message discipline from Zohran. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Recent paper on how well Congress represents Americans by Ansolabehere and Kuriwaki reinforces my sense that the House isn't the problem in American politics, but rather the Senate because passage of bills in the House happens when they're popular & *popularity doesn't matter* in the Senate.

Daniel Lozano-Camargo was shipped to Venezuela despite federal court deal protecting him from deportation. Now, he's missing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... @kylecheney05.bsky.social

every tech billionaire is like this. they think everyone but Silicon Valley capitalists are idiots, all safety rules are stupid, and you can do anything if you go fast enough bsky.app/profile/nate...

This is a pretty big deal. Rep. Bonamici has privately talked about this and made some statements but openly posting about it is different. Of course any of us can say this. What only Rep. Bonamici can do is write and introduce articles as well as force a vote.

Wild to me that hes the only speaking sense about this

what a good response honestly. won't make the cranks on either side happy but everybody else can understand

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

On this website one of the dipshits was arguing that anyone who served in the US military is a fascist so I asked him how he felt about the 442nd and he said "Too bad you japs were so eager to serve"

Protect @irhottakes.bsky.social

It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.

Everyone who said Kat was an unserious candidate was wrong

failure to imprison (at least) Bovino when this is over would be a catastrophic failure of democratic governance

He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them. It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.

there's a risk of the meme-ability of Abolish ICE leading well meaning people to think they are The Problem when in terms of brownshirted-ness, CBP is actually worse

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Republicans are treating this like it's some kind of treason. Nothing is being said here that wasn't taught to me as a US Army officer, as a core and standard part of my training.

For my newsletter today, I wrote about why I've changed my mind about Sarah McBride. (I still find plenty to disagree with) www.burnsnotice.com/revaluating-...

Smart move to alert the police and smart politics to publicize it. This is serious.

Inauguration day 2029 is a Saturday. Next president's transition team needs to have a bunch of charging documents ready to go so they can arrest people that afternoon and file two days later on Monday.