Genocides never stop by agreement, they only stop when the genocidal forces are kinetically and aggressively rendered incapable of functioning

Every day is No Kings day in Black Mountain and Asheville.

Easy to forget or even outright miss if you don't follow things like me but North Carolina Democratic Party was the first, and I believe remains the only, state Democratic Party to label Israel an apartheid state and call for a total arms embargo, offensive and defense, until apartheid ends.

never feels less surreal over the years when i click a video from Ukraine and it's some guys desperately struggling to stay alive in the unimaginable hellscape of modern warfare, but the soundtrack is the most godawful peppy techno in human history. And the fighters picked the music too

OP knows this of course but it is really difficult once you learn about the GFA and another genuine multilateral attempts to turn transitional peace efforts into something more permanent to come away with any conclusion except that the West finds Palestinian aspirations fundamentally illegitimate.

"In the West Bank and Jerusalem, far from Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 19,000 Palestinians were swept up since Oct. 7. As of this month, more than 11,000 Palestinians were still locked up in Israeli prisons, almost a third of them under “administrative detention,” without charges or a trial."

Do we have to do the "critics have argued" thing when the critics in question are obvious ignoramuses?

genuinly how everyone should be proceeding

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Rubin once retweeted someone calling for Palestinian children to be fed to sharks and has described herself as an "Andrew Cuomo Democrat."

The voice of Gaza. He was continually banned from social media and the evil occupation continued to target him and spew propaganda about him so they can murder him. Yet his voice still reached the world. Glory be to our martyrs.

FIFA is too cowardly to kick the occupation state from all competitions so countries are making sure they don’t advance by trashing them. Norway won their match today 5-0 and Norway’s soccer federation says it will donate all profits from this World Cup qualifying game to aid work in Gaza.

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

Zionist terrorists shot at least three Palestinian teens during another raid in the center of Al Khalil. english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June)

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too. So much for America First!

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids! prospect.org/politics/tru...

So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

The world is profoundly evil and you have to keep on truckin'

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Well, well, well...if it isn't the endlessly dismissed Left being proven 100% correct about someone for the one billionth time.

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965 - New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.” To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

whatever the fuck is going on here, they appear to now admit they were hunting this woman for "doxxing" ice

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

A lot of people who are barely sentient themselves believe that AI chatbots are sentient and I think that's beautiful

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

i’ve seen the “running on democracy didn’t work in 2024” line so many times the last 10 months and it is so emblematic of everything wrong with the dem party. abandoning something that fundamental because it didn’t work *one* time in one the weirdest elections this century

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

People in the complex said they were zip tying kids and they didn't have names or anything. They took you first, then ran to see if you had any outstanding warrants - not just immigration. And the FBI helped them.

this is a good read: Helene created an unprecedented communications blackout; a year later, vulnerabilities remain

This is the text that workers at the Small Business Administration are being asked to make their out-of-office message for the duration of the shutdown, the Prospect has learned. Some are refusing.

Muslims who wear hijab have started receiving “specifically a demand to know how long someone has worn the hijab and why not wearing it would be a burden to their free religious exercise” when they apply for US passports.

The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer. I’m sharing here some of his photography.

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement. Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.