Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who was denied a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, will address the gathering remotely on Thursday from the West Bank. Follow live updates from the summit.

In Trump 2.0 surveillance firms are explaining working for ICE/the government with 'we live in a democracy' and shrugging their shoulders. But this democracy is different. Sources say this is to absolve responsibility. "classic double speak" one Palantir source said www.404media.co/how-surveill...

grim as hell

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?

Immigration agents collected DNA samples from about 2,000 U.S. citizens who were stopped at border checkpoints over a four-year period, even though hundreds were not charged, Georgetown University researchers said in a report. Its authors argued that the agents exceeded their authority.

This is a great piece & I encourage everyone to read it

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

You can spend today seeking a way to support and uplift the many marginalized groups that Kirk demonized and harmed.

We have to adapt to endure in a post-information age, where we are told there are no facts, only politics. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

*cheerful TikTok voice* “I’m a millennial: of COURSE I ruined public debate by leaving X. Just like I ruined the economy w avocado toast”

Starvation or execution: Sudanese under siege face ‘death everywhere’ - apple.news/Az0qudUCLRS2...

Macron says ten nations are preparing to recognize a State of Palestine based on the 1967 borders.

Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that prohibits federal immigration agents from wearing masks in California.

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Was listening to an nyt podcast on Kimmel firing last night, and Adam Liptak said something like Carr’s actions came “pretty close” to coercion. This tendency to imagine that we are “almost,” “on the road,” etc. to authoritarianism needs to be overcome. We’re in that space. Pretending doesn’t help.

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv

(Open social media) That looks like a lovely vacation. The FBI wants to do what?! Congrats on the wedding! Israel is literally sniping children in the head. Ooh I should visit that new bar. Thousands more laid off. Will I be fired for just liking this post? Happy anniversary! (Close social media)

1/ The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR and will become the first nation to refuse to submit a report on their human rights record. What this means:

Oh, are you the most historically disinvested district in the city? Maybe you’ll get a seat at the table next time.

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Picking a lane does NOT mean you don’t care about other causes. In fact, your “lane” may not even be your #1 cause!!!! Instead, it may be one you value, AAAAANDD that you feel *particularly well positioned* to impact/affect for the better. Whether that’s bc of your skills, advantages, what have you.

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

BREAKING: Judge orders Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application.

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

Found the chilling effect on speech that we kept hearing warnings about

man an official account using “evil” is jarring and unsettling

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

⚡️ Russia has built more than 210 camps to indoctrinate and militarize kidnapped Ukrainian children, some as young as 8, teaching them to assemble drones and throw grenades, Yale researchers found.

bruh John Yoo drafted the memos to give the Bush administration legal cover for torturing people John Yoo said the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" and even he is like 'yikes Trump is crossing a line'

Hundreds attended funeral services Tuesday for 31 Yemeni journalists who were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes last week in the capital of Sanaa.

Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.

Defunding NPR, suing the NYT for $15B… this is authoritarianism, silencing the press. One thing you can do today is donate to whichever local news outlet you support and make it recurring if you can.

wedding cakes, etc

Great illustrations in this piece

It's so so helpful to get involved with local projects in your city and town. I can't recommend it any more highly. You meet new comrades, you get to focus on specific goals and you might even win your demands.

They’re just treating all the amendments as a to-do list of rights to violate with extra points if they can get more than 3 in one go

To be clear, you’re watching puppets but the audio is real — straight from the council meeting. 🤡🤡🤡

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

uhhh what in the Chinese Exclusion Act

I feel like anyone who has dealt with abusers know this: at a certain point, you need to build an impenetrable barrier between your inner world & what they say about you. The more wrapped up you get in their version of events, how they’ve twisted the narrative, etc., the more energy they suck away.

🚨Emergency Funding Need🚨 One of our clients just had her funding fall through, and her appointment is THIS MONDAY. We need to raise $13,000 to make sure she can access the abortion care she needs.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

I didn't realize how many different kinds of Nazi and Klansman (etc) there were until this week.

I resent having to learn the word “groyper” today

really appreciate this piece stating simply and clearly, -here's what he's doing differently than other authoritarians -here's what we're up against & what we still have going for us -"We need to be alarmed and panicked, not to fall into despair, so that we can act aggressively before it’s too late"