Big China electricity&industial data update🧵for September: ➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year. ➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.

He heard people say Israel was the most pro-trans place in the Middle East and immediately refused to take their money.

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani

“The Argentina bailout is very different from USAID because it’s meant to prop up Milei’s presidency rather than a state-to-state program” true, but a lot of the opposition to it isn’t “corruption” but “me before foreigners.”

The opposition to the US bailout for Argentina is both heartening in the short term and convinces me more than ever we’re never going to get USAID or any large-scale anti-disease programs back again because they’ll be painted as giveaways to foreigners.

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implied fact of this is that they are doing this to untold thousands of noncitizens, who do in fact have rights and should not be subject to torture

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.

an ICE agent rammed a car and shot the woman inside five times for no reason. she only survived because she escaped

Van Jones apologises for joke about dead Palestinian babies, but not alone when it comes to insensitive remarks on Gaza.

Do you think the gestapo would do that? Just log on and tell lies?

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Never forget how easy it is to dupe these people. You don’t have to run anything resembling a platform for ‘divergent views’ or ‘a range of opinions.’ You just have to *say* you’re doing that and run the same right-wing slop you can find at 50 other outlets.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

call you representatives, demand they secure the release of the kidnapped flotilla members

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Ta'Nehisi Coats deserves the label "teller of uncomfortable truths" infinitely more than hacks like Bari Weiss. But unfortunately you can always guarantee career success if you flatter the biases of the rich and powerful.

Nobody actually disagrees that Israel is an apartheid state at this point. The only argument is whether that's good or not.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

DALLAS (AP) — Homeland Security spokesperson says ICE detainees were among those shot in Dallas attack; no agents injured.

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

hm that sure sounds like someone with a job endorsing political violence to me

A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist. Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.

Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

why would liberal arts college students do this?

mass shooting at minneapolis homeless encampment days after a fox news host calls to kill all homeless people

Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade, who advocated killing all homeless people, still has a cushy Fox job.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The FCC Chair saying “You can deal with Kimmel the easy way or the hard way” is the very definition of a chilling effect on speech, and a good indicator the First Amendment is a dead letter in the Trump regime. Free speech is dying in America and none of our free speech warriors seem to care

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

For example any of their grad students they turned over to ICE for opposing Israel's genocide

reason.com/2025/09/15/c... lmao he absolutely would have wanted this. Dude built his whole career around a Professor Watchlist. Just an embarrassing thing to argue from Robby Soave.

Klein wants a bipartisan consensus in favor of liberal democracy and open society, and he's not gonna let the fact that not a single conservative of note gives a shit about that get in his way.

First of all, we have DEI for conservatives, it's called the Federalist Society and it's why 6 mid-wattage assholes are on the Supreme Court. Second, Hemingway wasn't calling for "diversity," she wants right-wing dominance. Even Michael Tracey of all fucking people saw this