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Microsoft Faces Reckoning Over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza The tech giant and its executives could face legal liability in the US, EU and UN for aiding and abetting “atrocity crimes” in Palestine, legal groups say. Microsoft shareholders will vote on proposal for human rights transparency on Dec. 5

Hi everyone, I've been off work for a few weeks with a broken arm. No fun story to tell, I just fell off a bicycle late night outside the French Quarter, go figure. I had surgery and am recovering fine. And now I am back to reporting on the rise of authoritarianism and the movements fighting back!

"The plight of Nigeria’s Christians has been an animating subject for American conservatives for years, with some of Trump’s top allies, including Sen. Ted Cruz..." Save the Nigerian Christians, but let the Palestinian Christians get blown up. So Jesus comes back. Right.

Here's how the progressive mayoral candidates in this story did yesterday: Buffalo: Sean Ryan wins NYC: Mamdani wins Syracuse: Sharon Owen wins Albany: Dorcey Applyrs wins Seattle: Too close to call Minneapolis: Goes to 2nd round, incumbent Jacob Frey with slight lead over socialist Omar Fateh

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him. Read more: bit.ly/3WB0AqR

Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.

These centrist pundits moaning about the "trans issue" drive me nuts. Democrats don't lose cuz of trans athletes or whatever, Dems lose cuz they respond to culture wars like fickle, bumbling idiots who want to please everyone, which is impossible. It's literally GOP trick!

Elected Officials in Chicago Look for Tools to Squeeze ICE Out of Public Spaces I spoke to Cook County Commissioner Jessica Vasquez in Chicago about keeping ICE agents out of courtrooms and alerting community groups when feds come knocking. Being undocumented is civil offense, not a criminal one!

This is a really important story from Politico. Say what you will about Charlie Kirk, he projected the image of the ultimate contrarian Young Republican college kid owning the libs. And here's what Young Republican group chats look like:

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord Remember Debt Collective, the group that helped start the student debtors movement? They've announced the "EQR Nine," who are refusing to pay back rent to the nation's fifth largest landlord. truthout.org/articles/ten...

"Anarchists run Portland" seems to suggest a lack of understanding of what anarchy actually means.

The Bezos-mandated right turn at WaPo is on full display. On October 7, what's left of the editorial board praises Israel, no mention of Gaza civilians above the fold. There's also a nice profile of a grinning conversion "therapist" who says being queer is just like having an eating disorder.

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more. My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

Actual quote from Secretary of War (grrrr) Pete Hegseth, addressing the top US military brass during the unprecedented meeting today: "No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.”

On top of everything else, the Trump admin is pushing to open the last remaining truly wild wilderness up for logging and development. Ag Sec Brooke Rollins gave the public little time to comment on the proposal -- and 99% are opposed. Will the forests be saved by the admin's sheer incompetence?

Sen. Jack Reed has said that the Pentagon has provided Congress with “no evidence” to back its claims on the legitimacy of the boat strike that killed 11 people who experts say were civilians. “They have offered no positive identification that iits crew were members of Tren de Aragua.”

“ICE has been reported outside of schools, at bus stops, and in neighborhoods where children are walking to and from class. For immigrant students, simply walking into school can feel like stepping into danger.”

Sending love to everyone who's doing what they can, where they can, across Chicago right now. I love y'all. ❤

I love @truthout.org and read them daily. Follow them and these other great resources to stay on top of how people are fighting back and you can too.

RFK Jr. Faces Widespread Calls to Resign in Wake of Heated Senate Hearing Experts say RFK Jr. does not seem to understand his job. Democrats see him as a weakness in Trump’s cabinet — and a clear and present danger to public health. Key Republicans are losing patience too.

RFK Jr sounded exactly like Darth Vader breathing into the microphone during the entire Senate Finance Committee hearing this morning. I'll have an in-depth report tomorrow...

chorus creators are really being defensive (kinda like they just got caught with their hands in a dark money cookie jar) www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92r...

Last Friday, a catastrophic explosion erupted at a major lubricant manufacturing facility in a predominantly Black town near Baton Rouge. Oily droplets spattered from the smoky sky as far as 20 miles away, coating rooftops, cars, and lawns in a slick, shimmering film that glistened like tar.

These Billionaires Have Already Spent $19 Million in a Bid to Defeat Zohran Mamdani Billionaires and the companies they own (think AirBnb and Doordash) are spending big on the NYC mayoral race. My latest is a collaboration with LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social check it out!

