To make sense of America's baffling foreign policy under Trump, you need to understand 'neo-royalism'

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

an ex-Republican pastor is one of the central organizers in the anti-ICE effort in Springfield OH www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

“Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door… The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by DHS headquarters in D.C.” newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

As I report in this piece, a trend is developing: Some warehouse owners have decided against selling to ICE, plainly because the backlash has persuaded them that it would make them pariahs

ADC has also opened their application for the Jack Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship for Arab American students in media, journalism or film. This one is also open to grad students! Award is $5k and deadline is April 12th: adc.org/2026-jack-sh...

Islamic Scholarship Fund is accepting applications from Muslim students in public policy, law, and media majors. Deadline is March 21st (the day after Eid!). Awards range from $3k-$10k. Apply here: islamicscholarshipfund.org/scholarship/

Peter Beinart: “The political scientists Stacie Goddard and Abraham L. Newman have dubbed Trump’s foreign policy ‘neoroyalism.’ It aims less to solve global problems, or even advance American national interests, than to enrich and empower Trump and his circle.” jewishcurrents.org/trumps-imper...

Alex Pretti was described by the govt as approaching agents with a handgun when he was shot dead. But the video released since shows Pretti with his hands empty. Fmr. NYPD Lt. Porcher says in “no way, shape, or form,” does Pretti approach officers with any sort of threat. youtu.be/Yr8Fknv-u3o

Americans are not angry enough.

So now Trump’s army is being told they don’t need a warrant to enter the most private and intimate of spaces, a person’s home. Fourth Amendment be damned. Big Brother isn’t knocking at your door, he’s in your living room. We don’t even have the *illusion* or pretense of a democracy anymore.

“Mr. Mamdani placed his left hand on two Qurans held by his wife, raised his right hand and recited the oath of office (one Quran belonged to his grandfather, the other belonged to Arturo Schomburg, the Black historian and writer).“ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

While Trump dismisses the affordability crisis as a “hoax,” his antitrust enforcers are busy protecting accused corporate lawbreakers, including PepsiCo and RealPage. youtu.be/O2atn4vir38?...

Prepare for a desperate Trump to cling to Mamdani’s populist coattails. Like a bad car wreck you can’t turn away from.

Trump just wants to be like the cool kids. 🤳🏽

I’m watching an auntie on the subway scroll through mamdani posts with a polite little smile on her face.

My people are reclaiming their legacy in the heart of Times Square. ☕️ FYI the owner of Mokafe helped lead a citywide boycott of the New York post in 2019 over its Islamophobic coverage. We are full circle. Is NYC in its brown man era?

I’m dead.

MAGA: Trump is going to strip Mamdani of his citizenship! Trump: I’d like to see Mamdani strip

Two fellas from Queens just vibing.

Interesting—“Under colonial agreements, particularly those signed by and put together by the British government, Egypt got the lion’s share of the Nile’s water, and other countries, including Sudan, got much, much less.” www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Seriously, how do we stop this epidemic of mass stupiding? HOW TO STOP THE STUPIDING?! It’s too much.

Americans are angry “over the loss of hope…they feel like there is no future.” @matthewstoller.bsky.social on affordability and America’s housing crisis.

“At the time, I looked forward to serving for the rest of my life. However, I resigned Friday, relinquishing that lifetime appointment… My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom.“ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

“Ironically, however, it’s a Republican President, Donald Trump, who is busy expanding the frontiers of the state by having government agencies take sizable stakes in privately run companies.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Yesterday somebody called me 'pretentious'. I nearly choked on my oat milk decaf double choc mocha latte

Judge William Young introduced his thinking in the opinion with a scanned image of an anonymous threat that had been sent to his chambers in June, as he considered the case, ominously reading ‘Trump has pardons and tanks. … What do you have?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

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.

Kavanaugh stops.

“Indicting Comey and bringing the U.S. arm of TikTok into the maga fold seem like part of the same grand project to concentrate media power in Trump’s hands, or the hands of his allies, and to rout his perceived enemies.“ www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

I bought this for you, America. ::hug::

The Kimmel saga shows how media giants gerrymander the airwaves. But it also highlights people power— and how collective resistance can check authoritarianism where institutions fall short.

And another one taps out. I was hoping for more of a challenge.

Again, why am I not surprised the response is to block.

If your understanding of “diplomacy”requires me to compromise on, or water down my distaste for genocide….I don’t think I’m the problem….

Diana, I assure you she lost the Arab and Muslim vote because she was in fact sneaking around and kicking my people off stage. I suggest you actually talk to Muslim community leaders instead of trying to score likes on Bluesky.

I’m not really sure how to engage when every response is “Because Trump.” This is exactly why the Democratic establishment is struggling. How about we start with actual principles that don’t change depending on the day… starting with the very basic “genocide is wrong.”

Do you actually hear yourself? When did genocide become negotiable for Democrats?

Laughable that a candidate can treat Arabs like political poison, and all her supporters can come back with is “people who support Palestinian rights must hate Black women.” Learn some basic logic.

Why am I not surprised she blocked me.

It’s something to behold, how people think they can speak to Arabs in this vapid and condescending manner simply because we’re demanding to be seen by those who demand our votes.

I’m still waiting for you to respond to my original point instead of looking for crumbs to redeem a candidate who spent her entire campaign playing hide and seek with Muslim Americans.

“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” he said, adding that someone younger "can maybe do better, can maybe help us more." wpde.com/news/nation-...

Imagine thinking this arrogant, tone-deaf response is a sane thing to say out loud to a traumatized community grieving genocide.

Listen to yourself. When a candidate has to sneak around to meet with Arabs and Muslims after she very publicly erased any kind of “space” for my community, we’re not going to applaud her for throwing us crumbs.

“We’ve been here before: widespread Democratic opposition to an outrageous war, particularly among the young, while a good chunk of the party’s establishment remains unwilling to halt U.S. involvement in that conflict. In the ’60s, that was Vietnam. Today, it’s Gaza.” prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...