on cycles of violence

Beyond the threat Iran poses to Israel and its own people, Jews in Iran have been living in an impossible situation where the only way to survive is to genuflect to the regime. We posted this at @forward.com yesterday, before the strike began and ahead of Purim, which begins Monday night.

Sending love to my Iranian and Persian friends today. May we live to see the end of US imperialism.

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

pedo ass warmonger

if it seems like affirmative action for abusers, losers, and hacks who can’t compete on merit, that’s b/c it is

Had a conversation with a friend earlier in the week strongly suggesting that she should get off Twitter. I usually never say anything but I have noticed that she is progressively less well. I think that platform is exacerbating this.

This article details places that are letting ICE use them to help do their operations.

It's disgusting how much Georgia law facilitates this

If HBO was already pressuring the Pitt TV show to make an ICE interfering in the emergency room story line more balanced, just imagine what's going to happen when the Ellison's take full control. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

MBS also mad DJT told MBZ he thinks Aaron Samuels is cute

"People who were protected by the laws are suddenly subject to arrest and detainment, possibly for a long time. The scaffolding of their rights is collapsing, and they are now subject to the dark underbelly of Trump’s lawless detention regime."

Ah yes. Americans: famous lovers of organ meats.

Nate Parker spotted wondering how he too can cash in on his violent misogyny by teaming up with a shrieking artistically impaired wannabe

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There are major concerns with the large number of children in ICE detention, along with the conditions in which they’re held. The agency’s massive new funding combined with resistance to oversight and transparency is making matters worse. bit.ly/4qWSVQ4

📍 𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐘, 𝐓𝐗: 911 logs show repeated ambulance calls from an ICE family detention center for children struggling to breathe, suffering seizures, or burning with high fevers — including babies and toddlers. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

Extremely important for USian truth-based media to find and create effective ways to reach people and for people to reach us that are not dependent on black box social algorithms, lest they be artificially silenced. Twitter was the pilot project for this sort of manipulation. It's effective.

I wouldn't expect anymore Oscars head-to-heads a la Sinners vs One Battle from a Warner Bros captured by Ellison's MAGA Media Skydance Incorporated. That's exactly the kind of work this merger would effectively smother, because green is *not* the only color that matters in Hollywood

Evan nails it here. Committing to being an independent journalist is a fundamentally hopeful position that we can build something new from billionaires’ scorched earth, having no idea if it will actually work.

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

If you can sign up in your district to be a poll worker, do. It’s more important than ever. You can help protect someone’s right to vote.

I stopped watching since reading @emilynussbaum.bsky.social's "Cue the Sun!" and it appears things have only gotten worse and likely a lot more unsafe wrt safety conditions around sexual violence!

WNYC's @onthemedia.bsky.social has an excellent series about this: The Divided Dial!

One family to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok.

The largest single expenditure from the pro-crypto super PAC network was $2 million (of a reported $5 million planned spend) to back Barry Moore for Senate in Alabama.

The Fairshake network of pro-crypto super PACs has begun spending its $193 million war chest on the midterms, dropping $6 million into races across Alabama, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, and North Carolina.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has opened an investigation into allegations that the UAE bought a 49% stake in the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business for $500 million in exchange for a White House decision that granted the UAE access to sensitive AI chips.

"In fact, the articles of impeachment drafted for Nixon stated that he had ‘endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed (sic) not authorized by law.’”

This is how USPS, a critical service provided by the US govt—paid for with taxes AND fees—can be maliciously withheld or weaponized for the purpose of racial harassment & punishment for success.* If Supreme Court says USPS can intentionally NOT DELIVER mail, consider BALLOTS. @profkori.bsky.social

🎵 This is how you do it🎵

"Bextel has spent years pushing against housing mitigation fees in Wyoming, and Driskill noted that she distributed the house floor checks just days before a bill she had publicly supported was set to be heard. Bextel was registered as a member of the press, not as a lobbyist.”

“This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters and undermine both the rule of law and public confidence in our elections.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Don't really think this is how government should work but if you're a New Yorker it's pretty unequivocally good that Mamdani seems to know how to get what he wants.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

If news of the media rapidly falling into the hands of right-wing billionaires is disturbing to you (it should be!), you need to be thinking not just about individual reporters you like (or places that tell you what you want to hear) but places that are building a better, organized news future

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401,000 people moving state to state in fear of having legal documents invalidated (KS), jail time for using restrooms (FL, UT), loss of access to adult care (dozens) or youth care (dozens even in D-led states), & the message from “opposition” is still largely “you’re making too big a deal of this.”

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas" If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify

this explains a lot. apparently the BBC promised Davidson that they would edit out any swearing, but despite having a 2-hour delay they didn't do that. instead he was miced up from 40 rows back variety.com/2026/film/aw...

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Child, BAFTAs edited everything BUT the racial slur.

1) In one of the most personal (and, IMO, one of the most important) essays I have ever published, I wrote in @literaryhub.bsky.social on Jesse Jackson's LGBTQ legacy and what he meant to me regarding Black manhood, being born "illegitjmate," and practing love in America lithub.com/jesse-jackso...