Judge Blocks Kristi Noem From Deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda — for Now Critics say Trump is putting Abrego Garcia “through literal hell” and that efforts to deport him amount to a power grab that puts everyone at risk of being disappeared by the state. truthout.org/articles/jud...

True. Also works at eviction court!

I was visiting Braddock PA outside of Pittsburgh when reporting this story about the US Steel coke plant that exploded in nearby Clairton -- and the pollution monitoring demanded by residents that Trump nixed. I could see how benzene can settle in the river valley! truthout.org/articles/tru...

the republican party's model for response to a natural disaster is katrina www.texastribune.org/2025/07/31/t...

The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline were the fossil fuel industry’s top contributors to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump during the first half of 2025, making a combined $25 million in contributions to that PAC alone.

Bernie Sanders Launches Investigation of RFK Jr.’s Attacks on Vaccine Access truthout.org/articles/ber... via @truthout.org @mludwig.bsky.social

Trump is publicly pressuring lawmakers in Texas and beyond to preemptively meddle in the midterm elections to preserve the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.

Frustrating to hear liberals use "misinformation" as an excuse for being so late to realizing that the genocide is a genocide, or at the very least a terrifying attempt at ethnic cleansing (ahem, The Atlantic). Palestinians have said this for years now. You didn't listen. This is from 2023:

Ongoing investigation of **porn** seen on a TV in the office of Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters, an ultra-MAGA Christian Nationalist who mandates Bibles in classrooms and has supported the anti-queer book banners at Moms for Liberty. Walters denies any wrongdoing.

Wow watching Trump & Co. get eaten alive by the same propaganda machine beast they've been feeding red meat to for years is awesome "Look over here, it's Brazil! Hey what about some Coca-Cola with real sugar (but not Mexican) golly what do you worthless idiots want from me??" hahahaha 🤣

Update on George Retes from UFW:

George Retes, a US citizen and disabled veteran, was disappeared by ICE during the violent raid on legal cannabis greenhouses in southern California yesterday. He's still missing, his family is desperate, his daughter's bday in tomorrow. Spread the word!

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power While the Republicans rammed through a "billionaires budget" last week, SCOTUS took up a GOP challenge to the last remaining limits on campaign contributions from billionaires like Elon Musk, who spent millions to elect Trump

I listen to @igd.bsky.social (IGD) and @thebulwark.com for perspective from both sides of the resistance. @timmiller.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social had a banging July 3 podcast with piss play and strippers! New Orleans taught me sex workers are organized and critical. Welcome Tim and fam!

"If Republicans wanted to add $4 trillion to the national debt, they could write a check for $12,000 to every single adult and child in the United States. Yet, the bottom 40% of households in the U.S. won’t get any benefit at all from this bill, instead their incomes will outright fall." -- @epi.org

Senate Republicans are so used to deny, deflect and double down that they passed a bill they don't even like and will lose them elections (Trump took the "delay" option off the table) I mean, just look at their faces. Murkowski is far from the only GOPer feeling the heat right now.

Imagine if a fraction of the journalists who helped manufacture claims of "anti-Semitism" against anti-war protesters began to cover the fact that white nationalists are helping to direct attacks on non-white people in the US.

There's nostalgia for a pre-Trump era when politics "worked" — Dems governed and GOP limited excess. But is Trump really so special? The authoritarian police state is not new, and it's not the first time Republicans fell for a brash entertainer who cozied up with the rich and abused human rights.

Seeing some posts referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as being "kept safe" in jail. No one is safe in jail, fam. Incarceration strips years off people's lives and manufactures premature death. It's very important to understand this, especially now.

I like to think about all the stuff we could do with billions of dollars oligarchs spend on elections/annoying political ads, but at this point, local TV stations would shutter without the revenue. Capitalism killed newspapers, and local outlets are critical for corruption and disasters, what a mess

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand went on an Islamophobic rant against Zohran Mamdani, falsely suggesting Mamdani made an explicit call for violence when he did not — ignoring the many times that Mamdani has denounced antisemitic violence.

only kind of kidding when I say thank you for the bisexual erasure Andrew Sullivan, outstanding to be excluded from this narrative

“If Medicaid is cut, my patients will die. I realize I am being dramatic. It is a dramatic situation. [T]hey are humans who are doing their best. Please don’t allow them to suffer more.” - Dr. Helen Pope, Louisiana