Here's some reporting on it: definitely an Israeli PR effort

"shares many values with the US" which values motherfu—

oh. my. god.

18 May today, time for my yearly translation of a Joy Division song into Old Irish to honour the passing of Ian Curtis in 1980. This time: "Digital" (1978). These are rather abstract lyrics. There are multiple ways of reading the words in a way that have relevance today. @jd-central.bsky.social

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Never underestimate the allure of craven servility

A society addicted to dehumanization. A society that hates children and childhood itself. A society sustained by violent misogyny.

So unbelievably disrespectful, yet I can't decide whether it's more pathetic or infuriating. Imagine being dumb enough to think that this was a good idea. "We want to entrust one of the proudest moments of our students' lives to the stupid lying machine—and we're not gonna check whether it works."

Sometimes it feels like medicine quite literally lives and breathes racism www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

every week is "It's someone else's fault" week for the MAGA base

These people just love telling on themselves huh

UNHCR demands that Israel prevents genocide in Gaza, citing grave violations of international law.

Post a meme made by you

I'm afraid to check the gender breakdown

Does anyone have a lawyer they'd recommend for civil suits in DC or Maryland?

The saddest thing is that his kids don't respect him either

heartbreaking glimpses of our shared humanity in the for-sale listings on Facebook

Post a meme made by you

everyone's looking for that human connection

This stuff is just so clearly incel-coded

fwiw also realizing I won the "trump will go insane and the NYT will use the word gambit to describe his dementia" contest from 2019

Literally doing this

God I wish I were a tailor so I could just steal this signoff

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

cowardice is a helluva drug innit

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

democrats for almost my entire adult life: we can't just *say that*! there are norms. standards. bipartisanship! mamdani: just fucking says it.

Anyone who disburses said money to crooks and violent criminals should certainly lose their own assets

Lists of names and a vow to investigate and prosecute

“Brief Emotion” was Aerosmith’s lesser-known hit

Say what you like abt American exceptionalism but nobody can deny they're the best at having mad kings 😔

Hard enough finding a civil surgeon... emotion costs extra

It can be used to locate a mark anywhere on earth to within 1 square meter

I guess we'll see in a few months' time whether or not we're that fortunate. One can hope.

"Have you taken up arms against your government? Or tried to overturn an election? You may be entitled to compensation?"

EXCLUSIVE: ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir "The [ICC prosecutor's] charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.”

I only found out today that my tortoise (and indeed all tortoises) can barely hear as he has no external ear openings, so he's never heard any of my little songs I sing him. Isn't that sad?

Imagine torching the last vestiges of your dignity to post as the "UNDER-secretary of war Elbridge Colby" lmao

Going to think about this every time people say reparations are impossible.

Democrats in Congress must start calling their Republican counterparts by their true names: cowards and traitors. Get it on the Congressional record.

tfw the book club scam e-mailers aren't even really trying anymore 😔

A point that the great @donmoyn.bsky.social often makes is that the handing out of governing spoils is a signpost on the road to authoritarianism. I think this quote captures this very well, and it's an exclamation point on this madness. 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Here's the rub. The slush fund will be drawn from a larger Treasury Department fund. The latter compensates actual victims of the government. But the new one will be put under Trump's direct control in a new way and untangled from any oversight, Raskin notes. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Once this is over, they must be driven out en masse.