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...

What a gross oversimplification of Ali's original point. What "space" did Harris create when she refused to share a stage with Arabs? When a Muslim candidate in Detroit was kicked out? What "space" did Jeffries create as an AIPAC favorite who only backed a cease-fire once it was politically safe?

I need this fantabulous mug in my life. @elienyc.bsky.social

I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 am. First time on MSNBC since, you know. Boo: The Supreme Court

Paul Krugman: “Are we a mature republic with a normal head of state, or are we being ruled by Kim Jong Un in orange makeup?” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-no-...

❤️ Boston.

The luxury of having longer conversations about these important topics is going to be a highlight of the three-hour format. #Velshi

Do we as Americans even understand the meaning and nature of war anymore? www.vox.com/world-politi...

Thinking even farther ahead, once you place religious institutions on equal footing with public ones, you make it easier to claim public schools are discriminating against Christian students. slate.com/news-and-pol...

💥 BREAKING: The Heritage Foundation withdrew its anti-DEI proposal to IBM for shareholder vote today, originally submitted for vote at IBM's annual meeting. Why Heritage withdrew its anti-DEI proposal is unknown. Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.

“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.” open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Really scary escalation. The Executive is arresting judges now who don’t do the King’s bidding: Rep. Clancy said that Judge Dugan acted in “defense of due process by preventing ICE from shamefully using her courtroom as an ad hoc holding area for deportations.” 6abc.com/post/milwauk...

“Grace is not part of consciousness. It is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.” —Pope Francis

Mel medarda in one of my country's traditional outfits 🧡 #arcane    #arcanefanart #Yemen

“We don’t bow to the purveyors of hate, we don’t give in to terrorists, and we don’t cower in fear. They may have the money, but we have people power and our shared humanity. That is worth more than their billions, and it is the true power.” www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/12/i...

“For the past seven days, I have been forced to shelter at a friend’s Columbia residence because it is not safe for me to walk on the street,” Mahdawi wrote, adding that he barely saw the sun, and did not access his basic meal plan or medical care due to fear. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Why formally declare war when our military can just press a few buttons from a safe distance and obliterate entire infrastructure and kill scores of civilians who our media can reliably cover up by labeling them all terrorists?

“Why aren’t Democrats and other critics of the Trump administration asking this basic question: what have two decades of regular US attacks on Yemen achieved, beyond more death and misery?”

Yes. Yes it is. Emotionally, mentally speaking.

I’m not sure Natalie understands how fascism starts.

It’s all bad.

This is some sick shit

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

“It’s a throwback to George Bush’s 9/11 rhetoric that “you’re either with us or against us,” a simplistic formulation that fell by the wayside as his America descended into a quagmire of regime change and nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq.” open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

“Frankly, I think the framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power," AliKhan said of the executive order. "While I wish other firms were not capitulating ... I admire Susman [and others challenging Trump's executive orders targeting law firms]."

In the interest of balance #news

We should all be very, very afraid, write two of the nation’s top legal minds. "The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Our democracy is collapsing and so many Americans still don’t grasp the stakes or exactly what’s happening. It’s frightening.